JP3095286B2 - Electric reel - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rotating body for winding a fishing line, an electric motor for driving the rotating body in a winding direction,
And, regarding an electric reel comprising each handle for driving the rotating body in the winding direction by an artificial operation force,
The present invention relates to a technique for controlling an electric motor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional electric reel is provided with a case called a counter case or the like on the upper surface of the reel body. The case has a liquid crystal display for displaying the amount of fishing line fed from a rotating body (spool), a micro-display, and the like. It is common to house a control device or the like comprising a processor. In this type of reel, this counter case is provided with a switch for starting and stopping the drive of the electric motor. still,
Some conventional reels control the rotation speed of the rotating body by feeding back the rotation speed of the rotating body with a signal from a sensor that measures the rotation amount of the rotating body when the electric motor is driven.

[0003]

Considering the operation of the reel at the time of actual fishing, when the fish is hooked and the electric motor is started to be driven, the fish feels a bite and the rod is swung and the fish is swept away. After that, the driving of the electric motor is started. In addition, many conventional electric reels are provided with a plurality of switches for performing other controls in addition to the switch for starting driving of the electric motor with respect to the counter case as described above. Not only is it easy to cause erroneous operation at the start of driving, but when the operation is performed while visually confirming the switch, extra time is required for the operation.

[0004] Such inconvenience appears more remarkably in a situation where it is difficult to confirm the switch, such as night fishing, and an appropriate improvement is desired. An object of the present invention is to rationally configure an electric reel that can start driving of an electric motor reliably and quickly without erroneous operation even in a situation where a hand is dark like night fishing.

[0005]

The features of the present invention include an electric motor for driving the rotating body in the winding direction and a handle for driving the rotating body in the winding direction by manual operation, as described at the outset. The electric reel comprising a sensor for detecting an operation of the handle in the winding direction, and a control device for starting driving of the electric motor when the handle operation is detected by the sensor. The operation and effect are as follows.

[0006]

When the above features are configured as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 7, for example, when the electric motor 10 is started to be driven, the control device 15 is operated by operating the handle 7 in the fishing line winding direction. Starts driving the electric motor 10 based on the signal from the sensor. That is, in the present invention, the handle 7 is formed to be relatively large as compared with the reel body, and can be reliably searched for even in a groping state, and the operation direction is set to the fishing line winding direction. When the motor 10 starts to be driven, an operation without an uncomfortable feeling and an error-free operation can be performed.

[0007]

Thus, an electric reel is provided which can start the electric motor reliably and quickly without erroneous operation even in a situation where the hand is dark like night fishing.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, a level wind mechanism including a yarn guide 3 that is reciprocally driven in the left-right direction by the rotation of the screw shaft 2 between the left and right side cases 1, 1;
A spool 5 as a rotating body for winding the fishing line 4 is arranged, and a drag operating tool 6, a handle 7, and a clutch lever 8 are provided outside the right side case 1, respectively.
A control case 9 is provided between the upper parts of the left and right side cases 1 and 2, and an electric motor 10 for driving the spool 5 in the winding direction is built in the spool 5 to constitute an electric reel.

A planetary speed reducer 11 for reducing the driving force of the electric motor 10 and transmitting it to the spool 5 is incorporated in the spool 5 and a handle shaft 12 connected to the handle 7.
A transmission system for transmitting the driving force from the drive shaft to the spool 5 via the drag mechanism D and the clutch mechanism C; and a plurality of transmission gears 13 for transmitting the rotational force of the spool 5 to the input gear 2A of the screw shaft 2. comprising further first sensor S ₁ handle shaft for detecting the rotation of the winding direction of the handle shaft 12 1
2 is arranged in the vicinity. The clutch mechanism C is
The clutch sleeve 14 is constituted by an engaging portion provided on an output system of the speed reducer 11 by a sliding operation and a clutch sleeve 14 which can be freely disengaged. It is linked so as to be switched between an on-position and a disengagement position (clutch disengagement position) (the operation system is not described in detail).

