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US 12,317,962 B2Granted
Three-dimensional printing of a traced element
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsYoav Sterman, Todd A. Waatti
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Abstract
A method of forming a traced element is disclosed. The method may include printing layers of a traced element and incorporating a textile strand in overlapping polymer layers of the traced element. In some embodiments, the traced element may be formed on a base layer. The traced element may be incorporated into an upper for an article of footwear.
Claims14
An upper for an article of footwear comprising:
- a textile strand disposed along a strand-trace path and defining one or more textile strand segments with one or more covered portions and one or more exposed portions;
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- a first polymer layer printed along a first polymer-trace path that is different from the strand-trace path,
- wherein the strand-trace path and the first polymer-trace path intersect at a plurality of overlapping positions along the upper,
- wherein at one or more of the plurality of overlapping positions the first polymer layer is printed on, and bonded to, the one or more textile strand segments, and
- wherein at the plurality of overlapping positions the first polymer-trace path intersects with the strand-trace path at an angle to define the covered portions of the one or more strand segments.
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