Patents by Inventor Kozue Wada

Kozue Wada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11806592
    Abstract: A golf club head having a hollow structure includes a face, a sole, and a crown. The face includes a front surface and a back surface that face away from each other. The front surface is a ball-striking surface. The sole includes an abutment structure. The abutment structure includes a metallic sole fixation member fixed to the sole, an elastic member, and a metallic pin member connected to the metallic sole fixation member through the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozue Wada, Takaharu Takechi
  • Publication number: 20230201678
    Abstract: A golf club head according to the disclosure is a cavity-back iron type golf club head that includes a face portion and a back portion. The face portion includes a front face and a rear face facing away from each other, the front face being a ball-striking face. A non-metallic member is fixed to the rear face. An abutment portion including a tip portion with a curved surface is provided on the back portion. The abutment portion is passed through the back portion, and the curved surface of the tip portion contacts the non-metallic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Kozue WADA, Takaharu TAKECHI
  • Publication number: 20220193508
    Abstract: A golf club head having a hollow structure includes a face, a sole, and a crown. The face includes a front surface and a back surface that face away from each other. The front surface is a ball-striking surface. The sole includes an abutment structure. The abutment structure includes a metallic sole fixation member fixed to the sole, an elastic member, and a metallic pin member connected to the metallic sole fixation member through the elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kozue WADA, Takaharu TAKECHI
  • Patent number: 10702750
    Abstract: A golf club head having a hollow structure includes a face, a crown, and a sole. The sole includes multiple elongated ribs. The ribs includes a first rib, a second rib, a third rib, and a fourth rib that are arranged in order from the toe side to the heel side. An end of the first rib and a first end of the second rib are connected to form a first connection end. A second end of the second rib and a first end of the third rib are connected to form a second connection end. A second end of the third rib and an end of the fourth rib are connected to form a third connection end. Each of the first rib and the fourth rib is longer than each of the second rib and the third rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozue Wada, Tomonori Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20200188742
    Abstract: A golf club head having a hollow structure includes a face, a crown, and a sole. The sole includes multiple elongated ribs. The ribs includes a first rib, a second rib, a third rib, and a fourth rib that are arranged in order from the toe side to the heel side. An end of the first rib and a first end of the second rib are connected to form a first connection end. A second end of the second rib and a first end of the third rib are connected to form a second connection end. A second end of the third rib and an end of the fourth rib are connected to form a third connection end. Each of the first rib and the fourth rib is longer than each of the second rib and the third rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Kozue WADA, Tomonori KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9981163
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises two weight members, and in a reference plan view where a sole part faces upward and a hosel hole central axis extension line is vertical, a reference imaginary straight line, a first imaginary straight line and a second imaginary straight line are set. The reference imaginary straight line passes through a central axis of a hosel hole and a head gravity center is determined when weight members are not attached. The first imaginary straight line passes through the central axis of the hosel hole and a center of the first opening part. The second imaginary straight line passes through the central axis of the hosel hole and a center of the second opening part. A first angle ?1 between the reference and first imaginary straight lines is ±10 degrees or less, and a second angle ?2 between the reference and second imaginary straight lines is larger than the first angle ?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozue Wada, Takaharu Takechi
  • Patent number: 9901793
    Abstract: A golf club head of this invention includes a face portion, first and second interchangeable members, a first attachment portion from which the first and second interchangeable members are detachable, and a second attachment portion from which the first and second interchangeable members are detachable. The first interchangeable member is a reinforcing member that abuts against the rear surface of the face portion and restricts deformation of an abutment portion when the member is attached to the first attachment portion. The second interchangeable member is a member that does not abut against the rear surface of the face portion when the member is attached to the first attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Ban, Tomonori Kitagawa, Kozue Wada
  • Publication number: 20170128789
    Abstract: A golf club head comprises two weight members, and in a reference plan view where a sole part faces upward and a hosel hole central axis extension line is vertical, a reference imaginary straight line, a first imaginary straight line and a second imaginary straight line are set. The reference imaginary straight line passes through a central axis of a hosel hole and a head gravity center is determined when weight members are not attached. The first imaginary straight line passes through the central axis of the hosel hole and a center of the first opening part. The second imaginary straight line passes through the central axis of the hosel hole and a center of the second opening part. A first angle ?1 between the reference and first imaginary straight lines is ±10 degrees or less, and a second angle ?2 between the reference and second imaginary straight lines is larger than the first angle ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Kozue WADA, Takaharu TAKECHI
