Patent ID: 9723825
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: A01K

Claim:
1. A drive gear for a fishing reel, comprising: a gear body having an outer peripheral side and a disc shape, and being mounted onto a drive shaft; a plurality of drive gear teeth disposed on the outer peripheral side of the gear body, being circumferentially disposed at intervals, and being configured to be meshed with a pinion gear; and a waveform regulating part disposed on at least a part of the drive gear teeth and being configured to regulate a waveform of a vibration produced when the drive gear teeth are meshed with the pinion gear in an irregular pattern, the waveform regulating part being configured to regulate the waveform in the irregular pattern by having at least one feature of the drive gear teeth be different from a remainder of the drive gear teeth, the at least one feature being selected from the group consisting of a pressure angle, a pitch, a torsion angle, a tooth profile shape and a tooth trace shape.