EP0925810B1 - Club de golf avec revêtement appliqué par pulvérisation thermique - Google Patents

Club de golf avec revêtement appliqué par pulvérisation thermique Download PDF

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EP0925810B1
EP0925810B1 EP98123356A EP98123356A EP0925810B1 EP 0925810 B1 EP0925810 B1 EP 0925810B1 EP 98123356 A EP98123356 A EP 98123356A EP 98123356 A EP98123356 A EP 98123356A EP 0925810 B1 EP0925810 B1 EP 0925810B1
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Heinrich Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kreye
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
    • C23C4/00—Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge
    • C23C4/04—Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge characterised by the coating material
    • C23C4/10—Oxides, borides, carbides, nitrides or silicides; Mixtures thereof
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B53/00—Golf clubs
    • A63B53/04—Heads
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B53/00—Golf clubs
    • A63B53/04—Heads
    • A63B53/0416—Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B53/00—Golf clubs
    • A63B53/04—Heads
    • A63B53/0416—Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert
    • A63B53/042—Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert the face insert consisting of a material different from that of the head
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
    • C23C24/00—Coating starting from inorganic powder
    • C23C24/02—Coating starting from inorganic powder by application of pressure only
    • C23C24/04—Impact or kinetic deposition of particles
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
    • C23C4/00—Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge
    • C23C4/12—Coating by spraying the coating material in the molten state, e.g. by flame, plasma or electric discharge characterised by the method of spraying
    • C23C4/129—Flame spraying
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B60/00—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
    • A63B60/004—Striking surfaces coated with high-friction abrasive materials

