Flat Lure with Weighted Head for Fish Attraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fishing lures, particularly teasers and swimbaits, face challenges such as high manufacturing costs, bulkiness, and difficulty in hooking fish due to their three-dimensional designs.
Innovation Solution
A flat lure design that mimics the silhouette of fish, featuring a substantially flat body attached to a thicker, weighted head, allowing for easier manufacturing, handling, and hook attachment while maintaining attractive movement through the water.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a three-dimensional swimbait design is used to mimic fish appearance, then the lure can attract fish effectively, but the manufacturing cost increases and the structure becomes bulkier
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential function of fish mimicry from the full three-dimensional body and concentrates it into a flat, two-dimensional silhouette design. This removes unnecessary bulk and manufacturing complexity while retaining the primary attraction function through the flat body's ability to mimic fish shape and create water displacement.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from three-dimensional swimbaits to a two-dimensional flat body design. This dimensional reduction simplifies manufacturing, reduces material costs, and eliminates bulkiness while maintaining the lure's effectiveness through the flat silhouette's ability to create water displacement and mimic fish appearance from above.
2Reliability
If a three-dimensional swimbait design is used, then the lure can attract fish, but the structure becomes bulkier and harder to handle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the bulky three-dimensional body structure and retains only the essential flat silhouette that provides fish attraction. This extraction of unnecessary volume makes the lure significantly easier to handle, cast, and retrieve while maintaining its primary function.
Solution Approach 2:
By changing from three-dimensional to two-dimensional design, the lure loses bulk and becomes planar, which directly improves handling characteristics. The flat body is easier to manipulate on the surface water, cast with the rod, and retrieve compared to volumetric swimbaits.
3Reliability
If a three-dimensional swimbait design is used, then the lure can attract fish, but hook attachment becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the volumetric body structure that complicates hook attachment and replaces it with a flat design. This allows hooks to be easily attached to the flat body surface and provides better access for hooking fish, as the flat profile eliminates the bulk that would otherwise interfere with hook engagement.
4Ease of manufacture
If a flat body design is used, then manufacturing and storage costs are reduced, but the lure must rely on head and tail components for attraction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the lure into distinct functional segments: a flat body for cost-effective manufacturing and storage, a weighted head for water displacement and attraction, and a tail component for movement. This segmentation allows each part to be optimized independently, with the flat body providing cost savings while the head and tail compensate for the reduced three-dimensional form.
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AI summary
A lure design with a substantially flat body that mimics the silhouette of fish/prey. The substantially flat body may be attached (or be attachable to) a thicker/three-dimensional “head.” Because the body of the lure is substantially flat, the overall weight compared to an equivalently sized (length and width) swimbait is lower. Additionally, since the lure has a thicker head, the motion of the lure through the water may mimic the movement of live prey. The head component may be modular and may be replaced or swapped with a different head component. The disclosed designs may allow for the action of a swimbait style lure but offering a similar weight and size of a teaser with the silhouette of a fish.