  • Patent number: 9393467
    Abstract: An iron type golf club head that comprises a face part, a sole part, a hosel part, and a cavity part. A lower part of an inner surface of the cavity part on a face surface side is a forward recess part that is recessed toward a face surface, and following formulas are satisfied: ?2??3 and ?2??1 wherein an intersectional angle that is formed between the lower part of the inner surface of the cavity part on the face surface side and the face surface is marked with ?2, an intersectional angle that is formed between a rear surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with ?3, and an intersectional angle that is formed between a bottom surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with ?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tomonori Kitagawa, Kozue Wada
  • Publication number: 20150360099
    Abstract: A golf club head of this invention includes a face portion, first and second interchangeable members, a first attachment portion from which the first and second interchangeable members are detachable, and a second attachment portion from which the first and second interchangeable members are detachable. The first interchangeable member is a reinforcing member that abuts against the rear surface of the face portion and restricts deformation of an abutment portion when the member is attached to the first attachment portion. The second interchangeable member is a member that does not abut against the rear surface of the face portion when the member is attached to the first attachment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru BAN, Tomonori KITAGAWA, Kozue WADA
  • Publication number: 20150024869
    Abstract: An iron type golf club head that comprises a face part, a sole part, a hosel part, and a cavity part. A lower part of an inner surface of the cavity part on a face surface side is a forward recess part that is recessed toward a face surface, and following formulas are satisfied: ?2??3 and ?2??1 wherein an intersectional angle that is formed between the lower part of the inner surface of the cavity part on the face surface side and the face surface is marked with ?2, an intersectional angle that is formed between a rear surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with ?3, and an intersectional angle that is formed between a bottom surface of the cavity part and the face surface is marked with ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Tomonori KITAGAWA, Kozue WADA
  • Patent number: 8888608
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head which includes a face portion, and has a volume of 400 cc or more. When the golf club head is disposed on a horizontal plane at a specific lie angle while the face portion is matched with the flight trajectory direction, and images of the face portion and the golf club head are projected onto a vertical plane from the front side of the face portion upon defining the flight trajectory direction as the projection direction, the area of a projected figure H of the golf club head is defined as HA, and the area of a projected figure F of the face portion is defined as FA. The golf club head satisfies 0.5<FA/HA<0.7, and a centroid Hc of the projected figure H coincides with a centroid Fc of the projected figure F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Ban, Kozue Wada, Tadahiro Narita
  • Patent number: 8876624
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head including a face surface and sole portion. This golf club head includes a main body member, a face member, a sole member, and a fastening structure which fastens the main body member, the face member, and the sole member to be separable from each other. The main body member, the face member, and the sole member include stack portions, respectively, which are stacked on each other. The fastening structure fastens the main body member, the face member, and the sole member together in the stack portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Ban, Kozue Wada
  • Patent number: 8858363
    Abstract: This invention provides a hollow golf club head including a face portion, a crown portion, a sole/side portion which includes a sole portion and a side portion, and a weight member. The golf club head includes a recessed portion which is formed in the sole/side portion, and has an outer surface to which the weight member is attached, and a rib which is formed on the inner surface of the sole/side portion, and traverses the recessed portion across the peripheral edge defining the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozue Wada, Wataru Ban
  • Patent number: 8845455
    Abstract: This invention provides a golf club head including a plurality of scorelines formed in its face surface and extending in the toe-to-heel direction. This golf club head includes a recessed portion for the cutting start of each scoreline, which is formed at one end or each of both ends of the scoreline in the longitudinal direction at a depth equal to or larger than that of the scoreline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Wataru Ban, Kozue Wada
  • Patent number: D757195
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Takagi, Takaharu Takechi, Tomonori Kitagawa, Kozue Wada, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D757872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Takagi, Takaharu Takechi, Tomonori Kitagawa, Kozue Wada, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D762793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Takechi, Tomonori Kitagawa, Masaya Takagi, Kozue Wada, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D763376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Takechi, Tomonori Kitagawa, Masaya Takagi, Kozue Wada, Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D763377
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Takechi, Tomonori Kitagawa, Masaya Takagi, Kozue Wada, Hiroshi Takahashi