Patents by Inventor Uday V. Deshmukh
Uday V. Deshmukh 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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Publication number: 20180008870Abstract: A golf club with a multi-material face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has a multi-material striking face portion that can be comprised out of a metallic outer layer combined with a composite mid-section, all forming a face cup construction that can be connected to an aft body. The composite portion of the multi-material face disclosed in accordance with the present invention may generally have an inter laminar shear strength of greater than about 60 MPa, most preferably greater than about 60 MPa and less than about 145 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: David S. Cornelius, Uday V. Deshmukh, Mark C. Myrhum
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Publication number: 20170361177Abstract: A golf club head having a golf club head body and an inner wall structure. The club head body includes a back portion, a striking face, a sole, and a topline. The inner wall structure is at least partially in contact with a rear surface of the striking face. The inner wall structure also has a fixed end and an unfixed end. The golf club head is also configured such that the portion of the inner wall structure in contact with the rear surface of the striking face may slide against one another. The golf club head may also include a sole channel, and the fixed end of the inner wall structure may be attached to either a front edge or back edge of the sole channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Jonathan Hebreo, Michael E. Franz, Marni Ines, Joshua C. Stokes, Grant M. Martens, Charles E. Golden, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9839820Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball, and is tuned to vibrate, immediately after impact, at a predetermined frequency.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Thomas Orrin Bennett, Nick Frame, Sang Yi, Stephen S. Murphy, David S. Cornelius, Grant M. Martens, Mitchell E. Bac, Stephanie Luttrell, Darryl C. Galvan, Richard L. Cleghorn, Charles E. Golden, Noah de la Cruz, Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9717960Abstract: A golf club with a multi-material face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has a striking face that forms a pocket, wherein the pocket is filled with a secondary material having a lower density to improve the performance of the golf club head. The multi-material face disclosed in accordance with the present invention may generally have an inter laminar shear strength of greater than about 60 MPa, most preferably greater than about 60 MPa and less than about 145 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Charles E. Golden, Noah de la Cruz
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Patent number: 9700766Abstract: A golf club head with an improved striking face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention utilizes an innovative die quenching method that can alter the Young's modulus of the material of the striking face. The striking face portion of the present invention generally created from an ?+? titanium alloy such as SP 700 that contains a ? rich alloy composition to create more phase change in the alloying elements. In a preferred embodiment, the die quenching process could create a localized change in the material's Young's modulus throughout different regions of the striking face, resulting in a change in the Young's modulus of the material within the same striking face.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Uday V. Deshmukh, Heng-Jui Henry Yeh
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Publication number: 20170189770Abstract: A golf club head including a multi-piece construction. The golf club head includes a plurality of body components coupled at a seam. A weight member is coupled to the golf club head so that it overlaps a seam.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Ronald K. Hettinger, Uday V. Deshmukh, Gentry Ferguson, Eddie G. Perez
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Publication number: 20170136318Abstract: A golf club head made out of multi-material is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has at least a portion of the body of the golf club head that is further comprised out of a base layer and a lightweight cover layer. The base layer may have a plurality of cutouts to help reduce unnecessary mass and the lightweight cover layer may be made out of an ultra-lightweight material to further reduce the unnecessary mass. The present invention achieves this without sacrificing the sound performance of the golf club head.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Stephen S. Murphy, Charles E. Golden, Mark C. Myrhum, Richard L. Cleghorn, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Publication number: 20170136315Abstract: A golf club head made out of multi-material is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has at least a portion of the body of the golf club head that is further comprised out of a base layer and a lightweight cover layer. The base layer may have a plurality of cutouts to help reduce unnecessary mass and the lightweight cover layer may be made out of an ultra-lightweight material to further reduce the unnecessary mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh, Darryl C. Galvan
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Publication number: 20170136314Abstract: A golf club head made out of multi-material is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has at least a portion of the body of the golf club head that is further comprised out of a base layer and a lightweight cover layer. The base layer may have a plurality of cutouts to help reduce unnecessary mass and the lightweight cover layer may be made out of an ultra-lightweight material to further reduce the unnecessary mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: ACUSHNET COMPANYInventors: Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Patent number: 9616305Abstract: A golf club that utilizes multiple materials to achieve improved performance is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of forming golf club that utilizes different materials to construct different portions of the iron type golf club head allowing weight to be removed from portions of the golf club head that doesn't require such weighting. The current invention utilizes a lightweight material to form a blade portion of the golf club head while utilizing a standard steel material to form the hosel portion of the golf club head to allow the malleability characteristics of a golf club head to be maintained. The weight saved from the lightweight material used to create the blade portion can then be used to create a sole insert that is made out of a dense and heavy material to improve the CG and MOI characteristics of the golf club head to dramatically improve the performance of the golf club head.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Ronald K. Hettinger, Uday V. Deshmukh, Keisuke Yamane, Jonathan Hebreo
