Hard plate for spiked track shoes

• US 5,689,904 A
• Filed: 09/04/1996
• Issued: 11/25/1997
• 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): PATTERSON, MARIE D
• Application Number:
  US08/706,235
• Time in Patent Office: 447 Days
• Field of Search: 36/134, 36/129, 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: 36/129
• 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 of a substantially overall anterior forefoot portion in at least about half the forefoot portion; and

a braking region and a balance and acceleration region on a posterior forefoot portion for respectively buffering landing impact on the ground surface and rapidly gripping the ground surface upon landing, and for maintaining right and left balances on contact with the ground surface and providing a propulsion force at a start dash moment, said braking and balance and acceleration regions being provided with a plurality of first projections each having a shape of a truncated cone, a plurality of second projections each having a shape of a longitudinally placed triangular prism, a plurality of third projections each having a shape of a laterally placed triangular prism, and a plurality of fourth projections each having a shape of a laterally placed prismatoid.

2. A hard plate according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of spikes on said posterior forefoot portion, wherein

said second projections are arranged in circular formations around said spikes,

said third projections are arranged along both side edges of the forefoot portion, and

said fourth projections are arranged along a rear edge of the forefoot portion.

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

4. A hard plate according to claim 1, wherein each of said small projections is substantially a semi-cone with a bottom semi-elliptical face cut at a central symmetric axis thereon, said semi-cone having one side face which includes said symmetric axis and which is orthogonal to a center line of said shoe and faces rearward.