US 12,708,822 B2Granted

Golf club having an adjustable weight assembly

AssigneeAcushnet Company

InventorsRonald K. Hettinger, Kevin Tassistro, Thomas Orrin Bennett

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Abstract

A golf club head includes: a body including: a striking face defining a striking face plane that is tangential to an outermost surface of the striking face; and a sole; a recessed channel formed in the body and defining a path; and a weight assembly including a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and configured to be positioned in at least a first position on the path and at a second position on the path, wherein a first distance is defined by a minimum distance between the weight at the first position and the striking face plane, wherein a second distance is defined by a minimum distance between the weight at the second position and the striking face plane, and wherein the first distance and the second distance are substantially equal.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A golf club head comprising:

a body comprising:
a striking face having a lower leading edge and defining a striking face plane that is tangential to an outermost surface of the striking face;
and
a sole extending from the lower leading edge;
a recessed channel formed in the body and defining a path;
and
a weight assembly comprising a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and configured to be positioned in at least a first position on the path at a toe-end of the path, a second position on the path at a heel-end of the path, and a third position on the path between the toe-end of the path and the heel-end of the path,
wherein a first distance is defined by a minimum distance between the weight at the first position and the striking face plane,
wherein a second distance is defined by a minimum distance between the weight at the second position and the striking face plane,
wherein a third distance is defined by a minimum distance between the weight at the third position and the striking face plane,
wherein the first distance, the second distance, and the third distance are substantially equal,
wherein the weight assembly further comprises:
a cover extending at least partially over the recessed channel;
and
a fastener coupling the cover to the body and adapted to retain the weight in the recessed channel only indirectly by the cover, and
wherein the cover is positionable in at least an unlocked configuration whereby the cover is raised at least partially out of the recessed channel and the weight is selectively movable within the recessed channel, and a locked configuration whereby the cover is at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and the weight is secured within the recessed channel.

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A golf club head comprising:

a body comprising:
a striking face having a lower leading edge;
and
a sole extending from the lower leading edge;
a recessed channel formed in the body;
and
a weight assembly comprising:
a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and configured to move therein;
a cover adapted to releasably secure the weight within the recessed channel and comprising a first rail and a second rail, wherein the weight has a first groove shaped and sized to receive at least part of the first rail and a second groove shaped and sized to receive at least part of the second rail;
and
a fastener coupling the cover to the body and selectively movable along a fastener axis,
wherein the cover further comprises a cover main body, the first rail protrudes from the cover main body in a first direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the first rail, the second rail protrudes from the cover main body in a second direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the second rail, and the first and second rails are oriented such that a virtual extension of the first rail along the first direction intersects a virtual extension of the second rail along the second direction.

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A golf club head comprising:

a body comprising:
a striking face having a lower leading edge;
a sole extending from the lower leading edge;
a recessed channel formed in the body and forming a path;
and
a weight assembly comprising:
a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and configured to be positioned in at least a first position on the path at a toe-end of the path, a second position on the path at a heel-end of the path, and a third position on the path between the toe-end of the path and the heel-end of the path;
a cover at least partially extending over the recessed channel and comprising a first rail and a second rail, wherein the weight has a first groove shaped and sized to receive at least part of the first rail and a second groove shaped and sized to receive at least part of the second rail;
and
a fastener coupling the cover to the body and configured to retain the weight in the recessed channel only indirectly by the cover,
wherein the recessed channel is defined such that a minimum distance between the weight, when the weight is at the first position, and a striking face plane that is tangential to an outermost surface of the striking face;
a minimum distance between the weight, when the weight is at the second position, and the striking face plane;
and a minimum distance between the weight, when the weight is at the third position, and the striking face plane, are all substantially equal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/876,455Filed 28 Jul 2022 · continuation in part
Priority: 18 Apr 2019
Published: US 2022/0040543 A11 Dec 2022
Granted: 18 Aug 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A63B 53/04
Golf clubs: heads
A63B 53/06
Heads: adjustable
A63B 53/0433
Heads: with special sole configurations
A63B 53/0466
Heads: wood-type

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