US 11,779,077 B2
Sole comprising individually deflectable reinforcing members, shoe with such a sole, and method for the manufacture of such items
Robbie Paterson, Nuremberg (DE); Harry Miles, Nuremberg (DE); Daniel Ruiz, Erlangen (DE); Fabian Schweizer, Nuremberg (DE); Sam Forester, Nuremberg (DE); Falk Bruns, Nuremberg (DE); Peter Valdivia, Nuremberg (DE); Jochen Bartl, Langensendelbach (DE); Tobias Biegel, Großhabersdorf (DE); Valentin Perrin, Nuremberg (DE); Jürgen Weidl, Aurachtal (DE); Matthias Schmitt, Nuremberg (DE); Heiko Schlarb, Neustadt an der Aisch (DE); Alejandro Alcaniz, Nuremberg (DE); and Ronny Herman Gerard Groeneveld, Vreden (DE)
Assigned to adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed by adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed on Feb. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/179,785.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 202 237.2 (DE), filed on Feb. 21, 2020; and application No. 21151933 (EP), filed on Jan. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259358 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. A43B 13/14 (2006.01); A43B 5/06 (2022.01); B29D 35/00 (2010.01); B29D 35/12 (2010.01); A43B 7/1445 (2022.01); A43B 7/14 (2022.01)
CPC A43B 13/14 (2013.01) [A43B 5/06 (2013.01); A43B 7/14 (2013.01); A43B 7/1445 (2013.01); B29D 35/0009 (2013.01); B29D 35/122 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sole for a shoe, the sole comprising:
a midsole;
a reinforcing structure that comprises reinforcing members at least partially embedded in the midsole within a front half of the sole, wherein:
a first one of the reinforcing members extends rearwardly beyond a midfoot area of the midsole and into a heel area of the midsole and forms a first section of the reinforcing structure behind the midfoot area;
a second one of the reinforcing members extends rearwardly beyond the midfoot area and into the heel area and forms a second section of the reinforcing structure behind the midfoot area; and
the first section and the second section wrap upward behind the heel area, and merge into each other behind the heel area.