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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 1999
Shuhei Tsunoda, Gunma Prefecture, JP;
Mitsuo Osakabe, Gunma Prefecture, JP;
Starting Industrial Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A starting device for an electric starter motor is described which is capable of downsizing a small-sized motor per se without increasing torque of the small-sized motor by deceleration by gears, is capable of being fabricated in a small size as a whole and inexpensively, and is capable of setting a reduction gear having desired dimensions without significantly changing sizes in a radial direction and in an axial direction of total of a starter case. The starting device for an electric starter motor includes a ring gear driven by two or more small-sized motors and a clutch mechanism installed between the ring gear and an engine for starting the engine by rotating the ring gear. Featured in the starting device for an electric starter motor is a reduction gear which is interposed between the small-sized motors and the ring gear. The reduction gear is arranged on an outer side of the ring gear.