REMOTE CONTROLLED ILLUMINATED GOLF BALL

• US 20110244981A1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: I Pee Holding, LLC
• Original Assignee: I Pee Holding, LLC
• Inventors: Gilley, Ronald E., Schrimmer, Michael L., Schrimmer, Jeffrey D.
• Application Number:
  US13/075,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20110244981A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/353
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/54 Transponders, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/60 Apparatus used in water
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0003 Golf balls
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0074 Two piece balls, i.e. cover and core
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/02 Special cores balls with finger holes A63B37/0001, golf ball cores A63B37/005
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/12 Special coverings , i.e. outer layer material balls with finger holes A63B37/0001, golf ball covers A63B37/0023
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/06 with illuminating devices ; with reflective surfaces

Abstract

An illuminatable ball includes a sealed outer translucent shell, an inner core portion surrounded by the outer shell and a self-contained lighting device contained at least in part within the inner core portion. The lighting device includes an energy source, at least one lighting element, and an electrical circuit including a wireless receiver. The receiver receives a signal from a transmitter and provides a signal to a control circuit to switch the at least one lighting element between a deenergized state and an energized state by providing electrical energy from the energy source to the at least one lighting element. A wireless remote transmitter provides the signal to the receiver.

Claims

1. An illuminatable ball comprising:

a sealed outer translucent shell;

an inner core portion surrounded by the outer shell;

a self-contained lighting device contained at least in part within the inner core portion, the lighting device including an energy source, at least one lighting element, and an electrical circuit including a wireless receiver, wherein the wireless receiver receives a signal from a transmitter to control a control circuit to switch the at least one lighting element between a deenergized state and an energized state for providing electrical energy from the energy source to the at least one lighting element.

4. The illuminatable golf ball in accordance with claim 1 wherein the wireless receiver is an IR receiver.

5. The illuminatable golf ball in accordance with claim 1 wherein the wireless receiver is an RF receiver.

6. The illuminatable golf ball in accordance with claim 1 wherein the self-contained lighting device is fully within the inner core portion.

7. The illuminatable golf ball in accordance with claim 1 wherein the at least one lighting element is in the inner core portion.

2. The illuminatable golf ball in accordance with claim, including a transmitter.

3. The illuminatable golf ball in accordance with claim 2 wherein the transmitter is wireless.

8. The illuminatable golf ball system, comprising:

an illuminatable golf ball including a sealed outer translucent shell, an inner core portion surrounded by the outer shell and a self-contained lighting device contained at least in part within the inner core portion, the lighting device including an energy source, at least one lighting element, and an electrical circuit including a wireless receiver, wherein the receiver receives a signal from a transmitter to a control circuit to switch the light at least one lighting element between a deenergized state and an energized state for providing electrical energy from the energy source to the at least one lighting element; and

a transmitter separate and apart from the illuminatable golf ball.

9. The illuminatable golf ball system in accordance with claim 8 wherein the receiver is an IR receiver and the transmitter is an IR transmitter.

10. The illuminatable golf ball system in accordance with claim 8 wherein the receiver is an RF receiver and the transmitter is an RF transmitter.

11. The illuminatable golf ball system in accordance with claim 8 wherein the receiver is an IR receiver and the transmitter is an IR transmitter.

12. The illuminatable golf ball system in accordance with claim 8 wherein the self-contained lighting device is fully within the inner core portion.