Golf ball

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11154753-B2
Application number	US-201916671338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2019
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	Oct 26, 2021
Grant date	Oct 26, 2021

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having excellent approach spin performance under a dry condition and excellent approach spin performance under a condition that there is grass between the golf ball and the club face. The present invention provides 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 composed of at least one layer, and an outermost paint film layer located at the outermost layer of the golf ball contains, as a base resin, a polyurethane obtained by a reaction between (A) a polyisocyanate composition and (B) a polyol composition, and the outermost paint film layer has a dynamic friction coefficient of from 0.75 to 1.5 measured with a dynamic friction tester under specific conditions.

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 composed of at least one layer, and an outermost paint film layer located at the outermost layer of the golf ball contains, as a base resin, a polyurethane obtained by a reaction between (A) a polyisocyanate composition and (B) a polyol composition,
a polyisocyanate component of (A) the polyisocyanate composition consists of an adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate,
the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate is a product obtained by a reaction between hexamethylene diisocyanate and a polyhydric alcohol, and
the outermost paint film layer has a dynamic friction coefficient of from 0.75 to 1.5 measured with a dynamic friction tester under following conditions:
<measurement conditions>
moving speed: 2 mm/s
load: 1.96 N
measuring item: dynamic friction average value in a moving distance of from 2 mm to 10 mm.

2. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein (B) the polyol composition contains, as a polyol component, a polyrotaxane having a cyclodextrin, a linear molecule piercing through the cyclic structure of the cyclodextrin, and blocking groups located at both terminals of the linear molecule to prevent disassociation of the cyclodextrin wherein at least a part of hydroxyl groups of the cyclodextrin is modified with a caprolactone chain via a —O—C 3 H 6 —O— group, and an amount of the polyrotaxane in the polyol component is 30 mass % or more.

3. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the outermost paint film layer has the dynamic friction coefficient of from 0.75 to 1.3.

4. The golf ball according to claim 2 , wherein (B) the polyol composition further contains a polycaprolactone polyol as the polyol component.

5. The golf ball according to claim 4 , wherein a mass ratio (polycaprolactone polyol/polyrotaxane) of the polycaprolactone polyol to the polyrotaxane ranges from 1/100 to 90/10.

6. The golf ball according to claim 2 , wherein (B) the polyol composition further contains a hydroxyl group modified vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer as the polyol component.

7. The golf ball according to claim 6 , wherein an amount of the hydroxyl group modified vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer in the polyol component ranges from 4 mass to 50 mass %.

8. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a loss tangent (tan δ) of the outermost paint film layer has a peak temperature in a range of from −40° C. to 40° C.

9. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a storage modulus (E′) of the outermost paint film layer at the temperature of 24° C. ranges from 10 MPa to 100 MPa.

10. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a loss modulus (E″) of the outermost paint film layer at the temperature of 24° C. ranges from 0.1 MPa to 80 MPa.

11. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a 10% elastic modulus of the outermost paint film layer ranges from 1 kgf/cm 2 to 50 kgf/cm 2 .

12. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a loss tangent (tan δ) of the outermost paint film layer has a peak temperature in a range of from −40° C. to 15° C.

13. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein a loss modulus (E″) of the outermost paint film layer at the temperature of 24° C. ranges from 0.1 MPa to 13 MPa.

14. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein (B) the polyol composition contains, as a polyol component, a polyrotaxane having a cyclodextrin, a linear molecule piercing through the cyclic structure of the cyclodextrin, and blocking groups located at both terminals of the linear molecule to prevent disassociation of the cyclodextrin wherein at least a part of hydroxyl groups of the cyclodextrin is modified with a caprolactone chain via a —O—C 3 H 6 —O— group, and an amount of the polyrotaxane in the polyol component is 40 mass % or more.

15. 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 composed of at least one layer, and an outermost paint film layer located at the outermost layer of the golf ball contains, as a base resin, a polyurethane obtained by a reaction between (A) a polyisocyanate composition and (B) a polyol composition,
(A) the polyisocyanate composition contains an adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate and an isocyanurate-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate as a polyisocyanate component, and
the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate is a product obtained by a reaction between hexamethylene diisocyanate and a polyhydric alcohol,
an amount of the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate in the polyisocyanate component is 50 mass % or more,
a total amount of the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate and the isocyanurate-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate in the polyisocyanate component ranges from 70 mass % to 100 mass %, and
the outermost paint film layer has a dynamic friction coefficient of from 0.75 to 1.5 measured with a dynamic friction tester under the following conditions:

<measurement conditions>
moving speed: 2 mm/s
load: 1.96 N
measuring item: dynamic friction average value for a moving distance of from 2 mm to 10 mm.

16. The golf ball according to claim 15 , wherein the total amount of the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate and the isocyanurate-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate in the polyisocyanate component ranges from 80 mass % to 100 mass %.

17. The golf ball according to claim 16 , wherein the outermost paint film layer has the dynamic friction coefficient of from 0.82 to 1.5.

18. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate is triisocyanate of formula (1) or formula (2) below:

19. The golf ball according to claim 15 , wherein the adduct-modified product of hexamethylene diisocyanate is triisocyanate of formula (1) or formula (2) below:

Assignees

• Sumitomo Rubber Ind

Inventors

• Horiuchi Kuniyasu
• Tarao Toshiyuki
• Inoue Hidetaka

Classifications

• A63B37/00222

  Physical properties, e.g. hardness · CPC title

• A63B37/00221 Primary

  characterised by the material · CPC title

• C08G18/73

  acyclic · CPC title

• A63B37/0073

  Solid, i.e. formed of a single piece · CPC title

• C08G18/792

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