Patents by Inventor Yuichi Umezawa

Yuichi Umezawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240130344
    Abstract: A fishing reel comprises a level wind device that evenly winds a fishing line around a spool rotatably supported between left and right side plates of a reel main body. The level wind device comprises a fishing line guide body through which a fishing line is inserted, and a rib that is provided in the fishing line guide body and prevents line entanglement, and the O-ring is disposed in the cylindrical portion so as to fill a gap between the rib and an opposing portion opposing the rib of the cylindrical portion of the level wind device. The rib has a shape for sliding the fishing line in contact with the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventor: Yuichi UMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240081310
    Abstract: A fishing tool according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises an operating part that is operable by a user to change a setting related to a characteristic of the fishing tool, and a control part that controls the characteristic of the fishing tool, and is capable of receiving an operation by the operating part and changing the setting related to the characteristic of the fishing tool. The change in the setting related to the characteristic of the fishing tool is performed using a plurality of setting values for the setting, and based on whether a previous change in the setting related to the characteristic of the fishing tool is a change in the setting in a first direction or a change in the setting in a second direction, the control part receives a next operation of the operating part and changes a setting value of the setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiromu YASUDA, Motohiro NONOGAKI, Kazumasa ISHIHARA, Yuichi UMEZAWA
  • Patent number: 11252949
    Abstract: A fishing reel includes a spool supported between side plates of a reel body through a spool shaft; and a clutch mechanism that switches between a power transmission state that winds a fishing line and a power cutoff state capable of unwinding a fishing line by moving a pinion gear of a winding drive mechanism in an axial direction of the spool shaft by operating the switching operation member provided on the reel body to engage and disengage clutch engagement portions of the spool shaft and the pinion gear, wherein, provided between the bearing that supports the spool shaft and the clutch engagement portion on the spool shaft side are: a first elastic portion applying an elastic force to an end of the pinion gear in the power transmission state; and a second elastic portion constantly energizing a side of the bearing in the axial direction of the spool shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBERIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi Moriguchi, Yuichi Umezawa
  • Publication number: 20210015083
    Abstract: A fishing reel includes a spool supported between side plates of a reel body through a spool shaft; and a clutch mechanism that switches between a power transmission state that winds a fishing line and a power cutoff state capable of unwinding a fishing line by moving a pinion gear of a winding drive mechanism in an axial direction of the spool shaft by operating the switching operation member provided on the reel body to engage and disengage clutch engagement portions of the spool shaft and the pinion gear, wherein, provided between the bearing that supports the spool shaft and the clutch engagement portion on the spool shaft side are: a first elastic portion applying an elastic force to an end of the pinion gear in the power transmission state; and a second elastic portion constantly energizing a side of the bearing in the axial direction of the spool shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Takumi Moriguchi, Yuichi Umezawa
  • Patent number: D977059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GLOBERIDE, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Umezawa, Makoto Tomita, Daisuke Higuchi