Fishing line guide and fishing rod equipped with said fishing line guide
AssigneeGloberide, Inc.
InventorsKazuki Kawai, Masayuki Watanabe
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Abstract
Provided is a fishing line guide capable of not only reducing the weight while securing the rigidity and strength of the entire guide but also reducing the occurrence of line twisting and line tangling during actual fishing, and a fishing rod comprising the fishing line guide. A fishing line guide according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a fishing line guiding portion formed with a through-hole for guiding a fishing line; a fishing rod fixing portion to be fixed to a fishing rod; and a connection portion connecting the fishing line guiding portion and the fishing rod fixing portion, and the fishing line guide is integrally formed of a ceramic material.
Claims9
A fishing line guide comprising:
- a fishing line guiding portion formed with a through-hole for guiding a fishing line;
- a fishing rod fixing portion to be fixed to a fishing rod;
- and
- a connection portion connecting the fishing line guiding portion and the fishing rod fixing portion, wherein
- the fishing line guide is integrally formed of a ceramic material,
- a first outer contour on a first side of the fishing line guide is formed in a concave shape as viewed from a direction perpendicular to a central axis of the through-hole, the concave shape extending along the first outer contour continuously from the connection portion to a first position on a first opening edge of the through-hole, the first opening edge being located at a narrowest portion of the through-hole, and the first position being closest to the fishing rod fixing portion among positions on the first opening edge, and
- the first outer contour on the first side of the fishing line guide has no straight portion, and a second outer contour on the first side of the fishing line guide is linear without curves.
A fishing rod comprising:
- a rod tube;
- and
- a fishing line guide comprising a fishing line guiding portion formed with a through-hole for guiding a fishing line, a fishing rod fixing portion to be fixed to the rod tube, and a connection portion connecting the fishing line guiding portion and the fishing rod fixing portion, wherein
- the fishing line guide is integrally formed of a ceramic material, and
- a first outer contour on a first side of the fishing line guide is formed in a concave shape as viewed from a direction perpendicular to a central axis of the through-hole, the concave shape extending along the first outer contour continuously from the connection portion to a first position on a first opening edge of the through-hole, the first opening edge being located at a narrowest portion of the through-hole, and the first position being closest to the fishing rod fixing portion among positions on the first opening edge, wherein the first outer contour on the first side of the fishing line guide has no straight portion, and a second outer contour on the first side of the fishing line guide is linear without curves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.