AU2022201051B2

AU2022201051B2 - Reel seat

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Publication number: AU2022201051B2
Application number: AU2022201051A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Kosuke Ushinohama
Original assignee: Globeride Inc
Current assignee: Globeride Inc
Priority date: 2021-04-28
Filing date: 2022-02-17
Publication date: 2024-02-01
Anticipated expiration: 2042-02-17
Also published as: JP2022169919A; AU2022201051A1; JP7562472B2; CN115245153A; TWI810826B; KR20220148111A; TW202241262A

Abstract

A reel seat of the present invention has: a reel leg placing portion; and a fixed hood provided on one end side in an axial direction of the reel leg placing portion to hold one end side of a reel leg of a fishing reel, and a moving hood that is movable in the axial direction and can hold another end side of the reel leg is disposed on another end side in the axial direction of the reel leg placing portion. One trigger is formed to protrude on a side opposite to the reel leg placing portion of a seat body, and the trigger is formed in a range of ±20 mm from a middle position of the reel leg of the fixed fishing reel, and a height of a top portion of the trigger is formed to be 18 mm or less from a lowest position. 200 1A 200A 5 11 52 100 T5 T4 T3 20 T2 FIG. 6 A T1' T1 200 1A 205 Y' 200A 0 T5 T4 T 0 FIG. 6 B

Description

1A 200A

11 52 100

T5 T4 T3 20 T2

FIG. 6 A

T1' T1 200 1A 205 Y' 200A

0

T5 T4 T 0

FIG. 6 B

REEL SEAT

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present invention relates to a reel seat attached to various fishing rods such as a lure rod and a ship rod and used for mounting and fixing a fishing reel.

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART

[0002] Conventionally, in a fishing rod using a fishing reel, a reel seat for mounting the fishing reel is fixed to a root rod, and as such a reel seat, a tubular reel seat fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the root rod has been known. In general, since the root rod penetrates the tubular reel seat, a strength of the reel seat can be secured by the root rod, and a weight thereof can be reduced by using a lightweight material, reducing a thickness, or the like.

[0003] It is known that a trigger is integrally formed on an opposite side of a reel leg placing portion of a body of the reel seat so that operability is stabilized when a fishing reel (double bearing reel) is mounted on the above-described reel seat and casting is performed. For example, JP 2008-271864 A and JP H09-172915 A each disclose a configuration in which a large rear trigger is formed on a rear side of a fixed hood on a rod butt side of a reel seat, and a small front trigger is formed on a front side of the fixed hood. Further, JP 2020-18189 A discloses a configuration in which a trigger is integrally formed with a moving hood provided on a rod tip side of a reel seat.

RELEVANT REFERENCES LIST OF RELEVANT PATENT LITERATURE

[0004] Patent Literature 1: Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2008-271864 Patent Literature 2: Japanese Patent Application Publication No. H09-172915 Patent Literature 3: Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2020-18189

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0005] When the double bearing reel is mounted on the above-described reel seat and fishing operation is performed, a ring finger, a middle finger, or an index finger is hooked on the trigger in accordance with a situation, for example, the reel body is deeply

1 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU gripped and held to perform winding operation or casting operation of a handle, or a rear side of the reel body is gripped and held, and a thumb is placed on a side plate on an opposite side of a handle or on a spool (thumbing operation is performed). Therefore, the reel body and the reel seat are gripped and held in various forms, depending on the finger to be hooked on the trigger.

[0006] Each of the reel seats disclosed in JP 2008-271864 A and JP H09-172915 A has the configuration in which the large trigger is formed on the rear side of the fixed hood and the small trigger is formed in front of the large trigger, and since the plurality of triggers are disposed, operability when a gripping and holding state is changed is poor. That is, there is a problem that since the trigger on the rear side is too large, when a user tries to hook the ring finger from a state where the middle finger is hooked or hook the middle finger from a state where the ring finger is hooked, the large trigger or the small trigger becomes an obstacle, so that it is difficult to instantaneously change the gripping and the holding, and it is difficult to stably hold the trigger. Further, finger contact is also poor, and it is difficult to apply force when holding the trigger. In addition, in the reel seat disclosed in JP 2020-18189 A, since the large trigger is integrally formed with the moving hood on the front side, gripability and holdability when the rear side of the reel body is gripped are deteriorated.

