US 12,434,110 B2
Golf club head with sliding weight and cover
Naruhiro Mizutani, Kobe (JP); Hirotaka Nakamura, Kobe (JP); Kiyofumi Matsunaga, Kobe (JP); Daisuke Kohno, Kobe (JP); and Yuki Motokawa, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe (JP)
Filed on May 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/142,324.
Application 18/142,324 is a continuation of application No. 17/192,158, filed on Mar. 4, 2021, granted, now 11,684,830.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-052942 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0271066 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 23/04 (2006.01); A63B 53/04 (2015.01); A63B 102/32 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 53/0466 (2013.01) [A63B 2053/0495 (2013.01); A63B 2102/32 (2015.10)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A golf club head comprising:
a head body that includes a groove shaped cavity and a cover receiving portion;
a weight that is detachably attached to the cavity; and
a cover that is attached to the head body, covers at least a part of the cavity when the cover is in a closed state and does not cover at least part of the cavity in an open state, wherein
the weight is attached to the cavity in a state where the weight is slidingly movable in the cavity,
an elastic part is disposed between the cover and the weight,
in the closed state, the cover inner surface applies a pressing force indirectly to the weight,
the cover engages with the weight,
the cover includes a portion attached to the head body with a screw and a portion inserted into the cover receiving portion, wherein these portions fix the cover to the head body,
the weight has a shape that includes corners or projections and the cavity includes projections, and
the weight contacts the cavity at a total of three or more contact points.