Patent Application
20230415005
This application claims priority to Taiwanese Invention Patent Application Nos. 111123854 and 111130975, filed on Jun. 27, 2022 and Aug. 17, 2022, respectively.
The disclosure relates to a golf equipment, and more particularly to a golf club head.
In order to serve different purposes in different stages of a golf tournament, a golf club head is generally divided into many different types according to functions thereof. For example, a fairway wood golf club head generally includes a club head main body which defines a plurality of openings, and a plurality of club head complementary components respectively disposed in the openings, by bonding, welding, etc. The club head complementary components might be striking face portion, a crown, a sole, or a heel.
However, such club head complementary components often, due to actions by a user, e.g., repeated hitting, wrong hitting, and accidental impact of hitting, being scratched or cracked, which not only adversely affect the appearance of the golf club head, but also reduce structural strength or bring damage to the golf club head. When the club head complementary components burst open due to severe cracks, scattered shards or fragments thereof might cause injury to the user or persons nearby, and thus, the golf club head still needs to be improved.
Therefore, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf club head that can alleviate at least one of the drawbacks of the prior art.
According to the present disclosure, the golf club head includes a club head main body, a club head complementary component, and a protection component. The club head main body defines an opening which includes an inner opening section and an outer opening section spatially connected to and located outside the inner opening section. The club head complementary component is disposed in the inner opening section and connected to the club head main body. The protection component is disposed in the outer opening section and connected to the club head complementary component to cover the club head complementary component. The protection component is made of a carbon fiber impregnated with thermoplastic polyurethane, and has a Shore D hardness ranging from 40 to 70.
Other features and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent in the following detailed description of the embodiment(s) with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is noted that various features may not be drawn to scale.
Before the present disclosure is described in greater detail, it should be noted that where considered appropriate, reference numerals or terminal portions of reference numerals have been repeated among the figures to indicate corresponding or analogous elements, which may optionally have similar characteristics.
It should be noted herein that for clarity of description, spatially relative terms such as “top,” “bottom,” “upper,” “lower,” “on,” “above,” “over,” “downwardly,” “upwardly” and the like may be used throughout the disclosure while making reference to the features as illustrated in the drawings. The features may be oriented differently (e.g., rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative terms used herein may be interpreted accordingly.
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The adhesive layer 4 is disposed in outer opening section 112, and includes a central bonding portion 41 sandwiched between the club head complementary component 2 and the central protection portion 31, and a peripheral bonding portion 42 which extends outwardly from and is connected to the central bonding portion 41 and which is sandwiched between the club head main body 1 and the peripheral protection portion 32. To be specific, the peripheral bonding portion 42 is attached to the inner surface and the peripheral surface of the peripheral protection portion 32 of the protection component 3. The adhesive layer 4 may be one of a heat-activated adhesive sheet or a two-part reactive adhesive. The two-part reactive adhesive may be referred to a two-part epoxy adhesive, a two-part structural adhesive, or a two part-reactive epoxy adhesive, and may include two different components which are each in the form of liquid, and which can react with each other. In this embodiment, the adhesive layer 4 is a heat-activated adhesive sheet which allows a uniform thickness thereof, so as to avoid variation in thickness affecting the hitting of a golf ball. The adhesive layer 4 may have a thickness (T2) ranging from 0.1 mm to 0.3 mm. It should be noted that, when the club head complementary component 2 is made of a non-metallic material, the club head complementary component 2 may be directly connected to the protection component 3 by press-bonding without use of the adhesive layer 4 therebetween, and in this case, the depth (D) of the outer opening section 112 may range from 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm.
In summary, in the golf club head of the present disclosure, the protection component 3 covers the club head complementary component 2 to provide protective effects, i.e., preventing the club head complementary component 2 from being scratched or cracked, and preventing injury to the user and/or persons nearby when the club head complementary component 2 bursts open, and with the protection component 3 being made of the carbon fiber fabric impregnated with thermoplastic polyurethane, the golf club head is not only provided with good aesthetic appearance, but also is conferred with toughness, strength and durability characteristics. When the club head complementary component 2 is a striking face portion, softness characteristic imparted by thermoplastic polyurethane allows the protection component 3 to produce more compression and deformation effects compared to those of a conventional golf club head having a striking plate made from a metallic material, and thus, repulsion and backspin of a golf ball may be adjusted, and ball touch and ball grip can be improved.
In the description above, for the purposes of explanation, numerous specific details have been set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiment(s). It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that one or more other embodiments may be practiced without some of these specific details. It should also be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” an embodiment with an indication of an ordinal number and so forth means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic may be included in the practice of the disclosure. It should be further appreciated that in the description, various features are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure and aiding in the understanding of various inventive aspects; such does not mean that every one of these features needs to be practiced with the presence of all the other features. In other words, in any described embodiment, when implementation of one or more features or specific details does not affect implementation of another one or more features or specific details, said one or more features may be singled out and practiced alone without said another one or more features or specific details. It should be further noted that one or more features or specific details from one embodiment may be practiced together with one or more features or specific details from another embodiment, where appropriate, in the practice of the disclosure.
While the disclosure has been described in connection with what is(are) considered the exemplary embodiment(s), it is understood that this disclosure is not limited to the disclosed embodiment(s) but is intended to cover various arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and equivalent arrangements.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 111123854 | Jun 2022 | TW | national |
| 111130975 | Aug 2022 | TW | national |
