EP0987965A1 - Air cushion - Google Patents
Air cushionInfo
- Publication number
- EP0987965A1 EP0987965A1 EP97928855A EP97928855A EP0987965A1 EP 0987965 A1 EP0987965 A1 EP 0987965A1 EP 97928855 A EP97928855 A EP 97928855A EP 97928855 A EP97928855 A EP 97928855A EP 0987965 A1 EP0987965 A1 EP 0987965A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- air cushion
- dimensional
- air
- cushion
- dimensional air
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B13/00—Soles; Sole-and-heel integral units
- A43B13/14—Soles; Sole-and-heel integral units characterised by the constructive form
- A43B13/18—Resilient soles
- A43B13/20—Pneumatic soles filled with a compressible fluid, e.g. air, gas
- A43B13/203—Pneumatic soles filled with a compressible fluid, e.g. air, gas provided with a pump or valve
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B7/00—Footwear with health or hygienic arrangements
- A43B7/06—Footwear with health or hygienic arrangements ventilated
- A43B7/08—Footwear with health or hygienic arrangements ventilated with air-holes, with or without closures
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A42—HEADWEAR
- A42B—HATS; HEAD COVERINGS
- A42B3/00—Helmets; Helmet covers ; Other protective head coverings
- A42B3/04—Parts, details or accessories of helmets
- A42B3/10—Linings
- A42B3/12—Cushioning devices
- A42B3/121—Cushioning devices with at least one layer or pad containing a fluid
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B21/00—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts
- A43B21/24—Heels; Top-pieces or top-lifts characterised by the constructive form
- A43B21/26—Resilient heels
- A43B21/28—Pneumatic heels filled with a compressible fluid, e.g. air, gas
- A43B21/285—Pneumatic heels filled with a compressible fluid, e.g. air, gas provided with a pump or valve
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B23/00—Uppers; Boot legs; Stiffeners; Other single parts of footwear
- A43B23/02—Uppers; Boot legs
- A43B23/0245—Uppers; Boot legs characterised by the constructive form
- A43B23/028—Resilient uppers, e.g. shock absorbing
- A43B23/029—Pneumatic upper, e.g. gas filled
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A43—FOOTWEAR
- A43B—CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR
- A43B23/00—Uppers; Boot legs; Stiffeners; Other single parts of footwear
- A43B23/08—Heel stiffeners; Toe stiffeners
- A43B23/16—Heel stiffeners; Toe stiffeners made of impregnated fabrics, plastics or the like
- A43B23/17—Heel stiffeners; Toe stiffeners made of impregnated fabrics, plastics or the like made of plastics
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/081—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions fluid-filled, e.g. air-filled
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/10—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the head
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/12—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
- A63B71/08—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions
- A63B71/12—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders
- A63B71/1225—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders for the legs, e.g. thighs, knees, ankles, feet
- A63B2071/1283—Body-protectors for players or sportsmen, i.e. body-protecting accessories affording protection of body parts against blows or collisions for the body or the legs, e.g. for the shoulders for the legs, e.g. thighs, knees, ankles, feet for the foot
Definitions
- An air cushion is generally made of two sheets placed one on the other and sealed tightly at outer circumferential edges to form a hollow interior inflated with a gas or a liquid.
- Another kind of air cushion is made by means of an injection molding process to produce a three dimensional air cushion with a hollow interior and then inflating air chambers provided therein with a gas or a liquid.
- a cushion as shown in Figure 1 is made of two sheets placed one on the other and fused together to have an upper flat surface. When a shock is imparted to its surface, it is received on a spot of the cushion and then dispersed gradually to other surfaces. This kind of cushion absorbs only a little shock, and therefore required for energy dispersion is comparatively large. In addition, its center of gravity is high so that instability produced by shock is accordingly increased.
- a cushion with a flat surface can barely support an exterior high force.
- Such a cushion can only have a shock-absorbing function for an object the cushion is protecting.
- a hollow three dimensional cushion as shown in Figure 2 made by means of an injection molding process, may have a curved upper surface for contacting an object protected by it, but the cushion does not have a structure of shape memorization, and has to rely on an exterior layer added on its surface to form its upper curved surface.
- the whole curved surface of the cushion is nearly under the lower surface of the object protected, i.e. a shocking surface so that when a shock or a pressure is added to the surface of the cushion by the object, the shock or pressure force cannot be dispersed to two sides, as the cushion is provided with no higher side walls than the height of the cushion. Therefore a shock energy it receives is only temporarily converted into a side effect, limited in absorbing and stabilizing shock, which is not an ideal structure for a cushion.
- the main purpose of the invention is to offer an air cushion with a better structure for shock-absorbing and stability.
