Patent Grant
7544136
This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) on Patent Application No(s). 095202103 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on Jan. 27, 2006, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a golf club head structure, and more particularly, to a golf club head structure for providing a joining structure with a preferred strength and made by different materials.
2. Related Art
In the conventional golf club head construction, a striking plate is mostly joined by an embedding or welding method, which has many disadvantages, for example, the embedding process easily results in the deformation of the striking plate. If the club head body and the striking plate made by different materials are weld together, the problem of insufficient welding compatibility occurs. If the used welding process is a hard welding or a high energy welding (e.g., laser welding, plasma), it takes much time to perform vacuum pumping or inert gas processing, so as to protect the metal surface from generating oxidative stains.
In order to eliminate the defects of the joining construction for the striking plate of the golf club head, an adhering joining technology directly using a high strength resin under a normal temperature is developed in the conventional art. Referring to
However, since it is limited by the upper limit of the adhering strength for the high strength resin adhesive, and the frame opening P11 of the club head body P10 and the striking plate P20 do not have any special joining structure design, although the adhering construction of the club head body P10 and the striking plate P20 accelerates the manufacturing process, it cannot provide sufficient joining strength, when joining the club head body P10 with the striking plate P20, for bearing the striking stress. In the conventional art, the club head body P10 and the striking plate P20 are mostly made by the same material, which is another disadvantage.
Therefore, since the club head body and the striking plate of the conventional golf club head do not have any special joining structure design, the joining strength is not desired, which cannot effectively bear the striking stress, and it is also limited by the fact that both of them are made by the same material. Therefore, it has become an issue for research and development in this field to redesign a golf club head structure having a special joining structure to increase the joining strength and prolong the service life of the golf club head.
In view of the problem of the conventional technology, the present invention provides a golf club head structure, for solving the problems of the conventional joining structure that the strength is not desired and it cannot effectively bear the striking stress, and also eliminating the defect of the conventional golf club head structure that it is limited by the fact that most of the conventional golf club heads are fabricated by the same material.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a golf club head structure, which comprises a body and a striking plate. The body has a first frame opening portion and a second frame opening portion on one side surface. The cross-section of the first frame opening portion is a C-shaped frame opening. Furthermore, the striking plate has a frame-opening joining portion and a frame-opening recessed portion corresponding to the body. The frame-opening joining portion and the frame-opening recessed portion are snapped respectively with the first frame opening portion and the second frame opening portion, thereby fixing the striking plate into the body.
By implementing the golf club head structure of the present invention, at least the following functions can be achieved.
First, the present invention provides a golf club head structure, and by implementing the golf club head structure, a variety of different materials are used and bonded together, and a joining structure with a preferred strength is provided, thereby enhancing the effect for the golf club head to bear the striking stress; because the striking plate and the body are closely joined, the golf club head with high anti-tee off is obtained.
Second, the present invention provides a golf club head structure, and by using the golf club head structure, the defects of the heat affecting region and the non-uniformity of the hardness of the panel caused by the conventional welding processing are avoided. In the present invention, the forming process that cannot be achieved by the conventional welding process is performed on the back of the striking plate.
In order to further understand the objectives, construction, features, and functions of the present invention, the detailed descriptions are given bellow through the relevant embodiments and accompanying drawings.
Further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below for illustration only, which thus is not limitative of the present invention, and wherein:
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The present invention provides a golf club head structure. The striking plate 20 and the body 10 of the golf club head 1 are joined by a mechanical joining method or an adhering method. Furthermore, the body 10 and the striking plate 20 are made by different materials or the same material. The different materials include a foam porous material, with a density of 0.2 to 3 g/cm3. The foam porous material includes copper, aluminum, aluminum alloy, titanium, titanium alloy, copper-tungsten alloy, aluminum-magnesium alloy, copper-molybdenum alloy, or metal-based ultra-high thermal conductive composite material alloy. Furthermore, the foam porous material further includes a cladding layer, and the cladding material of the cladding layer includes carbon fiber, titanium alloy, aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy, polyurethane (PU), thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), tungsten rubber, or plastic. In addition, the same material includes titanium alloy, stainless steel, iron, aluminum, manganese, or ductile iron material.
The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
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