1. A golf club, comprising:
a golf club head including a hosel that defines a hosel bore;
an elongate shaft;
a shaft sleeve assembly including a sleeve body, a shaft adapter rotatably coupled to the sleeve body and fixedly coupled to a distal end portion of the shaft, and a locking member that locks the orientation of the shaft adapter relative to the sleeve body;
a fastener that releasably couples the sleeve body to the club head at least partially within the hosel bore, and
a wedge member disposed on the sleeve body and interposed between the sleeve body and the hosel, wherein the wedge member provides a wedge angle between the sleeve body and the hosel.
2. The golf club of claim 1, wherein the shaft adapter comprises a shaft attachment portion and a projection portion, wherein the sleeve body includes a bore that receives the projection portion.
3. The golf club of claim 2, wherein the locking member is coupled to the projection portion and interposed between the sleeve body and the shaft adapter.
4. The golf club of claim 2, wherein the bore of the sleeve body is threaded and the projection portion is threaded.
5. The golf club of claim 4, wherein the locking member is a threaded nut that is received on the threaded projection and interposed between the sleeve body and the shaft adapter.
6. The golf club of claim 1, wherein the wedge member comprises wedge alignment features and the sleeve body comprises sleeve alignment features that engage the wedge alignment features.
7. The golf club of claim 1, further comprising a retainer coupled to the sleeve body, wherein the retainer extends away from an outer surface of the sleeve body, wherein the wedge member is interposed between a portion of the sleeve body and the retainer so that the wedge member is retained on the sleeve body when the shaft sleeve assembly is separate from the golf club head.
8. The golf club of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the shaft adapter is angled relative to the sleeve body so that the shaft is angled relative to the sleeve body by a shaft angle.
9. The golf club of claim 8, wherein the magnitude of the shaft angle is different than the magnitude of the wedge angle.
10. A golf club shaft sleeve assembly for attaching a golf club shaft to a golf club head, comprising:
a sleeve body,
a shaft adapter including a shaft attachment portion configured to be fixedly coupled to a distal end portion of a golf club shaft, wherein the shaft adapter is rotatably coupled to the sleeve body,
a locking member that locks the orientation of the shaft adapter relative to the sleeve body,
a wedge member disposed on the sleeve body, and
a retainer that is coupled to the sleeve body, wherein the retainer extends away from an outer surface of the sleeve body, wherein the wedge member is interposed between a portion of the sleeve body and the retainer so that the wedge member is retained on the sleeve body when the shaft sleeve assembly is separate from a golf club head.
11. The golf club shaft sleeve assembly of claim 10, wherein the retainer is threaded onto the sleeve body.
12. The golf club shaft sleeve assembly of claim 10, wherein the sleeve body comprises sleeve alignment features and the wedge comprises wedge alignment features, wherein the sleeve alignment features complement the wedge alignment features.
13. The golf club shaft sleeve assembly of claim 10, wherein the shaft adapter comprises a shaft attachment portion and a projection portion, wherein the sleeve body includes a bore that receives the projection portion.
14. The golf club shaft sleeve assembly of claim 13, wherein the locking member is coupled to the projection portion and interposed between the sleeve body and the shaft attachment portion.
15. The golf club shaft sleeve assembly of claim 13, wherein the bore of the sleeve body is threaded and the projection portion is threaded.
16. The golf club shaft sleeve assembly of claim 15, wherein the locking member is threaded onto the projection portion.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. An electronic module, comprising:
a printed circuit board including circuitry;
a connector in communication with at least some of the circuitry and configured to interface with a host device;
a housing at least partially enclosing the printed circuit board; and
a latch mechanism, comprising:
a pair of sliders, each slider being slidably arranged relative to the housing, and the sliders being collectively configured and arranged to facilitate selective engagement of the electronic module with the host device; and
a bail configured and arranged such that a change in position of the bail results in a corresponding change in position of the sliders.
2. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, wherein the housing includes first and second opposing portions, each of the sliders being slidably engaged with a corresponding opposing portion of the housing.
3. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, wherein each slider is configured and arranged to selectively engage corresponding structure of the host device.
4. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, wherein the bail is movable between a first position wherein the electronic module is removably latched to the host device, and a second position wherein the electronic module is unlatched from the host device.
5. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, wherein a change in a position of the bail corresponds to substantially linear motion of the sliders.
6. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, wherein the module substantially conforms to the XFP standard.
7. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, wherein selective engagement of the electronic module with the host device is achieved at least in part by way of temporary deformation of structure of the host device.
8. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one resilient element configured and arranged to bias the bail into a desired position.
9. The electronic module as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one optical subassembly in communication with the circuitry.
10. An opto-electronic module, comprising:
at least one optical subassembly;
a printed circuit board including circuitry, at least some of which is in communication with the at least one optical subassembly;
a connector in communication with at least some of the circuitry and configured to interface with a host device;
a housing at least partially enclosing the printed circuit board and the at least one optical subassembly; and
a latch mechanism, comprising:
a pair of sliders, each slider being slidably arranged relative to the housing, and the sliders being collectively configured and arranged to facilitate selective engagement of the opto-electronic module with the host device; and
a bail configured and arranged such that a change in position of the bail results in a corresponding change in position of the sliders.
11. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, wherein the housing includes first and second opposing portions, each of the sliders being slidably engaged with a corresponding opposing portion of the housing.
12. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, wherein each slider is configured and arranged to selectively engage corresponding structure of the host device.
13. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, wherein the bail is movable between a first position wherein the opto-electronic module is removably latched to the host device, and a second position wherein the opto-electronic module is unlatched from the host device.
14. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, wherein a change in a position of the bail corresponds to substantially linear motion of the sliders.
15. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, wherein the opto-electronic module substantially conforms to the XFP standard.
16. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, wherein the at least one optical subassembly comprises one or more of: a transmit optical subassembly; and, a receive optical subassembly.
17. The opto-electronic module as recited in claim 10, further comprising at least one resilient element configured and arranged to bias the bail into a desired position.
18. A latch mechanism, comprising:
a pair of sliders, each of which is configured to be slidably arranged relative to a housing of an electronic module, and the sliders further being collectively configured and arranged to facilitate selective engagement of the electronic module with a host device; and
a bail configured and arranged such that a change in position of the bail results in a corresponding change in position of the sliders.
19. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 18, wherein each of the sliders is configured to slidably engage a corresponding portion of the housing of the electronic module.
20. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 18, wherein each slider is configured and arranged to selectively engage corresponding structure of the host device.
21. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 18, wherein a change in a o S 3 3 ad t position of the bail corresponds to substantially linear motion of the sliders.
22. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 18, wherein the latch mechanism is compatible with an electronic module that substantially conforms to the XFP standard.
23. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 18, wherein selective engagement of the electronic module with the host device is achieved at least in part by way of temporary deformation of structure of the host device.
24. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 18, further comprising at least one resilient element configured and arranged to bias the bail into a desired position.
25. A latch mechanism, comprising:
a pair of sliders, each of which is configured to slidably engage a corresponding portion of a housing of an electronic module, and the sliders further being collectively configured and arranged to facilitate selective engagement of the electronic module with a host device;
a bail configured and arranged such that a change in position of the bail results in a corresponding change in position of the sliders; and
at least one resilient element disposed so as to bias the bail into a desired position.
26. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 25, wherein the bail is movable between a first position wherein the sliders are engaged with corresponding structure of the host device, and a second position wherein the sliders are disengaged from the corresponding structure of the host device.
27. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 25, wherein each slider is configured and arranged to selectively engage corresponding structure of the host device.
28. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 25, wherein a change in a position of the bail corresponds to substantially linear motion of the sliders.
29. The latch mechanism as recited in claim 25, wherein the latch mechanism is compatible with an electronic module that substantially conforms to the XFP standard.