Abstract: A spinning reel includes a handle, a reel unit, a rotor, a spool, a rotor drive mechanism, and an anti-reverse mechanism. The reel unit has a fishing rod attachment portion and a mount portion. The rotor drive mechanism includes a drive gear and a pinion gear. The pinion gear is disposed in the through hole. The pinion gear is meshed with the drive gear. The anti-reverse mechanism is configured to prevent the rotor from rotating in a fishing-line releasing direction. The anti-reverse mechanism includes a one-way clutch assembly. The one-way clutch assembly is detachably attached to the mount portion of the reel unit. The rotor drive mechanism includes a seal member. The seal member is configured to seal a clearance between the pinion gear and the through hole while being disposed at a rear end of the one-way clutch assembly in the back-and forward direction.

Abstract: A line roller basically includes a bearing member and a guide member. The bearing member includes: an inner race having a cylindrical shape; an outer race having a cylindrical shape and a plurality of rotting elements. The outer race is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner race. The rolling elements are circumferentially aligned at intervals between the inner race and the outer race. The guide member is made of a material of the same kind as that of the outer race. Further, the guide member is a tubular member having a guide surface for guiding a fishing line on the outer peripheral surface thereof. The guide member is firmly fixed to the bearing member on the outer peripheral surface of the bearing member.

Abstract: A spinning reel line clip includes an attachment portion and a clip body. The attachment portion is configured to be attached to a spool of a spinning reel. The clip body is provided for clipping a fishing line. The clip body is attached to the attachment portion. The clip body includes a line guide portion and a bulged portion. The line guide portion is formed on at least a part of a first surface of an outer circumferential part of the clip body. The first surface is opposed to the spool. The bulged portion is formed on at least a part of a second surface of the outer circumferential part. The bulged portion is opposed to the line guide portion. The second surface is oppositely disposed relative to the first surface.

Abstract: The fishing reel includes a spool 5A rotatably supported between side plates of a reel body 2, and a level wind device 50 with a fishing line guide body 60 configured to thread a fishing line unreeled from the spool 5A and reciprocate between the right and left side plates. The fishing line guide body 60 is supported in front of the spool and switchable between fishing line winding/unwinding states, and includes a fishing line guide section 67 for guiding the fishing line to the spool in the winding state and having a narrow width in the right and left direction, an opening 68 to reduce resistance against unwinding line in the unwinding state and having a wide width in the right and left direction, and a regulator 69 configured to prevent the fishing line from slipping out of the fishing line guide section in the winding state.

Abstract: A spinning reel spool according to a first aspect of the present invention is a spinning reel spool that delivers fishing line forward. The spinning reel spool comprises a spool body and a ring member. This spool body has a body portion and a protruding portion. The protruding portion is integrally formed on a front side of the body portion. The protruding portion is annularly arranged and protrudes from the body portion in an axial direction of the spool body. The ring member is disposed on an outer circumferential portion of the protruding portion of the spool body. The ring member is held between the body portion and a plastically deformed part of the protruding portion.

Abstract: A spinning reel for delivering fishing line has a spinning reel body, a handle, a rotor, and a spool. A rotor body of the rotor has a cylindrical coupling portion, a first rotor arm, and a second rotor arm. A first cover member of the rotor is removably attached to the rotor body covering a radially outer side of the first rotor arm. A first guard member of the rotor is removably attached to the rotor body and has a first guard portion covering a boundary between an outside surface of the coupling portion and a rear end surface of the coupling portion. A second guard member of the rotor is removably attached to the rotor body and has a second guard portion that covers the boundary between the outside surface and the rear end surface at a position opposing the first guard portion.

Abstract: The reel unit includes a chassis, a lid member, a guard member, a tubular part, and a screw member. The chassis includes a mechanism attachment space at a lateral side thereof, a first opening extending through a front edge of the chassis, and a second opening extending through a rear edge of the chassis. The guard member includes a boss being inserted into the second opening from the rear edge of the chassis. The guard member is attached to the chassis and the lid member from behind to cover the chassis and the lid member. The tubular part is disposed between the first opening and the second opening within the mechanism attachment space and arranged to be liquid-tight. The screw member passes through the first opening and being screwed into the boss. The screw member includes a head being held inside the tubular part.

Abstract: A spinning reel fishing line guide mechanism for guiding a fishing line onto a spool includes a support member and a fixation member. The spinning reel fishing line guide mechanism is attached to a tip of a rotor arm and is pivotable between a fishing-line guide position and a fishing-line release position. The support member is attached pivotably to the tip of the rotor arm. The support member includes an outer member made of metal and an inner member made of synthetic resin. The inner member is fixed to an inner surface of the outer member.

Abstract: A fishing reel can include a reel frame and a spool shaft extending through the reel frame and rotatably supported about the reel frame. A crankable handle can be mechanically coupled to the spool shaft such that a rotation of the handle causes a rotation of the spool shaft. A non-rotating pivotable bail can be coupled to the reel frame. A spool can be mechanically coupled to the spool shaft and configured to rotate with the rotation of the spool shaft relative to the bail.

