Golf ball resin composition and golf ball using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9447222-B2
Application number	US-90990310-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2010
Priority date	Oct 28, 2009
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel golf ball material that controls the spin rate on the approach shots while suppressing the change in the spin rate on the driver shots. Another object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball which produces a high spin rate on the approach shots and a low spin rate on the driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball resin composition comprising: a polyurethane having a polyol component having a number average molecular weight from 200 to 1,500 as a constituting component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A golf ball comprising a core and a cover, wherein the cover is formed from a golf ball resin composition containing a polyurethane having a polytetramethylene ether glycol component with a number average molecular weight of from 200 to 1,500 and dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate, and 1,4-butane diol as a chain extender component, wherein a molar ratio (BD/PTMG) of the 1,4-butane diol to the polytetramethylene ether glycol component ranges from 0.7 to 2.85 wherein the polytetramethylene ether glycol has a hydroxyl value ranging from 94 mgKOH/g to 561 mgKOH/g.

2. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover has a slab hardness ranging from 5 to 80 in Shore D hardness.

3. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover has a thickness ranging from 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm.

4. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the core has a center and at least one intermediate layer covering the center.

5. The golf ball according to claim 4 , wherein the intermediate layer has a slab hardness ranging from 40 to 80 in Shore D hardness.

6. The golf ball according to claim 4 , wherein the intermediate layer has a thickness ranging from 0.3 mm to 6.0 mm.

7. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the core has a hardness difference ranging from 10 to 40 in JIS-C hardness between a surface hardness and a center hardness thereof.

8. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the core has a surface hardness ranging from 65 to 100 in JIS-C hardness.

9. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the core has a center hardness ranging from 45 to 70 in JIS-C hardness.

10. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover has a thickness ranging from 0.3 mm to 1.5 mm.

11. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover has a thickness ranging from 0.3 to 1.0 mm.

12. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover has a slab hardness ranging from 5 to 31 in Shore D hardness.

13. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover has a slab hardness ranging from 5 to 19 in Shore D hardness.

Assignees

• Shiga Kazuyoshi
• Tarao Toshiyuki
• Ohama Keiji
• Dunlop Sports Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shiga Kazuyoshi
• Tarao Toshiyuki
• Ohama Keiji

Classifications

• C08G18/10

  Prepolymer processes involving reaction of isocyanates or isothiocyanates with compounds having active hydrogen in a first reaction step · CPC title

• C08G18/4854 Primary

  Polyethers containing oxyalkylene groups having four carbon atoms in the alkylene group · CPC title

• A63B37/0003

  Golf balls · CPC title

• C08G18/758

  containing two or more cycloaliphatic rings · CPC title

• A63B37/0062

  Hardness · CPC title