Patent ID: 6532908
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: F01L,F02D,F02N

Abstract:
An engine starter for a reversible engine comprising:a drive device adapted to rotatably mount on a reversible engine, the drive device including a flywheel adapted to connect to a motor and a positioning seat selectively connecting the flywheel to the reversible engine, the positioning seat being released from the reversible engine when the reversible engine is started; and an ignition device adapted to connect to the reversible engine, the ignition device including a rotor rotated with the reversible engine, a sense member mounted on an outer periphery of the rotor and a magnetic sensor separately mounted in close proximity to the sense member and corresponding to the sense member, the sense member adapted to make the magnetic sensor providing an ignition signal to a spark plug that is mounted on the reversible engine when the rotor rotates; wherein the drive device further comprises a starter wheel selectively engaged to the flywheel and adapted to drive the reversible engine and the starter wheel including a skirt extending from a periphery of the starter wheel and directing to the flywheel; the positioning seat includes a sleeve centrally extending from the positioning seat; the flywheel is mounted on the sleeve of the positioning seat and includes: an opening centrally defined to rotatably receive the sleeve of the positioning seat; multiple elliptical through holes defined in the flywheel; and multiple rods respectively movably received in corresponding elliptical through holes, each rod selectively abuts an inner periphery of the skirt to drive the starter wheel when the flywheel rotates.