Abstract:
A sole and/or a removable inner sole insert for footwear. The sole and/or removable insert includes one or more bladders, compartments, chambers, or internal sipes located in the sole and/or the removable inner sole insert, one or more sensors located in or on the sole and/or in the removable inner sole insert and/or located in or on an insole; and one or more of the bladders, compartments, chambers, or internal sipes. The one or more sensors are configured for control by a smartphone or other mobile computer device, general purpose or specialized; and the control is conducted through a wired or a wireless connection.
Abstract:
A computer including an undiced semiconductor wafer having a multitude of microchips. The computer also including an outer chamber and at least one inner chamber inside the outer chamber. The outer chamber and the inner chamber being separated at least in part by an internal sipe, and at least a portion of a surface of the outer chamber forming at least a portion of a surface of the internal sipe. The internal sipe has opposing surfaces that are separate from each other and therefore can move relative to each other, and at least a portion of the opposing surfaces are in contact with each other in a unloaded condition. The outer chamber including a Faraday Cage. The multitude of microchips on the wafer are configured to allow the microchip to function independently and including independent communication capabilities.
Abstract:
This invention relates generally to footwear such as a shoe, including an athletic shoe, with a shoe sole, including at least two computer controlled compartments, each compartment containing a fluid. At least a part of each of said at least two computer controlled compartments is located in a single frontal plane cross-section of the sole when the sole is upright and in an unloaded condition. The sole also includes a duct providing fluid communication between each of said at least two computer controlled compartments. The sole may include fiber and/or an internal sipe and the computer controlled compartments may be encapsulated by fiber or an internal sipe.
Abstract:
A computer or microchip comprising an outer chamber and at least one inner chamber inside the outer chamber. The outer chamber and the inner chamber being separated at least in part by an internal sipe, and at least a portion of a surface of the outer chamber forming at least a portion of a surface of the internal sipe. The internal sipe has opposing surfaces that are separate from each other and therefore can move relative to each other, and at least a portion of the opposing surfaces are in contact with each other in a unloaded condition. The outer chamber including a Faraday Cage. A computer, comprising a semiconductor wafer having a multitude of microchips. The multitude of microchips forming a plurality of independently functioning computers, each computer having independent communication capabilities.
Abstract:
Devices with internal flexibility sipes, such as slits, provide improved flexibility, improved cushioning to absorb shock and/or shear forces, and improved stability of support. Siped devices can be used in any existing product that provides or utilizes cushioning and stability. These products include human and other footwear, both soles and uppers, as well as orthotics; athletic, occupational and medical equipment and apparel; padding or cushioning, such as for equipment or tool handles, as well as furniture; balls; tires; and any other structural or support elements in a mechanical, architectural, or any other product.
Abstract:
A method for a computer or microchip with one or more inner hardware-based access barriers or firewalls that establish one or more private units disconnected from a public unit or units having connection to the public Internet and one or more of the private units have a connection to one or more non-Internet-connected private networks for private network control of the configuration of the computer or microchip using active hardware configuration, including field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The hardware-based access barriers can include a single out-only bus and/or another in-only bus with a single on/off switch. Alternately, the computer or microchip includes a central controller located in a separate private unit has preemptive control of one or more parts of the computer or microchip.
Abstract:
A sensor-equipped smartphone configured for connection to its user's footwear soles with sensors and structures configurable by the smartphone and for connection to a big data artificial intelligence computer system connected to other smartphones controlling their users' configurable footwear soles. The smartphone is connected to sensors located on the smartphone users' body, including proximate to its center of gravity and/or on the head. The computer system is configured to use the big data techniques of machine learning in a database compiled from thousands or millions of other smartphones connected to one or more sensors associated with footwear users to perform operations on billions of data sets from these other smartphones. The correlations found from the big data operations provide solutions to medical problems of the footwear users involving their body structure and/or function. The solutions are implemented by the smartphone configuring the users' footwear soles, including active configuration during locomotion.
Abstract:
A cloud-based computer system for diagnosis of conditions to counteract adverse anatomical or medical effects of unnatural supination of subtalar joints by elevated shoe heels. The system includes smartphones or other mobile computer devices located proximate to a center of gravity of users during locomotion, sensor(s) located in a sole or removable sole insert of footwear of the users; sensor(s) located in the smartphones or mobile computer devices; a connection between the sensors and the smartphones or mobile computer devices to provide data between the sensors and the smartphones or mobile computer devices; and a connection between the smartphones or mobile computer devices and the cloud-based computer system to provide data between the smartphones or mobile computer devices and the cloud-based computer system. The sensors located in the soles or removable sole inserts of the footwear and the smartphones or mobile computer devices include a gyroscope and an accelerometer.
Abstract:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a shoe including the lateral side extension for the midfoot of a shoe sole (hereinafter “lateral side extension”); FIG. 2 is an anterior (front) view of the shoe of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a posterior (rear) view of the shoe of FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a lateral view of the shoe of FIG. 1; FIG. 5 is a medial view of the shoe of FIG. 1; FIG. 6 is a top view of the shoe of FIG. 1; and, FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the shoe of FIG. 1. In FIGS. 1-7 the consistent length broken lines depict unclaimed environmental structure. The broken lines and the structures they depict form no part of the claimed design. In FIGS. 1-7, the dash-dot broken lines on either side of the lateral side extension show the boundaries of these portions of the claimed design, and form no part thereof. In FIGS. 1-7, the two types of shading indicate a contrast between the portions of the lateral side extension upon which they are found. The embodiments of the shoe including the lateral side extension for midfoot of shoe sole shown in FIGS. 1-7 is for a right foot. The embodiments of the shoe including the lateral side extension for midfoot of shoe sole for a left foot are mirror images of the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1-7 about a sagittal plane of a human body.
Abstract:
A failsafe device is provided to perform an operation including at least a part or all of one or more of a mechanical system, a hydraulic system, an electrical system, and a chemical system. The failsafe device includes at least one electronic system and an least one non-electronic system. The at least one electronic system is controlled by at least one computer and/or microprocessor. The at least one non-electronic system includes at least one of the mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, and chemical systems. The failsafe device is configured to operate in two modes, a normal mode and an emergency mode.