Mizuno Corporation

Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Kouji Ito

Shin Hirai

Yohei Yoshida

Takao Fujiwara

Kaoru Hashimoto

Hideya Nishise

Susumu Sakakibara

Yuki Yamada

Akihiro Nishida

Noriyuki Tabuchi

Tsuyoshi Ieta

Yamato Kitajima

To achieve a favorable feeling particularly during running. A midsole includes: a first midsole portion; and a second midsole portion stacked on the first midsole portion in a thickness direction of the midsole and made of a material having a lower hardness than a material forming the first midsole portion. In a cutting plane when the midsole is cut along a foot width direction at a location corresponding to the sustentaculum tali of a foot of a wearer, the first midsole portion and the second midsole portion have a relatively-low hardness at a location corresponding to the calcaneus of the wearer, and a relatively-high hardness in an area ranging from a location corresponding to the sustentaculum tali to a medial instep side.

Sole structure and shoes having the same

Provided is processing of allowing an information processor to output characteristic information on at least either sports equipment or a method for using the sports equipment by a user, the information processor executing: image acquisition processing acquiring an image of the sports equipment after use, of the sports equipment with a mark attached, or of an installed tool installed, during use of the sports equipment, on the sports equipment; position identification processing identifying a position likely to be damaged of the sports equipment by performing detection of a color change place, a shape change place, or the mark on the image acquired in the image acquisition processing; and information outputting processing outputting the characteristic information based on the position identified in the position identification processing.

Method for processing information, information processor, and information processing program

A sole body includes a groove whose inner wall surfaces can be caused to come close to, and separate from, each other with an adjustment mechanism, and a transformable portion provided in the groove, extending between the inner wall surfaces, and elastically deformable. The transformable portion includes: rising portions which are continuous with the inner wall surfaces and extend in the thickness direction of the sole body while the inner wall surfaces have come close to each other; and a coupling portion for coupling the rising portions to each other at one end. A first cavity is provided between the inner wall surfaces and the rising portions, while a second cavity is provided between the rising portions.

Sole structure and shoe including same

A sole body has an upper midsole made of an elastic material, staked over an upper side of a lower midsole, and having, on an upper surface thereof, a planta support surface. The upper midsole has a first recess recessed from the planta support surface in a downward direction and having a bottom, and a second recess recessed from a lower surface of the upper midsole toward the planta support surface, and having a bottom. The first and second recesses are alternately and continuously formed in the width direction of the foot.

A shock absorbing member includes: support members spaced apart from each other; and a connection member laid across, and connecting together, the support members. Each of the support members includes: an inner wall capable of elastically deforming by external force in a vertical direction; and a first tube and a second tube each provided to one of an outer wall and the inner wall. While inserted through the first and second tubes of the support members, the connection member is integrally formed in a closed shape with ends of the connection member having no seams.

Shock absorbing member for sole of shoe and shoe including shock absorbing member

A method for producing the shock absorbing member includes: inserting in which each of tubes is housed in a corresponding one of first housings such that molding spaces and the tubes communicate with one another; and molding in which a thermoplastic resin material to form a connection member is heated to melt and injected from a gate toward the molding spaces and the tubes so that the tubes and the connection member are integrally formed.

Method for producing shock absorbing member

A shoe upper of a shoe includes first and second shoe upper sections together surrounding a foot, while covering a tiptoe and a heel of the foot, and a protector provided on part of an outer surface of the second shoe upper section and made of a single type of abrasion resistant resin material. The protector includes a tiptoe protector arranged to correspond to a tiptoe portion of the second shoe upper section, and a medial region protector provided on a medial region, of the second shoe upper section, extending from a backend of the tiptoe protector to a portion of the midfoot. The medial region protector has a deformable portion which has a mesh structure and is more deformable than the tiptoe protector, and a plurality of reinforcement ribs which divide the deformable portion into a plurality of regions.

Shoe upper and shoe including the shoe upper

A slit exposure type photocopier apparatus includes an original document platform on which an original document is to be located. An electrostatic latent image support member receives a projected image of the original document as a result of a scanning optical system and an exposure light source. The scanning optical system includes a projection light assembly which is movable along the optical axis in order to change image magnification. A light measuring sensor can be positioned adjacent a side of the projection lens assembly and can measure light reflected from the original at a position displaced, in the forward scan direction, from the actual position on the original that is being projected as a recorded image on the electrostatic latent image support member. The actual displaced position for light measurement will be a function of the image magnification and will be capable of compensating for the lag time involved in changing the exposure output of the exposure lamp.

Preexposure light control system for a photocopier

An image forming apparatus which includes a color editing function is provided with two developing units, each of the developing units contain an impeding device for impeding flow of the developer as it is transported on a peripheral surface of the developing sleeve locally in the axial direction of the roller. An image editing device is provided for specifying an optical area of a desired image to be produced and a controller is provided for controlling the developing units so as to permit development of a specified area by one developing unit and to develop any unspecified area by the other developing unit.

Image forming apparatus having color editing function

A developing apparatus in which first to third transport passages are provided at the back of a developing section and developing material exceeding transport capacity of the first transport passage is fed to the second transport passage, while the excessive developing material which can not be transported to the first transport passage is transported to the third transport passage where variation of the amount of the developing material is adjusted.

Developing apparatus

An exposure control device of a copying machine is provided with a white member at an end portion of an original document holding surface of a platen so as to prevent adhesion of toners to a top end portion of the copying paper. While a scanning optical system moves from the scan start point to the border between the original document and the white member, sufficient light quantity to prevent fogging of the image of the white member is supplied by the exposure lamp. The light quantity of the exposure lamp is changed to a suitable value corresponding to the original document in response to a signal for detecting the border.

Exposure control device of copying machine

At least one developing unit of the magnetic brush type is disclosed opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrier, said developing unit having a developing sleeve in which is housed a magnetic roller having a weak-magnetic or non-magnetic portion. The developing unit also has drive means for rotating the magnetic roller and the developing sleeve a specified degree, whereby the magnetic roller is so rotated that its weak-magnetic or non-magnetic portion is allowed to pass a position opposite to a level regulating member, and whereby the developing sleeve is subsequently so rotated until its outer peripheral portion opposite to the weak-magnetic or non-magnetic portion reaches a position opposite to the electrostatic latent image carrier. Thus, a developing powder present on the outer periphery of the developing sleeve is shunted away from a developing zone on the outer periphery. Such shunting of the developing powder is carried out with any of the developing unit other than one selected for developing operation.

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Osaka, Japan

Kouji Ito