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US 8,834,290 B2Granted
Golf club head with flexure
AssigneeAcushnet Company
InventorsStephanie Bezilla, Uday V. Deshmukh, Charles E. Golden, Mark C. Myrhum, Noah de la Cruz, John Morin, Darryl C. Galvan
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Abstract
A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball, and is tuned to vibrate, immediately after impact, at a predetermined frequency.
Claims20
A golf club head, comprising:
- a crown defining an upper surface of the golf club head;
- a sole defining a lower surface of the golf club head;
- a side wall extending between the crown and sole;
- a hosel extending from the crown and including a shaft bore;
- a face defining a ball-striking surface and intersecting the lower surface at a leading edge;
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- a flexure that is spaced afterward of the ball-striking surface, extending in a generally heel-to-toe direction and parallel to the leading edge of the golf club head,
- wherein the sole is constructed of a first material having a first Young's modulus and the flexure is constructed of a second material having a second Young's modulus that is lower than the first Young's modulus,
- wherein the flexure is tuned so that the width across the flexure in a face-to-aft direction varies sinusoidally, immediately after impact, at a frequency of about 2900 Hz to about 4000 Hz, and
- wherein at least a portion of the flexure is constructed of a β-Ti alloy.
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A golf club head, comprising:
- a crown defining an upper surface of the golf club head;
- a sole defining a lower surface of the golf club head;
- a side wall extending between the crown and sole;
- a hosel extending from the crown and including a shaft bore;
- a face defining a ball-striking surface and intersecting the lower surface at a leading edge;
- and
- a flexure that is spaced aftward of the ball-striking surface, extending in a generally heel-to-toe direction and parallel to the leading edge of the golf club head,
- wherein the sole is constructed of a first material having a first Young's modulus and the flexure is constructed of a second material having a second Young's modulus that is lower than the first Young's modulus,
- wherein the flexure is tuned so that the width across the flexure in a face-to-aft direction varies sinusoidally, immediately after impact, at a frequency of about 2900 Hz to about 4000 Hz,
- wherein at least a portion of the flexure is constructed of a β-Ti alloy, and
- wherein the flexure extends across the body in a generally heel-to-toe direction and within between about 5.0 mm and about 20.0 mm from the leading edge of the golf club head and intersects at least a portion of the side wall of the golf club head.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.