Shimano Inc.

Shimano Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shimano Components (malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

Takeshi Ikuta

Kunio Takechi

Ken'ichi Kawasaki

Akira Niitsuma

Hirokazu Hiraoka

Shouji Nakagawa

Takuji Takamatsu

Ken'ichi Sugawara

Koji Takikura

Hiroaki Kuriyama

Ken′ichi Kawasaki

Yohei Toake

Masakazu Iwabuchi

Yasuhiro Hitomi

Noboru Sakaguchi

Youhei Toake

Kazuki Hiraizumi

Kazuhito Yamamoto

Shunsaku Asaka

Jun Sato

Etsuyoshi Watarai

Akira Nago

Keigo Kitajima

Satoshi Ikebukuro

Kei Saito

Koji Ochiai

Motohiro Niitsuma

Osamu Yoshikawa

Abu Supian Bin Ahmad

Kenichi Sugawara

Kenji Yoshida

Hiroki Oogose

Yutaka Inoue

Shingo Aoki

Kohei Nakamura

Hirokazu Hashimoto

Shouoji Nakagawa

Ken′ichi Sugawara

A dual-bearing reel for fishing includes a drag disc non-rotatably mounted on a spool; a pinion gear collar disposed on the handle side of the drag disc and immovable in a spool shaft direction; a drag receiver disposed on the side opposite the handle and movable in the spool shaft direction in conjunction with a spool shaft; a biasing member configured to bias the drag disc and the drag receiver in a direction that separates them; a drag lever movable between a clamping position and a separation position; and a movement mechanism configured to move the spool shaft to the side opposite the handle such that the drag disc, the pinion gear collar, and the drag receiver are separated from each other, and configured to move the spool shaft to the handle side such that the pinion gear collar and the drag receiver clamp the drag disc.

Dual-bearing reel for fishing

A dual-bearing reel comprises a reel main body, a spool, a spool shaft, an adjusting member, and an operation lever. The adjusting member is attached to the reel main body. The adjusting member adjusts a braking force with which a rotation of the spool shaft is braked. The operation lever is attached to the adjusting member such that the operation lever extends in a radial direction.

Dual-bearing reel

A dual-bearing reel capable of reeling in and reeling out a fishing line includes a reel body, a spool, a spool shaft, an operating member, and an oscillating mechanism. The spool is rotatably supported by the reel body. The spool shaft supports the spool. The operating member is movably provided on the reel body and moves to perform an adjustment operation on a braking force that acts on the spool. The oscillating mechanism causes the fishing line to oscillate in the axial direction in synchronization with a rotation of the spool.

A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body and a spool. The reel body includes a first body part, a second body part, and a thumb rest. The spool is rotatably disposed between the first body part and the second body part. The spool includes a bobbin trunk, a first flange, and a second flange. The first flange is on a first body part side of the bobbin trunk, and has a smaller diameter than the first body part. The second flange is on a second body part side of the bobbin trunk, and has a smaller diameter than the second body part. The first body part includes a cutout part on an outer edge of the first body part. The cutout part is adjacent to the thumb rest and to an outer edge of the first flange of the spool.

A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body, a spool and a waterproof member. The reel body includes a first side plate and a second side plate. The spool includes a bobbin trunk and a first flange. The bobbin trunk is rotatably disposed between the first side plate and the second side plate. The first flange is provided on a first side plate-side end of the bobbin trunk and has a larger diameter than the bobbin trunk. The waterproof member has an annular shape and is disposed in a first side plate-side position in the reel body. Additionally, the first flange includes a rib having an annular shape. The rib extends axially outward from the first flange and has a smaller diameter than an outermost diameter part of the first flange. The waterproof member is disposed in adjacent opposition to an inner peripheral surface of the rib of the first flange.

A dual-bearing reel includes a reel unit, a spool, and a guide member. The reel unit includes a first reel body and a second reel body. The spool is disposed between the first reel body and the second reel body. The guide member is attached to the reel unit and restricts a moving range of a fishing line forwardly released from the spool. Additionally, the guide member overlaps with the first reel body and the second reel body. The guide member makes contact with the first reel body and the second reel body.

A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body, a tubular pinion gear, a first bearing, a spool shaft, a spool attached to the spool shaft, and a clutch mechanism. The first bearing member supports an outer perimeter surface of a first end portion of the pinion gear. The spool shaft extends through an interior of the pinion gear and is rotatably supported in the reel body. The clutch mechanism is configured to switch between a clutch on state to connect the pinion gear and the spool shaft, and a clutch off state to release the connection between the pinion gear and the spool shaft. The spool shaft includes a support portion configured to support an inner perimeter surface of a second end portion of the pinion gear in the clutch on state.

