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US 11,297,902 B2Granted
Laceless shoe
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsFu Wen Lee, LuLu Chen, Sam Forester
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Abstract
Described is a shoe upper for a shoe, in particular an athletic shoe, wherein the shoe upper is laceless and comprises: (a.) a lateral portion; (b.) a medial portion; and (c.) at least an elastic intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion, wherein the stiffness of at least one of the lateral portion and the medial portion is at least 2 times higher than the stiffness of the elastic intermediate portion.
Claims17
A shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- and
- a laceless shoe upper comprising:
- a lateral portion having a first coating portion applied at least partially thereto;
- a medial portion having a second coating portion applied at least partially thereto;
- and
- an intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion and including a material that is continuous across the lateral portion, the intermediate portion, and the medial portion, wherein the intermediate portion comprises a cupped portion uncoated by the first coating portion and the second coating portion, wherein when the laceless shoe upper is separate from the sole and arranged on a flat surface that is continuously flat underneath an entirety of the laceless shoe upper, at least a majority of the laceless shoe upper lies within or parallel to a horizontal plane and at least a majority of the cupped portion is cupped above surrounding areas of the laceless shoe upper so as to be above the horizontal plane and out of contact with the flat surface.
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A shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- and
- a laceless shoe upper comprising:
- a lateral portion having a first coating portion applied at least partially thereto;
- a medial portion having a second coating portion applied at least partially thereto;
- and
- an intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion and including a material that is continuous across the lateral portion, the intermediate portion, and the medial portion, wherein the intermediate portion comprises a cupped portion uncoated by the first coating portion and the second coating portion, wherein when the laceless shoe upper is separate from the sole and arranged on a flat surface, at least a majority of the laceless shoe upper lies within or parallel to a horizontal plane and at least a majority of the cupped portion maintains a shape of being cupped above the lateral portion and the medial portion so as to be tented above the horizontal plane and out of contact with the flat surface.
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A shoe comprising:
- a sole;
- and
- a laceless shoe upper comprising:
- a lateral portion having a first coating portion applied at least partially thereto;
- a medial portion having a second coating portion applied at least partially thereto;
- an intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion and including a material that is continuous across the lateral portion, the intermediate portion, and the medial portion, wherein the intermediate portion comprises a cupped portion uncoated by the first coating portion and the second coating portion;
- and
- a collar portion connecting to the intermediate portion and at least partially surrounding a foot opening, the collar portion being uncoated by the first coating portion and the second coating portion;
- wherein when the laceless shoe upper is independent from the sole and arranged on a flat surface that is continuously flat underneath an entirety of the laceless shoe upper, at least a majority of the laceless shoe upper lies within or parallel to a horizontal plane and a majority of the cupped portion and the collar portion lie above the horizontal plane and out of contact with the flat surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.