[0007] Furthermore, in these days, a small electric reel may be mounted on the reel seat, and fishing operation similar to that of the double bearing reel may be performed. Operation of changing the gripping and holding state, for example, operation of shifting a position of a thumb so as to change motor output from the state where the reel body is deeply gripped and held may be performed. In this case, since the electric reel is heavier than a normal double bearing reel, unless the gripping and holding state is stabilized, the electric reel is easily affected by a moment, a fatigue level increases, and as a result, the operability deteriorates.

[0008] The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and seeks to provide a reel seat that has good fishing operability and allows a fishing rod to be stably gripped and held together with a fishing reel.

[0009] In an aspect of the present invention there is provided a reel seat comprising a seat body including a reel leg placing portion on which a reel leg of a fishing reel is placed, and a fixed hood that is provided on one end side in an axial direction of the reel leg placing portion and holds one end side of the reel leg of the fishing reel placed on the reel leg placing portion and a moving hood that is movable in the axial direction and

2 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU can hold another end side of the reel leg being disposed on another end side in the axial direction of the reel leg placing portion where one trigger is formed to protrude on a side opposite to the reel leg placing portion of the seat body, and the trigger is formed in a range of the trigger is formed in a range of within 20 mm either side, in the axial direction, with respect to a middle position of the reel leg of the fishing reel fixed to the reel leg placing portion, and a height of a top portion of the trigger is formed to be 18 mm or less from a lowest position on the opposite side of the seat body, wherein in the seat body, a cross-sectional shape along an axial center on each of a front side and a rear side of the trigger is formed as a curved surface, the front and rear curved surfaces of the trigger are formed so that a curvature of the front curved surface is larger than a curvature of the rear curved surface, and a curvature radius R of the front curved surface of the trigger is 13 mm or more, and a curvature radius R of the rear curved surface of the trigger is 14 mm or more.

[0010] Since the above-described seat body of the reel seat has the configuration in which the one trigger is formed to protrude on the opposite side of the reel leg placing portion, as compared with a configuration in which two or more triggers are formed, movement of the fingers is not hindered even if the gripping and holding state is changed at the time of actual fishing, and the fishing operability can be improved. In addition, since the height of the one trigger is as low as 18 mm or less (When a finger is hooked, a width of the finger is substantially equal to or less than the height), it is possible to easily change from a state where a middle finger is hooked to a state where an index finger is hooked, or from the state where the index finger is hooked to the state where the middle finger is hooked. In addition, since the trigger is formed in a range of ±20 mm with respect to the middle position of the reel leg of the mounted fishing reel, the reel body can be deeply gripped (the middle finger is hooked on the trigger), and in a state where a rear side of the reel body is gripped (the index finger is hooked on the trigger), the middle finger, the ring finger, and the little finger do not open, and the seat body can be firmly gripped, and gripability and holdability, and fishing operability can be improved.

[0011] According to yet another aspect of the present invention, it is possible to obtain a reel seat having good fishing operability and capable of stably grasping and holding a fishing rod together with a fishing reel.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0012] FIG. 1 is a side view showing one embodiment of a reel seat according to the present invention; FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the reel seat shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a rear view of the reel seat shown in FIG. 1; FIGS. 4A is a cross-sectional view taken along an axial direction of the reel seat shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 4B is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 4A, and FIG. 4C is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 4A, and is a view showing a modified example of a trigger; FIG. 5 is a side view showing a state in which a fishing reel (electric reel) is mounted on the reel seat shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 6A is a view of a state where a seat body and a reel body are gripped and held by fingers with an index finger hooked on the trigger, the view being viewed from a side surface side, and FIG. 6B is a view as viewed from a rear side; and FIG.7A is a view of a state where the seat body and the reel body are gripped and held by the fingers with a middle finger hooked on the trigger, the view being viewed from the side surface side, and FIG. 7B is a view as viewed from the rear side.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0013] Hereinafter, an embodiment of a reel seat according to the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIGS. 1 to 5 are views showing an embodiment of a reel seat according to the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a side view, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the reel seat shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a rear view of the reel seat shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 4A is a cross-sectional view of the reel seat shown in FIG. 1 along an axial direction, FIG. 4B is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 4A, and FIG. 5 is a side view showing a state where a fishing reel (electric reel) is mounted on the reel seat shown in FIG. 1.

