Daiwa Seiko, Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Daiwa Seiko Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Corporation

Shinji Takeuchi

Eiji Shinohara

Yukio Ito

Tetsuya Shimozaki

Takashi Shibata

Kyoichi Kaneko

Akira Yamaguchi

Wataru Tsutsumi

Masayuki Ishida

Masayuki Tsuji

Noboru Yashima

Hiroshi Onishi

Fumio Suzuki

Noboru Kyouno

Takuji Kurashita

Ko Nishino

Hitoshi Hasegawa

Shin-ichi Asano

Masayuki Kawashiro

Yuuji Yamamoto

Naohiro Fujimura

Masamitsu Miyajima

Mitsuru Higuchi

In a spinning reel for fishing, a fishline guide roller is rotatably supported on a bail support arm pivotably mounted on a rotor. The guide roller has a flattened shape such that a ratio of an axial length of the roller relative to a diameter thereof falls within 0.10-0.40. Further, the guide roller is formed with a narrow fishline guide groove so that a ratio of an axial length of the fishline guide groove relative to an axial length of the roller falls within 0.05-0.35. It is possible to make a fishline guide roller small in weight and size and to restrict axial motion of a fishline along the guide roller which, among other advantages, reduces line twist in the fishline.

Fishline guide arrangement for spinning reel

To avoid degradation of the acoustic signal radiated from the opening of the ducted horn of a ducted horn type speaker, under influence of the ducted horn, below the characteristic of the speaker itself, and input terminal for receiving an audio signal, a non-recursive digital filter for varying the input audio signal, a power amplifier for amplifying the varied signal, and speaker for replaying the amplified signal are provided. The non-recursive digital filter realizes the inverse characteristic of the transfer characteristic of the ducted horn.

Acoustic replay device

In a spinning reel for fishing, a brake member is attached to a rotor, which, when a bail support member is operated or reversed from its fishing line retrieving state to its fishing line casting state, is pressed against a spool to thereby brake the rotation of the rotor. The bail support member can be returned from the fishing line casting state to the fishing line retrieving state through a reversing mechanism if the rotor is rotated with a handle in the fishing line retrieving direction. The spinning reel for fishing can prevent the inadvertent operation of a bail in a fishing line casting operation and thereby improve the fishing operation of the spinning reel.

Spinning reel for fishing having a rotor brake member operable in the

In a spinning reel for fishing, by moving an actuator in accordance with an operation to move a bail support member from a fishing line retrieving position to a fishing line casting position, a cam surface of the actuator contacts with a cam surface of a securing member to bring a securing claw of the securing member into engagement with one of several securing grooves provided on the spool, thereby preventing the spool against rotation. On the other hand, movement of the actuator in accordance with a return operation to return the bail support member back to the fishing line retrieving position, separates the securing claw that was engaged with the securing grove from the securing groove, thereby allowing the spool to rotate.

Spinning reel for fishing having a mechanism for securing the spool

A spinning reel for fishing in which a return operation to return a bail to its fishing line retrieving position after casting of a fishing line as well as removal of the unrotatable state of a spool can be carried out automatically and easily. The spinning reel for fishing has a structure which includes a reverse-function lever (6) to be operated by a bail support member (29), a connecting body (5) which is movably fitted with the outer periphery of a large-diameter cylindrical portion (2c) of a rotor (2) connected to the reverse-function lever (6) and also which is fitted with a spool (3) in such a manner that it is free to move but is always prevented against rotation, and a lock member (7) which is fitted with a spool shaft (4) movably but unrotatably.

Spinning reel with spool that is prevented from rotating relative to

A video contrast enhancer enhances luminance contrast by dividing each video frame or field into blocks, calculating a mean luminance level for each block, selecting mapping functions on the basis of these mean luminance levels over a series of frames or fields, and mapping the video luminance levels according to the selected mapping functions. Color-saturation contrast is enhanced by modifying the amplitude of the modulated chrominance signal by the histogram equalization method, preferably by making a single linear modification in each period of the chrominance signal, so that color phase is not affected. For video signals with non-picture bands, these enhancements are preferably restricted to the picture area. If a black offset is present, it is preferably removed.

Video contrast enhancer

A handle mounting structure in a fishing reel, which spreads open and deforms a collar by means of the taper action of a tapered engaging surface formed in the end portion of a handle shaft to thereby be sure to prevent the handle shaft from being loosened and clattered in the rotational direction thereof. The handle mounting structure includes: a drive shaft having a drive gear and a through-hole; a handle shaft to which a handle is fixed and which is non-rotatably fitted into the through-hole of the drive shaft; a tapered engaging surface formed on an end portion of the handle shaft; a collar deformable radially outwardly and fitted into the through-hole of the drive shaft so that one end of the collar is confronted with the tapered engaging surface; and a threaded member engageable with the handle shaft. The collar is pressed axially against the tapered engaging surface by the threaded member so that the collar is deformed and spread, whereby the collar is brought into pressure-contact with an inner surface of the through-hole of the drive shaft.

