Iron type golf club head

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9393467-B2
Application number	US-201414327904-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2014
Priority date	Jul 17, 2013
Publication date	Jul 19, 2016
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016

Abstract

An iron type golf club head that comprises a face part, a sole part, a hosel part, and a cavity part. A lower part of an inner surface of the cavity part on a face surface side is a forward recess part that is recessed toward a face surface, and following formulas are satisfied:

θ 2 ≦θ 3 and θ 2 ≦θ 1

wherein an intersectional angle that is formed between the lower part of the inner surface of the cavity part on the face surface side and the face surface is marked with θ 2 , an intersectional angle that is formed between a rear surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with θ 3 , and an intersectional angle that is formed between a bottom surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with θ 1 .

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An iron type golf club head that comprises a face part, a sole part, a hosel part, and a cavity part, wherein
a lower part of an inner surface of the cavity part on a face surface side is a forward recess part that is recessed toward a face surface, and
the following formulas are satisfied:
θ2≦θ3 and θ2≦θ1,

wherein an intersectional angle that is formed between the lower part of the inner surface of the cavity part on the face surface side and the face surface is marked with θ 2 , an intersectional angle that is formed between a rear surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with θ 3 , and an intersectional angle that is formed between a bottom surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with θ 1 ,
the bottom surface of the cavity part, which forms the intersectional angle (θ 1 ), inclines such that the bottom surface approaches a sole surface of the sole part as the bottom surface approaches the face part, and
the intersectional angle (θ 1 ) is 90° or less.

2. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
when a thickness of the face part in a center part of the face part is marked with t 1 , a thickness of a projection part that surrounds the cavity part on a top side thereof and is thicker than the center part is marked with t 4 , and a thickness of a high stage part that is positioned between the projection part and the center part is marked with t 2 , the following formula is satisfied:
t4>t2≧t1.

3. The iron type golf club head according to claim 2 , wherein
the center part of the face part is a point (CP 1 ) where a perpendicular line, which is drawn from a gravity center of the club head toward a face surface, emerges on the face surface.

4. The iron type golf club head according to claim 2 , wherein
the center part of the face part is a point (CP 2 ) that is determined by crossing two lines, the two lines being defined:
under a condition where the club head is addressed with regulated lie and loft angles,
one of the lines is a top-sole direction line (SCL) which divides a longest score line of the face part into halves in a toe-heel direction, and
the other of the lines is a toe-heel direction line (FHL) which divides a face height that is the largest length of the club head in the top-sole direction from a ground line.

5. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
when a thickness of a part of the face part in the forward recess part, the part comprising the smallest thickness of the face part, is marked with t 3 , the following formula is satisfied:
0.5≦t3/t1≦0.9.

6. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
a crossing corner part that is formed between the forward recess part and the bottom surface of the cavity part is a curved recess surface, and
a curvature radius of the curved recess surface on a vertical cross section in a front-rear direction of the iron type golf club head ranges within 0.5-3.0 mm.

7. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
a length of the forward recess part in a toe-heel direction is 20 mm or more and 70 mm or less.

8. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
the intersectional angle (θ 2 ) is 5° or more and 30° or less.

9. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
the intersectional angle (θ 3 ) is 80° or less.

10. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
a smallest thickness of the sole part, which is defined by a smallest length between the bottom surface of the cavity part and the sole surface of the sole part, is ranged between 1.5-5.0 MM.

11. The iron type golf club head according to claim 1 , wherein
Young's modulus of a material forming the face part is ranged between 70-230 GPa.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Sports Co Ltd
• Bridgestone Sports Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kitagawa Tomonori
• Wada Kozue

Classifications

• A63B53/047 Primary

  iron-type · CPC title

• A63B2053/0445

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63B2053/0408

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63B2053/0458

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63B2053/0433

  Human Necessities · mapped topic