US20050148404A1 - Percussion instrument for games with a percussively or impact-moved play body - Google Patents

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US20050148404A1
US20050148404A1 US10/500,496 US50049605A US2005148404A1 US 20050148404 A1 US20050148404 A1 US 20050148404A1 US 50049605 A US50049605 A US 50049605A US 2005148404 A1 US2005148404 A1 US 2005148404A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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    • A63B59/70—Bats, rackets, or the like, not covered by groups A63B49/00 - A63B57/00 with bent or angled lower parts for hitting a ball on the ground, on an ice-covered surface, or in the air, e.g. for hockey or hurling
    • 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
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    • 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
    • A63B60/48—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like with corrugated cross-section
    • 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
    • A63B60/54—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like with means for damping vibrations
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2102/00—Application of clubs, bats, rackets or the like to the sporting activity ; particular sports involving the use of balls and clubs, bats, rackets, or the like
    • A63B2102/18—Baseball, rounders or similar games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2102/00—Application of clubs, bats, rackets or the like to the sporting activity ; particular sports involving the use of balls and clubs, bats, rackets, or the like
    • A63B2102/24—Ice hockey
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B49/00—Stringed rackets, e.g. for tennis
    • 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
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B59/00—Bats, rackets, or the like, not covered by groups A63B49/00 - A63B57/00
    • A63B59/50—Substantially rod-shaped bats for hitting a ball in the air, e.g. for baseball

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  • the invention relates to an impacting instrument for games with a playing object moved in an impacting or intermittent manner. These games include, among others, hockey, golf and baseball.
  • the impacting instrument includes an actuation part, which is also referred to, in brief, as “stick”, with a short extension part, called a “shaft”, as well as a handle and an impact part, for example, in the form of a blade or a club, entering into direct, dynamic operative connection with the playing object.
  • actuation part which is also referred to, in brief, as “stick”
  • shaft short extension part
  • impact part for example, in the form of a blade or a club, entering into direct, dynamic operative connection with the playing object.
  • bats, clubs or rackets are on the market and generally known.
  • the impact part is subjected directly to a strong, dynamic stress by the play body, which strikes it at high speed.
  • the dynamic stress is composed essentially of pulse-like impact forces with very steep flanks, which are transferred to the stick and, with that, also to the handle.
  • the stick and the impact part are constructions, which are able to vibrate and, due to the frequencies contained in the pulse flanks, can be excited to oscillate at their characteristic vibrations. Because of the existing coupling, the vibrations are also transferred to the actuating part, especially the handle and, with that, also to the hand and/or the arm of the player.
  • a first step in this connection is the making available of a plurality of singular three-dimensional and/or two-dimensional and/or one-dimensional regions, which differ due to vibrationally relevant, especially resonance relevant, material and/or shape and dimensional parameters of their respective surroundings. Moreover, in practice, as large a number as possible of such singular regions is to be aimed for. These singular regions are then to be arranged in the form of at least one sequence, which extends over at least a portion of the impacting instrument and corresponds to at least one ordered sequence, especially to a mathematically or also an algorithmically determinable series. In practice, comparatively large numbers of sequences, which are to be arranged on the impacting instrument, once again come into consideration here.
  • the singular regions With their mutual distances and, with that, also with the sequences, are disposed at or in the impacting instrument, the latter represent subdivisions of the vibrating body. In relation to the original, that is, not subdivided vibrating body, this leads to additional and, moreover, in general, higher characteristic vibrations and also to an elevation in the original characteristic vibrations, that is, to a correspondingly changed characteristic vibration spectrum.
  • the characteristic vibration density and its distribution over the frequency band in question can be modified and adapted or optimized in various ways in accordance with the given functional requirements by different configurational measures involving the construction and the dimensions as well as the selection of the material of the singular regions and the sequences.
  • the characteristic vibrations of the changed impacting instrument are stimulated with correspondingly higher frequency distribution in accordance with the now given spectrum, which has a point of concentration, which lies generally at higher frequencies.
