US 7,432,608 B2
Generator and power supply for use therein
Kazuo Okubo, Ise (Japan); Kazumichi Kato, Ise (Japan); Yuzo Takakado, Ise (Japan); Hirosuke Imabayashi, Ise (Japan); Toshio Miki, Ise (Japan); Masami Morita, Ise (Japan); Hideki Tamura, Ise (Japan); Katsuyoshi Nakano, Ise (Japan); Yushi Sato, Ise (Japan); Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Ise (Japan); Tetsuyuki Kimura, Ise (Japan); Nobuhiro Saito, Ise (Japan); Tetsunari Kobayakawa, Ise (Japan); and Kenji Yamaguchi, Ise (Japan)
Assigned to Shinko Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/489,313
PCT Filed Jan. 07, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/000050
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Nov. 17, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/109101, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-164266 (JP), filed on Jun. 09, 2003; application No. 2003-196964 (JP), filed on Jul. 15, 2003; application No. 2003-364196 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2003; application No. 2003-364197 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2003; application No. 2003-365032 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2003; and application No. 2003-365033 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0145668 A1, Jul. 06, 2006
Int. Cl. B23K 9/10 (2006.01); F02N 15/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 290—38R  [290/1 E; 74/6; 475/5] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric generator comprising:
a rotatable shaft coupled to a torque generating side;
a rotator rotatably connected to said rotatable shaft;
a clutch provided between said rotatable shaft and said rotator, said clutch comprising:
a spring having one end attached to the rotator, and
a latch device engageable with the other end of said spring to engage or disengage said spring on the other end of said rotatable shaft;
a housing for containing said rotatable shaft, said rotator and said clutch; and
a stator fixed to said housing and located opposed to said rotator.