[0014] In the following description the axial direction (front-rear direction), an up-down direction, and a right-left direction (width direction) mean directions shown in FIG. 1. In addition, a front side means a tip side of a fishing rod, a rear side means a rod butt side, an upper side means a reel side with respect to an axial center X of the reel seat (root rod) when the double bearing reel is mounted, and a lower side means an opposite side of the reel side.

[0015] A seat body 1A configuring the reel seat 1 of the present embodiment is formed

4 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU in a cylindrical shape in which a through hole 1B is formed over the axial direction so as to be bonded and fixed to an outer peripheral surface of a fishing rod (in the drawing, only a root rod 100 configuring the fishing rod is shown). In this case, the configuration of the fishing rod to which the reel seat 1 is bonded and fixed is not limited, it may be of a swing type, a joining type, a single rod, or the like. In addition, the reel seat 1 can be mounted with various fishing reels (in the present invention, a double bearing reel), and in particular, in the present embodiment, a configuration example is described in which even when an electric reel 200 is mounted and fixed in the double bearing reel, fishing operability can be improved. That is, since the electric reel 200 is equipped with a motor and the like, a weight tends to be heavier than that of a normal double bearing reel, and when the electric reel 200 is mounted on the reel seat 1, a moment increases and operability tends to deteriorate. However, by configuring the seat body 1A as follows, it is possible to improve gripability and holdability. A size of the electric reel to be mounted only needs to be preferably 200 mm or less in width in the right-left direction, 120 mm or less in length in the axial direction, and 100 mm or less in height.

[0016] The seat body 1A of the reel seat 1 according to the present embodiment includes a reel leg placing portion 3 on which a reel leg 201 of the electric reel 200 is placed, and a fixed hood 5 provided on one end side (rod butt side) in the axial direction of the reel leg placing portion 3, and configured to hold one end side of the reel leg 201 of the electric reel 200 placed on the reel leg placing portion 3. A moving hood 7 that is movable in the axial direction and configured to hold another end side of the reel leg 201 is disposed on the other end side (tip side) of the reel leg placing portion 3 in the axial direction. That is, the electric reel 200 is mounted on and fixed to the reel seat 1 by placing the reel leg 201 on the reel leg placing portion 3 and fastening the reel leg on a front end side with a fitting hole 7a of the moving hood 7 moving in the axial direction in a state where a rear end side is fitted in a fitting hole 5a of the fixed hood 5.

[0017] The fixed hood 5 of the seat body 1A is provided in a rear tubular portion 5A formed integrally with the seat body 1A. The rear tubular portion 5A has a certain length in the axial direction, and a grip member (rear grip) 51 configured to be gripped and held is adjacently fixed to the rear tubular portion 5A. This rear grip 51 may be attached to, for example, the root rod 100 protruding to a rear side of the seat body 1A, or a cylindrical tubular portion having a small diameter may be formed to protrude rearward in the rear tubular portion 5A and the rear grip 51 may be attached to this portion. The rear grip 51 is configured so as to be adjacent to s rear end edge

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(boundary line) 5b of the rear tubular portion 5A and be flush with a surface of the rear tubular portion 5A, and the rear end edge (boundary line) 5b of the present embodiment is formed so as to incline toward the rod butt side from the lower side to the upper side.

