| US 7,526,882 B2 | ||
| Selectively damping plantar insole | ||
| Jean-Luc Rhenter, Route du Village, 1195 Bursinel (Switzerland) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/567,052 PCT Filed Aug. 05, 2004, PCT No. PCT/FR2004/002089 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Feb. 02, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/013746, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 17, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 03 09746 (FR), filed on Aug. 05, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0185197 A1, Aug. 24, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61F 5/14 (2006.01); A43B 13/38 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 36—174 [36/180; 36/43; 36/44] | 9 Claims |
| 1. Plantar insole for use in footwear between an insole of the footwear and the plantar surface of a foot, the plantar insole
being delimited by a main upper surface adapted to be in contact with the plantar surface of the foot, a main lower surface
adapted to be in contact with the footwear insole and a peripheral contour conformed to extend beyond the plantar surface
of the foot and to fit inside the interior contour of the footwear, the plantar insole having at least two different stiffnesses
or hardnesses as a function of the main surface regions concerned, wherein:
the insole has, on its main surface, bearing regions disposed to lie under each of the major bearing areas of the foot,
the bearing regions have a relative stiffness or hardness lower than that of the other regions of the main surface, and
the bearing regions are delimited by a contour flanking said major bearing regions of the foot,
wherein the bearing regions comprise an anterior bearing region adapted to lie under the toes of the foot, an intermediate
bearing region adapted to lie under the metatarsal heads of the foot, a posterior bearing region intended to lie under the
heel of the foot, and an external bearing region intended to lie under the antero-external portion of the calcaneum, under
the cuboid and under the fifth metatarsal of the foot.
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