Patent ID: 7494438

Claim:
A starting apparatus for a differential planetary gear apparatus having a sun gear, a ring gear, and one or more planetary gears and having a structure in which a drive source, a speed-change motive source, and a driven unit are disposed at any one of an input side, an output side, and a speed-change side, respectively, said starting apparatus characterized in that: said drive source is energized after a rotational speed of said drive source is increased to nearly a rated rotational speed by a starting means; said starting means comprises said speed-change motive source, a speed-increasing means provided at an output side of said speed-change motive source, and a rotation transmitting assembly for transmitting rotation from an output side of said speed-increasing means to said drive source; and said rotation transmitting assembly serves as gears and rotating shafts of said differential planetary gear apparatus, wherein a stop means is provided on a rotating shaft connected to said ring gear, and said stop means is operated so as to lock said ring gear while the rotational speed of said drive source is increased by said starting means.