Golf putter head

• US 20060040765A1
• Filed: 08/12/2005
• Published: 02/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Sano, Yoshinori
• Granted Patent: US 7,445,562 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/340
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0408 characterised by specific dimensions, e.g. thickness
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0487 for putters A63B53/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/50 with through-holes A63B60/18 takes precedence; for stringing purposes A63B49/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/54 with means for damping vibrations

Abstract

A golf putter head includes: a head body having a face surface; and a different member fixed to the head body and having a plurality of end portions as fixed portions to the head body, and a spaced extension extended between the end portions and spaced away from the head body, the different member fixed to the head body as elastically deformed by being fixed to the head body in a manner that the end portions thereof have a relative positional relation varied from that when the different member is in an independent piece state.

Claims

1. A golf putter head comprising:

a head body having a face surface; and

a different member having a plurality of end portions as fixed portions to the head body, having a spaced extension extended between the end portions and spaced away from the head body, and being fixed to the head body as elastically deformed by being fixed in a manner that the end portions thereof have a relative positional relation varied from that when the different member is in an independent piece state.

2. A golf putter head according to claim 1, wherein the head body includes a plurality of end mount holes in which the end portions of the different member are inserted and which restrict the positions of the end portions in a manner that the end portions have the relative positional relation varied from that when the different member is in the independent piece state.

3. A golf putter head according to claim 2, wherein the plural end mount holes are disposed on a toe-side and a heel-side of a back surface of the head body, and wherein the spaced extension of the different member is spaced backward of the head body and bendingly extends from the toe-side to the heel-side of the head body.

4. A golf putter head according to claim 3, wherein the spaced extension bendingly extends substantially along a circular, elliptical, or polygonal shape.

5. A golf putter head according to claim 1, wherein a specific gravity of the different member is greater than a specific gravity of the head body.

6. A golf putter head according to claim 2, wherein a specific gravity of the different member is greater than a specific gravity of the head body.

7. A golf putter head according to claim 3, wherein a specific gravity of the different member is greater than a specific gravity of the head body.

8. A golf putter head according to claim 4, wherein a specific gravity of the different member is greater than a specific gravity of the head body.