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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Ministry of International Trade & Industry, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A43B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
601 29 ; 482 77 ; 36 81 ; 601 27 ; 601100 ; 602 23 ;
Abstract
A leg apparatus shoe sole has an upper sole member and a lower sole member interconnected by expanders so as to be movable towards and away from each other wherein the expanders are connected with a remote actuator by a drive wire. The actuator is operated to reduce the thickness of the shoe sole when the associated leg is the free leg and to increase its thickness when the associated leg is the supporting leg.