IP Library Granted Patent US 7,153,220
Granted Patent B2
US 7,153,220 · App. 10/988,526 · Granted Dec 26, 2006

Golf club head with adjustable weight member

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Patent No.
US 7,153,220
App. No.
10/988,526
Granted
Dec 26, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A golf club head includes a body having at least one recessed portion for securely receiving at least one weight member. The weight member includes a lid with a plurality of protrusions respectively received in receiving portions of the recessed portion. At least one of the protrusions has a weight different from those of other protrusions. The lid has a symmetric shape the same as that of the recessed portion of the body, allowing the lid to be mounted in the recessed portion in one of at least two orientations that correspond to at least two different locations of a center of gravity of the golf club head, thereby allowing rapid change in the center of the gravity of the golf club head.

Claims (13)

1. A gold club head comprising:

a body comprising at least one recessed portion, said at least one recessed portion including a plurality of receiving portions and at least one engaging portion;

at least one weight member mounted in said at least one recessed portion, said at least one weight member including a lid, a plurality of protrusions on the lid, and at least one engaging portion on the lid, at least one of the plurality of protrusions having a weight different from those of other protrusions, the lid having a symmetric shape the same as that of said at least one recessed portion of the body, allowing the lid to be mounted in said at least one recessed portion in one of at least two orientations with respect to said at least one recessed portion that correspond to at least two different locations of a center of gravity of the golf club head, with the plurality of protrusions being respectively received in the plurality of receiving portions, thereby allowing rapid change in a center of the gravity of the golf club head; and

at least one engaging member for engaging with said at least one engaging portion of said at least one recessed portion and said at least one engaging portion of said at least one weight member.

2. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of said at least one recessed portion of the body and the lid of said at least one weight member is symmetric in shape and is one of a square, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle, polygon, circle, ellipse, triangle, and star polygon in section.

3. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least two of the plurality of protrusions on the lid have an identical weight.

4. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein the weights of the plurality of protrusions on the lid are different from one another.

5. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one engaging portion of the body and said at least one engaging portion of the weight member are screw holes, and wherein said at least one engaging member is a bolt.

6. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body includes two diametrically disposed engaging portions on two diametrically disposed receiving portions of said at least one recessed portion, and wherein said at least one weighting member includes two diametrically disposed engaging portions on an inner face of the lid.

7. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one recessed portion includes a single engaging portion in a center of a bottom wall thereof, and wherein the lid includes a single engaging portion on an inner face thereof.

8. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one recessed portion of the body is adjacent to one of a rear of a sole, a toe of the sole, a heel of the sole, a center of the sole, and a striking face of the body.

9. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein said at least one recessed portion of the body is provided on at least one of a plurality of skirts of the body and adjacent to a rear, a toe, and a heel of the body.

10. The golf club head as claimed in claim 1 wherein the body is one of wooden type, iron type, and putter type.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 17, 2011
From: FU SHENG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: FUSHENG PRECISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026291/0314 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2004
From: LO, LAI-FA
To: FU SHENG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 016003/0764 →