Golf-club provided with a club-head having surfaces configured to be covered by air vortex flows

• US 9,975,010 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2016
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cross Technology Labo Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Cross Technology Labo Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Saso, Mitsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dennis, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/170,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20170312591A1
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0408 characterised by specific dimensions, e.g. thickness
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0437 with special crown configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0445 Details of grooves or the like on the impact surface
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/006 Surfaces specially adapted for reducing air resistance

Abstract

This invention provides a golf club with a club-head configured so as to decrease air resistance of the head by avoiding the air flows from retouching on the head surface. The club-head is provided with a ridge structure which contains a first ridge and a second ridge arranged at intervals in a downward direction of the air flows on at least the sole part of the head, wherein each of the ridges has the height of 0.2 mm to 3 mm and the breadth of 1 mm to 5 mm, the ridge structure being configured by plural ridges so as to displace the inclined angle of the ridges in a clockwise direction, resulting in generation of air vortex or whirls between the head surface and the surrounding air flows as shown in FIG. 2.

Claims

1. A golf-club comprising:

a club-head including a face at which the club-head is arranged to collide in a first direction with a golf ball, a sole, and a ridge structure being on a surface of the sole,

the ridge structure including a plurality of first ridges and a plurality of second ridges arranged at an interval, and a U shaped ridge from which the plurality of first ridges and the plurality of second ridges extend outwardly,

the plurality of first ridges extending parallel to the first direction and the plurality of second ridges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,

the interval being larger than a width of each of the plurality of the first ridges.

2. The golf-club according to claim 1, wherein

the first plurality of ridges and the second plurality of ridges make a substantially enclosed space.

3. The golf-club according to claim 1, wherein each of the first and second plurality of ridges has a height of 0.2 mm to 3 mm and a breadth of 1 mm to 5 mm.

4. The golf-club according to claim 1, wherein the first and second plurality of ridges protrude perpendicularly with respect to the surface of the sole.

5. The golf-club according to claim 1, wherein

the first and second plurality of ridges are linearly formed, and successively or intermittently formed.