U.S. patent application number 10/618668 was filed with the patent office on 2005-01-20 for golf club head.
Invention is credited to Sung, Lung-Te.
Application Number | 20050014574 10/618668 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 34062440 |
Filed Date | 2005-01-20 |
United States Patent
Application |
20050014574 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Sung, Lung-Te |
January 20, 2005 |
Golf club head
Abstract
An improved structure for a golf club head having been fixed on
the back of the striking face with a compression coil in the
direction following the striking of the ball with one end of the
coil soldered to the center on the back of the face and another end
fixed to a press bar, both sides of the press bar being welded to
the back of the string face for the compression coil to hold
against and fix to the back of the striking face to sufficiently
upgrade its coefficient of resilience, thus the driving
distance.
Inventors: |
Sung, Lung-Te; (Taipei,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Lung-Te Sung
PO Box 82-144
Taipei
TW
|
Family ID: |
34062440 |
Appl. No.: |
10/618668 |
Filed: |
July 15, 2003 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
473/329 ;
473/332 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A63B 53/0416 20200801;
A63B 53/0454 20200801; A63B 53/0466 20130101; A63B 2053/0495
20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
473/329 ;
473/332 |
International
Class: |
A63B 053/04 |
Claims
1. (canceled)
2. A golf club head comprising a hollow body, said hollow body
having a striking face, a compression spring having a first end
welded to a center of an inner side of said striking face and a
second end welded to a press bar, said press bar being welded to
said inner side of said striking face thereby holding said
compression spring against said inner side of said striking face.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] (a) Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention is related to a golf club head, and
more particularly to one that effectively increase the hitting
distance by fully upgrading the coefficient of resilience (C.O.R.)
on the striking face.
[0003] (b) Description of the Prior Art
[0004] In the beginning, a golf club head was first made of
combination of multiple precision castings, and later in recent
years, the head is formed by cold forging and rolling either made
in an integral part or in combined multiple sheets by welding. In
general the manufacturing technique of a golf club head is
advancing while it becomes diversified either in its physical
appearance or specification. To a golf player, how to drive the
ball far and accurate enough to approach the hole in less number of
strokes is always highly concerned, particularly so true for those
pros who have better command of striking accuracy and expect to
send the ball farther without affecting the striking stability.
Therefore, making it happen justifies further efforts by the
manufacturers of golf clubs.
[0005] The most crucial factor in pursuing accurate and longer
approaching shots rests upon improving the resilience of the face
of the golf club head. So far the stainless steel has been the
preferred material for the club head since it gives good elongation
to survive cold forging and rolling processes together with other
considerations including production cost and the technical level of
the welding process. However, the resilience is comparatively poor
due to that the stainless steel is harder. The club manufacturers
attempt to examine the feasibility of replacing the stainless with
titanic alloy or other types of precious metal as the material for
the striking face of a golf club head Whereas the properties
including hardness and melting point of the titanic alloy or other
types of precious metal differs from those of the material of the
club head to prevent a successful welding process. Therefore, a
caulking process is used in the hope of achieving a tight binding
between the club head and the striking face.
[0006] However, the caulking method for being subject to a highly
demanded precision is not feasible in technical terms. Furthermore,
the striking face is vulnerable to fall off the head due to the
violent striking with the ball after the swinging of the club.
Therefore, substitute of the traditional stainless steel striking
face fails commercial scale production. The attempts to seek
solution from heterogeneous material for the striking face of the
head of the club to increase the driving distance is frustrated for
conspicuous technical problems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide
an improved structure of a golf club head made of multiple
stainless steel sheets to effectively drive the golf ball for a
longer distance by significantly upgrading the coefficient of
resilience for the striking face, and more importantly, to make the
commercial scale production feasible.
[0008] The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief
introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these
and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention
itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the
art, the following detailed description of the invention and the
claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying
drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical
reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
[0009] Many other advantages and features of the present invention
will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making
reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets
of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment
incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by
way of illustrative example.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0010] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of
the present invention.
[0011] FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the preferred embodiment of
the present invention.
[0012] FIG. 3 is a sectional view taking from line A-A in FIG.
2.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0013] The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments
only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or
configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following
description provides a convenient illustration for implementing
exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the
described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement
of the elements described without departing from the scope of the
invention as set forth in the appended claims.
[0014] Referring to FIG. 1, a golf club head (1) of a preferred
embodiment of the present invention relates to a hollow body
comprised of multiple sheets and includes a toe (11), a sole (12),
a neck (13) and a face (14) made of metal materials of the prior
art.
[0015] As illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, a compression coil (15) is
fixed to the back of the face (14). The compression coil (15) is
made in a spiral form provided with a proper number of coil and
resilience and by compromising the striking direction. One end of
the compression coil (15) is welded to the center of the back of
the face (14) and another end of the compression coil (15) is fixed
with a press bar (16) in proper length and extending to both sides
from where it is connected to the compression coil (15). The press
bar is welded to the back of the face (14), thus for the
compression coil (15) to hold against and fix to where between the
back of the face (14) and the press bar (16) while reserving a
minor spacing of resilience among the compression coil (15) to
rebound upon the face (14) to significantly upgrade the C.O.R. of
the face (14).
[0016] At the instant when the face (14) hits the ball, the face
will slightly give in a recess due to the impact to produce
compression against the compression coil (15). After the impact,
the compression coil (15) fast returns to its original status and
in turn the face (14) produces a rebound on the ball to effectively
increase the flying distance of the ball.
[0017] By holding against and fixing to the back of the face (14)
the compression coil (15) to produce a fast rebound for the face
(14) from the recess created at the moment of hitting the ball,
thus to sufficiently upgrade the C.O.R. of the face (14), and in
tun to effectively increase the driving distance of the ball.
Furthermore, by adjusting the suppression force exercised by the
press bar (16) on the compression coil, the resilient spacing among
the compression coil (15) can be altered to achieve the optimal
resilient for the face (14) for fully utilization of the practical
value of the head of the club.
[0018] It will be understood that each of the elements described
above, or two or more together may also find a useful application
in other types of methods differing from the type described
above.
[0019] While certain novel features of this invention have been
shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is
not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be
understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and
changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in
its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without
departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.
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