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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2016
Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd., Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Hyoungchol Kim, Kobe, JP;
Masahide Onuki, Kobe, JP;
Takahiro Sajima, Kobe, JP;
Kohei Mimura, Kobe, JP;
SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe-Shi, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A golf ball has, on a surface thereof, a rugged pattern composed of a land and a large number of dimples. A method for designing the rugged pattern includes the steps of: (1) assuming a large number of circles on a surface of a phantom sphere; (2) assuming a large number of generating pointsbased on positions of the large number of circles; (3) assuming a large number of Voronoi regionson the surface of the phantom sphere by a Voronoi tessellation based on the large number of generating points; and (4) assigning a dimple and a land to the surface of the phantom sphere based on contours of the large number of Voronoi regions