Abstract: There is provided a sole having a forefoot support portion supporting a forefoot of a foot of a wearer, a midfoot support portion supporting a midfoot of the foot, and a rearfoot support portion supporting a rearfoot of the foot, the forefoot support portion, the midfoot support portion, and the rearfoot support portion being connected in this order from a front side, the sole including a midsole having cushioning property, in which the midsole includes a cushioning portion formed of a first foam material, and a torsion control portion formed of a second form material having higher hardness than the first foam material, and the torsion control portion includes a first portion extending in a front-rear direction over at least the entire midfoot support portion on a medial foot side, and a second portion extending obliquely rearward from the first portion toward a lateral foot side.

Abstract: A sole of a shoe includes a forefoot support portion R1 that supports a forefoot of a foot of a wearer, a midfoot support portion that supports a midfoot of the foot of the wearer, and a rearfoot support portion that supports a rearfoot of the foot of the wearer, which are connected in order from a front side toward a rear side. A ground contact portion having a portion positioned on a lowermost line connecting a lowermost point of the forefoot support portion and a lowermost point of the rearfoot support portion in a side view is formed in a medial-foot-side region of a bottom surface of the midfoot support portion. A protrusion protruding toward the medial foot side is formed on a medial-foot-side side surface of the midfoot support portion.

Abstract: A data generating apparatus generates shoe last data for manufacturing a shoe from measured foot shape data. The data generating apparatus includes: an input unit that receives the foot shape data; a processor that computes the shoe last data from the foot shape data received by the input unit; and an output unit that outputs the shoe last data computed by the processor. The input unit further receives selected additional information. The processor specifies a portion of the shoe last data to be corrected, based on the additional information, and calculates an amount of correction of the specified portion based on the additional information.

Abstract: A recommended running pace calculation system and the like capable of calculating a recommended running pace that is recommended to a runner to be evaluated in a distance running. A recommended running pace calculation system according to the present invention includes a correlation storage device in which a first correlation is stored, the first correlation including correlations between running distances run by unspecified runners and their fastest running paces, a running pace acquisition device configured to acquire running paces for predetermined sections in a distance running run by a runner to be evaluated, the distance running having a predetermined length, a correction device configured to extract a fastest running pace of the running paces of the runner to be evaluated for the predetermined sections, and a recommended running pace calculation device configured to calculate a recommended running pace.

Abstract: Footwear includes a shell including an outsole portion; and a sole body including a footbed portion. The footbed portion includes a shock absorbing portion formed of a three-dimensional mesh structure body so as to extend to a peripheral surface of the footbed portion. An engaged portion is disposed in an inner side surface of the outsole portion, and an engaging portion is disposed in a portion of the shock absorbing portion that corresponds to the peripheral surface. One of the engaged portion and the engaging portion is a protruding portion while the other one of the engaged portion and the engaging portion is a cutout portion provided as a recessed portion or a hole portion. An occupied volume ratio of a region including at least a portion defining the engaging portion in the shock absorbing portion is locally increased.

Abstract: A plate is used for a sole forming a part of a shoe. The plate includes a front support portion and a center support portion. The front support portion is formed in a flat shape or a curved shape with a single downward protrusion in a cross section in a foot width direction, when the sole is placed on a flat plane. The center support portion has a shape with an upward protrusion and a downward protrusion arranged alternately in the foot width direction in a cross section in the foot width direction, when the sole is placed on the flat plane, where the upward protrusion has a shape curved to protrude upward and the downward protrusion has a shape curved to protrude downward.

Abstract: A shoe includes an upper body, a shoe tongue, and a shoelace. The shoe tongue includes a cover portion that covers a central opening of the upper body and a first extending portion-extending from the cover portion along an inner surface of a first wall portion of the upper body. The first extending portion is made of a material higher in stretchability than a material forming the first wall portion. A top end portion of the first wall portion is provided with an upper body-side first shoelace passing-through portion through which the shoelace is inserted from a side of the second wall portion and folded back, and the shoe tongue is provided with a shoe tongue-side first shoelace passing-through portion through which the shoelace is inserted from a side of the second wall portion and folded back.

Abstract: An upper includes a cloth-like base member including at least one layer, and a plurality of linear members disposed side by side on the base member and independently of each other. Each of the linear members includes a first portion disposed in at least one end portion of the linear member along a length direction and fixed to the layer, and a second portion disposed in a portion of the linear member other than the first portion and not fixed to the layer. The second portions of the adjacent linear members are interlocked with each other. A part or all of the second portion of at least one of the linear members is exposed to an outside of the base member.

