Golf club head capable of enlarging flexible area of ball-hitting face thereof

• US 6,506,129 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2001
• Issued: 01/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cindy Rhodes
• Original Assignee: Archer C.C. Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Archer C. C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Application Number:
  US09/788,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20020115501A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 473/324, 473/329, 473/342, 473/345, 473/346, 473/349, 473/350, 473/332
• US Class Current: 473/329
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/047 iron-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like

Abstract

A golf club head comprises a rear seat member and a front member fastened to the rear seat member by soldering. The two members are made of a metal material. The rear seat member has a base similar in shape to the back of the golf club head. The base has one side which is connected with a neck. The front member has a plate which is provided in the front face with a ball-hitting face. The plate is provided in the edge with an extension portion extending therefrom such that the rear edge of the extension portion is fastened with the front side of the base of the rear seat member by soldering. A flexure space is provided between the back of the plate and the rear seat member to facilitate the flexing of the plate.

Claims

1. A golf club head comprising a rear seat member and a front member joined with said rear seat member by soldering, said rear seat member and said front member being integrally made of a metal material, said rear seat member having a base with one side thereof being connected with a neck, said neck having an insertion hole for fastening a golf club shaft, said front member having a plate and an extension portion extending rearward from an entire perimeter of said plate, said plate having a front surface forming a ball-hitting face, said front member being joined with said rear seat member by soldering such that a rear edge of said extension portion is connected with the front side of said base of said rear seat member, a flexure space being formed between a full back surface of said plate and said rear seat member extending behind a central portion of the plate out to the extension portion along the entire perimeter of the plate,

wherein a thickness of the plate of the front member out from the central portion thereof decreases toward the entire perimeter of the plate, and

wherein the thickness of the plate decreases gradually toward the entire perimeter of the plate.

2. The golf club head as defined in claim 1, wherein said front member has an adjoining portion corresponding to one side of the neck;

wherein said rear seat member has an adjoining portion corresponding to one side of the neck;

wherein said adjoining portions are not joined together by soldering, thereby resulting in formation of an adjoining slit in a front face of the golf club head.

3. The golf club head as defined in claim 1, wherein said plate of said front member has a thickness ranging between 1.5 and 3.0 mm.

4. The golf club head as defined in claim 1, wherein said base of said rear seat member is provided in a front side with a circular insertion slot;

wherein said extension portion of said front member is joined at the rear edge thereof with said insertion slot.

5. The golf club head as defined in claim 1 wherein said base of the rear seat member has a recess communicating with the flexure space.

6. The golf club head as defined in claim 5, wherein the recess extends through the rear seat member.

7. A golf club head comprising a rear seat member and a front member joined with said rear seat member by soldering, said rear seat member and said front member being integrally made of a metal material, said rear seat member having a base with one side thereof being connected with a neck, said neck having an insertion hole for fastening a golf club shaft, said front member having a plate and an extension portion extending rearward from an entire perimeter of said plate, said plate having a front surface forming a ball-hitting face, said front member being joined with said rear seat member by soldering such that a rear edge of said extension portion is connected with the front side of said base of said rear seat member, a flexure space being formed between a full back surface of said plate and said rear seat member extending behind a central portion of the plate out to the extension portion along the entire perimeter of the plate, wherein a thickness of the plate of the front member out from the central portion thereof decreases toward the entire perimeter of the plate, and

wherein the thickness of the plate decreases abruptly at the entire perimeter of the plate.

8. The golf club head as defined in claim 7, wherein said front member has an adjoining portion corresponding to one side of the neck;

wherein said rear seat member has an adjoining portion corresponding to one side of the neck;

wherein said adjoining portions are not joined together by soldering, thereby resulting in formation of an adjoining slit in a front face of the golf club head.

9. The golf club head as defined in claim 7, wherein said plate of said front member has a thickness ranging between 1.5 and 3.0 mm.

10. The golf club head as defined in claim 7, wherein said base of said rear seat member is provided in a front side with a circular insertion slot;

wherein said extension portion of said front member is joined at the rear edge thereof with said insertion slot.

11. The golf club head as defined in claim 7, wherein said base of the rear seat member has a recess communicating with the flexure space.

12. The golf club head as defined in claim 7, wherein the recess extends through the rear seat member.