Golf club head with adjustable weight member

• US 20060105856A1
• Filed: 11/16/2004
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fusheng Precision Co., Ltd
• Original Assignee: FU Sheng Industrial Company Limited (Cooperative Valiant APO Global UA)
• Inventors: Lo, Lai-Fa
• Granted Patent: US 7,153,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/334
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/047 iron-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0487 for putters A63B53/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence

Abstract

A golf club head includes a body having at least one recessed portion for securely receiving at least one weight member. The weight member includes a lid with a plurality of protrusions respectively received in receiving portions of the recessed portion. At least one of the protrusions has a weight different from those of other protrusions. The lid has a symmetric shape the same as that of the recessed portion of the body, allowing the lid to be mounted in the recessed portion in one of at least two orientations that correspond to at least two different locations of a center of gravity of the golf club head, thereby allowing rapid change in the center of the gravity of the golf club head.

Claims

1. A gold club head comprising:

a body comprising at least one recessed portion, said at least one recessed portion including a plurality of receiving portions and at least one engaging portion;

at least one weight member mounted in said at least one recessed portion, said at least one weight member including a lid, a plurality of protrusions on the lid, and at least one engaging portion on the lid, at least one of the plurality of protrusions having a weight different from those of other protrusions, the lid having a symmetric shape the same as that of said at least one recessed portion of the body, allowing the lid to be mounted in said at least one recessed portion in one of at least two orientations with respect to said at least one recessed portion that correspond to at least two different locations of a center of gravity of the golf club head, with the plurality of protrusions being respectively received in the plurality of receiving portions, thereby allowing rapid change in a center of the gravity of the golf club head; and

at least one engaging member for engaging with said at least one engaging portion of said at least one recessed portion and said at least one engaging portion of said at least one weight member.

2. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of said at least one recessed portion of the body and the lid of said at least one weight member is symmetric in shape and is one of a square, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle, polygon, circle, ellipse, triangle, and star polygon in section.

3. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least two of the plurality of protrusions on the lid have an identical weight.

4. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein the weights of the plurality of protrusions on the lid are different from one another.

5. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one engaging portion of the body and said at least one engaging portion of the weight member are screw holes, and wherein said at least one engaging member is a bolt.

6. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body includes two diametrically disposed engaging portions on two diametrically disposed receiving portions of said at least one recessed portion, and wherein said at least one weighting member includes two diametrically disposed engaging portions on an inner face of the lid.

7. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one recessed portion includes a single engaging portion in a center of a bottom wall thereof, and wherein the lid includes a single engaging portion on an inner face thereof.

8. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one recessed portion of the body is adjacent to one of a rear of a sole, a toe of the sole, a heel of the sole, a center of the sole, and a striking face of the body.

9. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one recessed portion of the body is provided on at least one of a plurality of skirts of the body and adjacent to a rear, a toe, and a heel of the body.

10. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body is one of wooden type, iron type, and putter type.