Back to results
US 12,690,644 B2Granted
Automatic pump for article of footwear
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsJennifer L. Bishop, Timothy P. Hopkins, Nicholas R. Long, Nadia M. Panian, Aaron K. Seid, Richard Kristian Hansen
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An article of footwear includes an upper including a chamber, a compressible component disposed within the chamber and operable between a relaxed state and a constricted state, a sole structure including a recess forming a cavity, and a pump device disposed within the cavity and fluidly coupled to the chamber, the pump device operable to transition the compressible component from the relaxed state to the constricted state by removing fluid from the chamber.
Claims19
An article of footwear comprising:
- an upper including a chamber;
- a compressible component disposed within the chamber and operable between a relaxed state and a constricted state;
- a sole structure including a recess forming a cavity;
- and
- a pump device disposed within the cavity, fluidly coupled to the chamber, and operable to transition the compressible component from the relaxed state to the constricted state by removing fluid from the chamber, the pump device including a first plate and a second plate each having a central flex region and arms (i) radially extending from the central flex region and (ii) having varying lengths, the first plate and the second plate connecting at ends of the respective arms of the first plate and the second plate.
2 more elements
An article of footwear comprising:
- a chamber;
- a sole structure;
- and
- a pump device disposed within the sole structure, including a first plate, a second plate, and a fluid envelope disposed between the first plate and the second plate and fluidly coupled to the chamber, and operable to selectively remove fluid from the chamber when the first plate and the second plate are moved away from one another and into an expanded state, the first plate and the second plate each having a central flex region and arms (i) radially extending from the central flex region and (ii) having varying lengths, the first plate and the second plate connecting at ends of the respective arms of the first plate and the second plate.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.