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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2005
Hitomi Miyake, Miki, JP;
Shinichi Tanba, Lincoln, NE (US);
Ichiro Uemura, Kobe, JP;
Tetsuhiro Yamakawa, Maryvill, MO (US);
Hitomi Miyake, Miki, JP;
Shinichi Tanba, Lincoln, NE (US);
Ichiro Uemura, Kobe, JP;
Tetsuhiro Yamakawa, Maryvill, MO (US);
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A combustion engine according to the present invention has a unitary fan-pulley assembly (F), in which a cooling fan () and a starter pulley () are formed integrally with each other. The cooling fan () is fixed to a crankshaft (). The pulley () receives a starting force when engaged with engagement pawlsintegral with a recoil starter (). A bracket () is fixedly mounted on the crankshaft () together with the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F) for urging engagement grooves (), each defined between neighboring engagement projections () of the starter pulley (), in an axial direction of the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F).