Footwear impact distribution

摘要

An article of footwear includes a footwear portion including a core including a plurality of plates. A first one of the plurality of plates is hingedly attached, at one or more edges of the first plate, to one or more substantially adjacent other plates in the plurality of plates. Each hinge hingedly attaching an edge of the first plate to another plate joins less than the entire respective hingedly attached edge to a corresponding one of the one or more substantially adjacent other plates and is integrally connected to the first plate.

主权项

1. An article of footwear comprising:
a footwear portion including:
a substrate of a first material; anda core including a plurality of plates, wherein the core is of a second material more rigid than the first material and a first one of the plurality of plates is hingedly attached, at one or more edges of the first plate, to one or more substantially adjacent other plates in the plurality of plates, wherein each hinge hingedly attaching an edge of the first plate to another plate joins less than the entire respective hingedly attached edge to a corresponding one of the one or more substantially adjacent other plates, displaces the respective edge of the first plate from an edge of the other plate by a distance corresponding to a length of the hinge, and is integrally connected to the first plate and the other plate.