Asics Corporation

Shuhei Takemura

Toshikazu Kayano

Tsuyoshi Nishiwaki

Hiroaki Nishimura

Shingo Takashima

Seigo Nakaya

Kenta Moriyasu

Yuya Kozuka

Norihiko Taniguchi

Seiji Yano

Masanori Sakaguchi

Takayuki Kogure

Hidenori Yamashita

Yousuke Atarashi

Takashi Inomata

Yasuyuki Takada

Hiroki Nakamura

Shingo Masumoto

Tomohiro Hayashi

Keishi Kitamoto

Fumitaka Kamifukumoto

Naoki Sakajo

Yuji Tamakoshi

Kazunaga Nakayama

A shoe sole includes a body portion and a heel holding portion. The heel holding portion is located opposite to a ground contact surface of the body portion and holds a heel portion of a foot at least from a medial foot side. The body portion includes a low hardness portion and a high hardness portion. The high hardness portion is a foam material harder than a foam material of the low hardness portion. The heel holding portion is a resin harder than the foam material of the low hardness portion and the foam material of the high hardness portion. On the medial foot side in a rear foot portion, the low hardness portion is located between the heel holding portion and the high hardness portion in an up-down direction.

Shoe sole and shoe

A plurality of rubber-made medial cleats project from a base surface of an outsole in a medial portion of a forefoot portion, and a plurality of rubber-made lateral cleats project from the base surface of the outsole in a lateral portion of the forefoot portion, wherein a first engaging surface of each of the medial cleats faces toward a posterior direction or an obliquely posterior direction and a second engaging surface of each of the lateral cleats faces toward an anterior direction or an obliquely anterior direction.

Shoe sole with improved grip capacity

A shoe sole includes a mid sole, and a reinforcing member reinforcing a portion of the mid sole, wherein the member () extends over an area from a mid foot part () to a rear foot part (), the member () including: a rod-shaped or strip-shaped main bar () provided along a line that is at the center of the foot; mid foot medial blades () and () and mid foot lateral blades (and) extending from the bar () in the part (); a plurality of rear foot blades (and) extending from the bar () in the part (), wherein the blades (to) are integral with the bar (), the blades (to) are attached to a lower surface of the mid sole, and at least a portion of each of the blades (and) is buried in the part ().

Shoe sole with reinforcing structure and shoe sole with shock-absorbing structure

Pair of shoe outsoles

Shoe outsole and midsole

Growing community of inventors

Kobe, Japan

Shuhei Takemura