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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2024
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Patrick R. Case, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tory M. Cross, Portland, OR (US);
Viviane Labelle, Portland, OR (US);
Yuan Mu, Portland, OR (US);
Kevin C. Sze, Portland, OR (US);
NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A cushioning component for a wearable article includes a bladder with barrier sheets defining an interior cavity. A core is disposed in the interior cavity and is spaced entirely inward of a peripheral bond between the barrier sheets. The core traverses the interior cavity between and is bonded to the opposing inner surfaces of the barrier sheets at a plurality of bonds. The core includes at least one polymeric sheet defining a plurality of spaced slots extending therethrough, each slot having a first end and a second end with both the first end and the second end inward of an outer perimeter of the core such that the core includes a plurality of strips bordering the slots and decoupled from one another at the slots, each strip bonded to at least one of the first barrier sheet or the second barrier sheet by at least one of the bonds.