Shoes
AssigneeMizuno Corporation
InventorsYo Kajiwara, Kazuya Tajima
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a shoe including an upper, the upper including an instep cover that covers the instep of a foot. The instep cover includes an instep cover body and a tongue. Two or more protrusions that are configured to extend in use from the instep cover body toward the foot are located at least in a region between the MP joint and the talus in a side portion of the instep cover body. The protrusions are made of embroidery. The protrusions have a height of 0.5 mm or more, a width of 2 mm or more, and a length of 2 mm or more. A distance between each pair of the adjacent protrusions is 2 mm or more in part of the region. The shoe of the present invention includes the upper that improves the heat dissipation properties without impairing the contact between the foot and the shoe.
Claims12
A shoe comprising:
- an upper comprising:
- an instep cover that covers the instep of a foot, wherein
- the instep cover consists of an instep cover body and a tongue, and
- the instep cover body consists of a single layer of one piece of fabric having first and second opposed faces, with the first face defining an innermost surface of the instep cover body and the second face defining an outermost surface of the instep cover body;
- and
- two or more protrusions that are configured to extend in use from the instep cover body toward the foot and are located at least in a region between the MP joint and the talus in a side portion of the instep cover body, wherein
- the protrusions are made of embroidery on the single layer of one piece of fabric,
- the protrusions have a height of 0.5 mm or more, a width of 2 mm or more, and a length of 2 mm or more, and
- a distance between each pair of adjacent protrusions is 2 mm or more in part of the region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.