US Patent Issued to SHIMANO on Sept. 30 for "Dual-bearing reel for fishing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,584, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHIMANO INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Dual-bearing reel for fishing" was invented by Hiroki Oogose (Sakai, Japan), Takeshi Ikuta (Sakai, Japan) and Kunio Takechi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-bearing reel for fishing includes a drag disc non-rotatably mounted on a spool; a pinion gear collar disposed on the handle side of the drag disc and immovable in a spool shaft direction; a drag receiver disposed on the side opposite the handle and movable in the spool shaft direction in conjunction with a spool shaft; a biasing member configured to bias the drag disc and the drag receiver ...