Patents by Inventor William B. Kelly

William B. Kelly 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).

  • Golf club and other structures, and novel methods for making such structures
    Patent number: 6723279
    Abstract: Golf club structures, including club heads and shafts, composed of composites comprised of a matrix of metal, such as an aluminum alloy, or a plastic material and a fiber such as graphite or a ceramic, which may be whiskerized, and which may also be selectively weighted as in the toe and heel of a club head, with heavy particles such as tungsten metal. The club structure may also be surface hardened by applying a coating of fullerenes to a metal club structure and heat treating it to produce a hard coating of metal carbide, preferably by coating a titanium golf club structure with fullerenes and heat treating the coated structure to produce a titanium carbide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Materials and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Withers, Raouf O. Loutfy, Sion M. Pickard, Kenneth J. Newell, William B. Kelly