Golf Club Head Removable Toe Component Air Resistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golf club heads often fail to maintain the striking face orientation during the downswing, leading to inconsistent ball flight directions due to uncontrolled air resistance, causing the ball to deviate from the intended target.
Innovation Solution
A golf club head design featuring a removable toe-side component that adjusts the head's projected area, allowing for adjustable air resistance by changing the striking face's opening degree during the downswing, using a screw fixation system and low specific gravity materials to maintain swing feel and reduce weight changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the striking face is made to close during downswing to control ball flight direction, then air resistance increases, but this causes the striking face to close excessively beyond the address position
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies a movable toe-side component that can be adjusted during the swing. The component transitions from an initial position that provides high air resistance to a final position that provides low air resistance, dynamically adapting to the swing phase. This allows the striking face to close appropriately during downswing without excessive closure, resolving the contradiction between controlling ball flight direction and maintaining stable striking face orientation.
2Ease of operation
If a toe-side component is added to increase air resistance for striking face closure, then ball flight direction control improves, but the clubhead weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the toe-side area into two functional zones: an initial toe-side component position that provides high air resistance, and a final toe-side component position that provides low air resistance. This segmentation allows the system to provide high air resistance only when needed during the downswing, while maintaining low weight during the swing phase, thus resolving the contradiction between improving striking face closure control and minimizing clubhead weight.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the toe-side component is made removable to adjust air resistance, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a movable toe-side component that can be repositioned between an initial position and a final position. This dynamic repositioning mechanism provides adaptability in adjusting air resistance without requiring complex removable mounting structures. The component's ability to move between defined positions allows for air resistance adjustment while maintaining relatively simple device complexity, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and structural complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The adjustable air resistance enables precise control over the striking face closure, allowing golfers to correct ball flight direction by altering the toe-side component's presence, thereby improving shot accuracy and consistency.
Implementation Method 1
The inventor focused on the air resistance of the golf club head during downswing, and has completed a golf club head that can adjust the degree of opening of the striking face during the downswing by making this air resistance adjustable.
Data Source
AI summary
A golf club head includes a head main body, and a toe-side component. The head main body includes a striking face, a hosel portion defining a shaft center line, and a mounting portion for mounting the toe-side component on a toe side with respect to the shaft center line. The toe-side component is fixed to the mounting portion removably. When the toe-side component is removed from the mounting portion of the head main body, a head projected area in a front view of the golf club head becomes smaller.