Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Kogawa

Masayoshi Kogawa 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: 11406879
    Abstract: A golf club includes a reinforcing member installed on an inner circumferential surface of a shaft near a tip-side end portion and extends in an axial direction of the shaft to straddle an upper end of a cylindrical portion. The reinforcing member has a cylindrical shape configured by laminating prepregs obtained by impregnating carbon fibers being reinforcing fibers with a matrix resin. The reinforcing member is provided with: a first bias layer located at the innermost side in a radial direction; a second bias layer laminated on an outer side of the first bias layer (16A) in the radial direction, an orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers having an opposite direction to the first bias layer; and a straight layer laminated on the outer side of the second bias layer in the radial direction, an orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers being parallel to the axial direction of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitazaki, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Norihiko Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20210205669
    Abstract: A golf club includes a reinforcing member installed on an inner circumferential surface of a shaft near a tip-side end portion and extends in an axial direction of the shaft to straddle an upper end of a cylindrical portion. The reinforcing member has a cylindrical shape configured by laminating prepregs obtained by impregnating carbon fibers being reinforcing fibers with a matrix resin. The reinforcing member is provided with: a first bias layer located at the innermost side in a radial direction; a second bias layer laminated on an outer side of the first bias layer (16A) in the radial direction, an orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers having an opposite direction to the first bias layer; and a straight layer laminated on the outer side of the second bias layer in the radial direction, an orientation direction of the reinforcing fibers being parallel to the axial direction of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitazaki, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Norihiko Nakahara
  • Patent number: 7651403
    Abstract: A golf club selecting method includes measuring a behavior of a golf club during a golf swing performed with the golf club gripped and selecting a golf club in accordance with the golf swing. At first, a swing information for characterizing the behavior of the gold club during the golf swing performed with the golf club gripped is acquired. Then a golf club is selected in accordance with the golf swing based on the acquired swing information, wherein the acquired swing information contains a movement speed at each of a plurality of predetermined positions which are different from each other on a golf club shaft axis of the golf club, and the movement speed is a speed in an impact state immediately before a golf ball is hit with the golf club.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Saegusa, Masahiko Miyamoto, Masayoshi Kogawa
  • Patent number: 7169056
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Patent number: 7156749
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Patent number: 7150684
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Publication number: 20060111197
    Abstract: A golf club selecting method includes of measuring a behavior of a golf club during a golf swing performed with the golf club gripped and selecting a golf club in accordance with the golf swing. At first, a swing information for characterizing the behavior of the golf club during the golf swing performed with the golf club gripped is acquired. Then a golf club is selected in accordance with the golf swing based on the acquired swing information, wherein the acquired swing information contains a movement speed at each of a plurality of predetermined positions which are different from each other on a golf club shaft axis of the golf club, and the movement speed is a speed in an impact state immediately before a golf ball is hit with the golf club.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Masaki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Saegusa, Masahiko Miyamoto, Masayoshi Kogawa
  • Publication number: 20050255934
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Publication number: 20050255933
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Publication number: 20050221906
    Abstract: An optimal golf club shaft for a golfer is selected from among various golf club shafts, the following. At first, a head speed of a golf club at a point when the golf club strikes a golf ball during a golf swing and a downswing time amount from a top point in time when a downswing begins during the golf swing until a golf ball striking point in time are detected. Then a golf club shaft stiffness suited to the golf swing by using the head speed at the time the golf ball is struck and the downswing time amount is computed. Finally, a golf club shaft having the computed golf club shaft stiffness is selected. The golf club shaft stiffness is computed such that the optimal golf club shaft becomes stiffer as the head speed becomes higher and/or as the downswing time amount becomes longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Masahiko Miyamoto, Masayoshi Kogawa
  • Publication number: 20050202898
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Patent number: 6916251
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Publication number: 20030104877
    Abstract: Disclosed is a golf club set having harmonized golf club performance among the club numbers. In the golf club set, for at least three golf clubs, a ratio or a sum of a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a tip portion of a golf club shaft constituting each of the golf clubs, and a frequency per unit time, the frequency being measured by vibrating a rear end portion of the golf club shaft, is determined in relation with order of the club number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Patent number: 6546802
    Abstract: Disclosed is an evaluation method of a golf club, where a rear end portion of a club shaft is vibrated in a state where a tip portion of the club shaft is fastened to measure a frequency per unit time, and a golf club using the club shaft is evaluated based on the frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie
  • Publication number: 20010006913
    Abstract: Disclosed is an evaluation method of a golf club, where a rear end portion of a club shaft is vibrated in a state where a tip portion of the club shaft is fastened to measure a frequency per unit time, and a golf club using the club shaft is evaluated based on the frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Masayoshi Kogawa, Yoh Nishizawa, Masaki Akie