US 11,884,791 B2
Footwear component manufacturing system
Paul Irving Archer, Portland, OR (US); Hossein Allen Baghdadi, Portland, OR (US); Jay Constantinou, Portland, OR (US); Gregory Paul Dufour, Portland, OR (US); Sami Mohamad Fakhouri, Portland, OR (US); Floyd Whitney Miles, Beaverton, OR (US); Joseph Thomas Muth, North Plains, OR (US); and Bradley C. Tutmark, Aloha, OR (US)
Assigned to NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed by NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/195,067.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/137,872, filed on Jan. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/071,393, filed on Aug. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,324, filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,648, filed on Mar. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,224, filed on Mar. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,329, filed on Mar. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,227, filed on Mar. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0354349 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. C08J 9/12 (2006.01); B29D 35/00 (2010.01); B29D 35/12 (2010.01); A43B 1/14 (2006.01); B29D 35/08 (2010.01); B29D 35/14 (2010.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01); B29C 44/10 (2006.01); B29C 45/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/04 (2006.01); A43D 119/00 (2006.01); B29C 44/58 (2006.01); B29C 44/60 (2006.01); B29C 45/04 (2006.01); B29C 45/78 (2006.01); B29K 67/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/50 (2006.01); B29K 21/00 (2006.01); B29K 105/04 (2006.01)
CPC C08J 9/12 (2013.01) [A43B 1/14 (2013.01); A43D 119/00 (2013.01); B25J 15/0019 (2013.01); B29C 44/105 (2013.01); B29C 44/58 (2013.01); B29C 44/60 (2013.01); B29C 45/0001 (2013.01); B29C 45/04 (2013.01); B29C 45/78 (2013.01); B29D 35/0036 (2013.01); B29D 35/0045 (2013.01); B29D 35/081 (2013.01); B29D 35/122 (2013.01); B29D 35/128 (2013.01); B29D 35/148 (2013.01); G06K 19/045 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76531 (2013.01); B29C 2945/76752 (2013.01); B29K 2021/003 (2013.01); B29K 2067/00 (2013.01); B29K 2105/04 (2013.01); B29L 2031/50 (2013.01); B29L 2031/504 (2013.01); C08J 2367/00 (2013.01); C08J 2467/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A physical foaming injection molding system for a footwear component, the system comprising:
an injector;
a press paired with the injector, the press comprising a universal runner plate comprising at least one runner outlet and configured to interface with a removable mold that is configured to engage with the injector and the press, the mold being one of an array of molds that the universal runner plate is configured to interface with; and
a robot comprising an end effector adapted to reversible engage with the mold, wherein the robot is positioned relative to the press to reversible engage the end effector with the mold.