Copal Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Ohtake

Masaru Watanabe

A fishing reel of double-bearing type is provided with a spool shaft on which a spool having a cylinder body is rotatably mounted. The spool shaft has a spool gear mounted on the end thereof and meshable with a drive gear mounted on a handle shaft connected to a handle which is rotatably held by a support. A driving shaft acommodated in a driving shaft cylinder on which are fixedly mounted a spool inner gear and a spool holder, is shiftable into a passage connecting two cavities defined in the spool cylinder by a biasing force of the coil spring spanning the driving shaft and a spring holder accommodated in the driving shaft cylinder as soon as an engagement between projections arranged on an inside wall of the driving shaft cylinder and recesses defined in the driving shaft body gets released when the spool inner gear which is driven by a motor via a pinion rotates simultaneously the driving shaft cylinder, the coil spring holder and an inner gear holder in a predetermined direction with the result that a head portion of the driving shaft thus shiftable is thrown into engagement with projections arranged on the inner wall of the passage of the spool cylinder, whereby the spool cylinder may be driven by the motor.

Fishing reel

A fishing reel equipped with a motor case in which a motor for driving a spool and a level winder driving mechanism are accommodated. The motor case is provided with a driving shaft cylinder in which is accommodated a driving shaft and on which is mounted a bearing supporting a spool wall, the driving shaft and a driving shaft cylinder being shiftable into the spool cylinder arranged in a hole defined in the side plate, with an annular cylinder having projection on the circumferential surface thereof, the projections being slidably engageable with slits defined in the inner wall of the side plate when the annular cylinder is fitted to a hole defined in the side plate, with a cylindrical projection supporting a level winder driving gear therein, which is shiftably engaged with a groove defined in the side plate, with a slit defined therein along which is slidable a projection button shiftably arranged in a hole defined in the side plate and protruding from the surface of the side plate by means of biasing force of a coil spring arranged in the hole and with a button slidably positioned through a hole defined in the motor case. The motor case is attached to or detached from the fishing reel housing by means of the slidable movement of projection button through the hole defined in the inner plate of the housing and the slidable movement of the sliding button through the hole defined in the motor case.

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Ashikaga, Japan

Hiroshi Ohtake