Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7618331 | Golf club head A golf club head comprises a face portion having a front face defining the club face and a rear face facing a hollow, wherein the face portion is provided on the rear face with an upper rib, a lower rib, a toe-side groove and a heel-side groove which extend radially... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7473191 | Golf club head A hollow golf club head comprises: a face portion; a crown portion; a sole portion; and a side portion between the crown portion and sole portion, extending from a toe-side edge to a heel-side edge of the club face through the back face of the head. The crown portio... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7427240 | Shaft for golf clubs and golf club Each point obtained by plotting flexural rigidity EI measured at ten sites on a shaft is defined as from T(1) to T(10) in this order from the head side, and the formula representing a line K that passes the T(1) and the T(10) is [Y=aX+b | 09/23/2008 |
| 7384352 | Golf ball Golf ball 2 has a center 8, mid layer 10 and a cover 6. The mid layer 10 is formed by a resin composition containing a metal oxide with a three-dimensional shape. A D hardness of the mid layer 10 is 32 or greater and 39 or l... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7331879 | Golf ball Golf ball 2 has a northern hemisphere N above the equatorial line 16, and a southern hemisphere S below the equatorial line 16. Each of the northern hemisphere N and the southern hemisphere S has a pole vicinity region 18, an equator vici... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7291077 | Golf ball Golf ball 2 has numerous dimples 8 formed on its surface. The dimple 8 has a first side wall face 14, a second side wall face 16 that is positioned to the bottom side of this first side wall face 14, and a bottom face 18 | 11/06/2007 |
| 7261650 | Golf ball Golf ball 2 has a core 4, a mid layer 5 and a cover 6. The mid layer 5 has a hardness of 50 or greater and 70 or less, and a thickness of equal to or greater than 0.8 mm. The cover 6 has a hardness of less than 57, and a thi... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261649 | Golf ball Golf ball 2 has a center 8, a mid layer 10, a cover 6 and dimples 12. The mid layer 10 includes a styrene block-containing thermoplastic elastomer having a material hardness of less than 10, and an ethylene-(meth)acrylic aci... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261645 | Golf club head A hollow golf club head comprises: a metal member made of at least one kind of metal material having at least one opening in a crown portion thereof; and a FRP member made of a fiber reinforced resin attached to the metal member so... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252599 | Golf club head A hollow golf club head is formed form a metal member with at least one opening. An FRP member made of a fiber reinforced resin is attached to the metal member to cover the opening. The metal member has at least one slit extending along at least a periphery of the o... | 08/07/2007 |
