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US 12,582,877 B2Granted
Structurally reinforced pickleball
OwnerAdam Hautinventor
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Abstract
Through the use of an internal support system integrated with the interior shell of a hollow ball, the concentration of impact stress to the ball's shell during game play is reduced through better dispersion and resistance of applied force, while also reinforcing the ball's shell at its weakest points, which are the holes, thus making it more resilient and thereby less susceptible to breakage. Enhanced fortification against impact stress applied during gameplay serves to increase the usable life of the ball.
Claims15
A ball for playing a game, the ball comprising:
- a shell that is uniformly spherical with an outside surface and inside surface;
- a hollow interior space defined by the inside surface of the shell;
- a plurality of apertures that perforate the shell;
- wherein the shell structurally integrates a lattice support framework comprising:
- a geometric hub, a freeform hub, or a multitude of geometric hubs, and a multitude of freeform hubs on the interior surface of the shell that encompass the plurality of apertures;
- a topology of struts on the interior surface of the shell that interconnect, intersect, or both interconnect and intersect adjacent geometric hubs, freeform hubs, or both geometric and freeform hubs;
- a topology of the struts, the geometric hubs, the freeform hubs, or both that connect, intersect, or both connect and intersect to form a novel geometric hub, a novel freeform hub, a novel strut, a multitude of novel geometric hubs, a multitude of novel freeform hubs, a multitude of novel struts, or combinations thereof on the interior surface of the shell;
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- the topology of struts configured as segmented struts, segmented geometric hubs, segmented freeform hubs, or combinations thereof that are disconnected from other segmented struts, geometric hubs, freeform hubs, or combinations thereof.
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