Shoe upper

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10165830-B2
Application number	US-201415313371-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2014
Priority date	May 29, 2014
Publication date	Jan 1, 2019
Grant date	Jan 1, 2019

Abstract

An upper including: a plurality of panels provided in a medial side portion and/or a lateral side portion, the panels being separated from one another in a longitudinal direction of a foot, covering at least a portion of the side surface of the foot, and being pulled by a fastening member toward a center portion between the medial side and the lateral side of the foot; and a plurality of string-like non-stretchable string portions that are extending in the longitudinal direction, the string portions placed between a pair of the plurality of panels that are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An upper of a shoe configured to cover at least a portion of a foot, the upper comprising:
a medial side portion configured to cover a medial side surface of the foot;
a lateral side portion configured to cover a lateral side surface of the foot;
a plurality of panels provided in the medial side portion and/or the lateral side portion, configured to be separated from one another in a longitudinal direction of the foot, and configured to cover at least a portion of a side surface of the foot,
a fastening member configured to pull the panels toward a central portion between a medial side and a lateral side of the foot;

a plurality of string-shaped non-elongatable string portions extending in the longitudinal direction, the string portions placed between a pair of the plurality of panels that are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction;
a mesh member formed by a woven fabric or a knit fabric, having elongate slit-shaped through holes arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows; and
at least one panel member layered on the mesh member,
wherein each of the string portions is formed by a body part of the mesh member between two of the plurality of through holes that are configured to be spaced apart from, and adjacent to, each other in a circumferential direction of the foot.

2. The upper according to claim 1 , further comprising:
another panel member separate from the at least one panel member,
wherein the at least one and the other panel members form at least a portion of the upper while being layered together, with the mesh member sandwiched therebetween.

3. The upper according to claim 1 , wherein a flexural rigidity of the at least one panel member is set to a larger value than a flexural rigidity of the mesh member.

4. An upper of a shoe, the upper comprising:
a mesh member formed by a woven fabric or a knit fabric, having a plurality of elongate slit-shaped through holes arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows; and
at least one panel member layered on the mesh member, with the plurality of through holes arranged in the plurality of columns and the plurality of rows being open, and an area of the mesh member between the through holes adjacent to each other being exposed.

5. The upper according to claim 4 , wherein:
the upper further comprises another panel member different from the at least one panel member; and
the at least one and the other members are layered together with the mesh member sandwiched therebetween, with the plurality of through holes arranged in the plurality of columns and the plurality of rows being open, and an area of the mesh member between the through holes adjacent to each other being exposed, the at least one and the other members forming at least a portion of the upper.

6. The upper according to claim 4 , wherein the area, which exposed, of the mesh member extends in the longitudinal direction between ones of the through holes that are spaced apart from, and adjacent to, each other in a circumferential direction of the foot, and forms a plurality of string-shaped non-elongatable string portions that are configured to be freely displaceable and deformable in a transverse direction of the foot or an up-down direction of the foot.

7. The upper according to claim 4 , wherein a flexural rigidity of the at least one panel member is set to a larger value than a flexural rigidity of the mesh member.

Assignees

• Asics Corp

Inventors

• Nishiwaki Tsuyoshi
• Takashima Shingo
• Fujita Hisanori
• Fujita Yoshinori

Classifications

• A43B23/0235 Primary

  Different layers of different material · CPC title

• A43B23/027

  with a part of the upper particularly flexible, e.g. permitting articulation or torsion · CPC title

• A43B7/08

  with air-holes, with or without closures · CPC title

• A43B23/028 Primary

  Resilient uppers, e.g. shock absorbing · CPC title

• A43B23/026

  Laminated layers · CPC title