Patent ID: 8033191

Claim:
A starter, comprising: a motor portion that includes a motor shaft with a sun gear on a front side of the motor shaft; and a deceleration mechanism portion that includes: a planetary gear that meshes with the sun gear to revolve around the sun gear; and an output shaft that rotates integrally with the planetary gear, wherein: the motor portion includes an intermediate bracket that supports a front-end portion of the motor shaft, to which the sun gear is formed, such that the front-end portion is freely rotatable, with the sun gear protruding toward the front side of the motor shaft, and further the sun gear being positioned at the front side of the motor shaft in an axial direction relative to the intermediate bracket, the deceleration mechanism portion includes a first deceleration mechanism that decelerates an output of the sun gear so as to output to an engine side; and a second deceleration mechanism that decelerates an output of the first deceleration mechanism so as to output to a reverse gear, a first bracket of the first deceleration mechanism, in which a ring-shaped gear is formed at an inner circumferential surface of the first bracket so as to mesh with the planetary gear, is arranged adjacent to the front side of the motor shaft in the axial direction relative to the intermediate bracket, the intermediate bracket is integrated with a casing of the motor portion at an inner radial side via a first through-bolt and with the first bracket at an outer radial side via a second through-bolt, the first deceleration mechanism is arranged adjacent to a front side with respect to the intermediate bracket and the second deceleration mechanism is arranged adjacent to a front side with respect to the first deceleration mechanism, the first bracket is adjacent to the front side with respect to the intermediate bracket and a second bracket of the second deceleration mechanism is adjacent to the front side with respect to the first bracket, and the first bracket and the second bracket are integrated with the intermediate bracket via the second through-bolt.