The control case 9 includes a control device 15 including a microprocessor, a magnetic-sensitive second sensor S _{2 including} a pair of reed switches for obtaining the rotation amount of the spool 5, and a tool to be described later. It performed intermittently while the third sensor S ₃ furnished respectively sensitive magnetic type such as a lead switch, a liquid crystal display 16, a stop switch 17 for stopping the driving of the electric motor 10, the driving of the electric motor 10 used when using Mode switch, select switch 1
8, a speed setting switch 19 for setting the driving speed of the electric motor 10 to three stages of “high”, “medium” and “low”, and the liquid crystal display 16 has a current shelf display section 16A for displaying the depth of the work in progress; Further, a previous shelf display section 16B indicating the depth of the in-process set previously is formed.

As shown in FIG. 4, a wheel 20 meshing with a gear 5A formed on the spool 5 and rotating in conjunction with the spool 5 is provided inside the left side case 1, and the second sensor S ₂ is configured to count the amount of rotation of the spool 5 by receiving a magnetic action of the magnet M mounted on the wheel 20.

In this reel, an empty spool 5 is provided.
When the fishing line 4 is wound, the relationship between the length of the fishing line 4 wound on the spool 5 and the rotation amount of the spool 5 is determined, and data based on this relationship is converted into a form of map data or the like. After the operation of holding the data in the memory or the like of the control device 15 (hereinafter, referred to as a learning operation), and holding the data in the memory or the like, the fishing line 4 from the spool 5 is stored based on the data and the rotation amount of the spool 5. The control case 9 is provided with a tool T for calculating the winding amount of the fishing line 4 during the learning operation. That is, the tool T is configured such that the roller 23 at the tip of an arm 22 provided on the tool
The roller 23 is brought into contact with
Transmitted to the amount of rotation via the plurality of gears 24 tool wheel 25 in the body, is configured to count the magnetic force of the magnet M of the wheel 25 by the third sensor S _3, also, in this reel, this by a plurality of pulse signals in a predetermined periodically following the third sensor S ₃ is inputted, the learning operation is configuration control operation to start automatically, after the start of this control, this The above-described data is obtained based on signals from the third sensor S ₃ and the second sensor S ₂ .

In this reel, a control system is constructed as shown in FIG. 1 and a basic control operation is constructed as shown in FIG. 5. In this operation, the reeling-out amount of the fishing line 4 based on the data described above ( Display routine for displaying the in-process water depth value on the liquid crystal display 16 (# 100 step)
When, with the first motor-driven routine that performs control such as for driving start of the electric motor 10 on the basis of the signal from the sensor S ₁ (# 200 steps), the surging operation-process by intermittently driving the electric motor 10 A jig learning routine (# 300 step) for setting a pattern to be performed in the control device, and a shelf stop routine for automatically entering and operating the clutch mechanism C to stop the work in progress when the work is lowered to the depth of the shelf. (# 400 step) is repeated, and these routines will be described below.

[0014] As shown in FIG. 6, the display routine, first, a signal from the second sensor S _2, the fishing line 4 to the current shelf display portion 16A of the liquid crystal display 16 based on the set data by the learning The payout amount (water depth value of the work in progress) is displayed, and when the payout is stopped for 3 seconds or more, the water depth value at the time of the stop is set in the memory (# 10).
1 step to # 104 steps). This operation includes a process of simply displaying the payout length of the fishing line 4 on the current shelf display unit 16A and a process of obtaining data to be displayed on the previous shelf display unit 16B of the liquid crystal display 16. ing. Next, when the payout amount of the fishing line 4 reaches a predetermined value or less by the winding (the work is pulled up to the vicinity of the hull), “0.0” is displayed on the current shelf display section 16A.
Is displayed, and the value set in the above step # 104 is displayed on the previous shelf display section 16B (# 10).
5 steps to # 107 steps). This operation includes a process for absorbing a display error of the feeding amount of the fishing line 4 in a state where the in-progress is close to the hull. Next, only when the stop switch 17 is turned ON for 3 seconds or more, # 104
Clear the memory value set in the step.

