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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
Asics Corporation, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroki Nakamura, Hyogo, JP;
Keishi Kitamoto, Hyogo, JP;
Yuji Tamakoshi, Hyogo, JP;
Seiji Yano, Hyogo, JP;
Shingo Masumoto, Hyogo, JP;
Shuhei Takemura, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroaki Nishimura, Hyogo, JP;
Naoki Sakajo, Hyogo, JP;
Seigo Nakaya, Hyogo, JP;
Kazunaga Nakayama, Hyogo, JP;
ASICS CORPORATION, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
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.