Abstract: Provided is a shoe sole member partially or entirely formed of a resin composite in which a plurality of resin foam particles are integrated with one or more non-foamed elastic bodies, wherein a resin composition constituting the one or more elastic bodies and a resin composition constituting the plurality of resin foam particles both include a polyolefin-based resin as a main component, or both include a polyurethane-based resin as a main component. Also provided is a shoe including the shoe sole member.

Abstract: An upper includes a cloth-like base member including at least one layer, and a plurality of linear members disposed independently of each other. Each of the linear members includes a first portion disposed in at least one end portion of the linear member along a length direction and fixed to the layer, and a second portion disposed in a portion of the linear member other than the first portion and not fixed to the layer. A part or all of the second portion of at least one of the linear members is exposed to an outside of the base member.

Abstract: Footwear includes a footbed including a cushioning portion configured of a three-dimensional mesh structure body with multiple unit structures repeatedly arranged to be adjacent to one another. In one aspect, the occupied volume ratio of the cushioning portion is larger in a medial forefoot area than a lateral forefoot area, is larger in a medial midfoot area than a lateral midfoot area, is larger in a medial rearfoot area than a lateral rearfoot area, is smaller in the medial forefoot area than the medial midfoot area, is smaller in the lateral forefoot area than the lateral midfoot area, is equal in the medial midfoot area and the medial rearfoot area or is smaller in the medial midfoot area than the medial rearfoot area.

Abstract: A wearing simulation device includes a first animation generation unit that generates a first animation indicating a change in a movement of a body and a surface shape of the body from a second posture to a first posture, a second animation generation unit that generates a second animation indicating a change in a movement of the body and a surface shape of the body in a continuous movement, a third animation generation unit that generates a third animation by connecting the first animation and the second animation, and a simulation execution unit that makes the body wear a clothing model in at least one frame from beginning of the third animation, deforms the clothing model so as to follow the change in the movement of the body and the surface shape of the body in the frame after wearing, and simulates a shape change of the clothing model.

Abstract: A shoe sole 1 includes a bottom part 20 and a deformation restraining part 30. The bottom part 20 includes: a rear bottom surface part 24 formed to extend from a rearfoot to a midfoot portion and to be, when the shoe sole is placed on a virtual surface S as a flat surface, in contact with the virtual surface S; and a toe portion 26 of which a height from the virtual surface S is set to 100% or greater and 250% or less with respect to a thickness in the rear bottom surface part 24. The deformation restraining part 30 is disposed in an edge part on a medial side and a lateral side of the bottom part 20 and extends from a forefoot to the midfoot portion along the bottom part 20. The deformation restraining part 30 has higher hardness than the bottom part 20.

Abstract: An upper includes an upper main body that covers an instep of a foot. The upper main body includes: a first portion including a plurality of linear bodies and formed by one layer; and a bag-shaped second portion formed by two layers in which some of the plurality of linear bodies constituting the first portion serve as one layer and the rest of the plurality of linear bodies serves as another layer. Inside the second portion, a cushioning material is put. The second portion protrudes toward a foot of a wearer with respect to the first portion.

Abstract: A last production assisting apparatus comprises a camera, a storage, a processor, and a display. The camera images a plurality of parts constituting a last. The storage stores production information for producing the last. Based on the production information, the processor calculates attachment positions or the like for the plurality of parts imaged by the camera. The display displays the attachment positions calculated by the processor for the plurality of parts.

Abstract: A shoe sole at least partially comprises a shock absorber, and the shock absorber that includes a shock absorbing portion and a cover portion that has a tread on a side opposite to the shock absorbing portion. The shock absorbing portion is provided with a plurality of pass-through portions passing through the shock absorbing portion as viewed in a direction of a normal to the tread, and the cover portion covers at least one of the plurality of pass-through portions. The cover portion is provided with a communication path having one end open to the pass-through portion and the other end open at the tread, and a condition of R<L is satisfied, where R represents a diameter of a largest virtual incircle of a contour line of an opening of the communication path located closer to the tread, and L represents a length of the communication path.

Abstract: A shoe includes an outsole including a ground contact surface to be in contact with the ground, and an upper attached directly or indirectly to the outsole opposite to the ground contact surface. The outsole includes an outsole body, and a roll-up portion extending from an edge of the outsole body toward the upper. The outsole also includes a flexible region in which at least one cut is formed to extend from the outsole body to the roll-up portion.