US 11,937,589 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. 17/729,498.
Application 17/729,498 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 2022/0248652 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. A01K 87/04 (2006.01); A01K 87/06 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 87/04 (2013.01) [A01K 87/06 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fishing rod comprising:
a rod body extending along a central axis;
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;
a first fiber-reinforced resin layer surrounding the rod body so as to cover the mounting part externally in a radial direction of the rod body; and
a second fiber-reinforced resin layer provided on an outer side of the first fiber-reinforced resin layer, wherein a void space is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the first fiber-reinforced resin layer and the outer peripheral surface of the rod body,
wherein the first fiber-reinforced resin layer is formed of a first prepreg sheet containing a first matrix resin and first reinforcement fibers impregnated with the first matrix resin, wherein the second fiber-reinforced resin layer is formed of a second prepreg sheet containing a second matrix resin and second reinforcement fibers impregnated with the second matrix resin,
wherein a content of the first matrix resin in the first prepreg sheet is higher than a content of the second matrix resin in the second prepreg sheet
wherein the mounting part has a bottom surface in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the rod body,
wherein a void space between the bottom surface of the mounting part and the outer peripheral surface of the rod body is filled with the first matrix resin flowing therein from the first prepreg sheet, and
wherein a first outermost side of the bottom surface of the mounting part and a second outermost side of the bottom surface of the mounting part are each in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rod body, and the void space between the bottom surface of the mounting part and the outer peripheral surface of the rod body is between the first outermost side of the bottom surface and the second outermost side of the bottom surface.