Fishing Reel Spool Mode Switching for High-Speed Data Handling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing fishing reels face excessive processing load when performing communication and detection/storage processing simultaneously, particularly during high-speed spool rotation, which hampers reliable communication with external devices.

Innovation Solution

A fishing reel with a mode management system that selects between casting and drop modes based on spool rotation thresholds, disabling communication during high-speed casting and enabling it during slower drop mode, allowing for differential sampling times to manage processing loads effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If communication processing with an external device is performed simultaneously with detection and storage processing during high-speed spool rotation, then data can be transmitted to external devices, but the overall processing load becomes excessive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing load
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the communication mode changeable based on spool rotation speed. The control unit dynamically switches between first communication mode (at high speeds ≥ first threshold) and second communication mode (at low speeds < first threshold), allowing the system to adapt its communication behavior to current operational conditions and manage processing load effectively

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the communication parameter (communication mode) based on the spool rotation speed parameter. When rotation speed exceeds the first threshold, the system transitions to the first communication mode with restricted transmission; when below the threshold, it switches to the second communication mode with full transmission capability, thereby managing processing load through parameter adaptation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If frequent processing is performed to detect and record high-speed spool rotation during casting, then accurate detection data is obtained, but the processing load becomes excessive when combined with communication processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection precisionVSAvoidprocessing load
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the communication mode changeable based on spool rotation speed. The control unit dynamically switches between first communication mode (at high speeds ≥ first threshold) and second communication mode (at low speeds < first threshold), allowing the system to adapt its communication behavior to current operational conditions and manage processing load effectively

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the communication parameter (communication mode) based on the spool rotation speed parameter. When rotation speed exceeds the first threshold, the system transitions to the first communication mode with restricted transmission; when below the threshold, it switches to the second communication mode with full transmission capability, thereby managing processing load through parameter adaptation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12070026B2Fishing reel
Publication Date: 2024.08.27 DAIWA SEIKO CORPORATION
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AI summary

A fishing reel includes a spool capable of winding a fishing line, a detector capable of detecting the rotation amount of the spool, a storage that records the rotation amount of the spool as a detection result, and a transmitter that transmits the detection result to the outside, and is configured to select the casting mode when the detection result of the rotation amount of the spool is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and to select the drop mode when the detection result of the rotation amount of the spool is less than the first threshold.