Method of making golf club head
AssigneeAdvanced International Multitech Co., Ltd.
InventorsTe-Fu Hsiao, Pei-Yao Lin, Yuan-Jen Hou, Yen-Zhou Xie, You-Chi Chen
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Abstract
A method of making a golf club head includes a preparation step, a weaving step, and a forming step. In the preparation step, a pattern of a golf club head having a plurality of parts is drawn using a computer. In the weaving step, a plurality of fiber bundles are woven to form a rough blank simulating the pattern of the golf club head drawn by the computer. The rough blank has a plurality of portions corresponding to the parts of the golf club head. In the forming step, the rough blank is placed in a mold, after which applying one of heat and energy to the mold is performed to form the golf club head having an uneven thickness.
Claims3
A method of making a golf club head comprising:
- a preparation step, in which a pattern of a golf club head having a plurality of parts is drawn using a computer, the parts of the golf club head including a central part and two side parts located on two opposite sides of the central part;
- a weaving step, in which a plurality of fiber bundles are woven to form a rough blank simulating the pattern of the golf club head drawn by the computer, the rough blank having a plurality of portions corresponding to the parts of the golf club head, at least a portion of the rough blank which corresponds to the central part of the golf club head being formed by weaving multi-axially two or more fiber bundles, remaining portions of the rough blank which correspond respectively to the two side parts of the golf club head being formed by weaving single or more fiber bundles, each of the fiber bundles being composed of a plurality of fibers, wherein a number of fiber bundles of the at least a portion of the rough blank which corresponds to the central part of the golf club head is different from a number of fiber bundles of each of the remaining portions of the rough blank which correspond respectively to the two side parts of the golf club head, and a thickness of the at least a portion of the rough blank which corresponds to the central part of the golf club head is different from a thickness of each of the remaining portions of the rough blank which correspond respectively to the two side parts of the golf club head;
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- a forming step, in which the rough blank is placed in a mold, after which applying one of heat and energy to the mold is performed to form the golf club head having an uneven thickness from the central part to each of the two side parts thereof;
- wherein, in the weaving step, the fibers of at least one of the fiber bundles are thermoplastic fibers, while the fibers of the remaining ones of the fiber bundles are inorganic fibers or metal fibers;
- wherein, in the weaving step, biaxial weaving is performed on two of the fiber bundles to obtain one of the remaining portions of the rough blank which corresponds to a thin part of the golf club head, and triaxial weaving is performed on three of the fiber bundles to obtain another one of the remaining portions of the rough blank which corresponds to a thick part of the golf club head, so that the rough blank having an uneven thickness is obtained after continuous weaving of the fiber bundles;
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- wherein, in the forming step, energy is applied to the mold to melt the fibers of the at least one of the fiber bundles which are thermoplastic fibers, while the fibers of the remaining ones of the fiber bundles which are inorganic fibers or metal fibers are not melted, and the mold is pressurized to shape the rough blank, the golf club head being obtained after the fiber bundles are solidified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.