Abstract: To provide a computer-executed order supporting method of supporting an order of a predetermined product including any one of clothing, footwear, accessories, and a product utilized to conform to a part of a body. The method includes acquiring product shape information relating to a product shape of the predetermined product, generating, based on the product shape information, simplified shape information indicating a simplified shape of the predetermined product, the simplified shape information allowing for calculation of manufacturing condition information relating to a manufacturing condition of the predetermined product, in a manufacturing section that manufactures the predetermined product, and outputting the simplified shape information.

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: An order support apparatus enables ordering products based on consideration of impact of manufacturing the products on environment. The order support apparatus includes a request information acquisition unit, a candidate extraction unit, a manufacturing condition generation unit, and an output unit. The request information acquisition unit acquires request information of a user relating to a product and manufacture of the product. The candidate extraction unit extracts, based on the request information acquired by the request information acquisition unit, candidate sections capable of manufacturing the product, from predetermined manufacturing sections. The manufacturing condition generation unit generates manufacturing conditions of the candidate sections, including environmental indicators relating to impacts of the candidate sections extracted by the candidate extraction unit on environment. The output unit outputs the manufacturing conditions generated by the manufacturing condition generation unit.

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.

Abstract: A prediction device includes: an input device that receives an input of measurement data of the foot shape of the person in a first loaded state, a processing circuitry is using a prediction model trained by machine learning to predict the foot shape of the person in a second loaded state in which a load is different from the first loaded state based on the measurement data received by the input device, and an output device that outputs prediction data of the foot shape of the person in the second loaded state predicted by the processing circuitry. The prediction model is generated in advance through training by machine learning based on training measurement data of a foot shape of a person for training in the first loaded state and training shape data of the foot shape of the person for training in the second loaded state.

Abstract: Provided are an insole designing apparatus, an insole designing method, and a program for use in designing an insole replaceable with and used instead of an insole currently used in footwear. The insole designing apparatus designs the insole of the footwear. The insole designing apparatus includes: an input device that receives an input of data; a processing circuitry that calculates design data of the insole based on the data received by the input device; and an output device that outputs the design data calculated by the processing circuitry. The data received by the input device at least includes first data associated with a user's foot shape and second data associated with an inside of the footwear. The processing circuitry calculates the design data based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: An upper is used for a shoe. The upper includes a main body portion located on an upper side of the shoe and a bottom surface portion connected to the main body portion at at least a part of an outer periphery of the main body portion. The main body portion is seamless and in a shape having an inner periphery on an inner side of the outer periphery. The shoe includes the upper that includes the main body portion that is seamless and is in the shape having the inner periphery on the inner side of the outer periphery and a sole provided on a bottom surface portion side of the upper.

Abstract: A body shape analysis device, includes a model storage unit to store three-dimensional homologous models for body shapes with a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature of a body, a measurement data acquirer to acquire, as measurement data, a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature corresponding to the three-dimensional homologous model of a body shape of a measurement subject, and an evaluation determination unit to determine, among the three-dimensional homologous models, a three-dimensional homologous model similar to a body shape of the measurement subject by evaluating similarity in coordinates between a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature in the measurement data and a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature in each of the three-dimensional homologous models.

Abstract: An upper is used for a shoe. The upper includes a main body portion located on an upper side of the shoe and a bottom surface portion connected to the main body portion at at least a part of an outer periphery of the main body portion. The main body portion is seamless and in a shape having an inner periphery on an inner side of the outer periphery. The shoe includes the upper that includes the main body portion that is seamless and is in the shape having the inner periphery on the inner side of the outer periphery and a sole provided on a bottom surface portion side of the upper.

Abstract: A last includes a base part including a bottom and a plurality of additional parts, each of which is formed in a plate shape and is capable of being assembled to the base part. The base part includes a mounting unit and a first forming surface. The plurality of additional parts include a second forming surface. Each additional part has an end face. The second forming surface includes the end face of each of the plurality of additional parts. The base part includes a first base member including a mounting unit and a second base member attachable to and detachable from the first base member.

Abstract: A shoe includes: an upper; a tightening tool disposed above an instep of a wearer and capable of applying, to the upper, tightening force for drawing portions and on the both sides in a foot width direction of the upper; and an arch support part provided such that tightening force applied to a first side portion in a foot width direction of the upper can be transmitted to the arch support part. The tightening force transmitter has stretchability in foot girth directions set higher than that of the arch support part.

Abstract: According to a last, in a forming surface for forming a shoe upper, at least a portion of a specific region corresponding to an upper end portion of a to-be-formed portion of the shoe upper is defined by a plurality of plate-shaped parts included in a plurality of last forming parts. By arranging the plate-shaped parts to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of an upper end portion of the shoe upper, a portion of the specific region that is defined by the plate-shaped parts is defined by an end surface of each of the plate-shaped parts. A recessed portion as a mark used for alignment with the last during overlaying of the shoe upper is in the portion of the specific region that is defined by the plate-shaped parts.

Abstract: A plate includes: a curved portion located in a forefoot region and shaped to curve toward a flat plane; a midfoot supporting portion located in a midfoot region; and a rear-foot supporting portion located in a rear foot region. The curved portion has a wide region including a wide portion of which dimension in a width direction is largest in the curved portion. The midfoot supporting portion has a narrow region including a narrow portion of which dimension in the width direction is smallest in the midfoot supporting portion. A ratio of a bending rigidity of the narrow region to a bending rigidity of the wide region is 0.4 or more and 0.85 or less.

Abstract: A data generating apparatus includes: an input unit that receives foot shape data; a processor that computes 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 processor further computes processing data for processing a member that forms an upper of a shoe, based on the computed shoe last data. The output unit further outputs the processing data computed by the processor.

Abstract: A last includes a first part having a first plate-shaped portion and a second part having a second part-side receiving portion having a cutout shape. When the first plate-shaped portion is received in the second part-side receiving portion, the first part and the second part are assembled. The second part includes a second part-side engaging portion having a protruding shape on an inner side surface in a portion defining the second part-side receiving portion, and the first plate-shaped portion has a main surface with a first part-side to-be-engaged portion having a through hole shape or a recessed shape. When the first plate-shaped portion is inserted into the second part-side receiving portion, the first plate-shaped portion is fitted into the second part-side receiving portion, and the first part-side to-be-engaged portion is engaged by the second part-side engaging portion.

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: Footwear includes a footbed portion including a support region. The support region includes an upper surface-side projection portion forming region having a plurality of upper surface-side projection portions. A maximum outer dimension in a cross-section orthogonal to a projecting direction of each of the plurality of upper surface-side projection portions is not greater than 3.0 mm. A projection length of each of the plurality of upper surface-side projection portions is not less than 4.0 mm and not greater than 13.0 mm, and an arrangement density of the plurality of upper surface-side projection portions in the upper surface-side projection portion forming region is not less than 10% and not greater than 100% in terms of an area ratio. An elastic modulus of a material forming the plurality of upper surface-side projection portions is not less than 0.1 MPa and not greater than 100 MPa.

Abstract: Footwear includes a sole portion that supports a foot sole of a foot of a wearer, the sole portion including a ground contact surface and a shock absorbing portion formed of an elastic body. The shock absorbing portion includes a three-dimensional mesh structure portion in which a plurality of unit structures are repeatedly arranged so as to be adjacent to each other and an irregularly shaped portion that has a different shape from each of the unit structures and is at least partially embedded in the three-dimensional mesh structure portion. The irregularly shaped portion includes a protruding plate portion in which a central portion protrudes relative to a peripheral edge portion in a direction orthogonal to the ground contact surface.