Golf ball

• US 5,145,180 A
• Filed: 03/12/1991
• Issued: 09/08/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Inventors: Oka, Kengo
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US07/668,109
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 273/232, 273/220, 273/62, 40/327
• US Class Current: 473/382
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0004 Surface depressions or protrusions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/00065 located around the pole or the equator
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0016 Specified individual dimple volume
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0017 Specified total dimple volume
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0019 Specified dimple depth
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/002 Specified dimple diameter

Abstract

A golf ball has dimples arranged in eight spherical equilateral triangles obtained by projecting, on the imaginary spherical surface of the golf ball, the ridge lines of a regular octahedron inscribing the imaginary spherical surface. Three great circles corresponding to the ridge lines being projected on the spherical surface. One great circle coinciding with a mold seam is formed as the sole great circle unintersecting dimples and the other two great circles intersect dimples. Between 300 to 550 dimples are formed in the golf ball with the dimples being equivalently arranged in each of the eight spherical equilateral triangles.

Claims

1. A golf ball comprising dimples arranged in eight spherical equilateral triangles obtained by projecting, on an imaginary spherical surface of said golf ball, the ridge lines of a regular octahedron inscribing said imaginary spherical surface, between 300 to 550 dimples being provided on the golf ball, three great circles corresponding to said ridge lines being projected on said spherical surface, one great circle coinciding with a mold seam being formed as a sole great circle unintersecting dimples and the other two great circles intersect dimples, the dimples being equivalently arranged in each of said eight spherical equilateral triangles.

2. The golf bass as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dimple specification of an S spherical zone in a vicinity of said seam and a P spherical zone in a vicinity of poles are set in the range of 0.95≦

RS/RP≦

1.20 for each hemisphere of the golf ball where RS is a value obtained by dividing the total volume of all dimples arranged in said S spherical zone by the area of said S spherical zone of said imaginary spherical surface; and

RP is a value obtained by dividing the total volume of all dimples arranged in said P spherical zone by the area of said P spherical zone of said imaginary spherical surface.