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  • the invention relates to a method for producing a coated golf club with a club face for hitting golf balls, wherein a coating is applied by means of a thermal spraying method at least in the area of the club face.
  • US 5272802 involves the thermal coating of golf club face. With the coating should v.a. the moment of inertia of the golf club are affected. Plasma spraying is especially recommended, since plasma spraying leads to a particularly firmly adhering layer.
  • WO 97/20961 also discloses the coating of the club face of a golf club by means of flame spraying and plasma spraying, wherein the coating is carried out by spraying molten ceramic particles.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide a method to further improve golf clubs in terms of their impact properties and to design them especially in the field of their clubface so that the possibilities, skills and aptitudes for certain applications are increased.
  • racquets should be made available on the one hand, which allow for particularly wide strokes or even make it possible in the first place.
  • rackets are provided for sensitive soft strokes over short distances.
  • golf clubs should also be pointed out for swirling impacts.
  • the stated object is achieved in that the coating is applied by means of cold gas spraying, wherein a powder having particle sizes of 5 to 100 microns is used.
  • the advantage of the invention is that by producing the coating of the golf club using a thermal spraying method, a wide range of golf clubs of different properties of the coating for Can be provided, which allows an optimal adjustment of the properties and in particular the surface properties of the club face in addition to the possibilities that are already offered by the choice of the material of the racket and in particular the club head anyway.
  • Thermal spray processes offer the possibilities of producing bat coatings of a wide variety of materials, the thermal spraying processes enabling coating compositions which do not allow other coating production processes.
  • Thermal spraying processes are characterized essentially by the fact that they allow uniformly applied coatings of high quality and quality. By thermal spraying applied coatings can be adapted by varying the spray materials and / or the process parameters to different requirements.
  • the spray materials can be processed in the form of wires, rods or as a powder. It may additionally be provided a post-treatment.
  • the thermal spraying for coating knows as process variants in principle the autogenous flame spraying or the high-speed flame spraying, the arc spraying, the plasma spraying, the detonation spraying and the laser spraying.
  • cold gas spraying is also referred to as cold gas spraying. It is a kind of further development of high-speed flame spraying. This method is described, for example, in European Patent EP 0 484 533 B1.
  • cold gas spraying an additional material in powder form is used. The powder particles are melted during cold gas spraying but not in the gas jet. Rather, the temperature of the gas jet is below the melting point of the filler material powder particles (EP 0 484 533 B1).
  • a "cold" or a comparatively colder gas is used in comparison to the conventional spraying method.
  • the gas is heated as well as in the conventional method, but usually only to temperatures below the melting point of the powder particles of the filler material.
  • the powder particles can be accelerated to a speed of 300 to 1600 m / s.
  • speeds of the powder particles between 1000 and 1600 m / s, particularly preferably between 1250 and 1600 m / s, are particularly suitable, since in this case the energy transfer in the form of kinetic energy is particularly high.
  • metals for the coating of golf clubs by thermal spraying, in particular metals, metal alloys, oxides (in particular Al 2 O 3 and / or TiO 2 ), carbides, borides, plastics or mixtures of the abovementioned substances can be used as spraying materials.
  • a powder is used with particle sizes of 5 to 100 microns.
  • Suitable gases for the thermal spraying are, for example, nitrogen, helium, argon, neon, krypton, xenon, a gas containing hydrogen, a carbon-containing gas, in particular carbon dioxide, oxygen, an oxygen-containing gas, air or mixtures of the abovementioned gases.
  • the gas carrying the pulverulent filler material is also suitable for nitrogen, argon, neon, krypton, xenon, oxygen, a gas containing hydrogen, a carbon-containing gas, in particular carbon dioxide , or mixtures of the aforementioned gases and mixtures of these gases with helium.
  • the proportion of helium in the total gas can be up to 90 vol .-%.
  • a helium content of 10 to 50 vol .-% is maintained in the gas mixture.
  • the layers produced in this way adhere very well to a wide variety of substrate materials, for example to the metals or metal alloys of the golf clubs and in particular of the clubhead in the region of the clubface.
  • the coatings are of high quality, have an extremely low porosity and have such spray surfaces that rework is usually unnecessary.
  • the gases mentioned have a sufficient density and speed of sound to ensure the required high speeds of the powder particles, especially in cold gas spraying can.
  • the gas may contain inert and / or reactive gases.
  • the invention offers the possibility to provide golf clubs with impact surfaces with comparatively high spring energy. These are preferably used for far hitting (so-called Patter). It has been shown that these golf clubs of the invention allow extremely wide blows that are not uncontrolled despite the greater width.
  • Soft coating can also be applied by means of the cold gas spraying process.
  • the so equipped golf clubs are first Line for emotional strokes over shorter distances and especially for puttering thought.
  • Thermally sprayed coatings on golf clubs can increase the coefficient of static friction compared to conventional golf clubs. This is due to the fact that a high coefficient of static friction of the coating in the region of the striking surface relative to the golf ball can be achieved by suitable means. With golf clubs such as these, swirl-type impacts (e.g., hook, slice, back spinning) can be easily performed.
  • swirl-type impacts e.g., hook, slice, back spinning
  • the thermally sprayed coating may serve as anti-skid and / or wear protection for the golf club, optionally in addition to other properties.

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  1. Procédé de fabrication d'une canne de golf revêtue dotée d'une surface de percussion destinée à frapper des balles de golf, un revêtement étant appliqué au moins dans la zone de la surface de percussion au moyen d'un procédé de pulvérisation thermique, caractérisé en ce que le revêtement est appliqué par une pulvérisation dans un gaz froid dans laquelle on utilise une poudre de particules d'une taille de 5 à 100 µm.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que dans l'opération de pulvérisation dans un gaz froid, les particules de poudre sont accélérées à 300 - 1600 m/s, de préférence à 1000 - 1600 ms/s et de façon particulièrement préférable à 1250 - 1600 m/s.
  3. Procédé selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que comme matériaux de pulvérisation, on utilise des métaux, des alliages de métaux, des oxydes (en particulier Al2O3 et/ou TiO2), des carbures, des borures, des matières synthétiques ou des mélanges de ces matières.
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le gaz qui transporte le matériau d'addition en poudre lors de la pulvérisation dans un gaz froid est un mélange de gaz qui contient jusque 90 % en volume d'hélium et de préférence de 10 à 50% en volume d'hélium.
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