Abstract: A baitcaster includes a spool, a guide member, and a line guide mechanism. The spool is configured to be driven to take up a fishing line. The guide member is configured to transition between a first state for let out of the fishing line and a second state for take up of the fishing line. The guide member configured to engage the fishing line at a contact point and guide the fishing line to the spool from the contact point when in the second state. The guide member is configured to be driven to rotate to reciprocatively translate the contact point along a length of the guide member. The line guide mechanism is configured to transition the guide member between the first state and the second state in response to a user input.

Abstract: A fishing reel with interchangeable line-guiding system includes a body, a fishing reel, and an automated winding component. A lateral cover is fixed to the body. The body has therein the fishing reel. The fishing reel has therein a spindle. A toothed axle is disposed on the outer wall of the spindle inside the lateral cover, flanked by two first intermediate gears, and adapted to mesh with a big gear meshing with the two first intermediate gears. The automated winding component has a second intermediate gear fixed to the body. The second intermediate gear meshes with a line-guiding shaft gear. The line-guiding shaft gear is fixed to the end of a line-guiding shaft. The line-guiding shaft is disposed inside a line-protecting axle. A slider movable laterally is disposed on the outward wall of the line-guiding shaft to enable upward and downward casting.

Abstract: In a spinning reel, a traverse camshaft 21 is arranged to engage with an engaging member used to cause a bail arm and a spool to undergo a relative reciprocal movement. The traverse camshaft 21 has a shaft body 37 and a cam groove 38. The shaft body 37 is arranged to rotate in coordination with rotation of a handle assembly in at least a line reel-in direction. The cam groove 38 is formed in an external circumferential surface of the shaft body 37 and configured to engage with the engaging member. The cam groove 38 is also configured to intersect itself. The cam groove 38 has a first groove section 38b and a second groove section 38c on opposite sides of an intersecting portion 38a. The first groove section 38b and the second groove section 38c have different widths at the intersecting portion 38a.

Abstract: A fishing reel is provided having a pair of opposed sidewalls with a spool holding fishing line rotatably supported between the sidewalls. The spool is freely rotatable in a first direction to release fishing line from the bottom portion of the spool, and is mechanically rotatable in a second direction opposite to the first direction to retrieve the fishing line and to wind the line back onto the spool. A handle crank is provided for imparting rotation to the spool in the second direction by rotation of the crank in the same, second direction.

Abstract: A fishing reel includes: a reel body including left and right side plates; a spool for winding a fishing line, rotatably supported between the left and right side plates; a handle for rotating the spool; a fishing line guiding device. A fishing line guiding device includes: a slider body which is mounted between the left and right side plates on a front of the spool and is reciprocated left and right by a winding operation of the handle; a swinging body including one end portion rotatably supported by the body and the other end provided with a line guide for guiding the fishing line; and a coupling portion which couples the swinging body to the slider body so that the swinging body reciprocates the line guide arcuately left and right.

Abstract: A line guide for a reel unit for winding a fishing line onto or unwinding it from a spool is provided on the housing of the reel unit and comprises a carriage guide and a carriage element with at least one line eye. The carriage guide can be functionally linked with the gear mechanism of the spool. Advantageously, the carriage guide is configured as a spindle-shaped pilot shaft and the carriage element is provided with an internally threaded guide channel for guiding on the spindle-shaped pilot shaft.

Abstract: The present invention provides an alternate design for a level-wind mechanism that eliminates the requirement for the line to be threaded through an enclosed, or multiple device line guide. The present invention guides the line via an open slot created between one or more line guides that pivots about its supporting structure. The line guide(s) oscillate back and forth in concert across the axial length of the spool in order to evenly distribute the line that is being wound upon the spool. Further, the line guide is capable of being pivoted from a first position of line retrieve to a second position of line dissemination when it is desired to pay out the line from the spool.

Abstract: An oscillation device axially oscillates a spool with handle rotation, and includes a driving gear, a cam gear, a slider, and a guiding portion. The driving gear is arranged on a master gear shaft, so as to be spaced apart from the master gear. The cam gear has a cam pin on its side surface, and is arranged on the fishing rod attachment side of the oscillation device relative to the master gear shaft. The cam gear is attached to the reel unit rotatably about an axis substantially parallel to the master gear shaft, so as to rotate in cooperation with the driving gear. The slider has a cam receiving portion engaging with the cam pin of the cam gear, and is axially immovably attached to the rear of the spool shaft. The guiding portion is provided in the reel unit and guides the slider movably in the axial direction.

