Patent ID: 7554233
Filing Date: 2009-06-30
Classification: H02K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An alternator to be attached to an engine mounted to a vehicle, comprising: an output terminal to which one end of a cable for supplying a battery with power generated by the alternator is coupled, the battery being mounted on the vehicle; an insulator, made from an electric insulative material, for protecting the output terminal; a guide guiding the cable along a desired direction from the output terminal; and a direction setting member enabling the guide to selectively set a direction among a plurality of predetermined directions along which the cable is allowed to be guided, wherein the direction setting member includes engaging portions which enable both the insulator and a mechanical part of a rectifying device fixed in the alternator to be engaged with each other in a condition where the direction is selectively set, rectifiers being mounted on the mechanical part as a part of circuitry parts for supplying the power, and wherein the engaging portions are composed of a first engaging portion formed on the mechanical part of the rectifying device and a second engaging portion formed on the insulator and formed to be engageable with the first engaging portion, the first and second engaging portions being respectively formed to be engaged coaxially with each other and each of the first and second engaging portions having recesses and projections formed along a circumferential surface of each of the first and second engaging portions, the circumferential surfaces of the first and second engaging portions being opposed to each other.