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US 7,610,695 B2Granted
Shoe sole with foot guidance
AssigneeBivab, LLC
InventorGordon Graham Hay
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Abstract
A sole for a shoe with a foot guiding mechanism which has the particularity that the sole comprises a sole body which has, on an outer face thereof, at least one protrusion. The at least one protrusion is flexible in order to produce a desired movement of the protrusion which is suitable to force a guided sequence for a foot, wearing the shoe sole, from when the heel section initially contacts a ground surface to when the front edge of the sole breaks contact with the ground surface.
Claims20
A shoe sole comprising:
- a sole body having a top inner sole engaging surface and a bottom ground engaging surface and an inner lateral side and an outer lateral side, and the sole body having a heel section, an arch section, a ball of a foot section and a toe section;
- the bottom ground engaging surface supporting a plurality of protrusions;
- the outer lateral side of the ball of a foot section having a plurality of sharp edge protrusions while the inner (medial) lateral side of the ball of a foot section having a plurality of rounded edge protrusions;
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- at least one protrusion of the plurality of protrusions is supported by a relatively stronger portion of the sole body and a relatively weaker portion of the sole body and an interface between the stronger portion and the weaker portion forming an oscillation axis which facilitates pivoting of the at least one protrusion.
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A shoe sole comprising:
- a sole body having a top inner sole engaging surface and a bottom ground engaging surface and an inner lateral side and an outer lateral side, and the sole body having a heel section, an arch section, a ball of a foot section and a toe section;
- the bottom ground engaging surface supporting a plurality of protrusions;
- the inner (medial) lateral side of the heel section having a plurality of sharp edge protrusions while the outer lateral side of the heel section having a plurality of rounded edge protrusions;
- at least three of the plurality of protrusions are pivoting protrusions which are supported by a relatively stronger portion of the sole body and a relatively weaker portion of the sole body and an interface between the stronger portion and the weaker portion form an oscillation axis which facilitates pivoting of the at least three pivoting protrusions;
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- the at least three pivoting protrusions direct energy of a wearer of the shoe sole from heel strike to toe-off and facilitate an optimum energy transition throughout an entire walking gate of the wearer.
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A shoe sole comprising:
- a sole body having a top inner sole engaging surface and a bottom ground engaging surface and an inner lateral side and an outer lateral side, and the sole body having a heel section, an arch section, a ball of a foot section and a toe section;
- the bottom ground engaging surface supporting at least one protrusion;
- the at least one protrusion being supported by the sole so as to form an oscillation axis which facilitates pivoting of the at least one protrusion relative to the sole;
- the oscillation axis of the at least one pivoting protrusion is formed by supporting the at least one pivoting protrusion by a relatively stronger portion of the shoe sole and a relatively weak portion of the shoe sole with an interface between the relatively stronger portion and the relatively weaker portion forming the oscillation axis which facilitates pivoting of the at least one pivoting protrusion;
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- the at least one pivoting protrusion directs energy of a wearer of the shoe sole from heel strike to toe-off and facilitate an optimum energy transition throughout an entire walking gate of the wearer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.