  • the vibrational amplitudes, at any rate, in general are decreased as a result of the organization of the vibrating bodies with the sequences of the singular regions.
  • the basic inventive construction is suitable for accomplishing the object of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of an inattentive impacting instrument with a plan view of the impact part
  • FIG. 2 shows a partially longitudinal section of a tubular handle with an external sequence of singular regions
  • FIG. 3 shows a partially longitudinal section of a tubular handle with an external and an internal sequence of singular regions
  • FIG. 4 shows a p artial p erspective view of a handle with an organization of sequences of singular regions, extending multidimensionally
  • FIG. 5 shows a hockey stick, the shaft part of which has thickenings, which, in the longitudinal direction of the shaft, are disposed in sequence with respect to their axial distances from one another as well as there axial width and/or their radial thickness,
  • FIG. 6 shows a hockey stick, the shaft of which has an arrangement of ring-like thickenings, similar to those of FIG. 5 , which are constructed in each case concentrated on the regions extending in the longitudinal direction of the shaft,
  • FIG. 7 shows a baseball bat, the impact part of which, which is constructed, for example, cylindrically here, has ring-like singular regions, which are disposed consecutively in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder with varying distances from one another and also have varying axial and/or radial dimensions,
  • FIG. 8 shows a variation of an embodiment of a baseball bat of FIG. 7 , for which the singular regions are constructed as circular depressions at the periphery of the impact part and are covered by a cylindrical enveloping element and
  • FIG. 9 shows a further variation of an embodiment of a baseball bat, for which the singular regions are constructed as axial depressions at the periphery of the impact part and are covered once again by a cylindrical enveloping element.
  • the impacting instrument shown as example in FIG. 1 , comprises an actuating part BT and an impact part PT, entering into direct dynamic operative connection with the playing object, such as a puck in ice hockey or a ball in lawn or roller hockey.
  • the parts are provided with organizations, which affect the characteristic vibration spectrum and consist of a sequence of a plurality of singular three-dimensional, two-dimensional and one-dimensional regions. These singular regions are determined owing to the fact that they differ from at least a part of their respective surroundings by at least one material and/or shape or dimensional parameter of relevance to vibration and especially to resonance and especially by a different mass, mass density, deformation stiffness and/or damping. Within these sequences, the singular regions in each case form an ordered series, which extends at least over a portion of the impacting instrument.
  • a first sequence A 1 with singular regions or vibrational elements F 1 extends in the longitudinal direction of the actuating part BT.
  • the vibration elements are constructed here, for example, as sections of a layer, which contain metal and therefore are weight-loaded more heavily than their surroundings, and which are applied by screen-printing.
  • the characteristics of the sequence A 1 are determined by the superimposition of a plurality of singular regions or vibrational elements F 1 , which, in each case, are in series that are equally spaced apart. These distances vary from series to series and are determined by a whole-number subdivision of a specified section of the length of the actuating part and, moreover, in the sense of a variance of the mutual intervals between the singular regions corresponding to a harmonic series with relative interval amounts 1 ⁇ 2, 1 ⁇ 3, 1 ⁇ 4, indicated in FIG. 1 and related in each case to the whole of the length of the section of the actuating part.
  • the representation of the superimpositions in FIG. 1 has been omitted after these three first series. Actually, such organizations are continued very much further and up to relatively fine subdivisions. Correspondingly smaller dimensions of the singular regions or of an additional variance of the surface dimensions region are then required for this purpose.
  • the impact part PT also comprises an actively vibrating organization A 2 with singular regions and, moreover, once again in the form of a plurality of superimposed sequences, in each case equidistant from one another.
  • This organization may be constructed as in the case of the actuating part and is indicated only summarily in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 2 shows an example of a regional sequence in tubular handles, varying in accordance with a geometric series.
