Golf ball

• US 5,090,705 A
• Filed: 08/13/1990
• Issued: 02/25/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Inventors: Yoshida, Susumu, Yabuki, Yoshikazu, Oka, Kengo, Ebisuno, Tadahiro, Mimoto, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US07/565,974
• Time in Patent Office: 561 Days
• Field of Search: 273/232, 273/220, 40/327
• US Class Current: 473/384
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/00065 located around the pole or the equator
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0017 Specified total dimple volume
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0018 Specified number of dimples
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/002 Specified dimple diameter
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/00215 Volume ratio
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0026 Balata
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0052 Liquid cores
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/008 Diameter
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0087 Deflection or compression

Abstract

A golf ball which comprises a spherical surface having a parting line at its equator and having a plurality of dimples formed thereon,

wherein the dimples are formed so that the ratio, y, of the sum total of the flat surface area of the dimples to the surface area of the same sphere having no dimples formed thereon is within the range

((0.046) (X).sup.1/2 -0.172)+0.04≧Y≧((0.046)(X).sup.1/2

-0.172)-0.04

wherein X represents the total number of dimples;

and wherein a dimple lying within a region S, which extends from 30° below the parting line to 30° above the parting line, has a value VS, and a dimple of the same diameter only lying within the region P, which comprises the surface of the sphere that is not within region S, has a volume VP, such that the ratio of the volumes of dimples having the same diameters but in different regions is within the range of;

1.02≦VS/VP <1.10, when y<0.70,

1.10≦VS/VP, <1.18, when 0.70≦y<0.80, and

1.18≦VS/VP, when 0.80≦Y.

Claims

1. A golf ball which comprises a spherical surface having a parting line at its equator and having a plurality of dimples formed thereon,

wherein said dimples are formed so that the ration, y, of the sum total of the flat surface area of the dimples to the surface area of the same sphere having no dimples formed thereon is within the range

View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

2. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein said dimples consist of 186 dimples having a diameter of 3.95mm, 150 dimples having a diameter of 3.55mm, 60 dimples having a diameter of 3.05mm, and 84 dimples having a diameter of 2.75mm.

3. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein said dimples consist of 144 dimples having a diameter of 4.20mm, 96 dimples having a diameter of 3.85mm, 48 dimples having a diameter of 3.45mm, and 144 dimples having a diameter of 3.15mm.

4. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein said dimples consist of 216 dimples having a diameter of 4.05mm, 48 dimples having a diameter of 3.90mm, 96 dimples having a diameter of 3.50mm, and 48 dimples having a diameter of 2.80mm.

5. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein said dimples consist of 144 dimples having a diameter of 4.15mm, 144 dimples having a diameter of 3.85mm, 48 dimples having a diameter of 3.35mm, and 48 dimples having a diameter of 2.95mm.

6. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein said dimples consists of 144 dimples having a diameter of 3.95mm, and 198 dimples having a diameter of 3.70mm.

7. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein said dimples include a plurality of kinds of dimples having different diameters.

8. The golf ball according to claim 1, wherein the total volumes of the dimples are in the range of 290 to 370mm₃.