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US 2024/0115905 A1Published application
Dimple patterns for golf balls
AssigneeAcushnet Company
InventorsCourtney N. Engle, Michael R. Madson
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Abstract
A golf ball dimple pattern based on a square dipyramid is disclosed. In one specific aspect, the present disclosure provides for a square dipyramid dimple configuration including dimples having a catenary cross-sectional profile, and a combination of dimples having a circular plan shape and dimples having an elliptical plan shape.
Claims15
A golf ball having a plurality of dimples disposed on a spherical outer surface thereof and having a non-planar parting line, wherein:
- the plurality of dimples comprising at least three different dimple diameters, including a minimum dimple diameter, a maximum dimple diameter, and at least one additional dimple diameter;
- the golf ball consists of two hemispheres separated by an equator, the two hemispheres having substantially identical dimple arrangements;
- each hemispherical dimple arrangement consists of four triangular sections that are defined by projecting four faces of a square pyramid onto the hemisphere such that each of the four triangular sections is defined by a border consisting of a linear equatorial edge which corresponds to a portion of the equator of the golf ball and two linear side edges connecting each end of the equatorial edge to a pole of the golf ball;
- the four triangular sections of each hemisphere are substantially identical in size and dimple arrangement;
- the dimple arrangement within each of the four triangular sections is not rotationally symmetric about a center of the respective triangular section;
- wherein at least some dimples of the plurality of dimples have a catenary cross-sectional profile defined by x-y coordinates, wherein x=0 corresponds to a central axis of the catenary cross-sectional profile and y=0 corresponds to a minimum of the catenary cross-sectional profile, and the catenary cross-sectional profile is defined by:
- y
- =
- d
- c
- (
- cosh
-
- (
- SF
- ·
- x
- )
- -
- 1
- )
- cosh
-
- (
- SF
- ·
- D
- 2
- )
- -
- 1
- where D is a diameter of the dimple having the catenary cross-sectional profile, dc is a chord depth of the dimples having the catenary cross-sectional profile, and SF is a shape factor of the dimples having the catenary cross-sectional profile;
- and
- the shape factor for all of the plurality of dimples having the catenary cross-sectional profile is at least 20.
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