[0018] When the rear tubular portion 5A of the seat body 1A is gripped and held together with a reel body 200A of the electric reel 200, the rear tubular portion 5A is preferably formed so that a finger does not come into contact with the rear end edge 5b that is a boundary region with the rear grip 51. That is, by securing an axial length of the rear tubular portion 5A so that a little finger does not overlap the rear end edge 5b even when the index finger is hooked on a trigger 20 described later, the finger (an abdomen of the little finger) can be brought into contact with a region R1 shown in FIG. 1, and thus, it is possible to prevent a feeling of strangeness from occurring even when the seat body 1A is strongly gripped.

[0019] A cylindrical portion 9 having a substantially cylindrical shape with a male screw portion 9a formed is formed on the front side of the reel leg placing portion 3 of the seat body 1A, and the moving hood 7 that is moved in the axial direction separately from the seat body 1A is disposed in this portion. A rotation operation member (nut member) 11 is screwed to the male screw portion 9a, and on the rod butt side of the rotation operation member 11, the moving hood 7 is engaged so as to be axially movable together with the rotation operation member 11, but not to rotate together by a known engagement structure. That is, when the rotation operation member 11 is rotationally operated, the moving hood 7 is moved forward and backward along the axial direction, and the reel leg 201 placed on the reel leg placing portion 3 is fastened and fixed between the hoods 5 and 7, or the fastened and fixed state is released.

[0020] A grip member (front grip) 52 is fixed to a front side of the rotation operation member 11, and is disposed so as to be flush with a surface of the rotation operation member 11, which is rotationally operated. This front grip 52 may be integrated with the rotation operation member 11 or may not be provided.

[0021] One trigger 20 is formed to protrude on aside of the seat body 1A opposite to the reel leg placing portion 3. A portion where the trigger 20 is formed (in this case, a position P of a top portion 20a of the trigger 20) is in a range of±20 mm (+ indicates the front side, and - indicates the rear side) in the axial direction with respect to a middle position P1 of the reel leg when the reel leg 201 is placed and fixed on the reel leg placing portion 3, and is formed so as to be near a center of the reel body 200A of the electric reel 200 to be attached. That is, since the middle position P1 of the reel leg

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201 is located near the substantially the center of the reel body 200A regardless of the size of the reel to be attached, the trigger 20 is located at a position where the middle finger can be easily hooked when the reel body 200A is deeply gripped, and is located at a position where the index finger can be easily hooked when a rear side of the reel body 200A is gripped. As described above, if the trigger 20 is formed in the range of ±20 mm in the axial direction with respect to the middle position P1 of the reel leg when the reel leg 201 is placed and fixed on the reel leg placing portion 3, the above described gripping and holding state can be obtained regardless of a size of the reel body.

[0022] If the above-described trigger 20 is formed to be high, the trigger is hooked and becomes an obstacle when the finger to be hooked is changed. Therefore, the trigger is formed to be low and not to be displaced in the axial direction even when the finger is hooked. Specifically, a height of the top portion 20a is formed to be 18 mm or less from a lowest position on the opposite side of the seat body 1A. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, front and rear surfaces of the trigger 20 are configured so that cross-sectional shapes along the axis X are curved surfaces 22 and 24 so that the hooked finger does not strongly hit, and the lowest position is a position P2 of the curved surface 22 on the front side of the trigger 20. Therefore, a height H1 at the position P2 is formed to be 18 mm or less. As will be described later, the curved surface 24 on the rear side of the trigger 20 is preferably formed to have a curvature smaller than that of the curved surface 22, and a height H2 from a lowest position P3 is formed to be 0 to 17 mm.

[0023] In this way, by setting the height H1 (H2) of the trigger 20 to 18 mm or less, in the case of hooking a finger, the width of the finger becomes substantially the same as or less than a width of the finger, so that the finger can be smoothly regripped without being caught when the finger is rehooked between the middle finger and the index finger. The height H1 is preferably about a half or more of the width of the finger because if the height H1 is formed too low, the finger is hardly caught (easily falls backward), and gripability and holdability are deteriorated. Specifically, with respect to the height H1 on the front side of the trigger 20, 6 mm or more is preferably secured.

