Patent ID: 7624515
Filing Date: 2009-12-01
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
1. A sole structure for a shoe comprising: an upper plate disposed on an upper side of a heel region of the sole structure; a wavy lower plate disposed on a lower side of the heel region of the sole structure, and having a lower surface that is downwardly exposed as a bottom ground contact surface of the sole structure in the heel region, and having at least two downwardly convex portions that form voids relative to the upper plate, and having at least one upwardly convex portion between the downwardly convex portions, wherein the upwardly convex portion forms a void relative to a plane touching the lower surface at the downwardly convex portions; and at least one of the following features: a plurality of cleats that are mounted on the lower surface of the downwardly convex portions of the lower plate, and/or a cleat that is mounted on the lower surface of the lower plate between adjacent ones of the downwardly convex portions of the lower plate.