Dual-bearing reel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10721922-B2
Application number	US-201715624198-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2017
Priority date	Sep 8, 2016
Publication date	Jul 28, 2020
Grant date	Jul 28, 2020

Abstract

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dual-bearing reel comprising:
a first reel body portion;
a second reel body portion spaced apart from the first reel body portion in an axial direction;
a spool disposed between the first reel body portion and the second reel body portion;
a spool shaft that rotates integrally with the spool;
an adjusting member attached to the first reel body portion for adjusting a braking force with which a rotation of the spool shaft is braked; and
an operation lever detachably attached to the adjusting member, including a lever body portion that extends from the adjusting member in a radial direction and extends toward the second reel body portion,
a position of the operation lever in a circumferential direction being adjustable with respect to the adjusting member.

2. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 1 , wherein the lever body portion is pivotably attached to the adjusting member.

3. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 1 , wherein the operation lever further comprises a mounting part detachably attached to the adjusting member.

4. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 3 , wherein the operation lever further comprises a hinge part that couples the lever body portion and the mounting part such that the lever body portion is pivotably attached to the adjusting member.

5. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 3 , wherein
the mounting part comprises a first tubular part; and
the adjusting member comprises a second tubular part that fits in the first tubular part.

6. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 5 , wherein the mounting part comprises an inner-side flange part that extends from the first tubular part toward an inner side and makes contact with the adjusting member in the axial direction.

7. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 5 , wherein
the adjusting member further comprises an outer-side flange part that extends from the second tubular part toward an outer side; and
the first tubular part makes contact with the outer-side flange part in the axial direction.

8. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 1 , wherein a tip part of the lever body portion overlaps with an outermost-circumferential surface of the first reel body portion in a radial-direction view.

9. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 1 , wherein the lever body portion meanders or curves toward the second reel body portion.

10. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 1 , wherein
the lever body portion comprises:
a base-end part extending from the adjusting member in the radial direction; and
an operation part extending from a tip part of the base-end part toward the second reel body portion in the axial direction.

11. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 10 , wherein the operation part is disposed on an outer side of the first reel body portion in the radial direction.

12. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 10 , wherein the base-end part extends in a stepped shape in the radial direction and the axial direction.

13. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 10 , wherein the base-end part extends to be tilted relative to the radial direction toward the second reel body portion.

14. The dual-bearing reel according to claim 10 , wherein a width of the operation part is larger than a width of the base-end part.

Assignees

• Shimano Kk

Inventors

• Ikuta Takeshi
• Nago Akira
• Aoki Shingo
• Asaka Shunsaku

Classifications

• A01K89/01931 Primary

  Spool or spool shaft details (spool details in reel with pick-up A01K89/0111) · CPC title

• A01K89/0155 Primary

  Antibacklash devices · CPC title

• A01K89/0189

  Coaxial of spool · CPC title

• A01K89/027

  with pick-up {, i.e. for reels with the guiding member rotating and the spool not rotating during normal retrieval of the line} · CPC title