Electronic Display Putter Heads for Dynamic Alignment Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golfers face challenges in accurately aiming their putters due to human errors such as improper alignment, variations in putter orientation, and mental or physical shortcomings, leading to inconsistent putting performance.
Innovation Solution
An electronic display integrated into the putter head that uses sensors to provide alignment feedback through adjustable sight lines or other images, which can be customized using a mobile computing device to optimize putting alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manually added sight lines are used on the putter, then alignment guidance is provided to the golfer, but the number of sight line styles is limited and requires trying multiple putters to find the right one
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic sight line system where multiple sight line styles (solid, dotted, dashed, T-shaped, circular) can be electronically selected and displayed on an LCD screen integrated into the putter head. This allows the golfer to change sight line styles without changing putters, resolving the contradiction by making the system adaptable while maintaining ease of alignment guidance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the visual parameters of the sight lines by displaying different patterns (solid, dotted, dashed), shapes (T-shaped, circular), and orientations electronically. This allows multiple sight line configurations to be achieved through parameter changes rather than physical modifications, providing versatility while keeping the same putter head.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sight line styles are provided on different putters, then each golfer can find their preferred style, but the golfer must try out and select from multiple putters
Solution Approach 1:
The putter head is designed with universal functionality to display multiple sight line styles through an electronic display system controlled by a mobile device. This single putter can perform the function of multiple putters with different sight lines, eliminating the need for golfers to try out multiple putters and saving selection time while maintaining style variety.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of having multiple physical putters with different sight lines, the system creates virtual copies of different sight line styles through electronic display. The LCD screen can replicate various sight line patterns software-based, allowing instant switching between styles without physical replacement or trial of multiple putters.
3Adaptability or versatility
If an electronic display with multiple alignment features is integrated into the putter head, then alignment feedback and customization are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a mobile computing device as an intermediary to control the electronic display on the putter head. The mobile device handles the complexity of storing multiple sight line styles, processing user selections, and communicating instructions to the putter's controller. This external mediator manages the complexity while the putter itself remains relatively simple, balancing adaptability with device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A putter head includes a body portion, an electronic display coupled to the body portion, and a controller coupled to the body portion and in electrical communication with the electronic display. The controller is configured to control the electronic display to display one or more images on the electronic display.