Nike, Inc.

Nike Innovate C.v.

Yu-Shu Hsiao

Dragan Jurkovic

Chun-Chi Lin

Philip Mars

Patrick Conall Regan

Shih-Yuan Wu

Geoffrey Nichols

Min Chuan Chang

Chang Min-Li

Patrick Regan

A last extension for a shoe last provides a pattern defining an origin location. The origin location on the last extension can be used to identify locations or points on a last or a shoe component on a last for control of location-critical manufacturing operations, including decorative and functional operations.

Shoe last extension

An oven may facilitate heating, curing, and/or drying processes for manufactured items, such as shoe parts, using multiple groups of infrared sources. Efficiencies of the oven are achieved through a deliberate airflow characteristic, which is accomplished with a configuration of apertures extending through a circulation plate. A higher concentration of apertures is formed in the circulation plate near a center zone relative to zones near an entrance and exit to the oven. Further, the shape of the apertures in the circulation plate aid in improved airflow within the oven.

Energy efficient infrared oven with air circulation

Footwear last extension

Growing community of inventors

Douliu, Taiwan

Yu-Shu Hsiao