Golf Club Head With Structural Columns

a golf club and structural column technology, applied in the field of golf club heads, can solve the problems of minimal increase in mass and failure to disclose, and achieve the effect of reducing the stress in the striking face section

Active Publication Date: 2017-06-29
TOPGOLF CALLAWAY BRANDS CORP
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Benefits of technology

The golf club head has interior structures that connect the crown section to the sole section to reduce stress in the hitting face section when hitting the golf ball. These interior structures can be made of hollow tubes or solid rods and are made of titanium alloy. This design helps improve the performance of the golf club head by making it more durable and easier to hit the ball with accuracy.

Problems solved by technology

However, the prior art fails to disclose an interior structure that increases ball speed through reducing stress in the striking face section at impact, with a minimal increase in mass to the golf club head.

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[0040]A preferred embodiment of the golf club head 10 with structural columns is shown in FIGS. 1-8. The golf club head 10 preferably includes a body 20 having a striking face section 30 with a face center 34, a return section 32 extending rearwards away from an upper edge 31 of the striking face section 30, sole section 22 extending rearwards away from a lower edge 33 of the striking face section 30, a hosel 24 for engaging a shaft, a heel end 23, a toe end 25, an upper opening 26, a hollow interior 27, and an aft end 28. A crown section 40 is comprised of the return section 32 and a crown insert 42 that is placed over the upper opening 26 to enclose the hollow interior 27. The body 20 also includes three cutouts 70, 72, 74 in a center area 21 of the sole section 22, which are closed by a cover piece 80 having a density that is lower than the density of the material used to make the body 20. Each of the crown section 40 and cover piece 80 preferably is composed of a carbon composit...

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Abstract

A golf club head having multiple structural columns is disclosed herein. A body comprises a face section, a sole section, and a crown or return section, and defines a hollow interior. Each of the structural columns extends from the crown or return section to the sole section within the hollow interior to reduce stresses placed on the face section during impact with a golf ball. The structural columns are all located within 1 inch of a rear surface of the face section measured along a plane normal to the center of the face, and are spaced a distance of 0.500 to 2.00 inch from one another within the hollow interior.

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CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The Present Application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 279,188 filed on Sep. 28, 2016, which is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 847,227 filed on Sep. 8, 2015, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,486,677, issued on Nov. 8, 2016, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 285,479 filed on May 22, 2014, and issued on Dec. 15, 2015, as U.S. Pat. No. 9,211,451, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 788,173 filed on Mar. 7, 2013, and issued on Jan. 6, 2015, as U.S. Pat. No. 8,926,448, and also is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 794,578 filed on Jul. 8, 2015, and also is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 788,326 filed on Jun. 30, 2015, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 755,068, fil...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63B53/04
CPCA63B53/0466A63B2053/0412A63B2053/045A63B2053/0437A63B2053/0433A63B2053/0408A63B60/42A63B2209/02A63B2053/0491A63B2209/00A63B2209/023A63B60/00A63B53/0412A63B53/042A63B53/045A63B53/0437A63B53/0458A63B53/0408A63B53/0416A63B53/0433A63B53/0475A63B53/047
InventorSELUGA, JAMES A.MYERS, MATTHEW
OwnerTOPGOLF CALLAWAY BRANDS CORP