GOLF CLUB HEAD

• US 20090098949A1
• Filed: 12/18/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Archer C.C. Chen
• Original Assignee: Archer C.C. Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Archer C. C.
• Application Number:
  US12/337,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20090098949A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/349
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0408 characterised by specific dimensions, e.g. thickness
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0416 Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0437 with special crown configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/54 with means for damping vibrations

Abstract

A golf club head includes a front member, a rear member and a neck connected together to form a housing. The front member, which is made of a flexible material, such as aluminum alloy, stainless or Maraging steel, has a face and an annular wall projected from a back of the face to form a cup-like member, wherein the wall has a connecting portion at a distal end thereof, and a length of the wall is identical to or greater than 8 mm and a thickness of the wall is identical to or less than 2 mm. The rear member, which is made of a light metal, such as magnesium alloy or aluminum alloy, has a connecting portion to engage the connecting portion of the front member. The neck is fixed on the rear member.

Claims

1. A golf club head, comprising a front member, a rear member, and a neck connected together to form a housing;

the front member, which is made of a flexible material, haling a face and an annular wall projected backward from the face, wherein the wall has a connecting portion at a distal end thereof and a length of the wall is in a range between 8 mm and 20 mm, and a thickness of the wall is in a range between 0.8 mm and 2 mm;

the rear member, which is made of a light metal, having a connecting portion to be engaged with the connecting portion of the front member; and

the neck fixed on the rear member;

wherein the connecting portion of the front member has a protrusion, and the connecting portion of the rear member has a recess;

wherein a thickness between an exterior side and the recess is in a range between 0.4 mm and 2 mm.

2. The golf club head as defined in claim 1, wherein the length of the wall of the front member further is in a range between 12 mm and 15 mm.

3. The golf club head as defined in claim 1, wherein the thickness of the rear member between the exterior side and the recess is further in a range between 1.0 mm and 1.2 mm.