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US 2017/0319917 A1Published application
Golf club heads with turbuators and methods to manufacture golf club heads with turbulators
AssigneeKarsten Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsErik M. Henrikson, Paul D. Wood, John Hart, Marty R. Jertson, Ryan M. Stokke
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Abstract
Embodiments of golf club heads with turbulators and methods to manufacture golf club heads with turbulators are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Claims20
A golf club head comprising:
- a crown, a sole, a toe end, a heel end, a face portion defining a loft plane, a rear end, and a leading edge between the face portion and the crown;
- and
- a turbulator including a plurality of ridges disposed on the crown, wherein each ridge of the plurality of ridges includes:
- a base positioned directly adjacent to the crown;
- a top surface opposite the base of the ridge;
- a front surface defining a portion of the ridge being closest to the face portion, extending from near the face towards the rear end of the club head;
- a ridge apex defined as the maximum height of the ridge measured in a direction perpendicular from the base of the ridge;
- and
- a rear surface defining a portion of the ridge being closest to the rear of the golf club head, extending from behind the ridge apex towards the rear end of the club head;
- wherein,
- the ridge apex is positioned closer to the rear surface of the ridge than to the front surface.
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A golf club head comprising:
- a crown, a sole, a toe end, a heel end, a face portion, a rear end, and a leading edge between the face portion and the crown;
- and
- a turbulator including a plurality of ridges disposed on the crown, wherein each ridge of the plurality of ridges includes:
- a front surface defining a portion of the ridge closest to the face portion, extending from near the face portion towards the rear end of the club head;
- a rear surface defining a portion of the ridge closest to the rear of the club head, extending from behind the ridge apex towards the rear end of the club head;
- a top surface extending between the front surface and the rear surface including a width extending in a direction from the heel end to the toe end of the golf club head;
- a base positioned directly adjacent to the crown and extending across an entire length of the ridge in a direction from the front surface to the rear surface of the ridge;
- and
- a ridge apex defined as the maximum height of the ridge measured in a direction perpendicular from the base of the ridge;
- wherein
- the width of the top surface ranges from 0.140 inch to 0.25 inch;
- and
- the width of the base ranges from 0.200 inch to 0.350 inch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.