US20140173942A1

US20140173942A1 - Light-Emitting Shoe

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Publication number: US20140173942A1
Application number: US13/723,286
Authority: US
Inventors: John Gou
Original assignee: TERRY ELECTRONICS (SZ) Co Ltd
Current assignee: TERRY ELECTRONICS (SZ) Co Ltd
Priority date: 2012-12-21
Filing date: 2012-12-21
Publication date: 2014-06-26

Abstract

The present invention relates to a light-emitting shoe, more particularly to a shoe with a built-in decorative light-emitting module. The light-emitting shoe comprises a sole and a light-emitting module disposed inside the sole, wherein the light-emitting module comprises a light-emitting controller and a plurality of light-emitting bodies electrically connected with the light-emitting controller, the light-emitting controller is disposed in the sole, the plurality of light-emitting bodies are disposed at the edge of the sole, a light-permeable cover is further arranged at the edge of the sole and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies, the light-permeable cover is a prism with at least one irregular side face, lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies are refracted by the prism and then scattered out, and the refracted lights form irregular light spots on an irradiation surface, thus improving the light efficiency of the light-emitting shoe of the present invention.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to footwear, more particularly to a shoe with a built-in decorative light-emitting module.

BACKGROUND ART

Footwear and garments with flashing lights have been popular for a number of reasons, including safety, an attractive appearance, and simply for a novelty effect. Light-emitting shoes become popular among children and adults due to their fashionable appearance and safety, children who wear shoes capable of emitting lights of various colors feel quite exciting while walking, in addition, teenagers and youngsters, who are extremely eager for fashion, often wear sports shoes as casual shoes and believe that wearing sports shoes, skating shoes, boots and other footwear decorated with a light-emitting source is a way of showing own fashion.
The shoe that can emit light is a shoe with a light-emitting module disposed in the body thereof, the light-emitting shoe in the prior art is mainly featured by arranging a plurality of light-emitting bodies at the edge of the sole or on the upper in an embedment manner and lightening the light-emitting bodies by extrusion to the shoe while wearing or by starting up a power supply switch for the light-emitting bodies in a vibrating way, wherein a light-permeable cover is disposed on the plurality of light-emitting bodies and provides isolation-type protection for the light-emitting bodies, however, this traditional light-permeable cover is merely used as a protective cover capable of light permeation, so the light efficiency of the light-emitting shoe is achieved mainly by means of inherent characteristics of the light-emitting bodies, in this case, single light efficiency of the light-emitting shoe fails to satisfy people's further pursuit of new fashion.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The objective of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting shoe, which is a product having identical properties with traditional light-emitting shoe, and the technical problem to be solved by the present invention mainly lies in the fact that: single light efficiency of traditional light-emitting shoe is unable to offer diversified light effects.
To solve the technical problem above, the technical proposal adopted in the present invention is that: the present invention provides a light-emitting shoes, comprising:

- a sole and a light-emitting module disposed inside the sole,
- the light-emitting module comprises a light-emitting controller and a plurality of light-emitting bodies electrically connected with the light-emitting controller, the light-emitting controller is disposed in the sole, and the plurality of light-emitting bodies are disposed at the edge of the sole,
- a light-permeable cover is further arranged at the edge of the sole, and the light-permeable cover is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies and is a prism with at least one irregular side face.

Preferably: the light-permeable cover encircles the edge of the sole and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies, the outer side face of the light-permeable cover is a smooth circular-arc face, and the inner side face of the light-permeable cover is an irregular prism face.
Preferably: the light-permeable cover encircles the edge of the sole and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies, and both the inner side face and the outer side face of the light-permeable cover are irregular prism faces.
Preferably: an accommodating groove is disposed at a position of heel on the sole, and the light-emitting controller is disposed in the accommodating groove.
Preferably: the light-emitting body is an LED bead.
Preferably: a plurality of concave bases are disposed at the edge of the sole, and the plurality of light-emitting bodies are respectively embedded in the concave bases in a manner of one-to-one correspondence.
Preferably: the plurality of light-emitting bodies are electrically connected to a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), a slot is disposed at the edge of the sole, and the flexible printed circuit board is embedded in the slot, the light-emitting bodies are located at the edge of the sole, and the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies are corresponding to the outer side of the sole.
Preferably: a vibration switch is disposed in the light-emitting controller.
Preferably: a contact switch is electrically connected to the light-emitting controller, and is disposed at a position of the inner side of the light-emitting shoe where contact thereof with the foot of wearer can be realized.
Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages that: the light-permeable cover in a prism structure is disposed at the edge of the sole corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies so that lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies are refracted by the prism and then scattered out, and because at least one side face of the prism is an irregular prism face, the refracted lights form irregular light spots on an irradiation surface, thus effectively improving the light efficiency of the light-emitting shoe of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the light-emitting shoe of the present invention, with the sole and the light-emitting module properly assembled.

