JPH0787864A - Remote control device for fishing reel - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a remote control device for a fishing reel capable of operating plural motor-driven reels from a separated position without requiring elongated cables by disposing reel-selecting switches and a reel operation member on a transmitter and disposing a receiving unit, a receiving LSI and a bit switch on a receiver. CONSTITUTION:Reel-selecting switches 5 and a reel operation member 13 are disposed on a transmitter, and when an address selected with the reel-selecting switches 5 is coded and inputted into a latch circuit 7, the signal of the reel operation member is simultaneously outputted from a buffer circuit 14. The selected address is outputted to a transmission LSI 10, and an operation signal is subsequently outputted to the transmission LSI. The signals of a pair of the address and the data are transmitted to a receiver. The receiver decodes the signal received in a receiving unit into the reel operation signal with a receiving LSI and subsequently outputs the reel operation signal. The arbitrary address is set to the receiving LSI with a bit switch.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for wirelessly controlling an electric fishing reel from a remote location.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the case of using electric reels for fishing, a plurality of fishermen are often used, especially when a fisherman rides a small boat by himself and uses it for business purposes. For example, if five electric reels are handled, the rods are installed at the locations A to E as shown in FIG. 1 in order to avoid the yarn entanglement between adjacent reels. In this case, since the operation switch is provided on the main body of the electric reel, the reel must be operated at each place, which is very troublesome. Moreover, the fisherman alone can operate the ship, operate and detect the fish finder,
In addition, the reels must be operated, and there is a limit to frequent movement within the ship. Therefore, as a conventional technique, a means of extending a cable from the electric reel body and providing a control switch at the tip of the cable is adopted.

[0003]

However, the above-described conventional cable extension structure is troublesome to handle such as wiring and housing of the cable, and at the same time, an accident may occur in which the cable is caught during work. In addition, if a plurality of cables are to be extended to the cabin F, a considerably long cable must be prepared in advance, and there is also a problem that the airtightness of the cabin is impaired by the cable wiring in stormy weather.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and provides a fishing reel control device capable of operating a plurality of electric reels at any place without requiring an extension cable. That is the purpose.

[0005]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a wireless receiver is provided in an electric reel body, and a control signal from the transmitter is received by the receiver to operate the reel. I decided. Specifically, the device is composed of a transmitter and a receiver that remotely control an electric fishing reel. The transmitter is provided with a reel selection switch for selecting a reel address and a reel operating section for operating the reel. The address selected by the reel selection switch is coded and input to the latch circuit, and at the same time, the reel is selected. The signal of the operation unit is output from the buffer circuit, and this output is used as the output timing of the latch circuit, and is also input to the transmission LSI as the reel operation signal following the coded address. A means for driving the driver circuit is provided. Also, the receiver has a receiving unit for receiving a signal,
A receiving LSI that decodes the received signal into a reel operation signal and outputs the reel operating signal, and a bit switch for setting an arbitrary address in the receiving LSI are provided.

Further, infrared rays are used as a transmission / reception signal, and one or more LEDs are provided on the transmitter body as LEDs for infrared transmission, and an extension LED connector provided at the tip of the extension cord in parallel with the LEDs. It was decided to selectively use the means of providing.

[0007]

The transmitter has a function of selecting a reel to be operated from a plurality of electric reels and performing a necessary operation on the selected reel. The receiver receives a signal operated by the transmitter. Enables reliable operation from a remote location. The receiver arbitrarily determines the address, and the transmitter specifies the address given to the desired reel, thereby achieving the function of selecting the desired reel from the plurality of reels. Further, inputting a signal from the buffer circuit to the latch circuit in the transmitter has an effect of sending a specified address to the transmission LSI and subsequently sending an operation signal to the transmission LSI. As a result, a signal is transmitted to the receiver in the state where the address and the data form one set.

