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).

  • Co-forged golf club head and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 9616304
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Ronald K. Hettinger, Jonathan Hebreo
  • VARIABLE THICKNESS GOLF CLUB HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170095711
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Gentry Ferguson, Takeshi Casey Funaki, Stephanie Luttrell, Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh
  • Golf club head with flexure
    Patent number: 9561408
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Stephanie Bezilla, Uday V. Deshmukh, Charles E. Golden, Mark C. Myrhum, Noah de la Cruz, John Morin, Darryl C. Galvan
  • Golf club head with flexure
    Patent number: 9561410
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: 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
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH FLEXURE
    Publication number: 20160346646
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: 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
  • Multi-material iron type golf club head
    Patent number: 9504887
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Marni Ines, Uday V. Deshmukh
  • Method of manufacturing a striking face of a golf club head
    Patent number: 9480887
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Mark C. Myrhum, Uday V. Deshmukh
  • Golf club head with improved striking face
    Patent number: 9433835
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Uday V. Deshmukh, Heng-Jui Henry Yeh
  • Golf club head with flexure
    Patent number: 9409067
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Noah de la Cruz, Charles E. Golden, Stephanie Bezilla, Darryl C. Galvan, Mark C. Myrhum, Gery M. Zimmerman, Uday V. Deshmukh
  • CO-FORGED GOLF CLUB HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20160184669
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Ryan J.A. Ritchie, Jonathan Hebreo
  • Golf club head having a multi-material face
    Patent number: 9370698
    Abstract: 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 a characteristic time slope of greater than about 5 and less than about 50, wherein the characteristic time slope is determined based on the various data points collected according to the United States Golf Association's (USGA's) Characteristic Time (CT) test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Charles E. Golden
  • Mid-density materials for golf applications
    Patent number: 9327172
    Abstract: The golf club head has a body comprising a crown portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, heel portion, hosel portion, rear portion, and a front portion including a striking face. At least one or more portions of the body of the golf club head is made out of at least one or more mid-density materials. The at least one mid-density material or composite of mid-density materials have a density within a range from about 4.5 g/cm3 to 7.9 g/cm3. The mid-density material or composite of mid-density materials provide sufficient stiffness at a reduced weight to optimize the center of gravity and moment of inertia of the golf club head. Also, by using mid-density materials, discretionary weight of the golf club head is increased which can be used to position higher density weights at selective portions of the golf club head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Ronald K. Hettinger
  • Golf club head with flexure
    Patent number: 9320949
    Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The golf club head includes a multi-material construction including a face member, a midsection and an aft member that allows optimization of the mass distribution of the golf club head. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Charles E. Golden, Uday V. Deshmukh, Stephanie Bezilla, Mark C. Myrhum, Stephen S. Murphy
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH FLEXURE
    Publication number: 20160101328
    Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The face is configured to provide varying stiffness while minimizing the change in thickness across the face. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Stephanie Luttrell, Noah de la Cruz, Charles E. Golden, Uday V. Deshmukh
  • CO-FORGED GOLF CLUB HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE
    Publication number: 20160089581
    Abstract: A forged golf club face has a continuous outer layer of a first material encasing at least one inner layer made of second material. The materials may have differing properties, such as Young's Modulus, density, and strength properties, among others. By incorporating the different materials into the outer layer and the inner layer, the coefficient of restitution (COR) of the golf club face is improved without sacrificing durability. The club face is forged from a pre-formed billet having at least one monolithically encased inner layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Uday V. Deshmukh
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD HAVING A MULTI-MATERIAL FACE
    Publication number: 20160051868
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, Charles E. Golden, Noah de la Cruz
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD HAVING A MULTI-MATERIAL FACE
    Publication number: 20160038799
    Abstract: 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 a characteristic time slope of greater than about 5 and less than about 50, wherein the characteristic time slope is determined based on the various data points collected according to the United States Golf Association's (USGA's) Characteristic Time (CT) test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Noah de la Cruz, Christopher D. Harvell, Charles E. Golden, Uday V. Deshmukh
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE
    Publication number: 20150360093
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Ryuichi Sugimae, Uday V. Deshmukh, Heng-Jui Henry Yeh
  • GOLF CLUB HEAD WITH IMPROVED COMPOSITE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20150360094
    Abstract: A golf club with a multi-material face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention discloses a golf club head with a composite material wherein the composite material has a significantly lower Fiber Areal Weight (FAW) less than about 50 grams per meters square (gsm). In one embodiment of the invention the golf club head 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventor: Uday V. Deshmukh
  • Golf club head with flexure
    Patent number: 9211448
    Abstract: A golf club head including a crown, a sole, a hosel, a face and a flexure. The face is configured to provide varying stiffness while minimizing the change in thickness across the face. The flexure provides compliance during an impact between the golf club head and a golf ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Stephanie Bezilla, Noah de la Cruz, Charles E. Golden, Uday V. Deshmukh