US 12,303,745 B2
Multi-piece solid golf ball
Hideo Watanabe, Saitamaken (JP)
Assigned to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/482,467.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-167552 (JP), filed on Oct. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0131400 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0226665 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. A63B 37/06 (2006.01); A63B 37/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 37/00221 (2020.08) [A63B 37/0019 (2013.01); A63B 37/0031 (2013.01); A63B 37/0044 (2013.01); A63B 37/0078 (2013.01); A63B 37/0083 (2013.01); A63B 37/06 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-piece solid golf ball comprising a core, an intermediate layer, and a cover, wherein the core is formed of a rubber composition in a single layer or a plurality of layers, the intermediate layer and the cover are both formed of a resin composition, a specific gravity of the intermediate layer is at least 1.05, and the core has a hardness profile in which, letting a Shore C hardness at a core center be Cc, a Shore C hardness at a midpoint M between the core center and a core surface be Cm, respective Shore C hardnesses at positions 2 mm, 4 mm, and 6 mm inward from the midpoint M be Cm−2, Cm−4, and Cm−6, and respective Shore C hardnesses at positions 2 mm, 4 mm, and 6 mm outward from the midpoint M be Cm+2, Cm+4, and Cm+6, and a Shore C hardness at the core surface be Cs, and defining surface areas A to F as follows:
surface area A: ½×2×(Cm−4−Cm−6)
surface area B: ½×2×(Cm−2−Cm−4)
surface area C: ½×2×(Cm−Cm−2)
surface area D: ½×2×(Cm+2−Cm)
surface area E: ½×2×(Cm+4−Cm+2)
surface area F: ½×2×(Cm+6−Cm+4)
the following condition is satisfied:
(surface area E+surface area F)−(surface area A+surface area B)≥3.0
and letting a deflection (mm) when the core is compressed under a final load of 1,275 N (130 kgf) from an initial load of 98 N (10 kgf) be C (mm), the following two conditions are satisfied:
Cs−Cc≥28.0
C×(Cs−Cc)≥132.0.