IP Library Granted Patent US 8,376,875
Granted Patent B2
US 8,376,875 · App. 13/472,839 · Granted Feb 19, 2013

Golf club shaft and golf club using the same

Inventors: Masaki Nakamura (Fukushima, JP); Masaki Wakabayashi (Fukushima, JP)
Assignee: Fujikura Rubber Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,376,875
App. No.
13/472,839
Granted
Feb 19, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A golf club shaft formed by winding prepregs made of uncured thermosetting resin into a tapered shape and curing the prepregs thermally, the prepregs include a first woven fabric prepreg which is made of one of a triaxial woven fabric or a tetra-axial woven fabric that are impregnated with uncured thermosetting resin, and a second woven fabric prepreg which is made of one of a triaxial woven fabric or a tetra-axial woven fabric that are impregnated with uncured thermosetting resin.

Claims (9)

1. A golf club shaft formed by winding a plurality of prepregs made of uncured thermosetting resin into a tapered shape and curing said prepregs thermally, said prepregs comprising:

a first woven fabric prepreg that is impregnated with uncured thermosetting resin;

a second woven fabric prepreg that is impregnated with uncured thermosetting resin; and

an intermediate prepreg interposed between said first woven fabric prepreg and said second woven fabric prepreg with said first and second woven fabric prepregs wound immediately inside and outside said intermediate prepreg,

wherein one of said first woven fabric prepreg and said second woven fabric prepreg is made of a tetra-axial woven fabric, and the other is made of a tri-axial woven fabric,

wherein said intermediate prepreg is made of a 0-degree layer, a long fiber direction of which is parallel to an longitudinal direction of said golf club shaft.

2. The golf club shaft according to claim 1 , wherein each of the number of turns of the first woven fabric prepreg and the number of turns of said second woven fabric prepreg is one.

3. The golf club shaft according to claim 1 , wherein the weight of each of said first woven fabric prepreg and said second woven fabric prepreg is in a range between 40 g/m2 and 150 g/m2.

4. A golf club comprising said golf club shaft according to claim 1 , to which a golf club head and a grip are fixed.

Assignments (1)
ADDRESS CHANGE Recorded Sep 17, 2012
From: FUJIKURA RUBBER LTD
To: FUJIKURA RUBBER LTD
Reel/Frame 028995/0306 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-247378 · Sep 26, 2008 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 12566830 · Sep 25, 2009
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