GOLF CLUB HEAD

• US 20160361613A1
• Filed: 06/08/2016
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2015
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd. (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited)
• Inventors: ABE, Hiroshi, KOHNO, Daisuke
• Granted Patent: US 10,272,301 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0694 Visual indication, e.g. Indicia
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/06 adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence

Abstract

The golf club head includes a decoration member to be attached in the recessed portion, and a fixing member for fixing the decoration member in the recessed portion. A fixing hole is formed in a bottom surface of the recessed portion, and the fixing member is provided with a tubular head portion and a shaft portion that is attached to the head portion, has a smaller diameter than the head portion and is to be fixed in the fixing hole. The decoration member has a through hole. The through hole includes a shaft portion insertion portion and a head portion in which the head portion is to be arranged, with a gap being formed at least in a portion that is externally exposed between the inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion and the outer peripheral surface of the head portion.

Claims

1. A golf club head comprising:

a crown portion;

a face portion;

a sole portion having at least one recessed portion;

a decoration member to be attached in the recessed portion; and

a fixing member for fixing the decoration member in the recessed portion,

wherein a fixing hole is formed in a bottom surface of the recessed portion,

the fixing member includes a tubular head portion and a shaft portion that is attached to the head portion, has a smaller diameter than the head portion, and is to be fixed in the fixing hole,

the decoration member has a through hole in which the fixing member is to be attached such that the head portion of the fixing member is externally exposed, and

the through hole includes a shaft portion insertion portion in which the shaft portion is to be inserted and a head portion arrangement portion that has a larger diameter than the shaft portion insertion portion and in which the head portion is to be arranged, with a gap being formed at least in a portion that is externally exposed between an inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion and an outer peripheral surface of the head portion.

2. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein

the inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion is formed by a contacting portion that is to contact the outer peripheral surface of the head portion and a gap portion that is side by side with the contacting portion in an axial direction and has a larger diameter than the outer peripheral surface of the head portion.

3. The golf club head according to claim 2, wherein

the outer peripheral surface of the head portion is formed with a taper whose diameter decreases toward the shaft portion side, and

an inner wall surface of the contacting portion of the through hole is formed with a taper whose diameter decreases toward the shaft portion insertion portion side, so as to correspond to the outer peripheral surface of the head portion.

4. The golf club head according to claim 3, wherein the gap is formed between an entire outer peripheral surface of the head portion and the inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion.

5. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein the decoration member is fixed in the recessed portion by adhesive.

6. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein an externally facing surface of the decoration member and an externally facing surface of the head portion are constituted so as to be arranged on a same plane.

7. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the fixing member and the decoration member is an adjustment weight to be removably attached in the recessed portion.

8. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein the outer peripheral surface of the head portion is formed to extend parallel to a direction in which the shaft portion extends,

the inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion is formed to extend parallel to a direction in which the shaft portion extends so as to correspond to the outer peripheral surface of the head portion.

9. The golf club head according to claim 8, wherein the gap is formed between an entire outer peripheral surface of the head portion and the inner wall surface of the head portion arrangement portion.

10. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein, in a plane view of the sole portion, the recessed portion is formed to have circular shape.

11. The golf club head according to claim 10, wherein, in a plane view of the sole portion, the decoration member is formed to have circular shape along the recessed portion.

12. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein, in a plane view of the sole portion, the decoration member is formed to have one of a polygonal shape, a plate-shape and a block-shape.

13. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein an upper surface of the head portion of the fixing member and an upper surface of the decoration member are arranged on the same plane.

14. The golf club head according to claim 1, wherein the head portion of the fixing member is formed to protrude or be recessed relative to an externally facing surface of the decoration member.