US 11,986,707 B2
Faceplate of a golf club head
Sean P. Griffin, Chicago, IL (US); Ninad Trifale, Chicago, IL (US); Richard P. Hulock, North Aurora, IL (US); Jon C. Pergande, Chicago, IL (US); and Robert T. Thurman, Glen Ellyn, IL (US)
Assigned to Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Aug. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/408,091.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/068,889, filed on Aug. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0054902 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 53/04 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 53/0458 (2020.08) [A63B 53/0425 (2020.08); A63B 53/0429 (2020.08); A63B 53/0466 (2013.01); A63B 2209/02 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A golf club configured for impacting a golf ball, the
golf club comprising:
a head having a body;
a faceplate coupled to the body, the faceplate having a maximum thickness at a central location the faceplate having a first closed non-convex contour curve defined by a first constant faceplate wall thickness and the first closed non-convex contour curve enclosing the central location, wherein the faceplate has no area of constant wall thickness greater than 1 mm2.