Patents by Inventor Sang In Yi
Sang In Yi 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).
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Patent number: 12268943Abstract: A golf club head that is capable improving on the inertia properties of a golf club head all while also improving the Center of Gravity (CG) location is disclosed herein. The golf club head includes a frontal portion and a rear portion formed of a thermoplastic composite material. The thermoplastic composite material is mechanically captured by at least one first attachment feature provided in the frontal portion such that the thermoplastic composite material may be joined to the frontal portion without the use of additional adhesives or external fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Peter Larsen, Sang Yi, Peter L. Soracco, Ryuichi Sugimae
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Publication number: 20250025755Abstract: A modular golf club head with an improved adjustable weighting system for an iron and/or wedge type golf club head is disclosed herein. In accordance with the presently disclosed technology, the golf club head may include a body. The body may include a striking face and a back. The back may include a recessed channel. The golf club head may include a weight assembly. The weight assembly may include a movable weight installable within the recessed channel and movable therein, a slidable cover to engage at least part of the recessed channel, and a fastener. The movable weight may include a compressible polymeric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20240350870Abstract: A golf club head having a slot in the sole filled with an insert in which the slot is positioned close to the striking face. The slot can be a uniform distance from the striking face or the slot can curve away from the striking face in the toe region. The insert can have a uniform height or a non-uniform height. Inserts with uniform heights can have a low height profile. Inserts with non-uniform heights can have a lower height in a central portion of the insert compared to an edge portion or a perimeter portion of the insert. The insert can also have flanges or protrusions for installation into the slot. The resulting golf club head improves performance, as the sole slot with insert allows the striking face to have a profile that meets the needs at that location.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Doug M. Takehara, Grant M. Martens, Richard L. Cleghorn, Charles E. Golden, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Sang Yi, Kyle A. Carr, Jonathan Hebreo
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Patent number: 12109465Abstract: A golf club head with a hosel hole cover that helps improve the performance of the golf club head is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a golf club head having a hosel hole cover at a bottom portion of an interchangeable connection system that not only provides improved performance of the golf club head by strategically utilizing an existing opening to adjust the weighting of a golf club head, but it also improves the aerodynamics of the golf club head by eliminating undesirable recesses that could be detrimental to the aerodynamics of a golf club head.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Stephen S. Murphy, Richard L. Cleghorn, Richard Sanchez
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Publication number: 20240316422Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf club head having an elongate channel extending from a back-to-front direction. For example, a weight member may fit into part of the elongate channel and be secured via a fastener along various positions in the elongate channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20240316420Abstract: A modular golf club head with an improved adjustable weighting system for an iron and/or wedge type golf club head is disclosed herein. In accordance with the presently disclosed technology, the golf club head may include a body. The body may include a striking face and a back. The back may include a recessed channel. The golf club head may include a weight assembly. The weight assembly may include a movable weight installable within the recessed channel and movable therein, a slidable cover to engage at least part of the recessed channel, and a fastener. The movable weight may include a compressible polymeric material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Patent number: 12036448Abstract: A golf club head having a slot in the sole filled with an insert in which the slot is positioned close to the striking face. The slot can be a uniform distance from the striking face or the slot can curve away from the striking face in the toe region. The insert can have a uniform height or a non-uniform height. Inserts with uniform heights can have a low height profile. Inserts with non-uniform heights can have a lower height in a central portion of the insert compared to an edge portion or a perimeter portion of the insert. The insert can also have flanges or protrusions for installation into the slot. The resulting golf club head improves performance, as the sole slot with insert allows the striking face to have a profile that meets the needs at that location.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: ACUSHNET COMPANYInventors: Doug Takehara, Grant Martens, Richard L. Cleghorn, Charles E. Golden, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Sang Yi, Kyle A. Carr, Jonathan Hebreo
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Publication number: 20240181310Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf club head having an adjustable weight assembly. More specifically, the adjustable weight assembly utilizes a weight member that's secured via a fastener along various positions within an elongate channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20240115914Abstract: A golf club head includes: a striking face; a top portion; a sole extending; a support bar protruding rearwardly from the striking face; an intermediate wall extending between the sole and the support bar; and a front cavity between the striking face and the intermediate wall, wherein, when the golf club head is in an address position on a ground plane, a greatest cavity height distance in a cross-sectional plane, as measured along a first direction perpendicular to the ground plane and from the ground plane to a top of the front cavity closest to the top portion is less than 70% of a greatest club height distance in the cross-sectional plane, as measured along the first direction and from the ground plane to the top portion, wherein the cross-sectional plane is perpendicular to the ground plane and taken at Face Center.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Sang Yi, Kyle Carr