When infrared rays are used as a transmission signal,
Since infrared rays are output by the LED, which is a semiconductor, it has an effect of suppressing power consumption. Further, the means of using the extended LED avoids the signal shielding by the building.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a transmitter in the device of the present invention, and FIG. 3 shows a receiver using infrared transmission / reception. The transmitter shown in FIG. 2 can be roughly divided into three functional blocks. Block A is a power block,
Block B is a reel selection block, and block C is a reel operation block. In the block A, 1 is a DC power source composed of a lithium battery or the like, and 2 is a power switch circuit. When the power switch circuit 2 is turned on, the DC power source 1 supplies power to each circuit. Reference numeral 3 denotes a voltage detection circuit, which constantly detects the power supply voltage, and drives the voltage drop alarm circuit 4 to turn on the LED 1 when the voltage drops below the voltage required for driving the circuit. In block B, 5
Is a reel selection switch, which is a switch group for selecting a preset address for each of the plurality of electric reels in a one-to-one correspondence. In this embodiment, six switches are provided, and switches a to e for individually selecting reels given addresses 1 to 5 and a collective switch o for simultaneously operating all reels are provided. This switch group is connected to the encoder 6, and the signal of each switch is encoded and output to the latch circuit 7. Note that the number of switches is not limited to six in this embodiment, and there is no technical difference if the number of switches is more or less than this. The latch circuit 7 maintains the encoded reel selection signal, and when receiving the latch signal from the interlock circuit 8, outputs data to the reel selection circuit 9. Reference numeral 10 denotes an infrared transmission LSI, which converts given data into an infrared transmission signal and outputs it. 11 is a driver circuit, 12 is a triple transmission L
It is ED. In this embodiment, transmission L is performed for reliable transmission / reception.
Although three EDs are used, they may be used alone or in a parallel number other than three. Next, reel operation block C
In FIG. 3, 13 is a reel operating section composed of a plurality of switches, 14 is a buffer circuit for converting the switch operation of the reel operating section 13 into an appropriate signal, and 15 is a data switch circuit. Send LS
A circuit for sending to I10, 16 is a buffer circuit 14
It is a repetitive pulse circuit for instructing that the transmission LSI 10 outputs the signal after repeating the operation converted into the signal by a certain number of seconds.

With these circuit configurations, the electric reel is selected and the selected reel is operated at the same time. The circuit operation will be described below. First, when the switch corresponding to the reel to be operated is operated by the reel selection switch 5 while the power switch 2 is turned on, the encoder 6 encodes the signal and the latch circuit 7 latches the data. Next, when the operation switch for winding up or unwinding the road thread is pressed from the reel operation unit 13,
This is the data switch circuit 1 via the buffer circuit 14.
5 and the interlock circuit 8 output data.
Then, in the interlock circuit 8, the buffer circuit 1
Latch output is performed to the latch circuit 7 at the rising edge of the signal from 4, and the currently latched data is output from the latch circuit 7 to the reel selection circuit 9. The reel selection circuit 9 decodes the latched data and sends it to the transmission LSI 10. Then, due to the processing time difference, the operation signal is continuously sent from the data switch circuit to the transmission LSI 10, the transmission LSI 10 drives the driver circuit 11 based on these data, the transmission LED 12 blinks, and transmission by infrared output is performed. The reel operation unit 13
Repeated pulse circuit 16 as long as the switch is pressed
Repeatedly sends a transmission instruction to the transmission LSI 10.

By the way, in such a block, electric power is always required to maintain the stored contents of the latch circuit 7, and the electric power of the DC power supply 1 is wasted. Therefore, in this embodiment, the timer circuit 17 is provided.
That is, if there is no input from the reel operating unit 13 for a preset time (for example, 60 seconds), the reset signal 18 is output from the timer circuit 17 to the latch circuit 7, and the latch circuit 7
The stored data of will be deleted. A timer reset input 19 resets the integration of the timer circuit 17 if there is an output from the buffer circuit 14 before the set time elapses. In this way, resetting works after a lapse of a predetermined time, and power saving can be achieved.

Next, the configuration of the receiving side will be described based on the block diagram shown in FIG. This circuit is installed one for each electric reel. In the figure, 21a and 21b
Is an infrared ray receiving unit located in parallel, and only the signal for which the logical sum is established is input to the receiving LSI 23 via the AND circuit 22 in order to improve the receiving accuracy. Reference numeral 25 denotes a bit switch for setting the address of each reel, which is composed of, for example, a rotary switch. Two
An output driver circuit 4 outputs a signal for controlling operation circuits connected in parallel based on a signal sent from the reception LSI 23. Reference numeral 26 is a constant voltage circuit for supplying electric power required to drive each of these circuits.

The operation of the receiving circuit shown in FIG. 3 will be described. First, in the circuit, a bit switch is set in advance to determine the address of the reel provided with this transmitter. For example, if there are five reels, a 3-bit bit switch is required to set different addresses on all five reels. When the signal is transmitted to the reel whose address is thus determined, the receiving LSI 23 analyzes the signal according to a predetermined protocol and generates a reel control signal. In this case, the transmission signal includes the address of the reel to be operated prior to the operation signal of the reel, but in the reception LSI 23, whether the address determined by the bit switch 25 and the address included in the reception signal match. Is first determined, and if they match, only the operation signal is output to the output driver circuit 24. If the addresses do not match, it is determined that the signal is not a signal for controlling itself, and the received signal is discarded. In this way, the desired operation can be reliably performed on the designated reel.

