Golf Club Head Support Structure for Stable Orientation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional golf club supports fail to maintain the desired orientation of golf clubs with an R-shaped head portion, as customers may return them facing a different direction, leading to improper suspension.
Innovation Solution
A golf club support with a columnar shape and guide portion, featuring multiple support members that guide and position the club's head portion to ensure it faces the desired direction, utilizing a combination of support members positioned at varying heights and tapered surfaces to stabilize the club in a balanced state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a simple recessed support portion is used to receive the top surface of the head portion, then the device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the reliability of maintaining the desired club orientation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The support portion is segmented into multiple functional surfaces: a first support surface for receiving the top surface of the head portion, a second support surface for receiving the face surface, and a third support surface for receiving the back surface. This segmentation allows each surface to perform a specific function in controlling club orientation, thereby improving reliability while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through the use of a integrated support structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the support portion are designed with different geometries and orientations to provide localized support functions. The first support surface is positioned to receive the top surface, the second support surface is angled to receive the face surface, and the third support surface is positioned to receive the back surface. This local differentiation of support characteristics ensures the club maintains the desired orientation with the sole surface facing upward.
2Reliability
If multiple support members at varying heights are added to control club orientation, then the reliability of maintaining desired orientation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple support surfaces are merged into a single integrated support portion structure. The first support surface, second support surface, and third support surface are all formed as part of the same support portion that receives the head portion of the club. This merging approach provides the reliability of multiple support points while avoiding the complexity of separate components, as all surfaces work together to control the club orientation simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The support portion is designed to perform multiple functions: it receives the top surface of the head portion, supports the face surface at an angle, and supports the back surface. This multi-functional design allows a single structure to control the club orientation reliably without requiring multiple separate devices or complex mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a golf club support on which a wooden club, etc. can be suspended in a desired direction while being prevented from falling or tumbling. The golf club support for supporting a golf club of which head portion has an R shape on a base end side has a columnar shape, has an opening 10 in the circumferential surface thereof, and has a guide portion 12 which is formed from the opening toward the inside. A first support member 16, a second support member 18, and a third support member 20 are formed on at least the top surface of the golf club support. When a golf club is positioned at an innermost portion 12A of the guide portion with a sole surface of its head portion turned upward, the first support member 16 supports a face surface 32A of the head portion of the golf club, the second support member 18 supports a surface 32B facing obliquely outward and upward in the base-end-side side surface of the head portion of the golf club, and the third support member 20 supports a top surface 32D of the head portion of the golf club on its top end. The positions of the top portions of the first support member and the second support member are higher than the top portion of the third support member.