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Publication number: 20240082653Abstract: A golf club head having a slot in the sole filled with an insert in which the slot is positioned close to the striking face. The slot can be a uniform distance from the striking face or the slot can curve away from the striking face in the toe region. The insert can have a uniform height or a non-uniform height. Inserts with uniform heights can have a low height profile. Inserts with non-uniform heights can have a lower height in a central portion of the insert compared to an edge portion or a perimeter portion of the insert. The insert can also have flanges or protrusions for installation into the slot. The resulting golf club head improves performance, as the sole slot with insert allows the striking face to have a profile that meets the needs at that location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Doug Takehara, Grant Martens, Richard L. Cleghorn, Charles E. Golden, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Sang Yi, Kyle A. Carr, Jonathan Hebreo
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Publication number: 20240082663Abstract: A golf club head including a leading edge slot is disclosed herein. In accordance with the presently disclosed technology, the golf club head may include a body. The body may include an interior cavity, a face, a back, and a sole. The sole may include a leading edge, a leading edge slot, a central region, and a trailing edge. The golf club head may include a leading edge insert that includes an insert body forming a part of the sole in an installed position and an insert channel oriented toward the interior cavity of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Nick Frame, Kyle A. Carr
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Patent number: 11925841Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf club head having an adjustable weight assembly. More specifically, the adjustable weight assembly utilizes a weight member that's secured via a fastener along various positions within an elongate channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20240066366Abstract: A golf club head with an improved adjustable weighting system for an iron and/or wedge type golf club head is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the presently disclosed technology may provide an improved adjustable weighting system that allows a user to view a position of one or more weights in the golf club head.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Kevin Tassistro, Ronald K. Hettinger, Stephen S. Murphy
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Publication number: 20240058661Abstract: An iron type golf club head, including: a body, including: a striking face having a substantially flat outermost surface and one or more grooves defined in the outermost surface, and having a lower leading edge and an opposite upper topline edge, a top portion extending rearward from the upper topline edge, a sole extending rearward from the lower leading edge, and an intermediate wall partly defining a front cavity between the striking face and the intermediate wall, wherein the intermediate wall has a front surface facing an interior surface of the striking face and extending between an interior surface of the sole and an interior surface of the top portion, and wherein the front surface of the intermediate wall and the interior surface of the striking face are substantially parallel; and a first polymer material at least partially filling the front cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Sang Yi, Kyle Carr, Richard L. Cleghorn, Stephanie Luttrell
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Publication number: 20240017138Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf club head having an adjustable weight assembly. More specifically, the adjustable weight assembly utilizes a weight member that's secured via a fastener along various positions within an elongate channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Richard Sanchez, Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20240017137Abstract: The present invention relates to a golf club head having an adjustable weight assembly. More specifically, the adjustable weight assembly utilizes a weight member that's secured via a fastener along various positions within an elongate channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20230330499Abstract: A modular golf club head with an improved adjustable weighting system for an iron and/or wedge type golf club head is disclosed herein. In accordance with the presently disclosed technology, the golf club head may include a body. The body may include a striking face and a back. The back may include a recessed channel. The golf club head may include a weight assembly. The weight assembly may include a movable weight installable within the recessed channel and movable therein, a slidable cover to engage at least part of the recessed channel, and a fastener.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Richard L. Cleghorn, Kyle A. Carr
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Publication number: 20230233912Abstract: A golf club head includes: a body having an outer surface; a recessed channel formed in the outer surface; and a weight assembly including: a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and configured to move therein, a cover configured to engage with the body such that the cover at least partially covers the recessed channel; and a fastener selectively movable along a fastener axis, and configured to lockingly engage with an end of the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Sang YI, Thomas Orrin Bennett, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20230201681Abstract: A golf club head with a hosel hole cover that helps improve the performance of the golf club head is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a golf club head having a hosel hole cover at a bottom portion of an interchangeable connection system that not only provides improved performance of the golf club head by strategically utilizing an existing opening to adjust the weighting of a golf club head, but it also improves the aerodynamics of the golf club head by eliminating undesirable recesses that could be detrimental to the aerodynamics of a golf club head.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Stephen S. Murphy, Richard L. Cleghorn, Richard Sanchez
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Patent number: 11617926Abstract: A golf club head with a hosel hole cover that helps improve the performance of the golf club head is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a golf club head having a hosel hole cover at a bottom portion of an interchangeable connection system that not only provides improved performance of the golf club head by strategically utilizing an existing opening to adjust the weighting of a golf club head, but it also improves the aerodynamics of the golf club head by eliminating undesirable recesses that could be detrimental to the aerodynamics of a golf club head.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Sang Yi, Stephen S. Murphy, Richard L. Cleghorn, Richard Sanchez