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US 12,605,597 B1Granted
Adhesive stress reduction feature of a bonded joint in a golf club head
AssigneeCallaway Golf Company
InventorsDominic LeBlanc, Brandon DeMille
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Abstract
A golf club head having a stress reducing feature at a composite joint is disclosed herein. The stress reducing feature is preferably cylindrical with a circular groove that has a radius R_Groove that ranges between 0.005 inch and 0.050 inch. An adhesive thickness along the front of a joint t_gap_front preferably ranges between 0.002 inch and 0.060 inch.
Claims1
A golf club head comprising:
- a body comprising face section, a composite sole section and a composite crown section, the body defining a hollow interior;
- wherein the golf club head has a stress reducing feature at a composite bonded joint, wherein the stress reducing feature is cylindrical with a circular groove that is tangent to a front wall of the bonded joint and has a radius, R_Groove, that ranges between 0.005 inch and 0.050 inch, and the circular groove forms an undercut, t_groove_undercut, that ranges between 0.005 inch to 0.060 inch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.