Handle mounting structure in fishing reel

In a spinning reel for fishing, a bail is fitted via bail support members (5A, 5B) to the bail support arms (4A, 4B) of a rotor rotatably supported by a reel body. The bail support members are reversible between a fishline playing-out position and a fishline winding position. One bail support member is provided with a line roller. As the rotor rotates, the fishline is wound on the spool via the line roller. A fishline entanglement preventive member (8) is installed from the front part of the support member having the line roller fitted to one end of the bail toward the support member on the other end side of the bail, in order to ensure that a fishline is prevented from becoming entangled in the outer end portion in the axial direction of the line roller of the bail support member due to slackening and twisting of the fishline. With the benefit of the described structure, fishing can be enjoyed without encumbrance arising from fishline entanglement, in particular during the fishline winding operation.

Spinning reel for fishing having a fishline entanglement preventive

In a spinning reel, the rear portion of the inner periphery of a large-diameter cylindrical portion and base portion of the rotor on the .beta. side of the rotor are formed into a thin-walled portion with a recess as compared with the rear area .alpha. of the rotor. The rear area .alpha. is closer to the bail support arm having a fishline guide portion than to the other bail support arm and is within the fishline winding side of the semi-annular bail arm. Furthermore the bail support arms and the bail support members are offset by a distance D with respect to the center of the rotary shaft of the rotor. This arrangement improves not only fishing operability, by stabilizing the rotational balance of the rotor without increasing the weight of the reel body as a whole but also improves fabrication efficiency by reducing the number of parts needed, since a discrete balance is no longer needed.

Spinning reel for fishing with a rotor partially reduced in wall

A spinning reel for fishing includes a rotor rotatably fitted to a reel body, and a spool supported by the reel body via a spool shaft in such a manner that the spool is capable of a traverse motion in the axial direction of the spool shaft and that a fishing line is wound thereon when the rotor is rotated by a manually operated handle. The spinning reel for fishing is further includes a fishing-line entry restrainer for preventing the fishing line from being wound on the spool shaft. The fishing-line entry restrainer is movably fitted to the cylindrical portion of the rotor placed in the spool. A follow-up mechanism is provided for causing the fishing-line entry restrainer to move forward when the spool is moved in the same direction.

Spinning reel for fishing having fish-line entry restrainer

A fishline guide mechanism in a spinning reel for fishing, includes: a bail attaching arm provided to a rotor; a bail supporting member pivotally coupled to an end portion of the bail attaching arm so as to invert from one of a fishline releasing position and a fishline winding position to the other of a fishline releasing position and a fishline winding position; and an anti-tangling member provided and bridged between the bail supporting member and the bail attaching arm. A fishline can be surely prevented from being tangled on any step and/or gap formed between the bail attaching arm and the bail supporting member below the anti-tangling member.

Fishline guide mechanism in spinning reel for fishing

An extended cover (11), in the shape of a deep bowl, is disconnectably mounted on a reel casing (1) such that an axial distance (A) from a rotor (4) to a fishing line guide hole (10) is greater than the axial dimension (B) of the rotor (4). Consequently, a fishing line (20) moving between an outer periphery of the rotor (4) and the fishing line guide hole (10) makes smaller bends. This increases the flying range and simultaneously reduces wear on the fishing line (20.)

Extended cover for a cover type fishing reel

Reel for fishing

A mechanism which for collapsing a handle of fishing reel to its side perpendicularly intersecting a plane containing the axis of the handle and that of a handle shaft. A manipulation member (15) having a manipulating projection (14) constituting the inner end of the member is fitted in the hole (11) of the shaft portion of the handle (4). The shaft portion has an engagement hole (12) provided between the inner end of the hole (11) and the deep-grooved inner part (5) of the shaft portion. The jut (2) of a holder (3) is fitted in the deep-grooved inner part (5) so that the handle (4) is supported. An engagement member (9) is fitted in the hole (7) of the jut (2) so that the engagement end portion (8) of the member can be engaged in the engagement hole (12) and disengaged out of it. To collapse handle (4), the manipulation member (15) is pushed in to disengage the engagement end portion ( 8) out of the engagement hole (12). A projecting member can be dispensed with at the joint of the handle and the shaft, thereby making the mechanism compact at the joint and prevent a fishline from tangling on the member.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinji Takeuchi