Clean-burn Vortex Generator for Golf Club Kinetic Energy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing golf club technologies face challenges in imparting consistent kinetic energy to golf balls due to issues with weight, swing errors, and incomplete energy release, leading to poor performance and reliability, particularly with explosive charge systems that suffer from jamming and incomplete powder burns.
Innovation Solution
A golf club design that utilizes a high-pressure gas vortex generator to impart kinetic energy without swinging, featuring a slotted striker piston, urethane spring, and a silencing chamber, eliminating the need for a piston and rod assembly, and using a cartridge strip with a spring-loaded hold-down mechanism for clean burning and adjustable distance control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If an explosive charge system is used to impart kinetic energy to the ball, then additional energy can be added to the club head velocity, but the system suffers from incomplete powder burns and jamming issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the harmful unburned powder residue from the system by introducing a vortex generator that creates a swirling gas flow. This vortex action actively removes unburned powder particles from the combustion chamber, preventing them from causing jamming in the piston and rod assembly, thereby resolving the reliability issue while maintaining the high power output of the explosive charge system
Solution Approach 2:
The vortex generator acts as an intermediary component between the explosive charge and the piston-rod mechanism. It mediates the combustion process by creating a controlled vortex flow that ensures complete powder burning and prevents residue formation, thus enabling reliable operation of the kinetic energy delivery system
2Power
If a piston and rod assembly is used to deliver high-pressure gas to the ball, then kinetic energy can be imparted, but the system becomes complex and prone to lubrication failures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the complex piston and rod assembly entirely from the system. Instead of using a mechanical piston-rod mechanism to deliver high-pressure gas, the invention directly channels the high-pressure gas through a simplified valve system to strike the ball, eliminating the complexity and lubrication failure points associated with traditional piston-rod assemblies while maintaining effective kinetic energy delivery
3Ease of operation
If high-pressure gas is used to strike the ball, then kinetic energy can be imparted without swinging the club, but noise levels increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the potentially harmful high-noise characteristic of high-pressure gas discharge into a beneficial feature by using the gas expansion and release mechanism to drive the ball. The controlled release of high-pressure gas through the valve system provides sufficient kinetic energy to strike the ball effectively without requiring club swing, and the noise is managed as an acceptable byproduct of the powerful, swing-free operation
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
The solution provides a reliable, low-cost, quiet, and easy-to-use golf club that achieves consistent ball travel distances without jamming, with a solid construction and reduced noise output, utilizing existing cartridge strips and a hard anodized coating for durability.
Implementation Method 1
a vortex generator armature positioned at one end of the cylinder directly over the high-pressure gas flow
Implementation Method 2
high-pressure gas flow in proportion toward the striker piston or the silencing chamber
Implementation Method 3
burning high-pressure gas
Implementation Method 4
explosive charge contained in a cartridge holder
Data Source
AI summary
A unique quiet reliable golf club having a Clean Burning Vortex Generator capable of varying the degree of kinetic energy applied to driving a golf ball in a linear fashion, without swinging the club. The striker piston and cylinder are disposed within the golf club head casting that contains a silencing chamber to lower the db output level. The striker piston is propelled outward by a firing mechanism releasing kinetic energy to fire a cartridge. The cartridge injects burning gas pressure into a vortex generator, located at the breech end of the cylinder. The vortex generator eliminates unburned gas and disperses the gas according to a desired distance setting of a ball travel distance scale. The one piece striker piston is sealed with a piston ring and is movable on a hard-coat cylinder-bearing surface that eliminates lubrication for the purpose of driving a golf ball in a new sport played by non-golfers.