Golf Club Head Alignment Feature Using Color Contrast
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current golf club manufacturing methods lead to variability in alignment features due to imprecise affixing of masking stickers, resulting in inconsistent performance across golf club heads, and existing technologies do not effectively address the golfer's perception of face angle alignment, which affects shot accuracy.
Innovation Solution
The golf club head incorporates a primary alignment feature with contrasting shades or colors on the crown and face, utilizing paint or masking lines to delineate areas, and optionally includes an electronic display or dielectric coating system to adjust perceived alignment, ensuring consistent alignment perception and improved shot accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If masking stickers are used to guide painting of alignment features, then alignment feature positioning is attempted, but consistency and precision of alignment features deteriorate due to imprecise affixing and alignment variability
Solution Approach 1:
A reference feature is introduced as an intermediary element between the masking sticker and the alignment feature. The reference feature provides a stable, precisely located reference point that the masking sticker aligns to, thereby mediating the relationship between the sticker's imprecise positioning and the required precise alignment feature, eliminating the direct dependency on sticker placement accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The reference feature is pre-formed on the club head body before the masking sticker is applied. This preliminary action establishes a fixed, accurate reference point in advance, allowing the masking sticker to be positioned relative to this pre-established reference rather than requiring absolute precision in the sticker's own placement or in the subsequent painting operation
2Ease of operation
If traditional paint or masking lines are used for alignment features, then alignment guidance is provided, but the golfer's perception of face angle alignment is not effectively addressed, reducing shot accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment feature utilizes contrasting color zones on the club head body to enhance the golfer's visual perception of face angle alignment. By creating distinct color regions that correspond to different face angle positions, the system transforms abstract alignment guidance into intuitive visual cues that directly address the golfer's perception and improve shot accuracy
Data Source
AI summary
A golf club head having a nonmetallic crown bonded to a frame in close proximity to the face.