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Golf club head

US6478693B2 · kind B2 · utility

36Cited by
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14Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 5, 2001
Grant dateNov 12, 2002
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Expiry dateFeb 5, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63B53/0458
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

In a golf club head with a loft angle in a range of from 5 to 30 degrees, the golf club head comprises a metal body having a hollow portion and having a face portion, a thick portion is formed on the back surface of the face portion, when counted from behind the face portion to the face portion side, the thick portion has N steps (N≧2) so that a centroid of a cut surface of the first step is distanced by 1 mm or more from a centroid of the face surface, and a centroid of a cut surface of the Nth step is distanced by 1 mm or more from a centroid of a cut surface of the N-1th step. Incidentally, the cut surface of each of the steps is defined by cutting provisionally the face portion at each of the steps in parallel to a plane touching with the face surface at a face center

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