Abstract: The invention compensates or normalizes for the non-linear oscillation speed of the spool in a fishing reel through use of a special shaped guide slot. The guide slot can be shaped through combining a number of curves into the length of the slot. In particular, for each end of the guide slot there is contained a curvature section, such that both ends of the guide slot are curving toward the spool side in one design or away from the spool in the other design. This general shape of the guide slot improves the contact position between the pole and the level wind bracket, and also compensates for the non-linear speed of the spool. The shape of the guide slot also reduces the wobbling or jiggling that occurs during operation of the reel when compared to conventionally designed reels.

Abstract: A spinning reel with a handle shaft rotatably supported in a reel body. The handle shaft is connected with a handle. A master gear and a driving spiral gear are provided at separated positions on the handle shaft. The master gear is meshingly engaged with a pinion gear provided integrally with a rotor at the front of the reel body so that rotation of the handle rotates the rotor. A spool shaft fixed with a spool extends in a frontward/rearward direction of the reel body and is oscillatingly movably supported on the reel body. A traverse camshaft is rotatably supported by the reel body. The traverse camshaft is fixedly provided with a driven spiral gear and is formed with a cam groove. A slider member is fixed to the spool shaft and has a pawl engaged with the cam groove so that the slider member is driven to move along the length of the traverse camshaft by rotation of the traverse camshaft.

Abstract: A fishing reel with side walls and a level wind, with a spool shaft rotatably supported therebetween. The spool shaft supports the spool that holds the fishing line. A handle shaft is provided that includes a driving gear that engages a pinion on the spool shaft for winding in the fishing line upon the spool. The level wind comprises a generally transverse shaft rotatably secured between the side walls in front of the spool. The transverse shaft is adapted to be rotated by the driving gear, and is formed with a central portion that is at an oblique angle with respect to the shaft. The obliquely-oriented portion of the shaft is rotatably captured by a member having an eyelet associated therewith through which the fishing line is threaded.

Abstract: Simple configuration in a low-gear-ratio type oscillating mechanism for realizing at high transmission efficiency improved lay in thdine windings. Spinning reel oscillating mechanism (6), a mechanism that reciprocates the spool (12) in cooperation with rotation of handle (1), is furnished with gear piece (21) and slider (22). The gear piece rotates cooperatively with handle rotation, and is a component on whose one lateral face first and second cam portions (21a), (21b) are formed rim-wise. The slider is attached, immovably in the spool axial direction, at its tip to the rearward end of a spool shaft 20 for the spool, and has: a first cam engager (22a) that extends in a direction intersecting the spool shaft and engages with the first cam, and a second cam engager (22b) that extends in the same direction as the first cam engager and engages with the second cam; and is for reciprocating in the spool axial direction by engagement with either the two cams or the two cam engagers.

Abstract: Spinning-reel oscillation mechanism employing a compact reel body to achieve dense winding of fishing line onto the spool. The spinning reel oscillation mechanism 6 pumps a spool shaft 15, to the forward end of which a spool 4 is mounted, back and forth in cooperation with rotation of a handle assembly 1. The spinning reel oscillation mechanism 6 includes a drive gear 20, a worm 21, a driven gear 23, and a slider 22. The drive gear 20 is fitted non-rotatably on a master gear shaft. The worm 21, superficially into which intersecting helical grooves 21a are formed, is disposed paralleling the spool shaft. The driven gear 23 is provided non-rotatably on the worm. Rotation of the drive gear 20 is transmitted to the driven gear 23. The slider 22 is fitted reciprocatingly in the body of the reel. The slider 22 has an engagement that engages with the helical grooves 21a, and the spool shaft is fitted back-and-forth immovably to the slider 22.

Abstract: A double bearing fishing reel includes: a reel body; and a level winding device adapted to wind a fishing line parallel on a spool which is rotatably supported between the right and left side boards of the reel body. In the fishing reel, the traverse shaft of the level winding device which is adapted to reciprocate a fishing line guide body of the level winding device right and left, and is turned in association with a handle is provided in the reel body together with the handle shaft secured to the handle in such a manner that it is located at the rear of the spool. The double bearing fishing reel is high in operability.