Patents by Inventor Hirotada Iwade

Hirotada Iwade 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).

  • Publication number: 20110172025
    Abstract: A golf club shaft includes an outer shaft and an inner shaft disposed in a hollow portion of the outer shaft. A void portion is formed between the outer shaft and the inner shaft. The golf club shaft has a double structure including the outer shaft and the inner shaft. This allows both of the shafts to integrally operate and also allows one of the shafts to primarily operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotada IWADE, Fumiaki SATO
  • Publication number: 20110159978
    Abstract: A shaft selection assist apparatus according to this invention includes a storage means for storing recommended shaft information indicating a correspondence between measurement parameters obtained upon a test strike with a golf club to which a predetermined reference shaft is attached, and recommended shafts among shafts of a plurality of types, an acquisition means for acquiring the measurement results of the measurement parameters associated with a test strike actually made by a user with the golf club, a selection means for selecting a recommended shaft by referring to the recommended shaft information based on the measurement results acquired by the acquisition means, and an output means for outputting information indicating the recommended shaft selected by the selection means. The recommended shaft information stored in the storage means is information which specifies recommended shafts based on the relationship between the shaft rigidity distribution and the measurement parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotada IWADE, Fumiaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110159979
    Abstract: A shaft selection assist apparatus according to this invention includes a storage means for storing recommended shaft information indicating a correspondence between measurement parameters obtained upon a test strike with a golf club to which a predetermined reference shaft is attached, and recommended shafts among shafts of a plurality of types, an acquisition means for acquiring the measurement results of the measurement parameters associated with a test strike actually made by a user with the golf club, a selection means for selecting a recommended shaft by referring to the recommended shaft information based on the measurement results acquired by the acquisition means, and an output means for outputting information indicating the recommended shaft selected by the selection means. The measurement parameters include the vertical launch angle of a struck ball and the back spin amount on the struck ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE SPORTS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hirotada IWADE, Fumiaki SATO
  • Patent number: 7281987
    Abstract: It is to provide a putter adapted so that a head thereof can easily be drawn straightly backward at a back-swing. It is to locate a center G of gravity of the head more frontward (in a direction of a face side thereof than the center axis of a shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotada Iwade
  • Publication number: 20050215346
    Abstract: It is to provide a putter adapted so that a head thereof can easily be drawn straightly backward at a back-swing. It is to locate a center G of gravity of the head more frontward (in a direction of a face side thereof than the center axis of a shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventor: Hirotada Iwade
  • Patent number: 6379260
    Abstract: In an iron club set, the lie angle of each iron club in an iron club set is selected to be 61 degrees or larger. The lie angles of the iron clubs are set at a fixed value for every type of the iron clubs including a short iron to a long iron or progressively increase in angle value from the short iron to the long iron. Further, a ratio (L/H) of the minimum height (L) of the face at the heel to the maximum height (H) of the face of the club head, progressively increase in value in going to the long irons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotada Iwade, Shu Katayama