Patent ID: 7128041

Claim:
A recoil starter comprising: a rope reel rotatably held by a reel support shaft formed in a case and rotated in an engine starting direction by traction of a recoil rope one end of which is extracted to outside of the case; a recoil mainspring for urging to rotate the rope reel in a direction reverse to the engine starting direction, a cam for transmitting a rotational force to a rotating member attached to a side of an engine by way of a clutch mechanism; and a damping force storing member interposed between the rope reel and the cam for storing the rotational force of the rope reel and rotating the cam by the stored rotational force when the rope reel is rotated in the engine starting direction for transmitting rotation of the cam rotated by the rotational force stored to the damping force storing member to the rotating member by way of the clutch mechanism, wherein a ring-like recess portion for containing the damping force storing member is formed at a side face of the rope reel, a boss portion of the cam is contained in the ring-like recess portion and the damping force storing member is contained between an inner peripheral face of the ring-like recess portion and an outer peripheral face of the boss portion of the cam, further, an inner side of the boss portion of the cam is formed with a ratchet mechanism for engaging and disengaging the cam to and from the rope reel, when the rope reel is rotated by traction of the recoil rope, the both members are disengaged from each other and when the rope reel is rotated in a direction of reeling back the recoil rope, the both members are engaged to each other by the ratchet mechanism.