In the present embodiment, the explanation is made on the assumption that one transmitter is provided and five reels provided with the receiver are provided, but the addresses of the five reels may be different from each other. , The same address may be given to the reels to be operated simultaneously. For example, when the first and second addresses are given by dividing into two and three, two and three can be operated alternately. These combinations can be freely decided by the fisherman according to the installation position of the reel and the situation of the place. Also, if you operate the collective switch 5o,
It is possible to operate all reels at the same time regardless of the address, which is convenient for simultaneous winding.

By the way, in the case of remote control by infrared rays, blocking of light rays by an obstacle becomes a problem. Therefore, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the transmitter of FIG. 2 may be partially changed. Here, the socket 32 for the extension LED 31 is provided in parallel with the transmission LED 12.
In this way, by inserting the plug 33 into the socket 32 and fixing the extension LED 31 to an appropriate position outside the cabin by the extension cord 34, it is possible to avoid the shielding by the building on the ship. Although the figure shows an example in which only one socket is provided, two or more sockets may be provided in parallel. Further, a changeover switch is provided between the transmission LED 12 and the extension LED 31, and when the extension LED 31 is used, transmission L is saved for power saving.
The power to the ED 12 may be cut off.

In this embodiment, infrared rays are used as a transmission / reception medium, but in order to achieve the present invention, not only infrared rays but also FM transmission / reception with weak current or AM transmission / reception may be used. In this case, an antenna is installed in place of the transmission LED 12 and the light receiving unit 21, and the transmission LSI 10
And an LSI composed of a detection modulation circuit and a decoding circuit, etc., which are suitable for respective radio waves instead of the reception LSI 23.
Will be provided.

[0017]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to arbitrarily operate a plurality of reels from a remote place, and a fisherman can operate a ship, operate a fish finder, and operate a reel in one place. Now you can concentrate on your work. Therefore, the work efficiency can be dramatically improved, and the device can be expected to improve the yield.

Further, on the reel side, any address can be determined by the fisherman himself and a plurality of reels can be managed individually or in appropriate groups, so that the type of fish and the installation of reels can be controlled. It was possible to perform optimal control according to the location, and it was possible to have an epoch-making configuration as a reel control device for professional use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a typical installation state of reels on a ship.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a transmitter of the device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a receiver of the same.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another embodiment of a transmitter.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A power supply block B reel selection block C reel operation block 1 DC power supply 2 power supply switch circuit 3 voltage detection circuit 4 alarm circuit 5 reel selection switch 6 encoder 7 latch circuit 8 interlock circuit 9 reel selection circuit 10 infrared transmission LSI 11 driver circuit 12 Transmitting LED 13 Reel operating part 14 Buffer circuit 15 Data switch circuit 16 Pulse circuit 17 Timer circuit 18 Lit signal 19 Timer reset input 21a Infrared receiving unit 21b Infrared receiving unit 22 AND circuit 23 Reception LSI 24 bit switch 25 Output driver circuit 26 Constant voltage Circuit 31 Extension LED 32 Socket 33 Plug 34 Extension cord

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A device comprising a transmitter and a receiver for remotely controlling an electric fishing reel, wherein the transmitter has a reel selection switch for selecting a reel address and a reel operation for operating the reel. And the address selected by the reel selection switch is coded and input to the latch circuit, and at the same time, the signal of the reel operating section is output from the buffer circuit, and this output is used as the output timing of the latch circuit and the reel. As an operation signal, input to the transmission LSI subsequently to the coded address,
This transmission LSI is provided with a means for driving a driver circuit according to a predetermined procedure, while the receiver is provided with a reception unit for receiving a signal, a reception LSI for decoding the received signal into a reel operation signal and outputting the reel operation signal. Receiving LSI
A remote control device for a fishing reel, characterized in that a bit switch for setting an arbitrary address is provided. 2. The remote control device for a fishing reel according to claim 1, wherein infrared light is used as a transmission / reception signal. 3. The infrared transmission LED according to claim 2, wherein the transmitter body is provided with one or a plurality of LEDs, and an extension LED connector provided at the tip of the extension cord in parallel with the LED. Remote control device for fishing reels.