Fishing Lure Guide Structure for Lake-Floor Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional fishing lures and live bait used for bottom feeders often rise from the lake floor and get caught in debris, requiring heavy weights and having a short lifespan, failing to mimic natural prey movement.
Innovation Solution
A fishing lure design featuring a lure body, hook, and guide configuration that allows it to stay on the lake floor, resembling prey movement and reducing snagging, potentially using lighter weights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional fishing lures and live bait are used for bottom feeders, then they can attract fish, but they rise from the lake floor and get caught in debris
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a guide component that extends downwardly beyond the bottom of the lure body, creating a three-dimensional structure that interacts with the lake floor. This downward extension allows the lure to be pulled across the bottom rather than rising or snagging, effectively using vertical dimension to solve the horizontal stability problem.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide acts as an intermediary element between the lure body and the lake floor. It mediates the interaction by providing a controlled contact point that prevents direct engagement between the lure body and debris, allowing the lure to slide smoothly across the bottom surface.
2Reliability
If heavy weights are added to keep lures on the lake floor, then they stay on the bottom, but the complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the weight function from a separate heavy weight component and integrates it into the guide structure itself. The guide serves dual purposes: maintaining contact with the lake floor and providing the necessary weight, thereby eliminating the need for additional heavy weights.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide component performs multiple functions simultaneously: it maintains contact with the lake floor, provides downward force to prevent rising, and acts as a steering mechanism. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components and reduces overall weight.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional lures are used, then they are simple in design, but they fail to mimic natural prey movement
Solution Approach 1:
The guide is configured to allow the lure to move dynamically across the lake floor in response to retrieval forces. The guide's geometry and contact with the bottom surface create natural movement patterns that mimic prey behavior, transforming a static lure into a dynamic one without complex mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A fishing lure includes a lure body, an anchor point, a hook, and a guide. The lure body has opposed forward and rearward areas, an upper area, and a lower area. The anchor point extends upwardly from the upper area of the lure body in a direction away from the rearward area of the lure body. The hook has a shank fixedly extending from the rearward area of the lure body, and the hook has a tip located above the lure body. The guide extends from the forward area of the lure body. The guide has a steering portion angled downwardly away from the anchor point, and the steering portion extends downwardly below the lure body. The steering portion of the guide includes a leading edge and is generally symmetrical, and a maximum width of the guide is greater than a maximum width of the lure body.