ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,831, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GLOBERIDE Inc. (Tokyo).
"Reel seat" was invented by Masaru Akiba (Higashikurume, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat main body of a reel seat includes a nut member fitted to a floating hood fixing a reel leg to move the floating hood, and a click mechanism in a fitting region between the floating hood and the nut member. The click mechanism has a recess-and-projection formed on an inner peripheral surface of the nut member, a plate spring having a top portion engaged with the recess-and-projection, an arc-shaped recessed portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the floating hood...