Golf ball

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10238920-B2
Application number	US-201715422623-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2017
Priority date	Nov 14, 2014
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball showing increased controllability on approach shots for less than 40 yards and showing excellent shot feeling. In the inventive golf ball, the paint film is formed from a curing type paint composition including: a base material containing a polyrotaxane, and a curing agent containing a polyisocyanate, and wherein the polyrotaxane has a cyclodextrin, a linear molecule included in a cyclic structure of the cyclodextrin in a manner of piercing through the cyclic structure of the cyclodextrin, and a blocking group located at both ends of the linear molecule to prevent disassociation of the cyclodextrin, and at least a part of hydroxyl groups of the cyclodextrin is modified with a caprolactone chain via —O—C 3 H 6 —O— group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film formed on a surface of the golf ball body,
wherein the paint film is formed from a curing type paint composition including:
a base material containing a polyrotaxane and at least one polyol selected from the group consisting of a polyether polyol, a polyester polyol, a polycaprolactone polyol, a polycarbonate polyol, and an acrylic polyol, and
a curing agent containing a polyisocyanate; and

wherein
the polyrotaxane comprises a cyclodextrin, and a linear molecule included in the cyclodextrin cyclic structure in a manner of piercing through the cyclic structure of the cyclodextrin, the linear molecule having blocking groups located at both ends of the linear molecule to prevent disassociation of the cyclodextrin, and at least a portion of the cyclodextrin hydroxyl groups being modified with a caprolactone chain expressed by —(CO(CH 2 ) 5 O)nH via a —O—C 3 H 6 —O— group, wherein n represents the degree of polymerization and is a natural number of 3 to 40, and
a resin component of the base material contains the polyol in an amount of 5 mass % or more and 90 mass % or less.

2. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the base material contains at least one polyol selected from the group consisting of the polyester polyol, the polycaprolactone polyol, the polycarbonate polyol, and the acrylic polyol.

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

4. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the resin component of the base material contains the polyrotaxane in an amount of 10 mass % or more and 90 mass % or less.

5. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the resin component of the base material contains the polyol in an amount of 10 mass % or more and 80 mass % or less.

6. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the curing type paint composition further includes a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer and/or a modified product thereof.

7. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the curing type paint composition further includes a modified silicone.

8. The golf ball according to claim 7 , wherein the modified silicone is included in an amount of 0.01 part by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the resin component of the base material.

9. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the polyisocyanate includes an isocyanurate-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate.

10. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the linear molecule has a weight average molecular weight ranging from 5,000 to 100,000.

11. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the hydroxyl groups modified with the caprolactone chain to all the hydroxyl groups included in the cyclodextrin before the modification is 2 mole % or more.

12. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the polyrotaxane has a hydroxyl value ranging from 10 mg KOH/g to 400 mg KOH/g.

13. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the polyrotaxane has a weight average molecular weight ranging from 30,000 to 3,000,000.

14. The golf ball according to claim 6 , wherein the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer and/or the modified product thereof includes a hydroxyl group-modified vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer.

15. The golf ball according to claim 6 , wherein the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer and/or the modified product thereof is included in an amount of 4 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less in the resin component of the base material.

16. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the paint film has a 10% elastic modulus of 160 kgf/cm 2 or less.

17. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the golf ball body comprises a core and a cover covering the core, and the cover has a slab hardness of 70 or less in Shore D hardness.

18. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the golf ball has a coefficient of friction (dry) ranging from 0.48 to 0.60, and a coefficient of friction (wet paper slit) of 0.18 or more.

19. A golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film formed on a surface of the golf ball body,
wherein the paint film is formed from a curing type paint composition including:
a base material containing a polyrotaxane and a polycaprolactone polyol having a weight average molecular weight in a range from 600 to 8000, and
a curing agent containing a polyisocyanate; and

wherein
the polyrotaxane comprises a cyclodextrin, and a linear molecule included in the cyclodextrin cyclic structure in a manner of piercing through the cyclic structure of the cyclodextrin, the linear molecule having blocking groups located at both ends of the linear molecule to prevent disassociation of the cyclodextrin, and at least a portion of the cyclodextrin hydroxyl groups being modified with a caprolactone chain via —O—C 3 H 6 —O— group, and
a resin component of the base material contains the polyol in an amount of 5 mass % or more and 90 mass % or less.

Assignees

• Dunlop Sports Co Ltd
• Sumitomo Rubber Ind

Inventors

• Inoue Hidetaka
• Tarao Toshiyuki
• Horiuchi Kuniyasu

Classifications

• C08G83/007

  Polyrotaxanes; Polycatenanes · CPC title

• A63B37/0089

  Coefficient of drag · CPC title

• C08G18/6275

  Polymers of halogen containing compounds having carbon-to-carbon double bonds; halogenated polymers of compounds having carbon-to-carbon double bonds (C08G18/6212 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C08G18/792

  formed by oligomerisation of aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic isocyanates or isothiocyanates · CPC title

• C08G18/4883 Primary

  containing cyclic groups having at least one oxygen atom in the ring · CPC title