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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akira Kataoka, Kobe, JP;
Hitoshi Mimura, Kakogawa, JP;
Manabu Kuramoto, Kobe, JP;
Ryuichi Tukita, Kobe, JP;
Assignee:
ASICS Corporation, Hyogen-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A43B / ; A43B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36129 ; 36 28 ; 36134 ; 36 6 / ;
Abstract
A shoe part for running shoes for field and track events wherein each shoe has a sole, a hard plate for a forefoot portion of the shoe sole, including a plurality of columnar projections and a plurality of shorter projecting portions terminating short of the columnar projections on a surface side of the hard plate. The hard plate includes an elastic region projecting from adjacent surrounding surfaces of the hard plate and lying in a central region of the surface side of the hard plate at which maximum compressive load is applied during running.