Patent ID: 8414428

Claim:
A golf ball having a non-planar parting line on its spherical surface, the golf ball comprising: a non-planar parting line resulting from superimposing of a base waveform with at least one shorter wavelength secondary waveform; the secondary waveform defined by a series of concentric arcs, wherein the arcs have radii determined by corresponding dimples, the dimples having diameters defined by the relationship (1.005)D DIMPLE /2−r arc −(1.06)D DIMPLE /2; adjacent arcs being connected with a straight line that is tangent to the arcs creating an acute angle α; the length of the straight line defined by L LINE =(r 2 +r 3 )/tan α; the sum of the lengths of the straight lines are defined by the lengths of the arcs as (0.15)Σ L ARCS ≦ΣL LINES ≦(0.50)Σ L ARCS ; and the length of the shortest line segment in the parting line relates to the corresponding dimple diameters defined by L MIN >(0.05) D MIN .