Golf club

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9630067-B2
Application number	US-201514950693-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2015
Priority date	Nov 25, 2014
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

A golf club includes a shaft, a golf club head, a first adapter, a second adapter, and a fixing member that detachably fixes the second adapter to the first adapter. An internal space of the golf club head has a housing portion for housing the second adapter, and the housing portion is configured to regulate movement of the second adapter. A third opening portion that communicates with the housing portion and in which the second adapter can be inserted is formed in the surface of the golf club head. A first coupling portion of the first adapter is configured to incline relative to the shaft, and a second coupling portion of the second adapter is configured such that the first adapter is coupled at an angle to the second adapter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A golf club comprising:
a shaft;
a golf club head including a sole portion and a hosel portion that has a first opening portion in which the shaft is to be attached, and having an internal space that extends from the first opening portion to the sole portion side, with the internal space being open at a second opening portion formed in the sole portion;
a first adapter having a first end portion and a second end portion, and configured to be inserted into the first opening portion, the first adapter having, at the first end portion side, a shaft-insertion recessed portion in which the shaft is to be fixed and having, at the second end portion, a first coupling portion;
a second adapter configured to be housed in the internal space and having a second coupling portion configured to be detachably coupled to the first coupling portion of the first adapter; and
a fixing member configured to be housed in the internal space through the second opening portion, and to detachably fix the second adapter to the first adapter,
wherein the internal space includes a housing portion configured to house the second adapter,
the housing portion is configured to regulate movement of the second adapter,
a third opening portion that communicates with the housing portion and through which the second adapter is to be inserted is formed in a surface of the golf club head between the first opening portion and the second opening portion,
the first coupling portion of the first adapter is configured to incline relative to the shaft,
the second coupling portion of the second adapter is configured such that the first adapter is coupled at an angle to the second adapter,
the first coupling portion of the first adapter and the second coupling portion of the second adapter are configured to be coupled in a plurality of rotation positions, and
the second adapter is configured to be housed within the housing portion in a plurality of rotation positions.

2. The golf club according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first adapter has the first end portion and the second end portion at either end portion of a first axis and is formed in a tubular shape along the first axis, and the shaft-insertion recessed portion extends along a second axis that intersects the first axis,
the second adapter has a first end portion that faces the first opening portion side and a second end portion that faces the second opening portion side, the first end portion and the second end portion are provided at either end portion of a first axis, and the second coupling portion is formed along a second axis that intersects the first axis,
the first coupling portion of the first adapter and the second coupling portion of the second adapter are configured to be coupled in a plurality of rotation positions about the second axis of the second adapter, and
the second adapter is configured to be housed within the housing portion in a plurality of rotation positions about the first axis of the second adapter.

3. The golf club according to claim 2 ,
wherein the first coupling portion of the first adapter has a tubular protruding portion, and
the second coupling portion of the second adapter has a recessed portion that is configured to accept the first coupling portion of the first adapter.

4. The golf club according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second adapter is formed to have an outer peripheral surface having a polygonal shape in cross section, and is configured to be housed in a plurality of rotation positions with at least two faces of the outer peripheral surface abutting within the housing portion.

5. The golf club according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the second adapter, a coupling position with the first coupling portion of the first adapter is disposed in a position shifted from a center of the plurality of rotation positions within the housing portion.

6. The golf club according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second adapter is configured to be positioned by the surface facing the first opening portion side abutting against an inner wall surface within the internal space.

7. The golf club according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one third adapter configured to be coupled to the first coupling portion of the first adapter at a different inclination angle from the second adapter,
wherein the at least one third adapter is configured to be inserted through the third opening portion and housed in the internal space, and to be coupled to the first adapter by the fixing member.

8. The golf club according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one third adapter configured to be coupled to the first coupling portion of the first adapter at the same inclination angle as the second adapter and having a different weight from the second adapter,
wherein the at least one third adapter is configured to be inserted through the third opening portion and housed in the internal space, and to be coupled to the first adapter by the fixing member.

9. The golf club according to claim 7 ,
wherein the golf club head includes at least one recessed portion configured to house the second and third adapters.

Assignees

• Dunlop Sports Co Ltd

Inventors

• KOHNO Daisuke
• Motokawa Yuki

Classifications

• A63B53/02 Primary

  Joint structures between the head and the shaft · CPC title

• A63B2053/025

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63B2053/027

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63B2053/026

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A63B2053/023

  Human Necessities · mapped topic