Abstract: A braking apparatus for a double bearing type fishing reel, including a braking force adjusting lever turnably arranged on one of side plates for adjusting a braking force applied to a spool rotatably supported between both the side plates, the braking apparatus further including: an arc-shaped defining member turnably arranged on the one side plate, the defining member having a first engaging portion adapted to be engaged with the braking force adjusting lever for regulating the turnable movement of the braking force adjusting lever relative to the one side plate and defining a maximum braking force applied to the spool. The arc-shaped defining member is adjustingly turned and thereafter fixed onto the one side plate by utilizing a fixing screw. A stepless normal working range with a maximum braking force position suitable for fishing conditions can be provided for the turnable movement of the braking force adjusting lever.

Abstract: A spinning reel for fishing including: a spool supported by a reel main body and making a traverse movement in accordance with the winding operation of a handle, a rotor rotatably supported by the reel main body and rotating in accordance with the winding operation of the handle, a bail supporting member rotatably mounted on a bail supporting arm of the rotor and to which a bail is secured, and a arrangement for urging the bail supporting member into a fishline winding position and a fishline releasing position.

Abstract: A spinning reel which is for fishing and includes a drag mechanism and a shift mechanism which is for shifting a spool between a drag state and a release state. The reel has a shift mechanism provided between a spool and a spool shaft so that a rotor turning mechanism, a spool sliding mechanism and so forth, which are provided in a casing of the reel, are not restricted. The reel may be provided with a return mechanism by which the shift mechanism in a state of keeping the spool in the state of rotating freely from the action of the drag mechanism is returned to a state of keeping the spool in the state of receiving the action.

Abstract: A fishing reel is provided with a line length measuring device to determine the unwound or wound amount of the fishing line based on the number of spool rotations. It is provided with a micro computer-implemented function to detect when the fishing line wound onto the spool reaches a prescribed winding amount. The line length is measured by micro computer execution of a formula for line length calculation determined by the total number of spool rotations when the fishing line is wound to a prescribed winding diameter level of the spool, according to the actual number of spool rotations when the line is unwound or wound, as counted with an incremental/decremental counter. Further, when the fishing line reaches the prescribed winding amount, the prescribed winding amount detector so informs.

Abstract: A drag mechanism for a fishing reel, comprising a rotor for applying a tension to a fishing line, rotatably supported on a support shaft of a reel body. A support cylinder is slidably fitted on and supported by the support shaft and braking plates are mounted around the support cylinder for frictionally connecting the rotor to the support cylinder. The braking plates are piled on the support cylinder in a predetermined number and prevented from falling off of the support cylinder. A manipulator for depressing the braking plates is mounted on the support cylinder, and is threadingly engaged with the support shaft. The support cylinder and braking plates comprise an integral unit removably attached onto the support shaft.

Abstract: A fishing reel with a reel body, spool handle, and front and rear attaching portions mounted on the reel body and separated from each other by a distance in the longitudinal direction of the rod. The portions may be integral with or attached to the reel body. Further, the distance between the longitudinal axis of the fishing reel and each of the tops of the attaching portions, is longer in length than the distance between the longitudinal axis of the fishing reel and the periphery of a spool flange.

Abstract: A spinning reel which is for fishing and includes a drag mechanism and a shift mechanism which is for shifting a spool between a drag state and a release state. The reel has a shift mechanism provided between a spool and a spool shaft so that a rotor turning mechanism, a spool sliding mechanism and so forth, which are provided in a casing of the reel, are not restricted. The reel may be provided with a return mechanism by which the shift mechanism can be engaged so that the spool can be shifted from a freely rotating state to a state in which the drag mechanism is engaged.

Abstract: A speed changer for fishing reels, capable of carrying out a manual take-up speed changing operation easily and smoothly without damaging the surfaces of the teeth of the gears provided therein even when a take-up load is imparted on a spool, consisting of a driving gear-carrying driving shaft, a handle-carrying handle-turning tube mounted on the outer portion of the driving shaft via a one-way clutch so that the handle-turning tube can be turned unitarily with the driving shaft in the fishing line take-up direction, a pinion mounted on a spool-turning spool shaft, with which pinion the driving gear is meshed, planetary gears supported rotatably on shafts and provided in the inner end portion of the handle-turning tube, an internal gear mounted on and rotatable with the driving shaft, with which internal gear the outer portions of the planetary gears are meshed, a sun gear fitted rotatably around the driving shaft, with which sun gear the inner portions of the planetary gears are meshed, a change over member

Abstract: A key top, of the type utilized in keyboards, is disclosed, which minimizes the lateral stress encountered by the central engaging protrusion with respect to the underlying switch. Two T-shaped reinforcing rib structures are provided on bottom surface of the top plate of the key top, with the rib structures spaced apart from the engaging protrusion, thereby providing a gap between the reinforcing ribs and the engaging protrusion, and thus dispersing lateral stress on the engaging protrusion through increased flexure of the engaging protrusion. In addition, the base of the engaging protrusion is thickened to structurally resist lateral stress.

Abstract: A drag device for double bearing type fishing reels, comprising a handle shaft supported on side plates of a reel, a driving gear meshed with a spool shaft-turning pinion, and a sun gear, which are fitted around the handle shaft, a support member which has planetary gears supported rotatable thereon, and which is mounted on the handle shaft so that the support member can be turned unitarily therewith, an internal gear formed on the inner circumferential surface of the driving gear so that the planetary gears are meshed with the sun gear and internal gear, a braking gear supported on the side plates of the reel and adapted to generate a braking force which can be regulated by a regulating knob, a gear meshed with the braking gear and adapted to be turned unitarily with the sun gear, and a reverse rotation preventing mechanism provided on the handle shaft.

