US 11,779,080 B2
Material for shoe upper
Dirk Meythaler, Herzogenaurach (DE); Harald Geyer, Herzogenaurach (DE); Marco Fischhold, Herzogenaurach (DE); Robert Frank Kirk, Herzogenaurach (DE); Jack Huang, Herzogenaurach (DE); and Bruno Jean Antonelli, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Assigned to adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed by adidas AG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/917,006.
Application 15/683,814 is a division of application No. 13/774,844, filed on Feb. 22, 2013, granted, now 9,775,409, issued on Oct. 3, 2017.
Application 16/917,006 is a continuation of application No. 15/683,814, filed on Aug. 23, 2017, granted, now 10,750,826.
Claims priority of application No. 102012202866.8 (DE), filed on Feb. 24, 2012; and application No. 13155073 (EP), filed on Feb. 13, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2020/0329817 A1, Oct. 22, 2020
Int. Cl. A43B 23/02 (2006.01); A43B 5/02 (2006.01); B32B 7/027 (2019.01); B32B 7/023 (2019.01); B32B 5/02 (2006.01); B29D 35/12 (2010.01); B29C 39/14 (2006.01); B29C 39/18 (2006.01); B32B 27/12 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 23/0205 (2013.01) [A43B 5/02 (2013.01); A43B 5/025 (2013.01); A43B 23/026 (2013.01); A43B 23/0225 (2013.01); A43B 23/0235 (2013.01); A43B 23/0255 (2013.01); B29C 39/146 (2013.01); B29C 39/18 (2013.01); B29D 35/126 (2013.01); B32B 5/028 (2013.01); B32B 7/023 (2019.01); B32B 7/027 (2019.01); B32B 27/12 (2013.01); Y10T 428/24347 (2015.01); Y10T 428/24942 (2015.01); Y10T 442/10 (2015.04)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A material for a shoe upper, the material comprising:
a first polyurethane layer;
a second polyurethane layer; and
a textile reinforcing layer between the first polyurethane layer and the second polyurethane layer, wherein the textile reinforcing layer comprises a plurality of apertures arranged in a first zone and a second zone of the textile reinforcing layer,
wherein, in the first zone, the first polyurethane layer and the second polyurethane layer are bonded together through the plurality of apertures of the textile reinforcing layer,
wherein, in the second zone, the first polyurethane layer and the second polyurethane layer are unconnected,
wherein the first polyurethane layer contacts the textile reinforcing layer in the first zone and the second zone, and
wherein the second polyurethane layer contacts the textile reinforcing layer in the first zone and the second zone.