Granted Patent B2

US 12,331,676 · App. 18/610,690 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Inventors: Ryo Watanabe (Toyota, JP); Toshiyuki Yano (Nagakute, JP); Hisao Fukuhara (Okazaki, JP)

Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

F02B67/06F16H7/02

Abstract

Claims (13)

1. An alternator comprising:

a body portion;

a rotating shaft rotatably mounted in the body portion;

a pulley fixed to the rotating shaft;

a belt wrapped around the pulley and configured to cooperate with a crankshaft of an engine; and

a retaining member fixed to the body portion and configured to reduce or eliminate a possibility of the pulley coming off the rotating shaft, wherein:

the retaining member is located away from the rotating shaft and the pulley in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and faces the rotating shaft and the pulley;

a width in the axial direction of the belt is smaller than a width in the axial direction of the pulley;

a distance in the axial direction between the retaining member and the belt is equal to or greater than the width in the axial direction of the pulley; and

a distance in the axial direction between the retaining member and the rotating shaft is smaller than the width in the axial direction of the pulley.

2. The alternator according to claim 1 , wherein:

the distance in the axial direction between the retaining member and the rotating shaft is smaller than a distance in the axial direction between the retaining member and the pulley; and

the distance in the axial direction between the retaining member and the rotating shaft is equal to or greater than the width in the axial direction of the belt.

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