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US 10,293,565 B1Granted
Systems and methods for mass customization
OwnerBao Tran, Ha Traninventors
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Abstract
A footwear having a sole customized to a wearer's anatomy by receiving a foot model; generating an elevated foot model with a heel at a predetermined heel height from a ground and determining a structure to support a foot arch and a ball area of the foot model; and fabricating a high heel sole with the optimized structure to support the foot.
Claims20
A method for forming a customized footwear, comprising:
- receiving a foot representation from a foot of a wearer into a memory of a processor;
- digitally placing the foot representation above a high heel shoe representation at a predetermined heel height from a ground;
- determining a 3D model to support a heel, a foot arch and a ball area of the foot of the wearer;
- with the 3D model, fabricating with a computer-controlled 3D mold actuator to form a reformable master shape to create a recess in a reformable material having a material state that is reversible between a stable force-resisting state and a flowable state by addition of a transition liquid:
- receiving a shoe material in the recess while the reformable material is in the stable force-resisting state and subsequently curing the shoe material to form a custom high heel sole or insole;
- adding the transition liquid to the reformable material to change the state of the reformable material from the stable force-resisting state to the flowable state;
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- reusing the reformable material to form another custom sole once the reformable materials in the flowable state.
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