US 7,582,023 B2Granted

Connecting structure of a shaft and a grip member of a golf club

AssigneeEing Nan Rubber Co., Ltd.

InventorChi-Chih Hung

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Abstract

A golf club includes a shaft, a grip member positioned around a tail portion of the shaft, an expanding component positioned in the tail portion of the shaft, and a fastening component; the grip member has a holding room to receive the tail portion of shaft; the expanding component is made of rubber, and has an axial central hole, and a rugged. outer side; the fastening component has a head part, which has a greater diameter than the central hole of the expanding component; the fastening component has threads thereon; the fastening component is inserted in the axial hole of the expanding component, with the head part being pressed against the grip member so that the rugged outer side of the expanding component is tightly pressed against the inner side of the tail portion of the shaft, and the grip member and the shaft are fastened together.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A connecting structure of a shaft and a grip member of a golf club, comprising

a shaft, the shaft having an opening on a tail portion thereof;
an expanding component positioned in the tail portion of the shaft, the expanding component having a rugged outer surrounding side;
the expanding component having a central hole extending in an axial direction thereof;
a grip member positioned around the tail portion of the shaft, the grip member having a holding room to hold the tail portion of the shaft;
the holding room of the grip member having an opening facing the shaft;
and
a fastening component inserted in the central hole of the expanding component, the fastening component having a head part and a rod part with a threaded portion;
the rod part of the fastening component having a greater diameter than the central hole of the expanding component;
a diameter of the head part of the fastening component being greater than a diameter of the holding room of the grip member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.