Abstract: A shoe having a bio foot pad, including a plurality of circumferential elastic fibers surrounded by a viscoelastic material; wherein said fibers impart a biphasic characteristic to said viscoelastic material; and wherein said fibers under compression develop a plurality of hoop stresses to facilitate load conversion and distribution of axial forces exerted against a heel area of a user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 18, 2017
Date of Patent:
July 2, 2019
Assignee:
BioFoot Pad, Incorporated
Inventors:
Dyson Lister Hamner, Theodore Voorhees Tillinghast, Joseph John Jankiewicz, Mark Tabin McBride