Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

Trexel, Inc.

Kelvin Tsugio Okamoto

Hyun Jin Kim

Hong Guk Jeon

Jere R Anderson

Kent Blizard

David Edward Pierick

Dean A Snell

Levi A Kishbaugh

Jingyi Xu

Liqin Chen

Kevin J Levesque

Albert H Guillemette

Richard S Straff

A golf ball core that includes a center point having a first hardness value and/or first specific gravity value, and a surface having a second hardness value and/or second specific gravity value. The first hardness value, or first specific gravity value, is different from the second hardness value, or second specific gravity value, respectively.

Golf ball having cross-core hardness differential and method for making it

A golf ball including a composition having an unsaturated polymer, a cross-linking agent, a peptizer, and an accelerator. The composition can be incorporated into the golf ball's core, intermediate layers, and cover layers, and can provide optimal performance and durability properties. The golf balls incorporating the composition are easy to manufacture.

Golf ball incorporating peptizers and method of manufacture

The present invention is directed to a two-piece golf ball having a core and a cover, wherein the core comprises at least one unsaturated polymer, at least one cross-linking agent, at least one co-cross-linking agent, and at least one peptizer (comprising one or more organic sulfur compounds, or one or more metal or non-metal salts of an organic sulfur compound), and optionally at least one weight adjusting filler. The improved two-piece balls have optimal velocity and distance performance, as well as excellent shot feel, the called 'long and soft' combination. The balls also demonstrate excellent durability properties, and ease of manufacture.

Two-piece golf ball having an improved core composition

Golf balls incorporating peptizers and method of manufacture

A golf ball, and method for making it, are disclosed wherein the golf ball includes a core including a center point having a first hardness value and/or first specific gravity value and an outer surface having a second hardness value and/or second specific gravity value. The first and second hardness values and the first and second specific gravity values are different from each other.

Polymer molding processes, such as injection-molding processes, include use of a viscosity-reducing supercritical fluid additive resulting in less breakage of reinforcing fibers upon introduction into the mold.

Fiber-filled molded articles

A golf ball incorporates nanofiller material in its core, cover, or intermediate layers. Also, a method includes a step of blending into a composition for a golf ball nanocomposite material, nanofiller material or both. The nanocomposite and/or nanofiller materials impart favorable properties to materials used for golf balls, and they provide for greater versatility in usage than materials previously used. Particular compositions incorporating nanocomposite material also are described as suited for use in golf ball compositions.

Golf balls incorporating nanofillers and methods for making such golf balls

A microcellular injection blow molding system and method, and microcellular blow molded articles produced thereby, are described. The system is equipped to extrude microcellular material that changes in thickness, material density, or both in the machine direction while maintaining a constant pressure drop rate during nucleation just prior to extrusion, providing the ability to produce consistent uniform microcellular material independent of material thickness. The systems and methods are particularly useful in production of strong, thin-walled, non-liquid-permeable, opaque containers that do not contain reinforcing agent, chromophore, or residue of chemical blowing agent or chemical blowing agent by-product.

Microcelluar extrusion/blow molding process and article made thereby

Systems and techniques for forming microcellular polymeric material, via injection molding, blow molding, continuous extrusion, or the like, at very low blowing agent levels, are described. The invention involves, in one aspect, the discovery of a region of very low blowing agent level where, surprisingly, microcellular material can be formed. Articles with particularly good surface properties are provided.

Polymer foam processing with low blowing agent levels

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) foams that are essentially free of residual chemical blowing agents and reaction-by-products of chemical blowing agent are provided. The HDPE foams can be either microcellular foams or conventional foams. She foams can be produced in extrusion, injection molding, and blow molding processes that utilize a physical blowing agent. Specific die designs useful for making high quality foams are described.

Polyethylene foams and methods of their production

Semi-crystalline microcellular foams that include a midlevel amount of nucleating agent, and methods of their production, are provided. The microcellular foams can be produced in typical polymer processing techniques such as extrusion, injection molding and blow molding. The foams exhibit excellent mechanical properties and can be formed over a broad range of density into a number of different foam articles.

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Carlsbad, CA, United States of America

Kelvin Tsugio Okamoto