Mizuno Corporation

Keiji Kurayama

Kazunori Iuchi

Kiyotaka Kuroda

A sole structure for a sport shoe can increase accelerating force during activities and achieve quick movements. A sole assemblyfor an indoor shoe includes a sole bodyformed of a soft elastic member and a plate-like member or planar sheet memberthat is disposed at a position under the first to fourth distal phalanx DP-DPof the wearer's foot on a foot sole contact surfaceA of the sole body, and that has a higher hardness than that of the sole body. The plate-like memberextends arcuately substantially in the foot width direction along the toes of the wearer's foot and has a narrow partC of a short length in the foot length direction, or a spacing gap, at a region between the first toe and the second toe.

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Sakai, Japan

Keiji Kurayama