Adjustable Weight Insert for Golf Club Center of Gravity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current golf club designs face challenges in optimizing weight distribution and center of gravity placement to enhance playability and ball flight performance, particularly in wood-type clubs, where environmental factors and golfer-specific issues affect distance and accuracy.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a weighted insert system with a heavy end and a lighter end, configured to be placed within the club head in various orientations, allows for adjustable center of gravity placement along the x, y, and z axes, utilizing a receptacle with a weight retention system and head locking mechanism to secure the insert, enabling optimal weight distribution and club performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a multi-piece construction is used to facilitate access to the cavity for attaching components, then ease of manufacture and component attachment are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The club head is divided into multiple separate components including the club head body, weight retention system, head locking member, and weighted insert. These components are manufactured separately and then assembled together, allowing each component to be optimized independently while facilitating access to the cavity for attaching components like internal weights and the club shaft.
2Adaptability or versatility
If weight elements are added to the club head to influence ball flight, then playability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The weighted insert is designed to be adjustable within the club head cavity through a locking mechanism. This allows the weight element to be repositioned to different locations along the cavity to influence ball flight characteristics according to specific player needs, providing dynamic adaptability rather than a fixed weight configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The weight retention system is separated into distinct components including the weight retention member with a receptacle, the head locking member, and the weighted insert itself. This segmentation allows the weight element to be independently adjusted and positioned while maintaining structural integrity of the club head.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the weighted insert is made adjustable to optimize weight distribution, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The weight retention system incorporates a locking mechanism that allows the weighted insert to be adjusted to different positions within the cavity. The head locking member engages with the weight retention member to secure the weighted insert at selected locations, enabling optimization of weight distribution for different playing conditions and golfer preferences.
Data Source
AI summary
A golf club head including a body having a face, a sole, a crown, and a skirt joining the face, sole and crown, wherein the body includes a receptacle, the receptacle comprising a terminal end and an open end, a weighted insert, a weight retention system configured to receive the weighted insert, the weight retention system comprising, a weight retention member residing within the receptacle, a head locking member residing within the receptacle, wherein the weight retention member, the head locking member, and the body are formed separately, wherein the weight retention system includes an opening configured to receive the weighted insert, the opening located at the open end of the receptacle, wherein the head locking member retains the weight retention member within the receptacle.