Patent ID: 8514038

Claim:
A starter relay ( 19 ) of a starting device ( 10 ) for internal combustion engines, the starter relay comprising a relay coil ( 27 ) and a magnet armature ( 20 ), which can be moved out of a rest position into a working position counter to a force of an armature reset spring ( 36 ) by energization of the relay coil and which interacts with one end of a forked lever ( 21 ) by way of an axially outward-projecting driver ( 24 ) so as to pre-engage a starter pinion ( 16 ), and comprising a contact bridge ( 34 ), which can be actuated by the magnet armature by way of a switching spindle ( 32 ) and interacts with switching contacts ( 23 a ), wherein a coupling ( 33 b ) connects the switching spindle and the magnet armature in such a way that they can be displaced to a limited extent with respect to each other, characterized in that a preloaded compression spring ( 26 ) is inserted between the magnet armature ( 20 ) and the end ( 21 a ) of the forked lever ( 21 ), characterized in that a pressure force of the compression spring ( 26 ) in the rest position of the starter relay ( 19 ) is greater than the resetting force of the armature reset spring ( 36 ), and in that the pressure force of the compression spring ( 26 ) in the working position of the magnet armature ( 20 ) is less than the resetting force of a contact reset spring ( 37 ) and the armature reset spring ( 36 ) acting on the magnet armature ( 20 ).