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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 1994
Filed:
May. 22, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kengo Oka, Kobe, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Inc., Kobe, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
273232 ;
Abstract
In a golf ball having dimples and lands other than the dimples formed on the surface thereof, dimples are arranged so that less than 40 lands are provided which contain a rectangle having a short side greater than 0.4 mm and an area greater than 0.8 mm.sup.2 and not including a part of the dimple or the whole thereof. A land having the greatest area of all lands is so small that a dimple having an area greater than the average area of all dimples cannot be formed therein.