Starter motor

• US 5,103,107 A
• Filed: 11/20/1990
• Issued: 04/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yagi, Katunori, Kinoshita, Takashi, Yamamoto, Kyohei
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellinen, A. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOOVER, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US07/615,957
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 200/302.1, 290/48, 335/131
• US Class Current: 290/48
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 51/065 Relays having a pair of normally open contacts rigidly fixed to a magnetic core movable along the axis of a solenoid, e.g. relays for starting automobiles details H01H50/20

Abstract

In a starter motor, its electromagnetic switch has a movable contact cooperating with normally open contact member and normally closed contact member, and a part of a stationary contact in the normally closed contact member is formed into a locking piece to prevent the movable contact from contacting the passage formed in the cap of the switch, or the electromagnetic switch has a first movable contact cooperating with normally open contact member and a second movable contact cooperating with normally closed contact member, and an insulating partition wall is disposed between the first and second movable contacts, whereby the creeping distance between the normally open contact member and the normally closed contact member is increased as much, and the occurrence of current leakage is prevented.

Claims

1. A starter motor comprising:

an electric motor for producing torque to start an engine; and

an electromagnetic switch including;

normally open contact means which, when a coil is energized, is closed to form a motor energizing circuit,

normally closed contact means which, when said coil is deenergized, is closed to short-circuit the positive and negative terminals of said electric motor,

a movable contact means disposed between said open contact means and said closed contact means, and

a locking piece integrally formed with a stationary contact of said normally closed contact means, to prevent said movable contact from rotation.

2. A starter motor comprising:

an electric motor for producing torque to start an engine; and

an electromagnetic switch having;

a normally open contact means including a first movable contact which, when a coil is energized, forms a motor energizing circuit,

a normally closed contact means including a second movable contact which, when said coil is deenergized, is closed to short-circuit the positive and negative terminals of said electric motor, and

a partition wall of insulating material disposed between said first and second movable contact.

3. A starter motor according to claim 2, in which said partition wall is made up of at least one part.