[0024] In addition, the cross-sectional shapes along the axial center of the front side and the rear side of the trigger 20 are preferably formed by the curved surfaces 22, 24, respectively, as described above. However, in such a configuration, the curvature of the curved surface 22 on the front side is preferably formed to be larger than the

7 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU curvature of the curved surface 24 on the rear side. This is mainly because the curved surface 22 preferably makes it difficult for a finger to move in the axial direction when the finger is hooked on the trigger 20, and the curved surface 24 preferably makes it easy to grip the seat body 1A with the abdomens of the fingers (ring finger, little finger, and further middle finger). For this reason, when the curved surface 22 is recessed in a concave shape and the curved surface is shallow in the concave shape, it is possible to increase the gripability and holdability of the gripping finger without the hooked finger shifting.

[0025] Specifically, it is preferable that a curvature radius R of the curved surface 22 on the front side of the trigger 20 is 13 mm or more, and that the curvature radius R of the curved surface 24 on the rear side of the trigger 20 is 14 mm or more. Note that each of the curved surfaces 22, 24 may be configured of a composite surface, such as partially including a flat portion. In this case, when the curved surfaces 22, 24 are compared with each other, it suffices that the curvature of the curved surface 22 is relatively larger (the recess is larger) than the curved surface 24.

[0026] Since if the height of the above-described trigger 20 rapidly increases, the trigger 20 described above may become painful when a finger touches the trigger, it is preferable that a region from the lowest point to the top portion 20a of the trigger 20 has a gentle inclination. Therefore, axial lengths L1, L2 to the respective lowest positions P2, P3 of the front and rear curved surfaces 22, 24 with respect to the top portion 20a of the trigger 20 are formed to be 10 to 30 mm, so that the surfaces are not steeply inclined and it is possible to mitigate hitting. In this case, a size of a thickness of a general human finger is about 18.4 to 19.4 mm for an index finger, about 17.7 to 20.00 mm for a middle finger, about 17.0 to 18.7 mm for a ring finger, and about 16.0 to 17.4 mm for a little finger. Therefore, in consideration of placing only the index finger on the trigger 20, a lower limit value of the axial length L1 (L2) is preferably 8 mm or more, which is about half of the finger, and more preferably 10 mm or more. In addition, an upper limit value is preferably 40 mm or less, and more preferably 30 mm or less so that the finger can sufficiently grip even if the middle finger, the ring finger, and the little finger are hooked on the rear side of the trigger 20.

[0027] As described above, with regard to the reel seat 1 of the present embodiment, it is considered that the electric reel 200 having a width of 200 mm or less in the right-left direction, a length of 120 mm or less in the axial direction, and a height of 100 mm or less is mounted. However, when the electric reel having such a size is mounted, an

8 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU axial length L of the seat body 1A on the side opposite to the reel leg placing portion 3 is preferably formed to be 80 mm or less. In this case, the axial length L is defined by an axial length between a front end edge P4 and a rear end edge P5 of a lower surface of the seat body 1A. In the present embodiment, a length between the front end edge P4 and the position P of the top portion 20a of the trigger 20 is 29.1 mm, and a length between the rear end edge P5 and the position P of the top portion 20a of the trigger 20 is 28.0 mm. As described above, since an axial position of the trigger 20 substantially coincides with a central position of the reel leg 201 when the reel leg 201 is fixed to the reel leg placing portion 3, a formation position of the trigger 20 may be in a range of±20 mm with respect to a middle position of the axial length L of the seat body 1A on the opposite side of the reel leg placing portion 3.

[0028] The cross-sectional shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the trigger 20 is not particularly limited as long as the height of the trigger 20 is within the range of the heights H1, H2 described above. For example, as shown in FIG. 4B, the trigger 20 may be formed to be curved in an arc shape as a whole, or as shown in FIG. 4C, when an opening diameter to which the root rod 100 is fixed is small, a trigger 20 may be formed to be flat surfaces facing each other on both right and left sides. In addition, the cross-sectional shape of the trigger 20 may be configured to gradually increase or decrease in diameter as it shifts to a rear end side in the axial direction.