  • Two-dimensional, ring-like vibrational elements or singular regions F 2 are disposed here in the longitudinal direction of the tube with mutual intervals at the outside of the tube.
  • the elements F 2 have the same width al, whereas their intervals are dimensioned in accordance with a degressive geometric series x, x 2 , x 3 . . . (x ⁇ 1).
  • FIG. 3 once again shows the use of a geometric series, however with constant intervals a 2 between the vibrational elements or singular regions F 3 , which follow one another in the longitudinal direction of the tube and the widths a 2 of which, however, are now dimensioned in accordance with a degressively geometric series x, x 2 , x 3 . . . (x ⁇ 1).
  • such elements are disposed not only at the outside of the tube, but also at the surface of the inner cavity in quite an appropriate manner.
  • FIG. 4 shows, once again at a tubular actuating part BT, vibrational elements R, which determine singular regions with a spatial extent.
  • vibrational elements or singular regions are to be understood as countersunk intercalations, perhaps of a material with a comparatively high mass density, in the wall of the outer surface of the actuating part BT.
  • the vibrational elements are provided in two multidimensional, essentially orthogonal sequences, namely, in accordance with arrow P 2 , in the axial direction of the tube and, in accordance with arrow P 3 , in the peripheral direction of the tube.
  • This variant makes possible a differentiated, optionally accordant effect on waves progressing in the longitudinal direction and circumferential direction of the tube and of standing waves extending in these directions.
  • an actuating part BTG consisting of a shaft ST and a handle H, as well as a club-like impact part PTG, are indicated.
  • the shaft In the longitudinal direction with respect to their mutual axial intervals as well as their axial width and/or their radial thickness, the shaft has thickenings V, which are disposed in sequence. The latter act as singular regions or vibrational elements in the sense of the invention. It is a question here of a repeatedly superimposed structure in the above described sense with equidistant series structures, their respective equal distances as a whole forming a harmonic series or several such series. This is also the case for the golf club of FIG. 6 , the shaft ST of which once again has an arrangement of ring-like thickenings R, which are constructed, however, as discrete annular bodies and, accordingly, are concentrated in the axial regions extending in the longitudinal direction of the shaft.
  • the baseball bat given as an example in FIG. 7 , has a stick-shaped actuating part BTB, as well as an essentially cylindrical constructed impact part PTB with ring-like singular regions or vibrational elements SB, which are disposed consecutively in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder with varying mutual distances from one another and also have varying axial or radial dimensions.
  • the optionally approximately cylindrical outer surface of the intact part is in any case maintained smooth, which can be achieved by an appropriate configuration of the outer surface of the ring-like vibrational elements.
  • These annular bodies can be produced, for example, divided or severed only on one side and then inserted in and snapped into appropriate annular grooves of the impact part.
  • the material of the v ibrational elements preferably has a relatively large mass density.
  • the singular regions are constructed as circular depressions ESZ at the polyphony of an impact part PTBa and covered by a cylindrical sleeve HL. Between these depressions, singular regions or vibrational elements are formed, which represent, with regards to the mutual distances between them or their axial distance from one or both ends of the organization, an overlapping of a multitude of at least approximately equidistant sequences of these singular regions. With that, sensitive adaptations in accordance with different optimization requirements can be achieved.
  • the variation of a baseball bat of FIG. 9 shows vibrational elements or singular regions, which are formed by depressions ESA extending at the periphery and in the axial direction of, for example, a cylindrical impact part and are covered once again by a cylindrical enveloping element HL.
  • these vibrational elements overall represent a superimposition of a plurality of at least approximately equidistant sequences of these singular regions, which extend here however in the peripheral direction of the impact part.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 also come into consideration. With that, with respect to a cylindrical section within the impact part or at the inside of the enveloping element, a plurality of radially protruding vibrational elements with an angular or also a rounded cross section, arises. This is a high vibrationally active or resonance-active arrangement of the characteristic frequency spectrum of the impact instrument.

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