A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body and a spool. The reel body includes a first side plate, a second side plate, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second side plates. The spool includes a bobbin trunk, a first flange portion, and a second flange portion. The first flange portion is disposed on a first side plate side of the bobbin trunk, and has a diameter larger than the diameter of the bobbin trunk and a first cylindrical surface disposed face to an inner perimeter portion of the first side plate and extends toward the first side plate side. The second flange portion is disposed on a second side plate side of the bobbin trunk and has a diameter larger than the diameter of the bobbin trunk. The first side plate has a groove portion recessed radially outwardly in at least a portion of an inner perimeter portion.

A dual-bearing reel includes a reel body, a spool, a drag mechanism, a drag lever, and an engagement member. The drag mechanism is configured to brake the rotation of the spool. The drag lever is pivotably attached to the first reel body portion so as to be operable between a first region and a second region. The engagement member protrudes from the drag lever when the drag lever is in the first region. Further, the engagement member is retracted into the drag lever when the drag lever is in the second region.

A drag device for a dual bearing reel includes a drag device, a sound generating member, and a housing member. The drag plate is integrally rotatable with the drive shaft, and is capable of being pressed by a drag adjustment member. The drag plate includes a sound generating plate opposed to the drive gear. The sound generating member includes a head portion configured to contact the sound generating plate, and a shaft portion connected to the head portion. The sound generating member is configured to generate a sound by interference between the sound generating plate and the head portion during relative rotation between the drive gear and the drag plate. The housing member is configured to be mounted to the drive gear and includes a holding portion to hold the shaft portion of the sound generating member, and a regulating portion configured to regulate movement of the head portion.

Drag device for a dual-bearing reel

A torque limiting device includes a shaft member that is rotatable by torque, a first cam portion, a second cam portion and an urging member. The first cam portion is rotatably mounted to the shaft member. The second cam portion is mounted to the shaft member so as to be unitarily rotatable therewith and be movable along an axial direction of the shaft member. The second cam portion is configured to enable torque transmission between the first cam portion and the second cam portion when engaged with the first cam portion so as to be unitarily rotatable therewith. Additionally, the second cam portion is configured to disable torque transmission between the first cam portion and the second cam portion when disengaged and separated away from the first cam portion along the axial direction. The urging member urges the second cam portion toward the first cam portion.

Torque limiting device for fishing reel

A dual-bearing reel, includes a reel body, a spool, a spool shaft, an adjustment member, and an operating lever. The spool is rotatable relative to the reel body. The spool shaft is configured to integrally rotate with the spool. The adjustment member is attached to the reel body and configured to adjust a braking force that brakes the rotation of the spool shaft. The operating lever is detachably attached to the adjustment member so as to extend in a radial direction, and configured to be positionally adjusted in a circumferential direction relative to the adjustment member.

The waterproof structure includes a reel body, a spool, a first abutting member, and a second abutting member. The first abutting member includes a first body portion and at least one first annular protrusion. The first body portion abuts with the reel body. The first annular protrusion protrudes from the first body portion. The second abutting member includes a second body portion and at least one second annular protrusion. The second body portion abuts with the spool and is adjacently disposed at a predetermined first waterproof gap from the first annular protrusion. The second annular protrusion protrudes from the second body portion and is adjacently disposed at a predetermined second gap from the first body portion. The first annular protrusion and the second annular protrusion are adjacently disposed with a predetermined second waterproof gap therebetween.

Waterproof structure for a fishing reel

A clutch mechanism includes a clutch pin, a pinion gear, a first bearing, a second bearing and a clearance adjusting part. The pinion gear is axially movable to an on-position that causes the pinion gear to engage with the clutch pin and be unitarily rotatable with the spool shaft and an off-position that causes the pinion gear to disengage from the clutch pin. The first bearing is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of a first support part of the pinion gear. The second bearing is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of a second support part of the pinion gear. The clearance adjusting part is configured to partially reduce a clearance between an inner peripheral surface of a through hole and the outer peripheral surface of the spool shaft at the clearance adjusting part in an on-state of the clutch mechanism.

A clutch mechanism includes a clutch portion and a pinion gear. The pinion gear has an engaging part and a gear part. The engaging part is located on a first end as a spool-side end of the pinion gear and is capable of being engaged with the clutch portion. The gear part is meshed with the drive gear. The gear part has helical teeth enabling the pinion gear to be urged toward the spool by the drive gear. The engaging part has a bottom and a first wall. The first wall extends from the bottom toward the first end and tilts in the same direction as the helical teeth with respect to the spool shaft such that the pinion gear is urged oppositely to the spool by the clutch portion when the engaging part is engaged with the clutch portion and receives transmission of rotation in a fishing-line releasing direction from the spool.

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Takeshi Ikuta