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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Sato, Chichibu, JP;
Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A golf ball includes plural dimples formed on a surface thereof and plural depressed or protruded portions spaced apart from each other and arranged along an outer periphery of at least one of the plural dimples. The plural depressed or protruded portions each has, as a part of a contour thereof, a shape substantially similar to a part of a contour of the dimple surrounded with the plural depressed or protruded portions. The plural depressed or protruded portions each has a length of more than 1/10 and less than ½ of an outer peripheral length of the dimple surrounded with the plural depressed or protruded portions.