- a three dimensional air cushion according to the invention is shown in Figure 3, intended to have the following advantages. 1. Comparatively higher sides, two or three of which are provided with air chambers extending from a center portion so that the air cushion and an object it protects may contact with a curved surface so that dispersion of a surface receiving shock may be increased to minimize moving shock energy, and to maximize a compressible area, and consequently to obtain the largest shock-absorbing effect. 2. It can sufficiently convert shock energy added on an intermediate upper surface into outer side support energy.
- Figure 1 is a side cross-sectional view of a conventional air cushion with an upper flat surface as in the present invention
- Figure 2 is a side cross-sectional view of a conventional air cushion with an upper curved-down surface as in the present invention
- Figure 3 is a side cross-sectional view of an air cushion of the present invention
- Figure 4 is a perspective view of a first preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention
- Figure 4a is an alternate embodiment of the first preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention
- Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line I-I in Figure 4a;
- Figure 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line II-II in Figure 5;
- Figure 7 is a cross-sectional view of a second preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along line III-III in Figure 7;
- Figure 9 is a cross-sectional view of a third preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 10 is a perspective view of a fourth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 11 is a cross-sectional view taken along line IV-IV in Figure 10;
- Figure 12 is a perspective view of a fifth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 13 is a cross-sectional view taken along line V-V in Figure 12;
- Figure 14 is a cross-sectional view of a sixth preferred embodiment of an air- cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 15 is a cross-sectional view of a seventh preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 16 is a cross-sectional view of various air cushions of the invention practically utilized in a sneaker
- Figure 17 is a perspective view of a eighth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 18 is a perspective view of a ninth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- Figure 19 is a perspective view of a tenth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention.
- a three dimensional air cushion of the present invention can be formed as a heel air cushion as shown in Figure 4, a foot bottom air cushion as shown in Figure 10 or a shoe sole air cushion as shown in Figure 12, not limited in its shape, and adaptable to sneakers, protective pads, helmets, etc.
- a first preferred embodiment of a three dimensional air cushion of the present invention includes one or more independent air chambers 10 or communicated air chambers 10 with passageways 11. Every air chamber 10 can extend to two opposite sides of the cushion body 1, forming a three dimensional inner upper surface an a lower flat smooth curved surface not protruding into the air chambers 10.
- the sealed peripheral edge of the cushion body 1 can be of a geometric shape.
- the hollow interior surrounded by the sealed peripheral edge has a projected surface area smaller than the upper surface area of the cushion body 1.
- the cushion body 1 is of a curved shape occupying a three dimensional space, adaptable to be inwardly recessed or having swollen curved cushions.
- a second preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention includes a cushion body 1, one or more air chambers as the first preferred embodiment, with one or more recessed elongated grooves 12 provided in a lower surface so as to form a three dimensional recessed surface, and the upper surface is formed flat and smooth with a curvature.
- a third preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention is formed almost the same as the second preferred embodiment, but with one or more elongated grooves 12 formed both on the upper surface and the lower surface.
- a fourth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention includes a cushion body 1, formed to support a foot bottom, having elongated grooves 12 formed in an upper surface or in a lower surface as shown in Figure 8, or in both the upper and the lower surface as shown in Figure 9.
- this foot bottom air cushion is to be fixed in an intermediate portion of a sneaker, the two opposite sides are curved upwardly in a preset angle, different from the three dimensionally curved inward or swollen air cushion described above.
- the special feature of this air cushion is that the inner surface area is smaller than the outer surface area, and each elongated groove 12 of each air chamber 10 has two ends with a projected line extending nearly vertically to the projected elevational surface of the groove.
- a fifth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention includes an air cushion for use in a toe region of a foot bottom.
- a sixth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention includes an outer layer 2 of a different material from the cushion body 1 added on the cushion body 1 of the first preferred embodiment, but also adaptable to other air cushions.
- a seventh preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention includes an outer layer 2 of a different material from the cushion body 1 added on the cushion body of the third preferred embodiment shown in Figure 9.
- the air chambers 10 provided in a cushion body 1 of the various preferred embodiments can be filled with a gas, or a liquid, as the air cushion 1 itself is a hollow sealed body.
- a one-way air valve and pump device may be attached with the air cushion body 1 for filling its interior with a needed pressure with a gas or a liquid.
- An eighth, ninth and tenth preferred embodiment of an air cushion of the present invention includes a fluid inlet 15, including a valve 13 (as shown in Figure 17) or two valves 13 (as shown in Figure 18) located on opposite sides of a pump device 14.
- Figure 16 shows the three air cushions shown in Figures 4, 10 and 12, adapted to be used on a sneaker.
