US 12,440,735 B2
Golf club heads
Mark Vincent Greaney, Vista, CA (US); Todd P. Beach, Encinitas, CA (US); Christopher John Harbert, Carlsbad, CA (US); Joseph Henry Hoffman, Carlsbad, CA (US); and Christopher Rollins, Carlsbad, CA (US)
Assigned to TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed by Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/082,271.
Application 18/082,271 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/547,519, filed on Dec. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,701,555.
Application 17/547,519 is a continuation of application No. 17/006,561, filed on Aug. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,219,803, issued on Jan. 11, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/292,708, filed on Dec. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/894,523, filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0117902 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 53/04 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 53/0441 (2020.08) [A63B 53/0412 (2020.08); A63B 53/0437 (2020.08); A63B 53/0445 (2020.08); A63B 53/0466 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A golf club head, comprising:
a body having a frame having a hosel portion with a hosel bore defining a shaft axis and a shaft axis plane, a face, a sole, and a crown opening formed in part by the frame; and
a nonmetallic crown attached to the frame and covering the crown opening and defining an interior cavity, wherein the nonmetallic crown has a crown leading edge,
wherein the face has a face center and defines a loft plane that is tangent to the face center, an origin for an x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis, wherein the x-axis is tangential to the face at the origin and parallel to a ground plane, the y-axis is perpendicular to the x-axis and extends away from the face and is parallel to the ground plane, and the z-axis extends vertically from face center and is perpendicular to the ground plane,
a vertical center face plane includes the y-axis and the z-axis and creates a vertical center face section through the golf club head having a center face offset loft plane that is parallel to the loft plane and offset an offset plane distance from the loft plane,
at least a first heelward offset vertical plane is parallel to the vertical center face plane and offset along the x-axis a distance of 5 millimeters toward the hosel portion, and creates a 5 mm offset vertical section having a 5 millimeter heelward localized loft plane and a 5 millimeter heelward localized offset loft plane offset the offset plane distance from the 5 millimeter heelward localized loft plane,
at least a first toeward offset vertical plane is parallel to the vertical center face plane and offset along the x-axis a distance of 5 millimeters away from the hosel portion, and creates a −5 millimeter offset vertical section having a 5 millimeter toeward localized loft plane and a 5 millimeter toeward localized offset loft plane offset the offset plane distance from the 5 millimeter toeward localized loft plane,
the offset plane distance is 6 millimeters and within the vertical center face section a portion of the crown leading edge is forward of the center face offset loft plane, within the 5 millimeter offset vertical section a portion of the crown leading edge is forward of the 5 millimeter heelward localized offset loft plane, and within the −5 millimeter offset vertical section a portion of the crown leading edge is forward of the 5 millimeter toeward localized offset loft plane, and
within the vertical center face section a portion of the nonmetallic crown in front of the center face offset loft plane has a center face 3-point method crown radius of curvature of less than 25 mm, within the 5 millimeter offset vertical section a portion of the nonmetallic crown in front of the 5 millimeter heelward localized offset loft plane has a 5 millimeter heelward 3-point method crown radius of curvature of less than 25 mm, and within the −5 millimeter offset vertical section a portion of the nonmetallic crown in front of the 5 millimeter toeward localized offset loft plane has a 5 millimeter toeward 3-point method crown radius of curvature of less than 25 mm.