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Sports shoe with sensing and control

  • US 7,771,371 B2
  • Filed: 08/11/2005
  • Issued: 08/10/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Apparatus for improving athletic performance of a user, comprising:

  • a flexible insole, adapted for insertion into a shoe, the insole shaped so as to define at least two pressure-sensing chambers, said at least two pressure-sensing chambers comprising a forefoot chamber and a hindfoot chamber;

    a stimulator; and

    a control unit, adapted to detect pressures in the forefoot and hindfoot chambers as a function of time and to measure a duration between a first time, when said pressure detected in said hindfoot chamber begins to increase, and a second time, when said pressure detected in said forefoot chamber begins to increase, and to drive the stimulator to apply a stimulation to the user responsive to a relationship between the duration and a desired parameter of athletic performance.

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