Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Incline adjuster with multiple discrete chambers
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Application No.: US17207126Application Date: 2021-03-19
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Publication No.: US11666116B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Steven H. Walker , Raymond L. Nicoli , Rolando Pausal
- Applicant: NIKE, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OR Beaverton
- Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Beaverton
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Main IPC: A43B13/18
- IPC: A43B13/18 ; A43B13/12 ; A43B5/06 ; A43B3/24 ; A43B13/14 ; A43B7/24 ; A43B3/34

Abstract:
A sole structure may include chambers and a transfer channel containing an electrorheological fluid. Electrodes may be positioned to create, in response to a voltage across the electrodes, an electrical field in at least a portion of the electrorheological fluid in the transfer channel. The sole structure may further include a controller including a processor and memory. At least one of the processor and memory may store instructions executable by the processor to perform operations that include maintaining the voltage across the electrodes at one or more flow-inhibiting levels at which flow of the electrorheological fluid the through the transfer channel is blocked, and that further include maintaining the voltage across the electrodes at one or more flow-enabling levels permitting flow of the electrorheological fluid through the transfer channel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210204652A1 Incline Adjuster with Multiple Discrete Chambers Public/Granted day:2021-07-08
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