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US 12,569,723 B2Granted
Pickleballs
AssigneeSelkirk Sport, LLC
InventorWilliam Richard Kowalski
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Abstract
A ball may include a spherical shell, and apertures defined in the spherical shell. The apertures may be formed in the spherical shell based at least in part on a N-frequency tessellation of the spherical shell. A method of forming a ball may include molding a first hemisphere, molding a second hemisphere, and coupling the first hemisphere to the second hemisphere to form a spherical shell. The spherical shell may include apertures defined in the spherical shell based at least in part on a N-frequency tessellation of the spherical shell.
Claims20
A ball comprising:
- a spherical shell;
- first apertures formed in the spherical shell, individual apertures of the first apertures being formed in the spherical shell at an intersection of first lines of a geodesic polyhedron, the first lines including a first length;
- and
- second apertures formed in the spherical shell, individual apertures of the second apertures being formed in the spherical shell at an intersection of second lines of the geodesic polyhedron, the second lines including a second length that is different than the first length.
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A ball comprising:
- a hollow sphere;
- and
- apertures formed in the hollow sphere based at least in part on a N-frequency tessellation of the hollow sphere, the apertures being disposed at an intersection of line segments that form the N-frequency tessellation, the line segments including at least:
- a first line segment having a first length, and
- a second line segment having a second length different than the first length.
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A ball comprising:
- a spherical shell;
- and
- apertures defined in the spherical shell, the apertures being disposed at an intersection of line segments of a geodesic polyhedron, the apertures including at least:
- first apertures with a first diameter, and
- second apertures with a second diameter different than the first diameter,
- wherein the apertures have an equal spacing between edges of adjacent apertures.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.