[0015] As shown in FIG. 7, when the motor drive routine for detecting an operation in the winding direction of the handle 7 on the basis of the first sensor S ₁ of the signal at the stop state of the electric motor 10, setting of the speed setting switch 19 The drive of the electric motor 10 is started at the speed (steps # 201 to # 205). This operation is a configuration devised in response to a request to suppress erroneous operation of switches at the start of driving of the electric motor 10. Next, when the jig switch 18 is turned ON, the electric motor 10 is intermittently driven at set intervals and in a pattern set in the memory. (# 20
6 steps, # 207 step). This operation is a process for promoting the fish eating behavior by giving a shark movement to the device, and the intervals and patterns set in the memory are set in a jig learning routine described later. Next, when the payout amount of the fishing line 4 reaches a predetermined value or less by the winding (the work is pulled up to the vicinity of the hull), or the stop switch 17 is turned on,
Processing such as stopping the drive of the electric motor 10 is performed (# 2
08 step to # 211 step). This operation includes a process of suppressing excessive winding of the fishing line 4 in a state where the device is approaching the hull, and a process of artificially stopping the electric motor 10.

As shown in FIG. 8, in the jig learning routine, the operation is started only when the jig switch 18 is turned on with the clutch mechanism C engaged for a certain period of time (about three seconds) (# 301). step ~ # 304 steps), the timer which determines the learnable time this control is started is activated, the operation of the spool 5 on the basis of the second signal from the sensor S ₂ is set in the memory in accordance with elapsed time (Step # 305, Step # 306). This operation is a process of artificially stopping the rotation of the spool 5 in the winding direction or stopping the rotation, and setting the pattern of this operation in the memory. Next, if the time of the timer has not elapsed, the time until the disengagement operation is set to an interval of the jig operation in accordance with the disengagement operation of the clutch mechanism C, and when the timer elapses, the setting of this timer Processing such as setting the time to the operation interval is performed, and the processing is terminated (steps # 307 to # 311). This operation includes a process of artificially terminating the learning operation, a process of automatically terminating the learning operation with the passage of time, and the like.

As shown in FIG. 9, in the shelf stop routine, when the clutch mechanism C is in the disengaged state, the previous shelf value has been set, and the amount of the fishing line 4 has reached 20 meters or more, By reaching the shelf depth of
The engagement operation of the clutch mechanism C is performed by the operation of the actuator A (steps # 401 to # 405). This operation is a process for automatically stopping the lowering of the device when the device reaches the depth of the previous shelf after the device is put into the sea by disengaging the clutch mechanism C.

In this reel, since the electric motor 10 is driven by operating the handle 7, erroneous operation can be performed quickly with less erroneous operation, and the number of switches is reduced to improve the overall operability. ing.

[Other Embodiments] The present invention provides, in addition to the above embodiment,
For example, the control system can be configured to stop the drive of the electric motor by the reverse operation of the handle. In addition, the process of starting the drive of the electric motor by the handle and the operation of another switch can be performed. It is also possible to provide a changeover switch or the like so as to switch the process for starting the driving of the electric motor. When the operation of the electric motor is stopped by operating another switch, a lamp is built in the switch to make sure that the position of the switch is grasped, or the position of the switch can be easily adjusted by touch. It is also possible to form irregularities on the surface of the switch so that it can be grasped.

In the claims, reference numerals are provided for convenience of comparison with the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration shown in the attached drawings.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram of a control system.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a drive system.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a reel.

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal side view of a reel.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a main control operation.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a display routine.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a motor drive routine.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a step learning routine.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a shelf stop routine.

[Explanation of symbols]

4 fishing line 5 rotator 7 handle 10 electric motor 15 controller S ₁ sensor

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A rotating body (5) for winding a fishing line (4);
An electric reel comprising an electric motor (10) for driving the rotating body (5) in the winding direction and a handle (7) for driving the rotating body (5) in the winding direction by manual operation force. Te, the operation of the winding direction together with a sensor for detecting (S ₁₎ of the handle (7), starts driving of the sensor the electric motor when it detects a steering wheel operation in (S ₁₎ (10) An electric reel comprising a control device (15).