[0029] Moreover, as shown in FIG. 3, it is preferable that the seat body 1A has right and left surface shapes symmetrically with respect to the axial direction on the side opposite to the reel leg placing portion 3. By forming the portion to be gripped and held in a bilaterally symmetrical shape in this manner, a handle of the electric reel 200 mounted can be gripped and held with the same sense regardless of a right handle and a left handle.

[0030] The seat body 1A, and the moving hood 7 and the rotation operation member 11 are preferably integrally formed of a hard resin material or a fiber-reinforced resin material so as to achieve weight reduction. For example, by integrally forming with a hard synthetic resin material such as nylon and ABS, or a plastic composite material (FRP) with reinforcing fibers mixed such as glass fibers and carbon fibers, it is possible to effectively reduce weight while maintaining strength. Alternatively, it may be formed of a lightweight metal material such as aluminum.

[0031] In addition, the grip members 51, 52 can be made of a soft material such as, for example, natural cork, urethane, EVA, thermoplastic elastomer, rubber, or the like that

9 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU can improve feeling when the grip members 51, 52 are gripped, grip performance, and appearance, and can reduce weight, or can be formed by applying these materials.

[0032] Next, gripping and holding modes when the electric reel 200 is mounted on the reel seat 1 having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 6A to 7B.

[0033] A gripping and holding state shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B is suitable mainly for operation such as thumbing operation or operation of an output adjustment member 205 of the motor, and indicates a state where an index finger T2 is hooked on the trigger 20 to grip and hold the rear sides of the seat body 1A and the reel body 200A. As described above, by forming the one trigger 20 at the substantially middle position of the seat body 1A, the index finger T2 can be hooked on the trigger 20 in the state where the rear side of the reel body 200A is gripped, and in this state, a middle finger T3, a ring finger T4, and a little finger T5 are not opened, and the seat body can be firmly gripped by the abdomen of each of the fingers. In addition, since the fingers do not open each other, a root T' of the thumb T1 can be brought into close contact with a side plate and pressed, and even if the reel body 200A is heavy, it becomes difficult to move in a rotation direction around the root rod 100. Further, since unlike the conventional art, a plurality of triggers are not formed, the rear side of the trigger 20 can be firmly gripped, and in this state, the thumb T1 is placed on the side plate of the reel body 200A, and the above described thumbing operation and output adjustment operation of the motor can be easily performed, and the gripability and holdability and the fishing operability can be improved.

[0034] A gripping and holding state shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B is mainly suitable for operations such as casting operation and sinking-and-drawing operation, and is a view showing a state where the middle finger T3 is hooked on the trigger 20 to grip and hold the rear sides of the seat body 1A and the reel body 200A. Although not shown, the index finger T1 is in a state of being in contact with a front end of the side plate on a side opposite to a handle side of the reel body 200A. As described above, by forming the one trigger 20 at the substantially middle position of the seat body 1A, the middle finger T3 can be hooked on the trigger 20 in the state where the reel body 200A is deeply gripped (gripped with a palm), the ring finger T4 and the little finger T5 are not opened in this state, and the seat body 1A can be firmly gripped with the abdomen of the ring finger and the little finger (a force is easily applied when the seat body 1A is gripped). In addition, since the fingers do not open, the root T' of the thumb T1 can

10 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU be held in close contact with the side plate, and even if the reel body is heavy, it becomes difficult to move in the rotation direction around the root rod 100. Further, since unlike the conventional case, the plurality of triggers are not formed, the reel body can be held so as to be gripped with the palm while firmly gripping the rear side of the trigger 20, and the gripability and holdability, and fishing operability can be improved.

[0035] In addition, since the above-described trigger 20 has a configuration in which one trigger is formed to protrude on the opposite side of the reel leg placing portion, as compared with a configuration in which two or more triggers are formed, even if the gripping and holding state at the time of actual fishing is changed to the above described gripping mode, it does not become an obstacle, and fishing operability can be improved. In addition, since the height of the one trigger is as low as 18 mm or less (When a finger is hooked, a width of the finger is substantially equal to or less than the height), it is possible to easily change from a state where a middle finger is hooked to a state where an index finger is hooked, or from the state where the index finger is hooked to the state where the middle finger is hooked. Furthermore, if the grip can be changed easily, a force applied to a hand can be dispersed more, and a degree of fatigue can also be reduced as compared with the same grip throughout a day.

