Magnetic badminton racket and magnetic shuttlecock

Abstract

The invention discloses a magnetic badminton racket comprising: a handle, a shaft, a head frame including an outer surface and an inner surface and a plurality of gut strings crisscrossed within the inner surface. The head frame is provided with a magnet mounting section centered on its top, and several sockets are provided into the outer surface, spaced from each other and vertical to the outer surface. Several small neodymium magnets are fixed within the sockets, with their top surfaces exposed and flush with the outer surface. Each magnet is in the shape of a cylinder, cuboid, truncated cone or truncated quadrangular pyramid, which possesses strong magnetic attraction, is not subject to detaching and would not affect the aesthetic appearance of the racket. The invention also discloses a shuttlecock suitable for use together with the racket, to enable to pick up shuttlecock conveniently by mean of magnetic attraction therebetween.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The application claims the priority benefits of Chinese Patent Application No.201410116593.8 filed on Mar. 26, 2014, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention generally relates to sporting goods for ball games, and particularly to a kind of magnetic badminton racket and a kind of magnetic shuttlecock.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Badminton is a kind of favorite ball game for most people. Sporting goods for badminton are very simple and this kind of ball game does not need a large scale sports field. However, since a cork of a shuttlecock is not elastic enough to enable the shuttlecock to bounce after falling down to the floor, the players need to bend down frequently to pick up the shuttlecock, which may make them feel tired. Thus, it is desirable to develop a kind of sporting goods for badminton which could make it easy to pick up shuttlecocks.[0004]A C...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a magnetic badminton racket with strong magnetic attraction and a simple structure. The magnets in the racket are not subject to detaching from the racket and would not affect its aesthetic appearance. The alloy steel ring of the present shuttlecock has relative strong strength, is not subject to deformation and damage, and the resilience of the elastic cork would not be affected. During the wave of the badminton racket, the chance of contact between the badminton racket and the alloy steel ring would be lowered significantly. The performance of the magnetic shuttlecocks of the present invention is just similar to that of traditional shuttlecocks. The magnets mounted in the head frame could conveniently pick up the shuttlecock for users.

Problems solved by technology

However, since a cork of a shuttlecock is not elastic enough to enable the shuttlecock to bounce after falling down to the floor, the players need to bend down frequently to pick up the shuttlecock, which may make them feel tired.

However, in the above-mentioned conventional magnetic badminton racket 40, the magnets 47 are provided at a top part of an outer ring of the head frame 44 and are exposed therefrom, which is not aesthetic.

In addition, if the magnets 47 are mounted within the head frame 44, the strength of the magnetic attraction would be weakened due to the interference of the head frame, and then would be not sufficient to attract the iron ring of the shuttlecock.

However, the iron sheet is subject to rusting, and the strength of iron sheet is weaker than that of steel sheet for many times, which make the iron sheet with such a thin thickness to be subject to deformation or even damage by virtue of pressure of only one finger.

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