HOCKEY STICK
A hockey stick includes a shaft and a blade. The blade has a toe end, a heel end, a top edge and a bottom edge. The blade has an opening portion within a region between the toe portion and 1/3 of a length between the toe portion and the heel portion of the blade from the toe portion.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to an ice hockey stuff, and more particularly to a hockey stick.
2. Description of the Related Art
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a hockey stick, which has different structure properties on the blade.
According to the objective of the present invention, a hockey stick includes a shaft and a blade. The blade has a toe end, a heel end, a top edge and a bottom edge. The blade has an opening portion within a region between the toe portion and ⅓ of a length between the toe portion and the heel portion of the blade from the toe portion.
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The advantages of hockey stick the present invention with the opening portion 25 include:
1. The region with the opening portion 25 is more flexible than a center region of the blade that the player can pick and pitch the puck faster and precisely.
2. The opening portion 25 may reduce the weight of the blade 20 about 15% to 20% (Typically, the blade is about 80 g to 100 g, and the opening portion 25 may reduce 10 g to 15 g). The hockey stick is lighter than the conventional hockey stick that make player easier to swing the hockey stick.
3. Compare with the conventional blade, a center of gravity of the blade 20 of the present invention shifts to the heel end 22 that a torque of the blade 20 of the present invention is decreased because the arm between the center of gravity of the blade 20 and hands of player is shortened. That provides a well performance of controlling the puck. The hitting point of the puck on the blade 20 is closer to the center of gravity of the blade 20, or on the center of gravity, that may provide a greater power to hit the puck.
4. The opening portion 25 of the blade 20 may reduce the resistance of air when player swings the hockey stick that may increase the swing speed.
The layout of the openings of the opening portion is not restricted in description of the first preferred embodiment.
The description above is a few preferred embodiments of the present invention and the equivalence of the present invention is still in the scope of the claim of the present invention.
Claims
1. A hockey stick, comprising a shaft and a blade with a toe end, a heel end, a top edge and a bottom edge, wherein the blade has an opening portion within a region between the toe portion and ⅓ of a length between the toe portion and the heel portion of the blade from the toe portion.
2. The hockey stick as defined in claim 1, wherein the opening portion has an opening.
3. The hockey stick as defined in claim 1, wherein the opening portion has a plurality of openings.
4. The hockey stick as defined in claim 3, wherein the openings are vertical.
5. The hockey stick as defined in claim 3, wherein the openings are horizontal.
Type: Application
Filed: Jun 29, 2007
Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009
Inventor: Hsiu Cheng SHIU (Taichung City)
Application Number: 11/770,891
International Classification: A63B 59/14 (20060101);