US 7,563,182 B2
Polymer composition and golf ball made using the same
Jun Shindo, Chichibu (Japan); Eiji Takehana, Chichibu (Japan); and Kae Yamazaki, Chichibu (Japan)
Assigned to Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/878,945.
Application 11/878945 is a continuation in part of application No. 11/324297, filed on Jan. 04, 2006, granted, now 7,294,067.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-174021 (JP), filed on Jul. 02, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0032823 A1, Feb. 07, 2008
Int. Cl. A63B 37/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 473—378 14 Claims
 
1. A polymer composition comprising:
(A) 100 parts by weight of an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid random copolymer and/or an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester random copolymer, and
(B) from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a metal oxide capable of neutralizing acid groups in component A;
wherein the metal oxide is produced by plasma synthesis, laser synthesis or flame synthesis and has an average particle diameter of at most 200 nm.