[0036] Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment and can be variously modified.

[0037] In the configuration described above, surface shapes of the curved surfaces 22 and 24 formed in the front-back direction of the trigger 20 formed in the seat body 1A are arbitrary, and can be appropriately deformed, for example, formed into a partially flat surface, partially recessed, partially bulged, or a composite surface obtained by combining these surfaces. Further, the configuration of the moving hood 7 (moving method in the axial direction, position fixing structure, and the like) can be variously modified, and the means for moving the moving hood in the axial direction is not limited to the method using the rotation operation member 11 described above. In addition, a configuration may be employed in which the moving hood 7 is disposed on the rod butt side.

[0038] The shape of the seat body 1A is not limited to the shape shown in the drawings, and the seat body 1A can be variously deformed. For example, it is possible to appropriately deform both side surfaces of the seat body by forming a bulging portion or a recessed portion (curved portion) partially by a curved surface, an inclined surface,

11 20450110_1 (GHMatters) P122981.AU or the like so as to be easily fitted to the palm, and further by partially forming a lightening portion, a notched portion, an opening, or the like. Such lightening, notch, unevenness, and the like are preferably formed in a portion that does not affect grip performance, and a thickness of the seat body 1A is not limited.

[0039] Further, the reel seat 1 and the fishing rod of the present invention are not limited to the electric reel, and may be mounted on various types of double bearing reels.

[0040] It is to be understood that, if any prior art publication is referred to herein, such reference does not constitute an admission that the publication forms a part of the common general knowledge in the art, in Australia or any other country.

[0041] In the claims which follow and in the preceding description of the invention, except where the context requires otherwise due to express language or necessary implication, the word "comprise" or variations such as "comprises" or "comprising" is used in an inclusive sense, i.e. to specify the presence of the stated features but not to preclude the presence or addition of further features in various embodiments of the invention.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

[0042] 1 Reel seat 1A Seat body 3 Reel leg placing portion Fixed hood 7 Moving hood 11 Rotation operation member Trigger 22,24 Curved surface 51,52 Grip member 200 Electric reel 201 Reel leg

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Claims

What is claimed is: 1. A reel seat comprising: a seat body including a reel leg placing portion on which a reel leg of a fishing reel is placed, and a fixed hood that is provided on one end side in an axial direction of the reel leg placing portion and holds one end side of the reel leg of the fishing reel placed on the reel leg placing portion; and a moving hood that is movable in the axial direction and can hold another end side of the reel leg being disposed on another end side in the axial direction of the reel leg placing portion, wherein one trigger is formed to protrude on a side opposite to the reel leg placing portion of the seat body, the trigger is formed in a range of within 20 mm either side, in the axial direction, with respect to a middle position of the reel leg of the fishing reel fixed to the reel leg placing portion, and a height of a top portion of the trigger is formed to be 18 mm or less from a lowest position on the opposite side of the seat body, wherein in the seat body, a cross-sectional shape along an axial center on each of a front side and a rear side of the trigger is formed as a curved surface, the front and rear curved surfaces of the trigger are formed so that a curvature of the front curved surface is larger than a curvature of the rear curved surface, and a curvature radius R of the front curved surface of the trigger is 13 mm or more, and a curvature radius R of the rear curved surface of the trigger is 14 mm or more.

2. The reel seat according to claim 1, wherein an axial length to each lowest position of the front and rear curved surfaces with respect to a top portion of the trigger is 10 mm to 30 mm.

3. The reel seat according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein an axial length of the seat body on a side opposite to the reel leg placing portion is 80 mm or less.

4. The reel seat according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the seat body has right and left surface shapes symmetrically with respect to the axial direction on the side opposite to the reel leg placing portion.

5. A fishing rod, wherein the reel seat according to any one of claims 1 to 4 is fixed.

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