Abstract: A spinning reel has a rotor assembly that is rotatable about the axis of a spool used to store fishing line. The rotor assembly contains a pivotable bail system which can be open or closed, to facilitate casting and retrieving, respectively, of the fishing line. The reel also contains a selective clutch. With the clutch in the “off” position the rotor assembly can be rotated in either direction. With the clutch in the “on” position and with the bail system closed, the rotor assembly can only be rotated in the line retrieving direction. The present invention allows the rotor to turn in either direction when the bail is moved from the closed position to a partially open position.

Abstract: A cable management system comprising a cable flex radius system having at least two opposing curved surfaces to control flex radius of a cable linking a stationary system to a dynamic system is disclosed. The cable management system also comprises a cable strain relief system comprising a cable clamp located on each of the at least two opposing curved surfaces. The system simultaneously provides position biasing of a driven rotating mechanism referenced to a fixed system as well as mechanism backlash control. The system insures consistent cable bend radius and slack management required to insure flex cable cycle life. In one embodiment, the cable management system is comprised of a torsion arm and a spool. In this embodiment, the torsion arm pivots during rotation of the spool. A spring connected to the torsion arm provides the requisite tension force to a cable that links the spool and the torsion arm.

Abstract: In a spinning reel used for fishing including a rotor (3) rotatable in cooperation with rotation of a handle, the rotor supporting a bail supporting member (8) having a guide (10) for guiding a fishing line therewith, the bail supporting member (8) is able to swing between a fishing line winding position and a fishing line releasing position, the bail supporting member being biased by a spring member to position at each of the fishing line winding position and the fishing line releasing position. A backward return force produced when the bail supporting member returns to its prior position is absorbed and relaxed just before a return winding position at which the bail supporting member is returned from the fishing line releasing position to the fishing line winding position.

Abstract: A fishing reel eliminates line twist as the fishing line is taken on or off of the spool by utilizing a non-rotating nose member and line pick-up member in combination with a rotational spool and a line-engaging control mechanism which at the beginning of the cast retracts the nose member against a forward end of the housing to capture the fishing line therebetween and, toward the end of the cast, a separate release mechanism manually releases the nose member to permit the fishing line to play freely off of the spool. The release mechanism may be a manual or automatic casting control mechanism which is mounted just forwardly of the handle portion of a fishing rod and is operable to return the nose member to an open position in response to a forward casting motion of the rod and reel.

Abstract: A casting control mechanism for fishing reels includes a weighted member slidably mounted within the handle portion of the fishing rod and which in response to forward casting of the rod and reel will advance into engagement with a trip arm extending from the rod into the reel to release one or more line pick-up members utilized to control the advancement of a fishing line from the reel; and the weighted member is adjustably positioned within the handle portion by the fisherman to control the point of release of the fishing line in response to casting of the line.

Abstract: A line guide with a freely rotating inner race supported on ball bearings for use with spincast and spinning fishing reels. The line guide is attached forward of line spool either on the reel or the fishing rod to reduce friction and line twist.

Abstract: An open-faced spin-casting reel utilizes a weighted member which in response to a casting motion will automatically release the line from the spool, and drag control mechanism is incorporated directly into the reeling mechanism off of the crankshaft to control the amount of drag on the line as it is reeled onto the spool.

Abstract: A thrust washer structure for dissipating axial frictional forces caused by a forward thrust of a pinion gear in a fishing reel having a deck plate with an axial bore through the deck plate and a bushing having a rearwardly facing surface and an axial cylindrical bore therein disposed within the bore deck plate. The reel further includes a center shaft having a pinion gear thereon disposed within the axial cylindrical bore of the bushing, the pinion gear extending rearwardly from the bushing. The thrust washer structure includes at least one thrust washer having two radial surfaces. One radial surface is in contact with a bushing. The coefficient of friction of the radial surface in contact with a bushing is such that when the thrust washer is subjected to a forward thrust and the center shaft is rotated, slippage does not occur between the bushing and the radial surface in contact therewith.

Abstract: A closed face fishing reel comprises a body and a housing detachably secured to the body. The housing includes an aperture for permitting fishing line to pass through. The shape of the aperture is selectively alterable from a configuration which imparts a jerking motion to the line as it is wound into the reel to a configuration which imparts little or no jerking motion to the line as it is wound into the reel. In accordance with the preferred embodiment, the reel includes a body, a housing segment attached to the body, a cover attached to the housing segment and a rotatable member position between the housing segment and cover. The cover and member each include apertures which cooperate one with the other to define a line passageway of variable shape.

Abstract: A reverse rotation preventing mechanism for a fishing spinning reel having a reel body, a rotor, and a main shaft, comprises a ratchet wheel mounted on the rotor within the forward recessed portion of the rotor, and a stop pawl selectively engaging with the ratchet wheel. The stop pawl is formed integrally with a shaft portion which passes through a wall of the reel body. The reverse rotation preventing mechanism also includes an operation member for controlling an engaging condition of the stop pawl with the ratchet wheel. The operation member is provided in the rear portion of the reel body.

Abstract: A spin casting fishing reel is provided with a key slideably mounted within the frame for providing release of the spindle shaft assembly from the reel frame. The key is slideable from a first key position, which operatively retains the shaft assembly within the frame, to a second key position, which releases the shaft assembly, so that the entire spindle shaft assembly can be removed from the frame. Once released from the frame, the entire spindle shaft assembly can be easily disassembled into its component parts for repair or readjustment. With the spin casting fishing reel reassembled to its normal operating position, it operates as any conventional spin casting fishing reel.