Shimano Inc.

Shimano Industrial Co., Ltd.

Osamu Yoshikawa

Yoshiyuki Furomoto

Kenichi Sugawara

Hideo Noda

Noboru Sakaguchi

Takeshi Ikuta

Masuo Ban

A spinning reel has a reel body and a rotor attached attached to the reel body and rotatable about a longitudinal axis for retrieving a fishing line. The spinning reel has also a balancer attached to the rotor for restricting an imbalance amount of rotation of the rotor substantially within 200 g-mm.

Spinning reel having balancing means

A spinning reel has a reel body and a rotor attached attached to the reel body and rotatable about a longitudinal axis for retrieving a fishing line. The spinning reel has also a balancer attached to the rotor for restricting an imbalance amount of rotation of the rotor substantially within 200 g -mm.

A spinning reel includes a reel body, a rotor disposed at a forward position of the reel body, an arm cam pivotably attached to one of a pair of arm portions of the rotor and a pivotable arm pivotably attached to the other arm portion. A bail is interposed between a line roller of the arm cam and the pivotable arm. A balancer, which is provided to the pivotable arm, has a configuration projection on a side opposite to the bail and outwardly of the pivotable arm with respect to a direction along a pivot axis of the pivotable arm.

A spinning reel has a detachable cover for closing a side of a reel body. The reel body includes engaging pieces, while the cover includes engageable elements. The cover is movable between a first position for tight contact with the reel body to close an interior of the reel body, and a second position rotated a predetermined angle from the first position about a lateral axis of the reel body. The engaging pieces are engaged with the engageable elements when the cover is in the first position, to realize the cramping of the cover with the reel body, to assure the closed condition of the reel body, and disengaged from the engageable elements when the cover is in said second position, to allow the cover to separate from the reel body. And the reel have a locking system to maintain the cover in the first position.

Spinning reel

A spinning reel includes a spool mounted on a spool shaft. An engaging mechanism is disposed in a rear end region of the spool for interconnecting the spool and spool shaft to allow torque transmission therebetween, and limiting rearward movement of the spool. A stopper is disposed in a front end region of the spool for limiting forward movement of the spool. The engaging mechanism includes an engaging piece formed on the spool shaft, and an engaging portion for contacting the engaging piece to prevent the spool from rotating relative to the spool shaft. An elastic retainer is provided for preventing relative rotation or relative axial movement between the spool and spool shaft when the engaging mechanism is in operation.

Spinning reel having a stopper for limiting spool movement

A spinning reel has a reel body and a color attached to the reel body and rotatable about a longitudinal axis for retrieving a fishing line. The spinning reel also has a balancer attached to the rotor for restricting an imbalance amount of rotation of the rotor substantially within 200 g -mm.

Spinning reel having balancer

A spinning reel includes a reel body, a rotor disposed at a forward position of the reel body, an arm cam pivotably attached to one of a pair of portions of the rotor and a pivotable arm pivotably attached to the other arm portion. A bail is interposed between a line roller of the arm cam and the pivotable arm. A balancer, which is provided to the pivotable arm, has a configuration projecting on a side opposite to the bail and outwardly of the pivotable arm with respect to a direction along a pivot axis of the pivotable arm.

A spinning reel includes a pair of arms formed on a rotor disposed in a forward portion of a reel body. At least one of the arms carries an oscillatable arm, and a bail arm extends between the oscillatable arm and the other arm or an oscillatable arm attached to the other arm to be switchable between a line winding position and a line freeing position. A bail engaging element is formed on the oscillatable arm or a member oscillatable with the oscillatable arm. The bait engaging element is operable to hold a bait against a forward tension when the bail arm is set to the line winding position, and to release the bait forwardly when the bail arm is set to the line freeing position.

