Golf ball

• US 5,062,644 A
• Filed: 06/13/1990
• Issued: 11/05/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Accufar Golf Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Accufar Golf Company Limited
• Inventors: Lee, Young-Bum
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US07/538,028
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: 273/232, 273/220, 273/62, 40/327
• US Class Current: 473/384
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0004 Surface depressions or protrusions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0006 Arrangement or layout of dimples
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0012 Dimple profile, i.e. cross-sectional view
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0019 Specified dimple depth
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/002 Specified dimple diameter

Abstract

A golf ball surface is divided into faces of an icosidodecahedron consisting of 20 regular triangles and 12 regular pentagons, each of said 20 regular triangles is subdivided into 4 small regular triangles, each of said 12 regular pentagons is subdivided into 5 isosceles triangles, 6 dividing lines of the spherical surface occur when structured as above, and on the remaining 5 dividing lines except 1 mold parting line of 6 dividing lines are crossed the dimples, said dimples aren'"'"'t crossed on the center of said regular triangles and pentagons, and said dimples intervals are arranged in a spaced circle on the basis of on the center of the respective regular triangles and pentagons.

Claims

1. In a golf ball including an outer cover having a spherical outer surface, said spherical outer surface having a plurality of dimples formed therein and arranged in a repeating pattern, said repeating pattern being defined by projecting onto said spherical outer surface the edges of an icosidodecahedron having 20 regular triangular faces and 12 regular pentagonal faces, and the edges of said icosidodecahedron, as projected onto said spherical outer surface, defining 6 circular dividing lines on said spherical outer surface, the improvement comprising:

said outer cover including two molded cover parts having respective hemispherical outer surfaces which adjoin one another along a generally circular mold parting line to define said spherical outer surface, said mold parting line being coincident with one of said 6 dividing lines, all of said dimples being arranged in nonintersecting relationship relative to said mold parting line and the dividing line coincident therewith, and the remaining 5 dividing lines each being intersected by at least one of said dimples, whereby said dimples are arranged evenly and uniformly over said spherical outer surface.

2. A golf ball according to claim 1, wherein each of said dimples is arranged in nonoverlapping relationship relative to the other said dimples.

3. A golf ball according to claim 2, wherein some of said dimples are spaced from adjacent dimples by respectively different distances, said plurality of dimples including a plurality of dimple groups associated with each said face of said icosidodecahedron, the dimples of each said dimple group being arranged in a circle which is concentric with the associated face of said icosidodecahedron.

4. A golf ball according to claim 3, wherein said plurality of dimples includes dimples which are respectively concentric with said faces of said icosidodecahedron.

5. A golf ball according to claim 4, wherein said dimples within each said dimple group are approximately equal in size.

6. A golf ball according to claim 5, wherein said dimples of different said dimple groups differ in size.

7. A golf ball according to claim 4, wherein the vertices of said faces of said icosidodecahedron are free of dimples.

8. A golf ball according to claim 3, wherein the geometric center points of said faces of said icosidodecahedron are free of dimples.

9. A golf ball according to claim 8, wherein the dimples within each said dimple group are approximately equal in size.

10. A golf ball according to claim 8, wherein the vertices of said faces of said icosidodecahedron are free of dimples.

11. A golf ball according to claim 2, wherein each of said dimples has a depth which is about 4 to 7 percent of its diameter.

12. A golf ball according to claim 11, wherein each of said dimples has a depth which is approximately 5.5 percent of its diameter.

13. A golf ball according to claim 1, wherein each of said 12 regular pentagonal faces is subdivided into 5 isosceles triangles, each of said 20 regular triangular faces being subdivided into 4 smaller regular triangles.