Patent ID: 7849755

Claim:
A starter motor, comprising: a housing; an armature within the housing; a pinion within the housing drivable by the armature; and a clutch within the housing in operational communication with the armature and the pinion, the clutch comprising: a shell; a wedgable component support member operably positioned adjacent with the shell; at least one wedgable component biased and positioned between the shell and the wedgable component support member and displaceable into engagement with the shell to lock the shell into synchronous movement with the wedgable component support member upon initial rotational movement of the wedgable component support member relative to the shell in a direction of the bias while allowing asynchronous movement of the shell relative to the wedgable component support member upon movement of the wedgable component support member relative to the shell in a direction opposite to the bias, and reversal of the direction of the bias on the wedgable component relative to the wedgable component support member reverses a direction in which the shell locks synchronously with the wedgable component support member.