Abstract: A bail arm roller supporter in fishing spinning reel is disclosed which comprises an arm lever; a support shaft provided on the arm lever; a roller rotatably supported by the support shaft through a rolling bearing having an inner race and an outer race; a first engaging portion provided at one end of the support shaft for supporting the inner race; and a second engaging portion for supporting the outer race. The second engaging portion is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the roller at the other end of the supporting shaft.

Abstract: A speed changer for fishing reels, capable of carrying out a manual take-up speed changing operation easily and smoothly without damaging the surfaces of the teeth of the gears provided therein even when a take-up load is imparted on a spool, consisting of a driving gear-carrying driving shaft, a handle-carrying handle-turning tube mounted on the outer portion of the driving shaft via a one-way clutch so that the handle-turning tube can be turned unitarily with the driving shaft in the fishing line take-up direction, a pinion mounted on a spool-turning spool shaft, with which pinion the driving gear is meshed, planetary gears supported rotatably on shafts and provided in the inner end portion of the handle-turning tube, and internal gear mounted on and rotatable with the driving shaft, with which internal gear the outer portions of the planetary gears are meshed, a sun gear fitted rotatably around the driving shaft, with which sun gear the inner portions of the planetary gears are meshed, a change over member

Abstract: A push button switch including a lower case, an upper case adapted to be coupled with the lower case to define a space therebetween, a fixed contact member having a fixed contact terminal, a movable contact member having a movable contact terminal, and a stem operable from the outside of the upper case, wherein the fixed contact member, the movable contact member and the stem are mounted in the space, and the lower case is formed with slots for inserting the fixed contact terminal and the movable contact terminal therethrough. The stem is slidably mounted to a stem sliding portion formed in the lower case, and a bottom portion of the stem sliding portion projects downwardly from the lower surface of the lower case less than a plurality of projections projecting downwardly from the lower surface of the lower case. The lower case is formed at its inside corners with curved surface. The bottom surface of the lower case is formed with cutouts in the vicinity of the slots.

Abstract: A spinning reel, which is capable of applying a starting force of the direction of paying out a fishing line to a spool at the time of casting, includes a spool forcibly-rotating unit built in a reel body. This spool forcibly-rotating unit applies a turning torque to the spool in the direction of forcibly paying out the line at the beginning of casting. Accordingly, the inertia for starting the spool when a sinker flies off in response to casting is prevented from acting on the sinker, so that the fishing line can be easily released even with a light sinker, the flying distance of the sinker can be increased, casting can be achieved without difficulty, and a spinning rod can be easily controlled at the time of casting.

Abstract: The handle folding apparatus for fishing reels according to this invention allows the folding of the handle arm and also the secure coupling of the handle arm to the handle shaft of the spinning reel. A handle stopper is slidably installed between the bottom of the fork of the handle seat and the front end of the handle arm. The handle stopper has an engagement projection which is in contact with the engagement surface formed at the end of the handle arm, in order to produce a wedge effect to securely hold the handle arm without a play when in use or easily allow the handle arm to be folded when not in use. The handle stopper, which is slidably installed but not mounted with a pin as in the conventional apparatus, reliably eliminates plays between the handle arm and the handle shaft of the spinning reel and at the same time makes the handle folding mechanism comact and lightweight.

Abstract: A spinning reel for fishing in which a coil spring is used to urge the bail toward a position for winding the fishing line and a position for releasing the fishing line. The base portion of the spring is deflected toward one side of base portion of a bail arm-mounting arm to strongly urge the bail toward the position for releasing the fishing line but to weakly urge the bail toward the position for winding the fishing line. Therefore, the bail is not erroneously operated by the inertial force of when the fishing line is being casted and the fishing line is not cut when it is being released.

Abstract: A drag-force measuring apparatus for fishing reels wherein a handle shaft and a spool shaft are in non-axially spaced apart relationship; there being motion transmitting a components interconnecting the handle and spool shafts. A drag device is provided for imparting a drag-force to the fishing line wound on the spool carried on the spool shaft. A handle is mounted on the handle shaft for relative rotatable relationship with respect thereto. A drag-force measuring mechanism is fixed on the handle shaft and including a portion outwardly of the handle. A spring interconnects the drag-force measuring mechanism and the handle for limited relative rotation of the handle with respect to the handle shaft.

Abstract: A fishline slip-off prevention device for a spinning reel according to the pressent invention is to prevent a fishline from entering to the rotor side. The fishline slip-off prevention device is constructed such that a fishline ingress inhibitor held in abutment against a flanged portion of a spool is swingably supported to a bail support arm and also urged toward the spool by an urging mechanism, so the fishline ingress inhibitor positively abuts against the flanged portion of the spool and hence the fishline can positively be prevented from entering the rotor side while the rotor is in rest or being rotated at low speeds during which time the fishline more likely tends to slip off the spool.

Abstract: A Twin-bearing type fishing reel is provided which comprises opposed side plates in planar parallel spaced-apart relationship with a spool extending therebetween for a fishing line. A finger rest is presented bridgingly between the plates, overlyingly of the spool and being integral with at least one of the plates. The plate with which said finger rest is integral and the finger rest are integrally molded of soft material capable of conforming respectively to the user's hand and thumb. A flexible rest cover is provided upon said finger rest.