Nike, Inc.

Nike Innovate C.v.

Gregory Paul Dufour

Hossein A Baghdadi

Jay Constantinou

Bradley C Tutmark

Joseph Thomas Muth

Sami Mohamad Fakhouri

Floyd Whitney Miles

Paul Irving Archer

Bridget Munro

Kim B Blair

John David Pye

Luri Robert Middleton

Daniel A Kingsley

Ian Wright

Elizabeth A Rapp Van Roden

Lisa Campbell

Hossein Allen Baghdadi

Physical foaming a footwear component with a single-phase solution of a polymeric composition and a supercritical fluid is provided. The method include temperature conditioning a mold and then engaging the mold with a robot that conveys the mold to a press. At the press a gas counter pressure is applied to a cavity of the mold before injecting a single-phase solution of a polymeric composition and a supercritical fluid into the cavity of the mold. The process continues with releasing the gas counter pressure from the cavity of the mold and then removing the footwear component from the cavity of the mold. The parameters of the method are configured for the formation of the footwear component in an automated manner.

Footwear component manufacturing methods

Aspects herein are directed to a support garment testing system comprising a torso form having a motion tracking sensor associated with one or more breast structures of the torso form. A support garment is secured to the torso form, and the torso form is mounted on a motion platform that, when actuated, causes displacement of the breast structures. The amount of displacement is measured by the sensor, and the data is used to assign a level of support provided by the support garment.

Support garment testing system

A system including an injector, a press, and a robotic conveyance is used to form a physically foamed article of footwear component from a single-phase solution of a polymeric composition and a supercritical fluid. The parameters and features of the system are configured for the formation of the footwear component in an automated manner with enhanced throughput by the system.

Footwear component manufacturing system

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Beaverton, OR, United States of America

Gregory Paul Dufour