Patent ID: 8371259
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: F02N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A starter for starting an internal combustion engine, comprising: an electric starter motor having a drive shaft provided with an external toothing; a pinion shaft bearing a pinion; a clutch element of an overrunning clutch situated between the drive shaft and the pinion shaft, wherein the clutch element has an internal toothing that mates with a first section of an external toothing of the drive shaft to allow the clutch element to be shifted together with the pinion shaft away from the starter motor in the axial direction of the drive shaft into a meshing position in which the pinion mates with a gear wheel of the internal combustion engine; and a support device for supporting the pinion shaft in the meshing position on a second section of the external toothing of the drive shaft adjacent to the first section; wherein the support device includes a bushing including a front end facing the starter motor, and wherein the second section is axially further from the starter motor than the first section, overlaps with the bushing in the meshing position, and has a greater crown-circle diameter than the first section.