Spinning reel for fishing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10588301-B2
Application number	US-201716307065-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2017
Priority date	Jun 8, 2016
Publication date	Mar 17, 2020
Grant date	Mar 17, 2020

Abstract

A meshed state between a drive gear and a pinion gear can be maintained with high accuracy, and rigidity of a reel body is increased. Entry of dust and water between a side opening portion and a lid member is prevented and tangling of a fishing line is avoided. A fishing spinning reel includes a lid member closing a side opening portion provided in a body and a handle shaft is rotatably supported by at least the lid member. A female screw portion is provided on the side opening portion, and a male screw portion is provided on the lid member. There are provided a drive gear, a pinion gear meshed with the drive gear, a front bearing rotatably supporting a front portion of the pinion gear, and a rear bearing rotatably supporting a rear portion thereof.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fishing spinning reel comprising:
a reel unit including a body and a lid member closing a side opening portion provided at a side portion of the body,
wherein a handle shaft is supported by at least the lid member,
the side opening portion and the lid member are circular in shape,
the fishing spinning reel further comprising:
a female screw portion provided on an inner peripheral portion of the side opening portion;
a male screw portion provided on an outer peripheral portion of the lid member and screwed into the female screw portion such that the lid member is directly fastened to the side opening portion;
a drive gear rotationally driven via the handle shaft;
a pinion gear meshed with the drive gear;
a front bearing rotatably supporting a front portion side of the pinion gear; and
a rear bearing rotatably supporting a rear portion side of the pinion gear.

2. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , wherein the handle shaft is supported at a center portion of the lid member.

3. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , wherein the rear bearing is positioned inside the side opening portion.

4. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , wherein a support portion supporting the handle shaft is provided in the body,
a handle shaft bearing supporting the handle shaft is disposed in the support portion, and
the rear bearing or a support member supporting the rear bearing overlaps with at least part of the handle shaft bearing as viewed from an axial direction of the handle shaft.

5. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , wherein a position where the side opening portion and the lid member are screwed with each other is situated lateral to the pinion gear and between a position where the pinion gear is supported by the front bearing and a position where the drive gear is meshed with the pinion gear.

6. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , wherein in the lid member, there is formed a contact portion for obtaining concentricity with the side opening portion by coming in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the side opening portion.

7. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , a spool reciprocation device is housed and supported inside the side opening portion,
at a rear portion of the body, there is formed a rear opening portion for receiving at least part of a constituent member of the spool reciprocation device so that the constituent member is disposed on a rear side, and
the body includes a bridge portion extending between the side opening portion and the rear opening portion and forming an opening end edge of each of the side opening portion and the rear opening portion.

8. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 7 , wherein
there is provided a spool shaft supported to the body so as to be freely slidable forward and rearward, a rear portion of the spool shaft being positioned in the body,
the spool reciprocation device includes: a slider caused to move forward and rearward together with the spool shaft by rotation of the handle shaft; and a guide shaft guiding the slider to slide in a front-rear direction,
with respect to the handle shaft, the rear portion of the spool shaft and the guide shaft are disposed so as to be separated on a lower side and an upper side, respectively, and
a concave portion receiving at least part of the handle shaft is formed in a portion of the slider opposed to the handle shaft.

9. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 1 , wherein
the body includes a wall portion and a tube portion extending from the wall portion,
the side opening portion is provided at an end portion of the tube portion,
the lid member is fastened to the side opening portion by being screwed itself thereinto,
a support rib extending in a top-bottom direction is disposed on an inner side of the tube portion, and
an upper end portion and a lower end portion of the support rib are connected to an inner peripheral surface of the tube portion, so that the tube portion and the support rib are provided so as to be integral with each other.

10. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 9 , wherein the support rib is provided in a protruding manner so as to be integral with the wall portion.

11. The fishing spinning reel according to claim 9 , wherein the support rib supports the rear bearing.

Assignees

• Globeride Inc

Inventors

• Tsutsumi Wataru
• Matsuda Kazuyuki
• Shimizu Yoshihito

Classifications

• A01K89/011223 Primary

  with bearing features · CPC title

• A01K89/01126

  Threaded · CPC title

• A01K89/0111

  Spool details · CPC title

• A01K89/01082 Primary

  Guiding members shiftable on rotor · CPC title

• A01K89/011221

  with line or water shields · CPC title