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US 5,704,705 AGranted
Shoe with an EL light strip
OwnerTseng-Lu Chieninventor
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Abstract
A lighted shoes having a EL light strip incorporated with D.C. power battery, circuit, function interface, transformer. The EL light strip can put inside of transparent parts of heel or/fix on the shoes surface to get bright light for dark environment application. The flexible strip have transformer to convert the D.C. power into certain specification of A.C. electric pulse to trigger the light strip for illumination.
Claims27
In a shoe, comprising:
- a shoe bottom;
- an upper shoe surface connected to the shoe bottom;
- a lighting arrangement;
- and
- a DC power supply;
- the improvement comprising:
- an EL strip;
- means including a DC-AC converter connected to the DC power supply for converting direct current supplied by the DC power supply into an alternating current having a frequency capable of activating the EL strip;
- a function interface connected between the DC-AC converter and the EL strip;
- a switch for controllably disconnecting the EL strip from the power supply;
- and
- means including a hollow transparent shoe heel fixed in the shoe bottom for enclosing the EL strip, DC power supply, the DC-AC converter, the function interface, and the switch within the shoe bottom,
- wherein the EL strip is located in a relatively outer portion of the hollow transparent shoe heel and the DC power supply, the circuit, the function interface, and the switch are located in a relatively inner portion of the hollow transparent shoe heel so that light emitted from the EL strip is visible from a periphery of the hollow transparent shoe heel.
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In a shoe, comprising:
- a shoe bottom;
- an upper shoe surface connected to the shoe bottom;
- a lighting arrangement;
- and
- a DC power supply;
- the improvement wherein:
- the lighting arrangement is an EL strip, the shoe bottom is a transparent shoe bottom, and the EL strip is substantially fixed along a contour of the transparent shoe bottom and light emitted from the EL strip is visible through the contour of the transparent shoe bottom.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.