Footwear and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeAsics Corporation
InventorsGenki HATANO, Kenta TATENO, Waka INOUE, Shingo TAKAHASHI, Masaki OOHARA, Norihiko TANIGUCHI
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Abstract
A footwear includes: a foot bed portion that supports a sole of a foot of a wearer and has a ground contact surface; and a foot cover portion that covers an instep of the foot of the wearer. At least a part of the foot bed portion and at least a part of the foot cover portion are formed of a single additively manufactured product produced by a stereolithography-type three-dimensional additively manufacturing method, and a protruding portion is provided on an outer surface defined by the additively manufactured product of the foot cover portion.
Claims14
A footwear comprising:
- a foot bed portion configured to support a sole of a foot of a wearer and has a ground contact surface;
- and
- a foot cover portion configured to cover an instep of the foot of the wearer, wherein
- at least a part of the foot bed portion and at least a part of the foot cover portion are configured of a single additively manufactured product produced by a stereolithography-type three-dimensional additive manufacturing method, and
- a protruding portion is on an outer surface defined by the additively manufactured product of the foot cover portion.
A method of manufacturing a footwear including a foot bed portion that is configured to support a sole of a foot of a wearer and has a ground contact surface, and a foot cover portion that is configured to cover an instep of the foot of the wearer, the method comprising:
- producing the foot bed portion;
- and
- producing the foot cover portion, wherein
- the producing the foot bed portion and the producing the foot cover portion include, by a stereolithography-type three-dimensional additive manufacturing method, sequentially additively manufacturing at least a part of the foot bed portion starting from a side of the ground contact surface in a direction orthogonal to the ground contact surface, and subsequently, sequentially additively manufacturing at least a part of the foot cover portion to additively manufacture a single additively manufactured product, and
- in the producing the foot cover portion, a protruding portion is on an outer surface defined by the additively manufactured product of the foot cover portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.