US Patent Issued to Shimano on Dec. 9 for "Oscillating mechanism for spinning reel and spinning reel with oscillating mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,728, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Shimano Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Oscillating mechanism for spinning reel and spinning reel with oscillating mechanism" was invented by Muhammad Syahmi Sulhi Bin ABDULLAH (Osaka, Japan), Lin Boon Gan (Osaka, Japan) and Yik Hui Chan (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillating mechanism for a spinning reel that moves a spool shaft in a spool shaft direction in conjunction with a rotation of a handle shaft includes a sliding gear, a cam gear and a slider. The sliding gear rotates in conjunction with the rotation of the handle shaft. The cam gear has a gear portion formed from metal that ...