Golf club head
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsNorihiko Nakahara, Yoh Nishizawa, Tomoaki Mori, Shinji Yamamoto
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Abstract
A golf club head is provided, which is capable of obtaining both vibration damping performance and pleasant hitting sound by combining materials different in kind. This golf club head has a hollow structure, and a constitution where fiber reinforced plastic having a mass ratio of 4% or more in the entire head is used for at least one of neck, face, sole, crown and side portions, and the rest is made of metal. An outer shell of the hollow structure includes both of a part made of only metal and a part made of only fiber reinforced plastic.
Claims8
A golf club head having a hollow structure, comprising:
- a neck portion;
- a face portion;
- a sole portion;
- a crown portion;
- and
- a side portion,
- wherein fiber reinforced plastic having a mass ratio of 4% or more in the entire head is used for at least one of the neck, face, sole, crown and side portions, and the rest is made of metal.
A golf club head having a hollow structure, comprising:
- a neck portion;
- a face portion;
- a sole portion;
- a crown portion;
- and
- a side portion,
- wherein fiber reinforced plastic having a mass ratio of 4% or more in the entire head is used for at least one of the neck, face, sole, crown and side portions, the rest is made of metal, and an outer shell of the hollow structure includes both of a part made of only the metal and a part made of only the fiber reinforced plastic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.