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US 12,637,791 B2Granted
Upper and shoe
AssigneeAsics Corporation
InventorChihaya Suzuki
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Abstract
An upper for a shoe includes a knitted fabric including a first region including a continuous series of stitches with a yarn having a thickness of 0.1 mm or more, in which 4.0<nR<12.7 is satisfied in the first region, where n is the number of stitches per inch along at least one direction, and R is the thickness of the yarn.
Claims17
An upper for a shoe, comprising:
- a knitted fabric including a first region formed by a continuous series of stitches with a yarn having a diameter of 0.1 mm or more,
- the diameter of the yarn being a diameter of a circular shape having a same cross-sectional area as the yarn, and
- the first region being defined as a region in which an equation 4.0<nR<12.7 is satisfied throughout an entirety of the region, where n is the number of stitches per inch along at least one direction, and R is the diameter of the yarn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.