Asics Corporation

Taica Corporation

Hisanori Fujita

Tsuyoshi Nishiwaki

Kiyomitsu Kurosaki

Yousuke Atarashi

Akira Usuki

Yoshinori Fujita

Shingo Takashima

Kenta Moriyasu

Yoshiyasu Ando

Shingo Masumoto

Kota Miyoshi

Junichiro Tateishi

Seigo Nakaya

Norihiko Taniguchi

Kenta Tateno

Keita Ozawa

Tomoki Ishizashi

Takanori Kobayashi

Seiya Hayashi

Yoshihiro Eguchi

Hiroshi Nasuno

Manabu Mikuni

Kouhei Tanemura

A sole includes a midsole body and a buffer member made of a material having hardness lower than that of a material constituting the midsole body. A mounting portion that mounts the buffer member is formed on a surface of a rearfoot region of the midsole body. The buffer member is mounted on the mounting portion in a non-adhesive state. One of the mounting portion and the buffer member includes a reference surface and a protrusion. The other of the mounting portion and the buffer member includes a recess. The recess includes a surrounding wall having a shape that entirely surrounds a periphery of the protrusion.

Sole and shoe

A shoe sole includes: a sole body located to extend continuously from a forefoot portion to a rearfoot portion; and a highly rigid member fixed to the sole body, the highly rigid member being formed of a material that is higher in rigidity than a material forming the sole body. The highly rigid member includes a curved plate portion extending in a direction crossing a right-left direction corresponding to a foot width direction of a foot of a wearer. The curved plate portion has an inverted arch shaped portion that protrudes toward a ground contact surface of the shoe sole in a cross section taken along a line orthogonal to a direction in which the curved plate portion extends. At least a part of the curved plate portion is disposed in the forefoot portion.

Shoe sole and shoe

Shoe sole

Shoe

An upper of a shoe covering at least a part of a foot, the upper including: a medial portion covering a medial surface of the foot; a lateral portion covering a lateral surface of the foot; a plurality of panel portions provided in the medial portion and/or the lateral portion while being spaced apart from each other in a front-rear direction of the foot and extending in a foot girth direction crossing the front-rear direction of the foot; and a plurality of string portions formed from linear members extending in the front-rear direction, and arranged so as to extend between a pair of the plurality of panel portions that are adjacent to each other in the front-rear direction, wherein the panel portion and the string portion are formed from a single piece of fabric.

Shoe upper

A shoe sole, to which an upper member is joined, the shoe sole including a bottom receiving part corresponding to a bottom of the upper member, and a rising part that is formed to rise upwardly from an upper side of the bottom receiving part so as to cover an outer surface of a side of the upper member, wherein the bottom receiving part is formed with vent grooves each recessed in a thickness direction from the upper surface of the bottom receiving part, wherein the rising part is formed with vent holes each penetrating therethrough in a thickness direction of the rising part, and wherein the vent hole is formed to have a vertically elongated shape extending from an upper end side to a lower end side of the rising part, and to be in communication with the vent groove.

Shoe sole, and shoe provided with shoe sole

A shoe includes: a shock-absorbing member formed from a foam body including a thermoplastic resin; a solid-form soft member including a polymer resin, having a greater weight per unit volume and a lower hardness than the shock-absorbing member, and having a smaller volume change per unit volume, than the shock-absorbing member, for a change in external pressure within a predetermined external pressure range; and an outsole including a thermoplastic resin, having a tread surface, and rolled up upward along at least a part of an outer edge thereof, thereby defining an accommodating portion to accommodate the soft member between the outsole and the lid, wherein: the shock-absorbing member forms the lid to lid the soft member from a side of an upper; and the soft member is wrapped in the accommodating portion, being in contact with at least a part of inner surfaces of the shock-absorbing member and the outsole.

Shoe having cushioning structure

An upper including: a plurality of panels provided in a medial side portion and/or a lateral side portion, the panels being separated from one another in a longitudinal direction of a foot, covering at least a portion of the side surface of the foot, and being pulled by a fastening member toward a center portion between the medial side and the lateral side of the foot; and a plurality of string-like non-stretchable string portions that are extending in the longitudinal direction, the string portions placed between a pair of the plurality of panels that are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction.

