Manual starter is a very common automobile ignition device in the past. A crank connected with the crankshaft of the engine is turned, and after several turns, the ignition in the engine cylinder begins to do work by itself, thus starting the whole car.
However, this method is not safe. When people shake the crank, once the engine is started, the crank will rotate actively, which is likely to hurt people. Although automobile designers have carried out protective design in this respect in order to protect drivers, people's injuries can never be completely avoided. No one wants to risk a fracture to start a car.
People also have a headache about physical labor every time they start the car. Starting the engine is really not an easy task, which makes many people who want to be drivers flinch from driving.
There are similarities between clockwork starter and hand starter. The difference is that with a clockwork starter, people don't need to shake the crank directly.
First, the spring is tightened to store energy in the spring, and then the energy on the spring is used to drive the crankshaft to move. This is the way the clockwork starter ignites the engine. The so-called "explosion", as the name implies, is to put a little gunpowder in the cylinder, which will drive the piston of the cylinder to move after detonation, so the engine runs.
Slowly, people began to ponder the automatic starter. Turn on the start button, and once the starter successfully drives the engine to work, it will automatically disconnect from the engine. In this way, the starter not only replaces the hard work of hand crank, but also avoids the risk of wrist injury.
The first car with an electronic lighter was born in 1896, and was installed in his car by a British engineer, Dowsing. William Nold & Son, a British agricultural equipment manufacturing company, applied to produce Mercedes-Benz cars.
And this Arnold has always been thought to be William Arnold &; Son company is based on Mercedes-Benz Velo model. Dowsing combines the generator with the flywheel and installs it on the vehicle, which can not only start the vehicle, but also use the energy stored on the flywheel to assist the vehicle to climb the hill.
The official appearance of electric starter was nearly twenty years after Dowsing modified the car. Because of the lack of a perfect power system to charge the automobile battery of gasoline engine, it takes a long time to develop electric starter.
19 1 1 year, DELCO (dayton engineering laboratory company) formally applied for the patent of automobile starter in the United States. This patent was developed by Charles Kettering and Henry Martin Leland. This device is based on the cash register principle invented by Henry before. The electric cash register also replaced the manual cash register equipment at that time and became the leading product of the times.
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Starter principle:
Starters are divided into DC starters, gasoline starters and compressed air starters according to their working principles. Most internal combustion engines use DC starter, which is characterized by compact structure, simple operation and easy maintenance.
Gasoline starter is a small gasoline engine with clutch and transmission mechanism, which has high power and is less affected by temperature. Can start a large internal combustion engine, suitable for cold areas.
There are two kinds of compressed air starters, one is to pump compressed air into the cylinder according to the working sequence, and the other is to drive the flywheel with a pneumatic motor. The application of compressed air starter is close to that of gasoline starter, and it is usually used to start large internal combustion engines.
DC starter consists of DC series motor, control mechanism and clutch mechanism. It is specially used to start the engine, which requires a strong torque, so the amount of current to pass is very large, reaching several hundred amperes.
The torque of DC motor is large at low speed and gradually decreases at high speed, which is very suitable for starting the motor.
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