Golf club head

• US 7,628,711 B2
• Filed: 04/22/2008
• Issued: 12/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced International Multitech Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Advanced International Multitech Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hou, Yuan-Jen, Akinori, Sasamoto, Hsiao, Te-Fu, Lee, Cheng-Tao
• Primary Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US12/148,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20090131200A1
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: 473334-335, 473337-339, 411337-339, 411/354, 411/432
• US Class Current: 473/335
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/02 with reinforcing fibres, e.g. carbon, polyamide fibres
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/54 with means for damping vibrations

Abstract

A golf club head includes a head body formed with a cavity, and a counterweight unit fitted in the cavity and including a sleeve body and an insert body. The sleeve body has a first end face, a second end face, first and second cavities, and first and second inner walls. The first inner wall has at least one first corner. The second inner wall has at least one second corner out of alignment with the first corner. The sleeve body further has at least one shoulder face formed at a junction of the first and second cavities. The insert body includes an insert portion removably inserted into the sleeve body, and an abutting portion extending outward from the sleeve body and abutting against the first end face. The insert portion has at least one flange engaging the second corner and having a stop face abutting against the shoulder face.

Claims

1. A golf club head, comprising:

a head body formed with a cavity having an opening at an outer surface of said head body; and

a counterweight unit fitted in said cavity and including a sleeve body and an insert body;

said sleeve body having a first end face, a second end face opposite to said first end face and extending to the depth of said cavity, first and second cavities adjoining each other and respectively extending through said first and second end faces, and first and second inner walls respectively confining said first and second cavities, said first inner wall having at least one first corner wherein said first corner extends to said first end face, said second inner wall having at least one second corner, said second corner being out of alignment wherein said second corner extends to said second end face with said first corner, said sleeve body further having at least one shoulder face which is formed at a junction of said first and second cavities in the vicinity of said second corner and which faces said second end face;

said insert body including an insert portion removably inserted into said sleeve body, and an abutting portion extending outward from said sleeve body and abutting against said first end face, said insert portion having at least one flange that engages said second corner and that has a stop face abutting against said shoulder face.

2. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sleeve body has a plurality of said first corners, a plurality of said second corners, and a plurality of said shoulder faces, and said insert body has a plurality of said flanges respectively engaging said second corners, and a plurality of said stop faces abutting against said shoulder faces, respectively.

3. The golf club head as claimed in claim 2, wherein said second inner wall further has a plurality of third corners that are respectively aligned with said first corners and that alternate with said second corners.

4. The golf club head as claimed in claim 2, wherein said first inner wall is square in cross section, the number of said first corners being four, the number of said second corners being four, said second inner wall further having four third corners alternating with said second corners, said first corners being respectively aligned with said third corners.

5. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein said insert body further includes a vibration-absorbing portion mounted on said insert portion.

6. The golf club head as claimed in claim 5, wherein said vibration-absorbing portion is made of a material selected from the group consisting of plastic, rubber, and fiber.

7. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein said abutting portion is formed with a tool-inserting hole opposite to said insert portion.

8. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sleeve body is made of a material selected from the group consisting of plastic, rubber, and metal.

9. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said insert portion and said abutting portion has a specific gravity ranging from 1.7 to 18 g/cm³.

10. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said insert portion and said abutting portion is made of a material selected from the group consisting of stainless steel, carbon steel, aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy, titanium alloy, copper alloy, zinc alloy, tungsten alloy, stone, wood, plastic, and rubber.

11. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cavity is confined by a bottom wall opposite to said opening, and a surrounding wall extending inward from said opening to said bottom wall, said sleeve body abutting against said bottom wall, said insert body extending through said bottom wall.