Advanced Golf Club Head with Enhanced Textured Striking Face
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Summary of the Inventive Concept
An improved golf club head design featuring advanced textured striking faces that enhance spin impartation, ball control, and self-cleaning capabilities, addressing limitations of traditional golf club heads.
Background and Problem Solved
Traditional golf club heads with textured striking faces have limitations in terms of spin impartation, ball control, and maintenance. The original patent addressed some of these limitations, but there is still room for improvement. The new inventive concept addresses these limitations by introducing advanced texture patterns, self-cleaning capabilities, and adaptive features that optimize performance in various environmental conditions.
Detailed Description of the Inventive Concept
The advanced golf club head design features a textured striking face with a combination of micro-grooves and nano-structures to enhance spin impartation and ball control. The hybrid texture pattern includes both machine-etched grooves and laser-ablated micro-pits to increase ball-to-club friction. Additionally, the textured striking face incorporates self-cleaning capabilities through hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions that facilitate water and debris removal during play. Furthermore, the adaptive textured striking face can dynamically adjust in response to changes in environmental conditions, such as humidity or temperature, to optimize ball spin and control. The inventive concept also enables customization of the texture pattern through a computer-aided design tool and 3D printing system.
Novelty and Inventive Step
The new inventive concept introduces a novel combination of micro-grooves and nano-structures, hybrid texture patterns, self-cleaning capabilities, and adaptive features that are not present in the original patent. These advancements provide a significant improvement in spin impartation, ball control, and maintenance, making the new inventive concept non-obvious and novel compared to the original patent.
Alternative Embodiments and Variations
Alternative embodiments of the inventive concept could include varying the texture pattern, size, and shape of the micro-grooves and nano-structures, using different materials or coatings for the striking face, or integrating sensors and algorithms to optimize the adaptive features. Variations could also include applying the advanced textured striking face design to other types of golf clubs or sporting equipment.
Potential Commercial Applications and Market
The advanced golf club head design has significant commercial potential in the golf industry, particularly among professional and amateur golfers seeking improved performance and maintenance. The inventive concept could also be applied to other sporting equipment, such as tennis rackets or cricket bats, where spin impartation and ball control are critical.
CPC Classifications
| Section | Class | Group |
|---|---|---|
| A | A63 | A63B53/047 |
| A | A63 | A63B53/04 |
| A | A63 | A63B53/0408 |
| A | A63 | A63B53/0445 |
| A | A63 | A63B2053/0479 |
Section 103 Obviousness Analysis (PHOSITA)
Field of Art
Golf club head design and manufacturing, specifically focusing on textured striking face technologies for enhanced ball spin and control. Requires expertise in materials engineering, surface texturing techniques, and golf equipment manufacturing processes.
Person of Ordinary Skill (PHOSITA) Profile
A mechanical engineer or sports equipment designer with 3-5 years of experience in golf club manufacturing, familiar with surface modification techniques, CNC machining, laser processing, and materials science principles related to friction and surface interactions.
Obviousness Rationale
A person having ordinary skill would recognize that the PTD's advanced textured striking face represents predictable variations and extensions of the source patent's fundamental teachings about golf club face texturing. The core concept of modifying surface texture to enhance ball spin and control remains consistent, with the PTD merely introducing incremental technological improvements using known surface engineering techniques. The variations represent logical combinations of existing manufacturing methods and surface modification strategies that would be apparent to a skilled practitioner in the field.
Obvious Combinations & Variations
Original Patent Information
| Patent Number | US 11,857,849 |
|---|---|
| Title | Golf club head with textured striking face |
| Assignee(s) | SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD. |