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Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd., Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kobe, JP;

Kiyofumi Matsunaga, Kobe, JP;

Takeshi Shimauchi, Kobe, JP;

Assignee:

DUNLOP SPORTS CO. LTD., Kobe-Shi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 53/10 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 53/10 (2013.01); A63B 2209/023 (2013.01); A63B 2225/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A shaftincludes full length layers provided wholly in a longitudinal direction of the shaft, and a tip end partial layer provided on a tip part of the shaft. The full length layers include a bias layer and a straight layer. The tip end partial layer includes an inner glass fiber reinforced layer. When a full length of the shaft is defined as Ls, and a distance between a tip end of the shaft and a center of gravity G of the shaft is defined as Lg, a ratio (Lg/Ls) is equal to or greater than 0.52 and equal to or less than 0.65. A weight of the shaft is equal to or less than 65 g. Preferably, the inner glass fiber reinforced layer is positioned inside the bias layer.


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