US 11,937,590 B2
Fishing rod including rod body having fitting mounted thereon
Takuji Kawamura, Tokyo (JP); Nobuhiro Izaki, Tokyo (JP); Takahiko Tomioka, Tokyo (JP); and Hirokazu Yamamoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to GLOBERIDE, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by GLOBERIDE, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/729,551.
Application 17/729,551 is a division of application No. 17/255,361, previously published as PCT/JP2019/025875, filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-123721 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2018; application No. 2018-124305 (JP), filed on Jun. 29, 2018; application No. 2018-125134 (JP), filed on Jun. 29, 2018; and application No. 2018-134632 (JP), filed on Jul. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256827 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 87/04 (2006.01); A01K 87/06 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 87/04 (2013.01) [A01K 87/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fishing rod comprising:
a rod body extending along a central axis in an axial direction;
a fitting having a mounting part, the fitting being mounted on the rod body such that the mounting part is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the rod body; and
a first fiber-reinforced resin layer surrounding the rod body so as to cover the mounting part,
wherein the first fiber-reinforced resin layer has
(i) a first portion that is located at a first position in the axial direction along the central axis that overlaps the mounting part, and is wound in a first number of plies N1, and
(ii) a second portion that is located at a second position in the axial direction along the central axis that does not overlap the mounting part, and is wound in a second number of plies N2 that
(a) is in a range of 1.5 or more to less than 2; and
(b) is less than N1
and one end and the other end of the first fiber-reinforced resin layer are, in a circumferential direction around the central axis, symmetrically positioned with respect to the mounting part.