An internal combustion engine includes an engine block, a blower housing configured to direct cooling air to the engine block, an electric starting system, and a crankshaft configured to rotate about a crankshaft axis. The electric starting system includes an electric motor and an energy storage device located within the blower housing. The energy storage device is electrically coupled to the electric motor to power the electric motor, and is positioned above the crankshaft. When the starter motor is activated, the electric starting system rotates the crankshaft to rotate the engine for starting.

An internal combustion engine includes an engine block, a blower housing configured to direct cooling air to the engine block, an electric starting system, and a crankshaft configured to rotate about a crankshaft axis. The electric starting system includes an electric motor and an energy storage device located within the blower housing. The energy storage device is electrically coupled to the electric motor to power the electric motor, and is positioned above the crankshaft. When the starter motor is activated, the electric starting system rotates the crankshaft to rotate the engine for starting.

Provided is an electromagnetic switch device for starter in which an auxiliary relay is provided and which has a small size and can be easily manufactured. The electromagnetic switch device for starter includes: a main contact chamber forming a space in which a pair of main fixed contacts are located and a main movable contact can move; and a sub contact chamber forming a space in which a pair of sub fixed iron cores (A), (B) are located and a sub movable contact can move; and a cylindrical terminal block in which the main contact chamber and the sub coil are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in the radial direction with a partition wall provided therebetween and separating the sub coil and the main contact chamber from each other.

A permanently engaged starter system for use in a vehicle includes a duel-mass flywheel. The vehicle includes crankshaft, an engine block, and a transmission. The dual-mass flywheel includes an engine side primary, a transmission side primary mass, and a secondary mass. The permanently engaged starter system also includes a one-way clutch including an outer race disposed about the axis, and an inner race disposed about the axis and disposed between the outer race and the axis. The permanently engaged starter system additionally includes a ring gear rotatably coupled to one of the inner race and the outer race of the one-way clutch, with the other of the inner race and the outer race being rotatably coupled to the transmission side primary mass of the dual-mass flywheel. The one-way clutch is nested within the dual-mass flywheel with respect to the axis.

A gearbox arrangement of an electric machine of an engine includes a planetary gear arrangement configured to receive rotational input from the electric machine and from the engine and to mechanically couple the electric machine and the engine in first and second power flow directions, the planetary gear set comprising a ring gear, a ring brake, a free-wheel clutch attachable to a fixed structure and the ring brake, the tree-wheel clutch permitting rotation of the ring brake in a first direction and preventing rotation of the ring brake in an opposite second direction, and an arrangement for moving the ring gear between a first position in which the ring gear is non-rotatably engaged with the ring brake and a second position in which the ring gear is non-rotatably engaged with the carrier. An engine starter and power generator device Is also provided.

An electric starting system is provided for an engine. The electric starting system may include a self-contained housing configured to be mounted between an engine and a tool driven by the engine. The electric starting system may also include an electric motor mounted to the housing, the electric motor configured rotationally engage an output shaft of the engine to effectuate starting of the engine.

A drive device with multiple swinging blocks drivingly connected with each other includes a driven unit connected with a driven apparatus (such as a power generation motor or a generator), a driving unit drivingly connected with the driven unit and an actuating unit connected with the driving unit. The driven unit includes a flywheel. The driving unit includes three dynamic energy modules respectively connected with the flywheel at intervals. Each dynamic energy module has a gear engaged with the flywheel and a swinging block disposed on the gear. There is a 120-degree angle difference between the corresponding angular positions of each two adjacent swinging blocks. The actuating unit includes an actuating motor, a driving member driven by the actuating motor and connected with one of the dynamic energy modules and transmission members drivingly connected with the dynamic energy modules for driving the driven unit to together rotate.

A drive device with multiple swinging blocks drivingly connected with each other includes a driven unit connected with a driven apparatus (such as a power generation motor or a generator), a driving unit drivingly connected with the driven unit and an actuating unit connected with the driving unit. The driven unit includes a flywheel. The driving unit includes three dynamic energy modules respectively connected with the flywheel at intervals. Each dynamic energy module has a gear engaged with the flywheel and a swinging block disposed on the gear. There is a 120-degree angle difference between the corresponding angular positions of each two adjacent swinging blocks. The actuating unit includes an actuating motor, a driving member driven by the actuating motor and connected with one of the dynamic energy modules and transmission members drivingly connected with the dynamic energy modules for driving the driven unit to together rotate.

An electric starter system (100) for a motorcycle with a mechanical kick-start device (200) and a transmission main shaft (340) which rotates in a starting and drive rotational direction (x) and the kick-start device (200) has a kick-start pinion configured for axial coupling to a kick-start clutch part (240) which is connected to the transmission main shaft (340) in a torque-transmitting manner. The electric starter system (100) comprises an electric starter motor (110) with a starter shaft pinion (112) that can be driven thereby, which makes it possible to carry out the installation or retrofitting thereof with fewer modifications of the original components, less expenditure of time, and/or easier, and/or faster. This is achieved because a torque of the electric starter motor (110) can be transmitted from the starter shaft pinion (112), preferably at the end face, to the kick-start clutch part (240), in particular via interposed starter gearing (120).

An electric starter system (100) for a motorcycle with a mechanical kick-start device (200) and a transmission main shaft (340) which rotates in a starting and drive rotational direction (x) and the kick-start device (200) has a kick-start pinion configured for axial coupling to a kick-start clutch part (240) which is connected to the transmission main shaft (340) in a torque-transmitting manner. The electric starter system (100) comprises an electric starter motor (110) with a starter shaft pinion (112) that can be driven thereby, which makes it possible to carry out the installation or retrofitting thereof with fewer modifications of the original components, less expenditure of time, and/or easier, and/or faster. This is achieved because a torque of the electric starter motor (110) can be transmitted from the starter shaft pinion (112), preferably at the end face, to the kick-start clutch part (240), in particular via interposed starter gearing (120).