Spiked Golf Ball Marker With Rotating Alignment Component
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional golf ball markers cannot be adjusted without moving, which violates golf rules and complicates aligning the golf ball with the intended trajectory, leading to potential penalties.
Innovation Solution
A golf ball marker with two spikes and a rotating alignment component that allows 360-degree adjustment without moving the marker, featuring triangular cutouts for reference and a connection mechanism that allows the alignment component to rotate freely while maintaining the marker's position.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a traditional ball marker is used to mark the golf ball position, then the ball position can be marked on the putting surface, but the marker cannot be adjusted or rotated without moving from its original position, which complicates the alignment process
Solution Approach 1:
The ball marker is divided into two functional segments: a stationary marker base with spikes that remains fixed on the putting surface, and a separate rotatable alignment component that can be rotated independently. This segmentation allows the alignment component to provide rotational adjustment capability while the marker base maintains the original ball position, resolving the contradiction between ease of alignment operation and adaptability for rotation.
Solution Approach 2:
A connection mechanism serves as an intermediary between the stationary marker base and the rotatable alignment component. This intermediary allows the alignment component to rotate freely around the marker base while maintaining a fixed reference point, enabling both position stability and alignment flexibility simultaneously.
2Ease of operation
If the ball marker is moved to allow alignment adjustments, then the alignment can be adjusted, but this violates golf rules that prohibit moving the marker after the ball is lifted
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the marker into a fixed base and a rotatable alignment component, the invention allows alignment adjustments through rotation of the alignment component without moving the marker base from its original position. This ensures rule compliance while maintaining ease of alignment operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment component is designed to be dynamically rotatable around the stationary marker base. This dynamic capability allows the alignment component to be adjusted to various angles for proper alignment without the marker base being moved, thus complying with golf rules while enabling necessary adjustments.
3Measurement precision
If a rotating alignment component is added to the ball marker, then alignment accuracy is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotation capability is isolated to a separate alignment component rather than being integrated into the entire marker structure. This segmentation allows the alignment component to provide enhanced measurement precision for alignment while keeping the marker base simple and familiar, thus improving alignment accuracy without excessively increasing overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotatable alignment component serves multiple functions: it provides alignment references through its rotational positioning, maintains the ball position reference through connection to the marker base, and enables alignment adjustments. This multi-functionality justifies the added complexity by delivering comprehensive alignment capabilities in a single integrated system.
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AI summary
A spiked ball marker connected to a rotating alignment component is provided. The ball marker is designed to prevent rule violations for compromising the golf ball location on the putting surface when marked. The alignment component is adjustable and moves while the connected spiked ball marker is not allowed to move at all. The spikes of the spiked ball marker penetrate the ground to prevent the ball marker from moving as the alignment component is adjusted. The alignment component provides a golfer the option of adjustment by use of a putter in order to gain visual perspective of the putting surface terrain while in the act of adjusting the alignment component for the purpose of enhancing the accuracy of aiming towards a desired trajectory at the golf hole.