Hard plate for spiked track shoes

• US 5,483,760 A
• Filed: 12/22/1994
• Issued: 01/16/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ASICS Corporation
• Original Assignee: ASICS Corporation
• Inventors: Kataoka, Akira, Inohara, Masanobu, Saito, Kiyohiro, Suma, Toshio, Tsukita, Ryuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Sewell, Paul T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATTERSON, MARIE D
• Application Number:
  US08/361,477
• Time in Patent Office: 390 Days
• Field of Search: 36/129, 36/134, 36/59 R, 36/59 C, 36/7.6, 36/126, 36/67 R, 36/67 D, D 2/951, D 2/959, D 2/962
• US Class Current: 36/134
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 13/223 Profiled soles
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 13/26 projecting beyond the sole surface
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/06 Running shoes; Track shoes
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 15/02 attached to the sole

Abstract

A hard plate of spike shoes for track races comprises a plurality of small projections or small holes on an anterior forefoot portion in at least half the forefoot portion, and a plurality of large projections greater than said small projections or small holes on a posterior forefoot portion.

Claims

1. A hard plate for a spiked track shoe comprising:

a propulsion region for gripping ground surface and suppressing rearward slippage of the track shoe relative to the ground surface, said propulsion region being provided with a plurality of small projections on a substantially overall anterior forefoot portion in at least about half the forefoot portion;

a braking region for buffering landing impact on the ground surface and for rapidly gripping the ground surface upon landing, said braking region being provided with a plurality of first large projections on an outer posterior forefoot portion, each of said first large projections being greater than said small projections of said propulsion region;

wherein

said first large projections are aligned outwardly from a center line of said shoe in a first inclined direction and at a first predetermined angle such that a base of one side face of each of said first large projections is orthogonal with said first inclined direction, and such that said one side face of each of said first large projections is oriented substantially forward in said first inclined direction; and

a balance and acceleration region for maintaining right and left balances on contact with the ground surface and for providing a propulsion force at a start dash moment, said balance and acceleration region being provided with a plurality of second large projections on an inner posterior forefoot portion, each of said second large projections being greater than said small projections of said propulsion region, wherein

said second large projections are aligned inwardly from said center line of said shoe in a second inclined direction at a second predetermined angle such that a base of one side face of each of said second large projections is orthogonal with said second inclined direction, and such that said one said side face of each of said second large projections is oriented substantially rearward in said second inclined direction.

2. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said small projections and said large projections has a density of the total projection bottom face area divided by the plate area×

100 of between 9.8 and 30.8.

3. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein said small projections are substantially triangular pyramids, one of said faces of which is orthogonal to a center line of said shoe and a ridge line opposite to said one of said faces facing forward.

4. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein said small projections are substantially semi-cones, a bottom face shape of said semi-cone being a semi-ellipse cut at a central symmetric axis thereof, one side face of said semi-cone including said central symmetric axis, being orthogonal to a center line of said shoe and facing rearward.

5. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein both of said first large projections and second large projections are triangular pyramids.

6. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein said both of said first large projections and second large projections are substantially semi-cones, a bottom face shape of which being a semi-ellipse cut at a central symmetric axis thereof.

7. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein said both of said first large projections and second large projections are truncated trapezoidal pyramids, side faces opposite each other are orthogonal with one of said first inclined direction and said second inclined direction, a width of a rear side face is smaller than a front side in said first large projections, a width of a front side face is smaller than a rear side face in said second large projections.

8. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein said both of said first large projections and second large projections are oblique pyramids, side faces opposite each other are orthogonal with one of said first inclined direction and said second inclined direction, a width of a rear side face is smaller than a front side face in said first large projections, a width of a front side face is smaller than a rear side face in said second large projections.

9. A hard plate according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein at least one of said first predetermined angle and said second predetermined angle and said second predetermined angle is in the range of 5°

to 45°

.

10. A hard plate according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein at least one of said first predetermined angle and said second predetermined angle is 14°

.