Anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole and footgear

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10524537-B2
Application number	US-201615559059-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2016
Priority date	Feb 19, 2016
Publication date	Jan 7, 2020
Grant date	Jan 7, 2020

Abstract

The present invention provides an anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole and a footgear including the same, the anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole includes an upper sole and a lower sole, a cavity is sandwiched between the upper sole and the lower sole, multiple compressible and reboundable shock-absorbing elements are embedded in the cavity. The shock-absorbing elements in the sole can buffer the impacts from the ground to the feet, and has good shock-absorbing effect. Second, the balance beams connecting the two shock-absorbing elements in each row can provide opposite roll torque when the road is uneven or the user stamps on stones. Third, the opposite roll torque above can prevent the sole from further rolling over, therefore improves the balance stability when walking. This can further effectively prevent the occurrence of spraining, and avoid sports injury during exercises.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole, comprising an upper sole and a lower sole, a cavity is sandwiched between the upper sole and the lower sole, multiple compressible and reboundable shock-absorbing elements are embedded in the cavity, upper ends of the multiple shock-absorbing elements connect with the upper sole, and lower ends of the multiple shock-absorbing elements connect with the lower sole, wherein the multiple shock-absorbing elements are distributed on both sides of the sole, and every two corresponding shock-absorbing elements are in a row along a left-to-right direction of the sole, and are connected by a first balance beam along the same direction; the first balance beam is made of hard thin rod, the multiple shock-absorbing elements are helical springs, two ends of the first balance beam are fixed to its corresponding helical springs in the row along the same left-to-right direction; an elastic material is wrapped around a periphery area of each row of the shock-absorbing elements, and the elastic material only wraps the periphery area of each row of the shock-absorbing elements for a layer, other parts in the cavity remain empty; the first balance beam is also wrapped by the elastic material to be within the periphery area.

2. The anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole of claim 1 , wherein the multiple shock-absorbing elements in the sole are distributed in two lines and several rows, the multiple shock-absorbing elements in each line are independent and spaced along anterior-posterior direction of the sole, and two shock-absorbing elements of each row are connected by the first balance beam along left-to-right direction of the sole.

3. The anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole of claim 1 , wherein the multiple shock-absorbing elements are mounted in heel parts and forefoot parts of the sole.

4. The anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole of claim 1 , wherein the first balance beam connects with central sections of two shock-absorbing elements in each row.

5. The anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole of claim 1 , wherein a second balance beam connects top ends of said every two shock-absorbing elements in each row.

6. The anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole of claim 1 , wherein the upper sole is made of hard materials uneasy to deform, the lower sole is made of soft materials easy to deform.

7. The anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole of claim 1 , wherein a shoe-pad layer is placed above the upper sole, an anti-wear layer is set under the lower sole.

8. A footgear, comprising a sole and a vamp, the vamp connects with the sole, wherein the sole is an anti-sprain and shock-absorbing balance sole as described by claim 1 .

Assignees

• Geely Holding Group Co Ltd
• Zhejiang Geely Automobile Res Inst Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Shufu

Classifications

• A43B21/26

  Resilient heels · CPC title

• A43B13/187

  Resiliency achieved by the features of the material, e.g. foam, non liquid materials · CPC title

• A43B13/181 Primary

  Resiliency achieved by the structure of the sole · CPC title

• A43B5/06

  Running shoes; Track shoes · CPC title

• A43B7/32

  with shock-absorbing means (resilient soles A43B13/18) · CPC title