Patents Assigned to HANABI CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 9421423
    Abstract: Non-circular dimples such as oval form dimples are provided on the spherical surface of a ball body. A golf ball includes a spherical land surface of the ball body and a dimple pattern of a plurality of dimples formed on the spherical land surface, the spherical surface of the ball body being divided into a plurality of spherical surface parts (land surfaces) with each polygon faces of polyhedron which is virtually inscribed in said spherical surface of ball body, by a projection method from each polygon faces of the inscribed polyhedron, on each spherical surface parts some or all of the dimples being formed as non-circular dimple having a width of more than 1.5 mm and a length of more than 2 times of the width and the dimple pattern is disposed so as to make vortices generated in the non-circular dimples flow out in at least two different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: HANABI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunao Umemura, Mitsuhiro Saso