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Patent number: 9616304Abstract: A co-forged iron type golf club is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention discloses a co-forged iron type golf club with the body portion made out of a first material and at least one weight adjustment portion monolithically encased within the body portion of the co-forged iron type golf club head without the need for secondary attachment or machining operations. The present invention creates of an iron type golf club head from a pre-form billet that already contains two or more materials before the actual forging process resulting in a multi-material golf club head that doesn't require any post manufacturing operations such as machining, welding, swaging, gluing, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Ronald K. Hettinger, Jonathan Hebreo
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Publication number: 20170095711Abstract: A method of forming a crown of a golf club head including casting the crown of the golf club head, the crown including an internal surface adjacent a hollow interior of the golf club head, and an external surface opposite the internal surface, the crown including a first region and a second region adjacent the first region, the first region including a recess formed in the internal surface, the first region including a sacrificial protrusion on the external surface extending outwards beyond the second region; applying a mask to the external surface of the second region; exposing the crown of the golf club head to an etching chemical, wherein the etching chemical removes the sacrificial protrusion from the external surface of the crown; removing the etching chemical from the crown of the golf club head; and removing the mask from the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Gentry Ferguson, Takeshi Casey Funaki, Stephanie Luttrell, Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9561410Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball, and is tuned to vibrate, immediately after impact, at a predetermined frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Thomas Orrin Bennett, Stephanie Bezilla, Richard L. Cleghorn, Uday V. Deshmukh, Noah de la Cruz, Darryl C. Galvan, Charles E. Golden, Marni Ines, John Morin, Stephen S. Murphy, Mark C. Myrhum, Gery Zimmerman
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Patent number: 9561408Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball. The flexure is tuned to vibrate, immediately after impact, at a predetermined frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Stephanie Bezilla, Uday V. Deshmukh, Charles E. Golden, Mark C. Myrhum, Noah de la Cruz, John Morin, Darryl C. Galvan
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Publication number: 20160346646Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball, and is tuned to vibrate, immediately after impact, at a predetermined frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Thomas Orrin Bennett, Nick Frame, Sang Yi, Stephen S. Murphy, David S. Cornelius, Grant M. Martens, Mitchell E. Bac, Stephanie Luttrell, Darryl C. Galvan, Richard L. Cleghorn, Charles E. Golden, Noah de la Cruz, Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9504887Abstract: An iron type golf club head comprising a blade portion located near a terminal end of said iron type golf club head, wherein over 50% of said blade portion is made out of a first material; a hosel portion located near a proximal end of said iron type golf club head, wherein over 50% of said hosel portion is made out of a second material; and a bifurcation plane defined as a plane that is perpendicular to said striking face positioned at a distance of 30 mm heel-ward along an X-axis from a face center of said iron type golf club head, said bifurcation plane separating said blade portion from said hosel portion; wherein said first material has a yield strength greater than about 570 MPa; wherein said second material has a yield strength less than about 570 MPa.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Marni Ines, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9480887Abstract: An improved striking face of a golf club head and a method of manufacturing thereof is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention discloses an improved method of stamped forging variable face geometry onto the rear surface of a striking face from a frontal portion of the striking face; wherein the improved process allows for more precise finished parts with less need for complicated machining. The resulting striking face of a golf club head comprises of a substantially planar frontal surface and a substantially non-planar rear surface, wherein the substantially non-planar rear surface is created via a stamped forging process while the substantially planar frontal surface is created via a machining process.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 9433835Abstract: A golf club head with an improved striking face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention utilizes an innovative die quenching method that can alter the Young's modulus of the material of the striking face. The striking face portion of the present invention generally created from an ?+? titanium alloy such as SP 700 that contains a ? rich alloy composition to create more phase change in the alloying elements. In a preferred embodiment, the die quenching process could create a localized change in the material's Young's modulus throughout different regions of the striking face, resulting in a change in the Young's modulus of the material within the same striking face.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Uday V. Deshmukh, Heng-Jui Henry Yeh
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Patent number: 9409067Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball, and is tuned to vibrate, immediately after impact, at a predetermined frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Noah de la Cruz, Charles E. Golden, Stephanie Bezilla, Darryl C. Galvan, Mark C. Myrhum, Gery M. Zimmerman, Uday V. Deshmukh
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Publication number: 20160184669Abstract: A co-forged iron type golf club is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention discloses a co-forged iron type golf club with the body portion made out of a first material and at least one weight adjustment portion monolithically encased within the body portion of the co-forged iron type golf club head without the need for secondary attachment or machining operations. The present invention creates of an iron type golf club head from a pre-form billet that already contains two or more materials before the actual forging process resulting in a multi-material golf club head that doesn't require any post manufacturing operations such as machining, welding, swaging, gluing, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Ryan J.A. Ritchie, Jonathan Hebreo