A shoe sole including: an outsoleand a mid sole, wherein: the outsoleincludes: a plurality of cleats Carranged while being spaced apart from one another in a first direction D; and a plurality of cleats Carranged while being spaced apart from one another in a second direction D; ones of the cleats Cthat are adjacent to each other in a third direction Dare continuous with each other in the third direction Dvia a first connecting portionof the outsole; ones of the cleats Cthat are adjacent to each other in a fourth direction Dare continuous with each other in the fourth direction Dvia a second connecting portionof the outsole; a plurality of through holes H are provided, each through hole H being defined in an area surrounded by three or more of the cleats C; and the lower surfaceof the mid soleincludes: an attachment surfaceattached to the upper surfaceof the outsole, and an exposed surfaceof the foamed material exposed through the through holes H.

A structure including hard bone portion extending to a sole side face outer side at a time of pressure reception, and elastic soft skin portion provided at an outer side of the hard bone portion, absorbs impact at a time of landing and the like, where at least part of the hard bone portion is along sole side face, and the elastic soft skin portion have a structure wherein at a time of pressure reception, the hard bone portion undergoes bending deformation in a vertical section to extend to the sole lateral side, and by receiving the deformation, the elastic soft skin portion undergoes elastic deformation to bulge to the sole lateral side to absorb a received pressure load, thereafter, with decompression, the elastic soft skin portion undergoes elastic deformation to contract to the sole inner side, and with this, the hard bone portion is restored to an initial state.

Shock absorbing structure for shoe sole side face and shoe to which the shock absorbing structure is applied

An athletic shoe suitable for efficient running. A depression is formed in the rear foot portion which extends forward from the calcaneal bone and which does not contact the ground. A band-like area is provided in the middle foot portion extending in the front-rear direction in the central portion between the medial side and the lateral side of the shoe sole so as to be continuous with the depression. The reinforcement member and the midsole are provided in the middle foot portion so that the upper surface of the midsole less easily sinks downward due to a load from above on the medial side than in the band-like area and on the lateral side. In the front foot portion, a longitudinal groove is formed which extends in the front-rear direction in the central portion of the midsole body so as to be continuous with the band-like area. The longitudinal groove is curved so as to be generally parallel to the lateral edge of the front foot portion of sole.

Shoe sole of athletic shoe with high running efficiency

A shock absorbing device for a shoe sole includes: an outer sole; a midsole M; and a deformation elementplaced between the outer soleand the midsole M. The deformation elementis positioned at a periphery of a rear foot partB and includes a bending deformation memberthat opens toward the periphery from a center of the rear foot partB. The bending deformation memberincludes a lower plate portion, an upper plate portionthat forms an opening angle with respect to the lower plate portion, and a curved portionthat connects the lower plate portionand the upper plate portion. The lower plate portionand the upper plate portionare gradually getting away from each other as a distance from the curved portion increases. A rubber-like or pod-like compression deformation memberis fit between the lower and upper plate portions. When an impact force of landing is loaded to the bending deformation member, the lower plate portionand/or the upper plate portiondisplaces or deflects in such a manner as to rotate about the curved portionwith the compression deformation memberbeing compressed.

Shock absorbing device for shoe sole

A shock absorbing device for a shoe sole according to the present invention comprises: an outer sole; a midsole M that is disposed above the outer sole; and a deformation elementdisposed between the outer soleand the midsole M. The deformation elementis joined to the bottom surface of the midsole M and is joined to the upper surface of the outer sole. The deformation element has a tubular partin a flat tubular form, and Young's modulus of a material constituting the tubular partis greater than both that of a material constituting the midsole M and that of a material constituting the outer sole. The tubular part has a lower portion that is curved so as to be convex downwards and thereby undergoes bending deformation due to a shock at landing.

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Kobe, Japan

Hisanori Fujita