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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2009
Frederick J. Dojan, Vancouver, WA (US);
Daniel Akey Johnson, Taichung, TW;
Yung-tsung Tseng, Toulio, TW;
Shane S. Kohatsu, Portland, OR (US);
Frederick J. Dojan, Vancouver, WA (US);
Daniel Akey Johnson, Taichung, TW;
Yung-Tsung Tseng, Toulio, TW;
Shane S. Kohatsu, Portland, OR (US);
NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A bonded mesh composite panel of an upper includes a substrate layer formed from a substrate material, a mesh material layer and one or more skin material layers. The mesh composite can be fabricated by first arranging panels of substrate, mesh and skin layer material into an assembly corresponding to the locations of those panels in a completed upper. The assembly may include separate layers of hot melt bonding material interposed between the substrate, mesh and skin layers. The assembly is pressed at an elevated temperature so as to melt the bonding material and the skin layers and bond the elements together. Before the pressed assembly completely cools, it is then pressed a second time in an unheated press. A heat-conductive compressible pad can be used in the pressing process to create a surface effect in the skin layers that reveals a patterns of an underlying mesh layer.