A drag mechanism of a spinning reel includes friction discs disposed at a forward position of a spool for applying a braking force to relative rotation between the spool and a spool shaft, an adjuster member attached to a front end of the spool shaft for adjustment of a pressing force to be applied to the friction discs, a case member including a bottom wall having a hole for inserting the spool shaft and a cylindrical side wall. The case member is disposed at a space formed inside the spool at a position adjacent the spool shaft inside a line-takeup face of the spool. The friction discs are positioned inside the case member. A closing structure is disposed at an opening of the case member for applying a pressing force to the friction discs while maintaining a sealed condition relative to the opening of the case member.

Spinning reel having a sealed front drag mechanism

A spinning reel has a reel body having a projection portion, a rotary frame, a bail arm and a toggle urge mechanism for switching over, via a drive arm, the bail arm between a fishing-line releasing position to a fishing-line retrieving position. Either a contacted portion of the drive arm to be contacted by the projection portion or this projection portion is projectable and retractable through contact with the other and is urged in a projecting direction by a projection urging mechanism. The projection urging mechanism has a push-out urging force equal to or substantially equal to a push-in force applied thereto by either the contacted portion or the projection portion in association with the rotary movement of the rotary frame in the line retrieving direction.

A spinning reel comprising a reel body, a handle operable to take up a fishing line on a spool, and an oscillating mechanism. The oscillating mechanism is mounted in the reel body, and includes a screw shaft rotatable by drive from a transmission line leading from the handle, an insert piece engaging a helical groove defined on the screw shaft, a transmission member for transmitting a moving force of the insert piece to a spool shaft, and a cushioning device for mitigating shocks imparted from a position forwardly of the spool shaft. The cushioning device is disposed in a portion extending from a position of the reel body for supporting the screw shaft through the insert piece to an intermediate position of the spool shaft.

Spinning reel with a shock absorbing mechanism

A fishing reel supports at a front wall of a reel body, a spool, a rotary frame which has first and second arms, and a bail arm which is supported between the arms in a manner permitting it to be turned over between a position where the rotary frame rotates to wind a fishing line onto the spool and a position where the line is released. A control means is provided to turn over the bail arm from the line winding to the line releasing position, the control means having a control member positioned in proximity to an arm roller at the bail arm which retains the line at the line winding position, so that when an angler catches by his finger the line retained by the arm roller, he can operate the control member in association with the line catching action.

Outer spool type spinning reel having improved bail arm control mechanism

A round producing apparatus for a spinning reel includes a sound producing piece in the form of a leaf spring attached to a disk mounted on a spool shaft, and an annular toothed element supported by a spool for acting on a distal end of the sound producing piece to produce a clicking sound. The sound producing piece is cantilevered and extends from the disk along directions of rotation of the spool. A coil spring acts as a one-way clutch for allowing the annular toothed element to rotate only in a line unwinding direction of the spool.

Sound producing apparatus for spinning reel

A spinning reel comprising a rotor for taking up a fishing line, a one-way clutch mechanism having an outer ring member attached to inner peripheries of the rotor through a torque transmission structure, and an inner ring member, and a changeover mechanism. The changeover mechanism is switchable between a position in which to restrain rotation of the inner ring member of the one-way clutch mechanism thereby to allow the rotor to rotate only in a fishing line winding direction by restraining rotation of an inner ring member of the one-way clutch mechanism, and a position in which to permit free rotation of the inner ring member thereby to allow the rotor to rotate in opposite directions.

Spinning reel with one-way clutch mechanism

A drag adjusting device for a closed-face type fishing reel is provided which has a spool rotatably supported at the front of a reel body, a mounting leg below the spool, a brake plate provided between the spool and the reel body and a drag actuating plate extending at both ends radially of the spool for urging the brake plate in one direction to apply a braking force to the spool. A drag setting thumb nut is operatively engaged with one lengthwise end of the drag actuating plate to change the position thereof with respect to the spool in order ot set the braking force to be applied to the spool. An adjusting member in operative engagement with the other lengthwise end of the drag actuating plate adjusts the braking force set by the setting thumb nut.

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Osamu Yoshikawa