Asics Corporation

Takayuki Kogure

Hiroaki Nishimura

Kenta Tateno

Kenji Hirata

Masanori Sakaguchi

Shingo Takashima

Seigo Nakaya

Kenta Moriyasu

Yuya Kozuka

Genki Hatano

Norihiko Taniguchi

Sho Takamasu

Keita Ozawa

Ayu Bessho

Shuhei Takemura

Yoshikazu Mitsuhata

Shingo Masumoto

Tomoki Ishizashi

Masanori Sakamoto

Fumitomo Hishikawa

Naoki Sakajo

Kenji Umehara

Yoshihiro Eguchi

Takanori Kobayashi

Akihisa Sugifune

A plate is used for a sole that forms a part of a shoe. The plate includes a mid- and rear-foot support portion in a shape extending from a position superimposed on a rear end portion of a metatarsal bone of a wearer of the shoe in a thickness direction of the sole to a position superimposed on a heel bone of the wearer, the mid- and rear-foot support portion supporting a midfoot portion and a rear foot portion of the wearer. The mid- and rear-foot support portion is in a shape convex upward in a cross-section in a foot width direction.

Plate, sole, and shoe

Shoe sole

The shoeincludes the outer solebrought in contact with the road surface, the midsolearranged on the outer sole, and the uppercovering the foot from the upper side. The midsoleincludes at the middle foot portion the cut-out portionand the like opened to the outside and closed at the middle portion in the width direction.

Shoe

A plate is used for a sole forming a part of a shoe. The plate includes a front support portion and a center support portion. The front support portion is formed in a flat shape or a curved shape with a single downward protrusion in a cross section in a foot width direction, when the sole is placed on a flat plane. The center support portion has a shape with an upward protrusion and a downward protrusion arranged alternately in the foot width direction in a cross section in the foot width direction, when the sole is placed on the flat plane, where the upward protrusion has a shape curved to protrude upward and the downward protrusion has a shape curved to protrude downward.

A plate includes: a curved portion located in a forefoot region and shaped to curve toward a flat plane; a midfoot supporting portion located in a midfoot region; and a rear-foot supporting portion located in a rear foot region. The curved portion has a wide region including a wide portion of which dimension in a width direction is largest in the curved portion. The midfoot supporting portion has a narrow region including a narrow portion of which dimension in the width direction is smallest in the midfoot supporting portion. A ratio of a bending rigidity of the narrow region to a bending rigidity of the wide region is 0.4 or more and 0.85 or less.

Plate, shoe sole, and shoe

A shoe sole includes a rear bottom surface part and a toe portion. The rear bottom surface part is formed to extend from a rearfoot portion to a midfoot portion and, when the shoe sole is placed on a flat virtual surface, the rear bottom surface part is in contact with the virtual surface. A height of the toe portion from the virtual surface is set to 170% or greater and 250% or less with respect to a thickness dimension in the rear bottom surface part.

Shoe sole and shoe

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Kobe, Japan

Takayuki Kogure