- the air cushions can be used without or with an outer layer added, with a wide variation of details. Besides, recessed grooves in an upper surface and/or a lower surface can be made independent or connected with each other.
- the air chambers 10 of the air cushion 1 extend to two curved-up opposite sides, having a curved surface contacting an object protected by it, increasing the dispersing shock-bearing surface to produce a minimum moving of shock energy and comparatively large compressible dimensions to produce maximum shock- absorbing effect.
- the shock pressure will disperse to the two higher sides so that the two opposite higher sides receive larger pressure to produce a clamping effect against the object or the shock source.
- the object for example a foot, will be moved to the center of the air cushion.
- the air cushion can automatically clamp the object or the shock source towards its center and consequently obtain the largest stability. If the shock disappears, the dispersed pressure to the two sides will move back to the location of the shock, forming a rebounding force, and thus giving the air cushion an excellent shock-absorbing function.
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Applications Claiming Priority (1)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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PCT/US1997/009742 WO1998054995A1 (en) | 1997-06-04 | 1997-06-04 | Air cushion |
Publications (3)
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EP0987965A1 true EP0987965A1 (en) | 2000-03-29 |
EP0987965A4 EP0987965A4 (en) | 2002-07-17 |
EP0987965B1 EP0987965B1 (en) | 2007-08-29 |
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EP97928855A Expired - Lifetime EP0987965B1 (en) | 1997-06-04 | 1997-06-04 | Air cushion |
Country Status (10)
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EP (1) | EP0987965B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2002500732A (en) |
KR (1) | KR100342745B1 (en) |
AT (1) | ATE371385T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU730553B2 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2293471A1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE69738083T2 (en) |
EA (1) | EA001675B1 (en) |
TR (1) | TR199902947T2 (en) |
WO (1) | WO1998054995A1 (en) |
Families Citing this family (5)
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DE29907844U1 (en) * | 1999-05-03 | 2000-09-14 | Dassler Puma Sportschuh | Damping insert for a shoe and shoe with such a damping insert |
KR20020096148A (en) * | 2001-06-18 | 2002-12-31 | 임성조 | airbag for shoes plate and its processing method |
US7089690B2 (en) * | 2002-05-29 | 2006-08-15 | Nike, Inc. | Material having compressible projections and footwear incorporating the material |
DE102006012867A1 (en) * | 2005-11-02 | 2007-05-03 | Puma Aktiengesellschaft Rudolf Dassler Sport | Shoe, in particular sports shoe |
DE202005017306U1 (en) * | 2005-11-05 | 2007-03-15 | Puma Aktiengesellschaft Rudolf Dassler Sport | Shoe, in particular sports shoe |
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US4187620A (en) * | 1978-06-15 | 1980-02-12 | Selner Allen J | Biomechanical shoe |
US4217705A (en) * | 1977-03-04 | 1980-08-19 | Donzis Byron A | Self-contained fluid pressure foot support device |
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- 1997-06-04 JP JP53894798A patent/JP2002500732A/en active Pending
- 1997-06-04 AT AT97928855T patent/ATE371385T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1997-06-04 KR KR1019997011194A patent/KR100342745B1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1997-06-04 EP EP97928855A patent/EP0987965B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1997-06-04 CA CA002293471A patent/CA2293471A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1997-06-04 AU AU33016/97A patent/AU730553B2/en not_active Ceased
- 1997-06-04 TR TR1999/02947T patent/TR199902947T2/en unknown
- 1997-06-04 WO PCT/US1997/009742 patent/WO1998054995A1/en active IP Right Grant
- 1997-06-04 DE DE69738083T patent/DE69738083T2/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1997-06-04 EA EA199900940A patent/EA001675B1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
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US4217705A (en) * | 1977-03-04 | 1980-08-19 | Donzis Byron A | Self-contained fluid pressure foot support device |
US4187620A (en) * | 1978-06-15 | 1980-02-12 | Selner Allen J | Biomechanical shoe |
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KR20010013207A (en) | 2001-02-26 |
DE69738083D1 (en) | 2007-10-11 |
JP2002500732A (en) | 2002-01-08 |
EA001675B1 (en) | 2001-06-25 |
AU730553B2 (en) | 2001-03-08 |
EA199900940A1 (en) | 2001-02-26 |
ATE371385T1 (en) | 2007-09-15 |
WO1998054995A1 (en) | 1998-12-10 |
EP0987965A4 (en) | 2002-07-17 |
EP0987965B1 (en) | 2007-08-29 |
CA2293471A1 (en) | 1998-12-10 |
KR100342745B1 (en) | 2002-07-04 |
TR199902947T2 (en) | 2000-06-21 |
AU3301697A (en) | 1998-12-21 |
DE69738083T2 (en) | 2008-05-21 |
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