Adjustable Weight Golf Club Head for Center of Gravity Control
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Golf club designers face challenges in redistributing weight to improve forgiveness, accuracy, and performance, as existing technologies lack adjustable weight systems that allow users to easily alter the weight distribution within the club head.
Innovation Solution
A golf club head with a movable and adjustable weight system that can be rotated between different positions, remaining connected to the club head, allowing users to redistribute weight to various regions, thereby altering the flight path of the ball.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If weight is redistributed to improve forgiveness and accuracy, then club performance is improved, but the complexity of the club head structure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the weight position adjustable rather than fixed. The weight can be repositioned between multiple locations in the club head, allowing the center of gravity to be dynamically changed to suit different playing conditions and golfer preferences, thereby improving performance without permanently complicating the structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the club head into distinct functional zones with specific weight positions. By creating multiple discrete weight locations (such as rear, toe, heel, and face positions), the design allows selective weight distribution to improve forgiveness in specific areas without requiring a completely complex redistributed structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable weight system is added to alter flight path, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustable weight system embodies the dynamics principle by enabling the weight to be repositioned between multiple fixed locations within the club head. This allows golfers to dynamically adjust the center of gravity position to alter ball flight characteristics (such as draw, fade, or neutral trajectories) without requiring a completely complex mechanism—simply a movable weight with defined stop positions.
3Manufacturing precision
If weight is moved to rear portion to lower center of gravity, then accuracy is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by creating discrete, pre-determined weight positions within the club head, including a rear position that lowers the center of gravity. Rather than requiring continuous or custom positioning, the segmented approach provides specific manufactured locations (recesses or channels) where the weight can be placed, improving center of gravity control while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through standardized positioning features.
Data Source
Figure 1A
Figure 1B
Figure 2A
AI summary
A golf club with a golf club head having one or more adjustable weights is presented. The club head may include a club head body having a recessed formed therein. In some arrangements, the recess may be formed in a sole portion of the club head body. The golf club head further includes an adjustable weight that may be rotated from a first position to a second position to adjust the weight characteristics, and thus the performance characteristics of the golf club. In some arrangements, the adjustable weight and/or any hardware, fasteners, etc. associated with the adjustable weight may be constantly connected to the golf club head such that adjustment of the weight does not include removal of the weight and/or any hardware, fasteners, etc.