US 12,213,471 B2
Fishing spinning reel
Yoshihito Shimizu, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to GLOBERIDE, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by GLOBERIDE, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/072,405.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-193814 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0165233 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. A01K 89/01 (2006.01); A01K 89/015 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 89/0179 (2015.05) 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fishing spinning reel comprising:
a spool that is rotatably and frictionally coupled to a distal end of a spool shaft by a drag device, the spool shaft being in a reel body; and
a spool sound generation mechanism in which a sound generator and a sound generation member are engaged with each other, the sound generator being on an inner peripheral face of the spool and having an uneven shape, and the sound generation member being in the spool shaft,
wherein the sound generator comprises a protrusion and a recess that alternate in a circumferential direction,
the recess comprises a first apex that is a boundary with the protrusion that is adjacent to the recess on one side, a first face that is continuous to the first apex and is recessed in a radially outward direction, a second face that is continuous to the first face, and a second apex that is continuous to the second face and is a boundary with the protrusion that is adjacent to the recess on the other side,
the second face is on an opposite side of a direction in which the spool rotates when a fishing line has been sent out, and
a length L2 from the second apex to a deepest portion of the recess is longer than a length L1 from the first apex to the deepest portion of the recess, wherein
the sound generation member comprises a click claw spring that comprises a protrusion portion that protrudes in the radially outward direction, and the protrusion portion is engaged with the sound generator.