Patent ID: 11861274
Assignee: TOPGOLF CALLAWAY BRANDS CORP.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 2:
3. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that optimize a structure of an iron-type club head for ball speed, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
generate a plurality of face thickness points and a plurality of body thickness points using a sampling technique to fill a design space using a finite element analysis (“FEA”) program to generate a plurality of responses comprising a plurality of performance characteristics for the iron-type club head;
generate a surrogate model from the plurality of responses comprising
generating a function for durability of the iron-type club head from a finite element analysis (“FEA”) program of the iron-type club head using the plurality of face thickness points for the iron-type club head and the plurality of body thickness points for the iron-type club head,
generating a function for ball speed of the iron-type club head from the FEA program using the plurality of face thickness points for the iron-type club head and the plurality of body thickness points for the iron-type club head;

use the surrogate model in an optimization algorithm to provide an approximation of a lower sample space; and
repeat the above-mentioned steps until the surrogate model converges with the FEA for a predetermined objective to optimize the structure of the iron-type club head for ball speed.