Toray Industries, Inc.

Kazuki Nagayama

Stuart Jenkins

Hideaki Tanisugi

Hideki Nudeshima

Miki Kasabo

Syuji Ishikawa

Takashi Horinouchi

A shoe sole that is less likely to feel push-up on the sole at the time of landing and suppresses pronation to enable quick weight movement in running or jogging, while being widely available in sports requiring weight movement such as golf, tennis, basketball, soccer, and skateboarding, as well as that is lightweight, has good wearing comfort and provides stable walking even in using on the street or walking. The shoe sole includes a shoe sole main body made of a flexible material, and a plate made of a material having a flexural modulus higher than a flexural modulus of the flexible material constituting the shoe sole main body, in which at least two of the plates are included in the shoe sole main body.

Shoe sole

An FRP molded article molded by hot runner injection molding with a mixture of thermoplastic resin and reinforcing fibers of 0.1-7 mm in average length dispersed in the thermoplastic resin; and a hot runner injection molding method therefore. The molded article is preferable for use as a housing for electronic terminal equipment, cellular phones, etc.

FRP molded article and method of producing the same

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Otsu, Japan

Kazuki Nagayama