Boots – shoes – and leggings – Boots and shoes – Occupational or athletic shoe
Patent
1984-12-24
1987-03-24
Schroeder, Werner H.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
Boots and shoes
Occupational or athletic shoe
36136, 235105, A43B 500
Patent
active
046514465
ABSTRACT:
An electronic pedometer for use on a footwear is disclosed. The pedometer comprises a step sensor and an electric counter connected thereto, both mounted on the instep of the footwear. The step sensor senses a flexing motion that the instep of the footwear undergoes each time of the user just kicks the ground with the footwear and provides upon sensing such motion an output indicative of each step taken by the user. An electronic counter has therein electric components forming a computing circuit which receives the outputs from the sensor to compute based thereupon the number of steps taken and the distance covered, the resulting measurements being visually indicated on a display section of the counter. The sensor and the counter is connected by means of a resilient band by the utilization of which they are secured or mounted on the instep of the footwear. The provision of the sensor sensing the flexing motion of the instep for counting the steps makes it possible to assemble the sensor and the counter into a compact unit, which can be unobtrusively mounted on the instep of a normal footwear without resorting to any modification thereof and can be readily handled as a single unit.
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Washington Post, article of 3/7/85, "Sneak Peeks" and Yup! the Computer Shoe.
Tasaka Isao
Yamamura Yukio
Yukawa Kazuhiko
Ellis Mary A.
Matsushita Electric & Works Ltd.
Schroeder Werner H.
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