Golf ball

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10195490-B2
Application number	US-201615343889-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2016
Priority date	Dec 17, 2015
Publication date	Feb 5, 2019
Grant date	Feb 5, 2019

Abstract

A golf ball 2 includes an inner core 4, an outer core 6, a mid layer 8, and a cover 10. A diameter D1, a volume V1, a hardness H1o at a central point, and a boundary inside hardness H1in of the inner core 4; a volume V2, a boundary outside hardness H2out, and a surface hardness H2s of the outer core 6; a thickness Tm and a hardness Hm of the mid layer 8; and a thickness Tc and a hardness Hc of the cover 10 meet the following mathematical formulas (1) to (4): 1.0<V2/V1<7.0 (1); −2<H2s−H2out<2 (2); 600<(H1o+H1in)*(D1/2)/2<1000 (3); 620<Tc*Hc*Hm/Tm<900 (4). The cover 10 includes a polyrotaxane.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A golf ball comprising:
a core consisting of an inner core and an outer core positioned outside the inner core, wherein the inner core has a diameter D1 of equal to or greater than 18.0 mm but equal to or less than 32.0 mm,
the inner core with a diameter D1 (mm), a hardness H1o (Shore C) at a central point, and a boundary inside hardness H1in (Shore C) of the inner core (i) having a difference (H1in-H1o) equal to or greater than 10 but equal to or less than 40 and (ii) meeting the following mathematical formula (3): 600<(H1o+H1 in)*(D1/2)/2<1000 (3), said boundary inside hardness H1in being a hardness of a point separated 1 mm radially inward from a boundary between the inner core and the outer core at a cross-section of the golf ball cut into two halves,
a mid layer positioned outside the outer core with a hardness Hm (Shore D) equal to or greater than 66, and
a cover positioned outside the mid layer,
said cover comprising a resin composition including:
(A) a polyurethane; and
(B) a polyrotaxane having a cyclodextrin, a linear molecule that is threaded through a ring structure of the cyclodextrin, and a blocking group that is located at each of both ends of the linear molecule and prevents detachment of the cyclodextrin, at least a part of hydroxyl groups of the cyclodextrin being modified with a caprolactone chain via a —O—C 3 H 6 —O— group.

2. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein
a volume V1 (mm 3 ) of the inner core and a volume V2 (mm 3 ) of the outer core meet the following mathematical formula (1),
1.0< V 2/ V 1<7.0  (1)

3. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein
a boundary outside hardness H2out (Shore C), said boundary outside hardness H2out being a hardness of a point separated 1 mm radially outward from a boundary between the inner core and the outer core at a cross-section of the golf ball cut into two halves, and a surface hardness H2s (Shore C) of the outer core meet the following mathematical formula (2):
−2< H 2 s−H 2out<2  (2).

4. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein
a thickness Tm (mm) and a hardness Hm (Shore D) of the mid layer; and a thickness Tc (mm) and a hardness Hc (Shore D) of the cover meet the following mathematical formula (4),
620< Tc*Hc*Hm/Tm< 900  (4)

5. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the linear molecule is polyethylene glycol, and the blocking group is an adamantyl group.

6. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein an amount of the polyrotaxane (B) in the resin composition of the cover per 100 parts by weight of the polyurethane (A) is equal to or greater than 1 parts by weight but equal to or less than 50 parts by weight.

7. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a loss elastic modulus E″ of the polyurethane (A) is equal to or less than 5.0*10 7 Pa.

8. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a loss elastic modulus E″ of the cover is equal to or less than 5.0*10 7 Pa.

9. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the outer core is formed by crosslinking a rubber composition.

10. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a hydroxyl value of the polyrotaxane (B) is equal to or greater than 10 mg KOH/g but equal to or less than 400 mg KOH/g.

11. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a degree of polymerization of the caprolactone chain is 1 to 100.

Assignees

• Dunlop Sports Co Ltd
• Sumitomo Rubber Ind

Inventors

• Kamino Kazuya
• Tachibana Kosuke
• Tarao Toshiyuki
• Tanaka Mami

Classifications

• A63B37/004

  Physical properties · CPC title

• A63B37/0027

  Polyurea · CPC title

• C08G83/007

  Polyrotaxanes; Polycatenanes · CPC title

• A63B37/006

  Physical properties · CPC title

• A63B37/0045

  Thickness · CPC title