Modular Golf Putter with Interchangeable Hosel Channels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customizable features in golf putters have been limited, particularly in terms of interchangeable putter heads and hosel locations, requiring golfers to purchase new putters for significant adjustments, whereas drivers and fairway woods allow for weight bias adjustments.
Innovation Solution
A modular design for golf putters with a putter face and head that can be reversibly connected, featuring apertures and interior cavities for interchangeable face inserts and hosels, allowing selection of different styles and weights, enabling golfers to customize the putter head and shaft configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If golfers want to switch from blade-styled putter to mallet-styled putter or make significant adjustments, then they must purchase an entirely new putter, but this increases cost and equipment complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The putter is divided into separable components including the putter head, hosel, shaft, and grip, allowing individual components to be interchanged independently. The putter head contains multiple receiving channels that can accommodate different hosel configurations, enabling style changes without replacing the entire putter.
Solution Approach 2:
The putter head is designed with universal receiving channels that can accommodate multiple hosel types and configurations. This multi-functional design allows a single putter head to work with various hosels, shafts, and grips, providing versatility without requiring multiple complete putters.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customizable features are added to golf putters, then adjustment capability improves, but the number of components and assembly complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Customization is achieved through segmented, interchangeable components rather than integrated fixed designs. The hosel, shaft, and grip can be independently selected and assembled, allowing customization without creating a completely new putter head design for each configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The putter head is pre-configured with multiple receiving channels and aperture patterns during manufacturing, enabling various hosel and shaft configurations to be accommodated without requiring complex assembly procedures. The standardized interface designs simplify the customization process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If hosel locations are made selectable, then swing attribute matching improves, but manufacturing and assembly precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The hosel location selection is achieved by providing discrete, pre-defined receiving channels at specific locations within the putter head, rather than requiring continuous adjustment capabilities. This segmented approach allows flexibility while maintaining manageable manufacturing tolerances.
Solution Approach 2:
The putter head incorporates universal receiving channels with standardized aperture patterns that can accommodate multiple hosel types and locations. This multi-functional design provides hosel location selection capability while using standardized interfaces that simplify manufacturing precision requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
Customizable golf putters are disclosed. The putters include a putter face; a putter head that is configured to be reversibly connected to the putter face (with the putter head being selected from a plurality of different putter head styles); and a hosel that is configured to be reversibly connected to any of a plurality of hosel receiving channels that are accessible on a top surface of the putter head (the hosel is also selected from a plurality of different hosel styles). The golf putters further include a threaded shaft connector that is configured to reversibly connect the hosel to a putter shaft. In addition, the golf putters include one or more peg fillers, which are configured to be inserted into empty hosel receiving channels.