Shaft holding device

Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for carrying and storing golf clubs are bulky, impractical, and do not securely hold or organize clubs, leading to issues such as clubs being dropped, lost, or difficult to access, especially in limited spaces or during quick play situations.

Innovation Solution

A shaft holding device with a body featuring a central axis and multiple slots that securely hold golf clubs, allowing for easy access and organization, featuring an elastomeric outer sleeve, radially extending arms, and optional accessories like a spike, ball marker, and carrying straps for improved portability and storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If clubs are carried loosely in a user's hand, then accessibility to clubs is improved, but security and organization of clubs deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveAccessibility to clubsVSAvoidSecurity of clubs

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The device divides the club set into individual slots within a single body, allowing each club to be separately accessible while maintaining group security. Users can access one club at a time by removing it from its slot without affecting other clubs retained in their respective slots.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The elastic material automatically secures clubs when inserted into slots and releases them when pulled, providing self-securing and self-releasing functionality without requiring additional fastening or unfastening actions by the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If a golf bag is used to carry clubs, then security and organization of clubs is improved, but portability and ease of carrying deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveSecurity of clubsVSAvoidWeight of carrying device

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts only the essential club-holding function from a traditional golf bag, creating a minimalistic device that secures clubs without the bulk of a full bag, thereby reducing weight while maintaining security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The use of elastic material creates a flexible, thin-walled structure that provides secure retention of clubs without the rigid, bulky construction of traditional bags, enabling portability while maintaining organizational security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

3Reliability

If rubber bands or hook and loop straps are used to secure clubs, then security of clubs is improved, but ease of operation and accessibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveSecurity of clubsVSAvoidAccessibility to clubs

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The elastic material automatically secures clubs when inserted into slots and releases them when pulled, providing self-securing and self-releasing functionality without requiring additional fastening or unfastening actions by the user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Reliability

If a traditional golf bag is used, then organization of clubs is improved, but volume and space requirements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveOrganization of clubsVSAvoidVolume of carrying device

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSVolume of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The device divides the club set into individual slots within a single body, allowing each club to be separately accessible while maintaining group security. Users can access one club at a time by removing it from its slot without affecting other clubs retained in their respective slots.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The use of elastic material creates a flexible, thin-walled structure that provides secure retention of clubs without the rigid, bulky construction of traditional bags, enabling portability while maintaining organizational security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables secure, organized, and easy access to multiple golf clubs, reducing the risk of damage or loss, and allows for comfortable one-handed carrying, improving the pace of play by keeping clubs organized and accessible.

Implementation Method 1

The outer sleeve (20) is formed of an elastomeric material

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS10369438B2Shaft holding device

Publication Date: 2019.08.06 DESIGNLYNX PROD LLC

AI summary

A shaft holding device comprises a body that has a top and a bottom and a central axis extending between the top and the bottom. A length of the body measured along the central axis is larger than a largest dimension measured perpendicular to the central axis. A plurality of slots is formed by the body and each is configured to releasably secure a shaft therein. Each of the plurality of slots has an axis spaced from and generally parallel with the central axis. Each of the plurality of slots is open along a side of the body and, for each cross section along the length of the body taken about a plane perpendicular to the central axis, each inner circumferential width of an opening of each of the plurality of slots is smaller than a diameter of each of the plurality of slots.