Patent ID: 8510927
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: A63B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for forming a driver type golf club head, the method comprising: placing a club head into a Cartesian Coordinate System (CCS) comprising a X axis comprising a +X axis and a −X axis, a Y axis comprising a +Y axis and a −Y axis, and a Z axis comprising a +Z axis and a −Z axis, wherein three perpendicular planes exists, the three perpendicular planes being XY, YZ and XZ, and the three perpendicular planes intersecting at an origin point; the club head comprising a body, a hosel, a crown, a sole and a face; orienting a hosel axis line of the club head in the YZ plane passing through the origin point; orienting the club head with the hosel axis line at an angle equal to a designed lie angle in relation to the −Y axis rotating around the +Z axis; orienting the club head by pivoting the club head around the hosel axis line until a point on the sole is tangent to a plane parallel with the XY plane that has a greatest intersection point value on the Z axis; viewing the club head along the X axis and projecting a crown silhouette curve and a sole silhouette curve onto a measurement plane which is parallel to the YZ plane; placing a circle on the measurement plane between the projected crown silhouette curve and the projected sole silhouette curve, enlarging the circle until the circle has a maximum diameter; creating a tangent line from a tangent point where the circle touches the projected crown silhouette curve to a tangent point where the circle touches the projected sole silhouette; obtaining a cross section of the club head by orienting a plane through the tangent line; rotating the plane through the tangent line so a cross section curve is created with the XY plane that is parallel to the X axis of the CCS; intersecting the club head with the plane to obtain a 2D cross-sectional view showing a crown contour of the club head; and positioning a rectangle approximately 0.030 inch above, in the +Z direction and 0.800 inch to the right, in the +X direction, of a endpoint of intersection of the face and the crown, the rectangle having a preferred height of 0.25 inch and a preferred length of 1.00 inch, the rectangle defining a crown apex zone, wherein the highest point of the crown surface is located within the crown apex zone.