US 7,603,794 B2
Rear balance walking shoes
Dong Jae Oh, Saehan Sensivill 106-2002, 1228, U-dong, Haeundae-gu, Busan 612-022 (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/708,967.
Application 11/708967 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2005/004382, filed on Dec. 20, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0108870 (KR), filed on Dec. 20, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0180732 A1, Aug. 09, 2007
Int. Cl. A43B 13/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 36—25R  [36/31] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rear balance walking shoe, comprising a sole in which two ground-contact protrusions are formed on the sole at a rear side with respect to the middle point of the sole to provide a rear balancing effect as a wearer stands while wearing the shoe, and a heel portion and a toe portion of the sole are elevated in curvature from the respective ground-contact protrusion to perform see-saw motions with the ground-contact protrusions serving as application points thereof,
wherein the two ground-contact protrusions comprises a first ground-contact protrusion positioned at a region between a point of 50% and a point of 55% of the sole measured from the front end of the sole, and a second ground-contact protrusion positioned at a region between a point of 65% and a point of 75% of the sole measured from the front end of the sole,
wherein a middle portion of the sole at regions immediately beside the ground-contact protrusions, a rear portion of the sole at rear side from the middle portion, and a front portion of the sole at front side from the middle portion each defines a respective surface curvature with its radius of curvature different from one another to accommodate a rolling support of the shoe as the wearer walks while wearing the shoe.