Patent ID: 6457662
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A rotor drive device for use within a spinning reel unit, said rotor drive device for line-reel-in driving a rotor in response to rotation of a handle rotatively supported on the reel unit, and for preventing reversing of the rotor in the line winding-out direction, the spinning reel rotor drive device comprising:a face gear for rotating in conjunction with rotation of the handle; a pinion gear disposed along a longitudinal direction offset from said face gear and non-rotatable with respect to the rotor, for meshing with said face gear; a bearing fitted on the front of the reel unit for rotatively supporting said pinion gear in the reel unit; restriction means fixedly coupled to the reel unit for restricting forward movement of said bearing; and a reversing check mechanism having a roller-type one-way clutch provided frontward of said restriction means, for checking rotor reversal in the line wind-out direction, with said restriction means being provided axially between said bearing and said reversing check mechanism, wherein the reel unit frontward has a barrel formed with a first cylindrical section and a front-end open second cylindrical section, the second cylindrical section being formed forward of the first cylindrical section, said bearing is fitted into the first cylindrical section, said one-way clutch is fitted into the second cylindrical section, and said restriction means is a plate member disposed between the first cylindrical section and second cylindrical section.