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the assembly mode between the light-emitting module and sole of the light-emitting shoe of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, in which a prism having an inner side face as irregular prism face is used as the light-permeable cover.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, in which LED beads are disposed by connection with the flexible printed circuit board.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of the present invention, in which a prism having both inner and outer side faces as irregular prism faces is used as the light-permeable cover.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

The light-emitting shoe provided in the present invention will be described below in more details with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 5 and the preferred embodiments.
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a light-emitting shoe comprises a sole 10 and a light-emitting module 20 disposed inside the sole 10, the light-emitting module 20 comprises a light-emitting controller 21 and a plurality of light-emitting bodies 22 electrically connected with the light-emitting controller 21, the light-emitting controller 21 is disposed in the sole 10, the plurality of light-emitting bodies 22 are disposed at the edge of the sole 10, a light-permeable cover 30 is further arranged at the edge of the sole 10, and the light-permeable cover 30 is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies 22 and is a prism with at least one irregular side face. The light-permeable cover 30 in a prism structure is disposed at the edge of the sole 10 corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies 22 so that lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies 22 can be refracted by the prism, and because at least one side face of the prism is an irregular prism face, the refracted lights form irregular light spots on an irradiation surface, thus effectively improving the light efficiency of the light-emitting shoe of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 3, the light-permeable cover 30 encircles the edge of the sole 10 and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies 22, the outer side face 31 a of the light-permeable cover 30 is a smooth circular-arc face, and the inner side face 32 a of the light-permeable cover 30 is an irregular prism face.
As shown in FIG. 5, the light-permeable cover 30 encircles the edge of the sole 10 and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies 22, and both the inner side face 32 b and the outer side face 31 b of the light-permeable cover 30 are irregular prism faces.
As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 4, an accommodating groove 11 is disposed at a position of heel on the sole 10, and the light-emitting controller 21 is disposed in the accommodating groove 11. The thickness of heel is generally more than that of shoe sole, so by arranging the accommodating groove 11, for accommodating the light-emitting controller 21, at the position of heel, the light-emitting controller 21 can be hidden in the sole 10 without changing the shape of the shoe as much as possible.
The light-emitting body 22 as shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 5 is an LED bead.
As shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of concave bases 12 are disposed at the edge of the sole 10, and the plurality of light-emitting bodies 22 are respectively embedded in the concave bases 12 in a manner of one-to-one correspondence. By arranging the concave bases 12, the light-emitting bodies 22 can be put under the fixed protection of the concave bases 12 while being located, and two sides of each concave base 12 can protect the light-emitting bodies 22 from stamping of human foot on the sole.
As shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, the plurality of light-emitting bodies 22 are electrically connected to a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) 23, a slot 13 is disposed at the edge of the sole 10, and the flexible printed circuit board 23 is embedded in the slot 13, the light-emitting bodies 22 are located at the edge of the sole 10, and the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies 22 are corresponding to the outer side of the sole 10. Arrangement of the light-emitting bodies 22 becomes more convenient owing to the flexible printed circuit board 23.
In a preferred embodiment: a vibration switch is disposed in the light-emitting controller, and via this vibration switch, the light-emitting shoe of the present invention is powered on and operates only in case of vibration, which prevents the shoe from power loss during idling.
As shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2 and FIG. 4, a contact switch 24 is electrically connected to the light-emitting controller, and may be disposed at a position of the inner side of the light-emitting shoe where contact thereof with the foot of wearer can be realized, in this way, the shoe that is worn can be further enabled to start operating only because the contact switch 24 is triggered, instead of being powered on and operating for other reasons, such as transport.
To sum up, the inventive objective above can be effectively and fully fulfilled by the technical proposal of the present invention, and structural and functional principles of the present invention have been completely verified in the embodiments so as to achieve the anticipated efficiency and objective, in addition, variations to the embodiments of the present invention could also be made in accordance with these principles, thus the present invention includes all substitution contents within the scope mentioned in the patent scope. Any equivalent variation made within the patent scope of the present invention shall fall within the patent scope of this application.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A light-emitting shoe, comprising

a sole,

a light-emitting module disposed inside the sole, the light-emitting module comprising a light-emitting controller and a plurality of light-emitting bodies electrically connected with the light-emitting controller, the light-emitting controller being disposed in the sole, and the plurality of light-emitting bodies being disposed at the edge of the sole,

a light-permeable cover, the light-permeable cover being corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies and being a prism with at least one irregular side face.

2. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 1, characterized in that: the light-permeable cover encircles the edge of the sole and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies, the outer side face of the light-permeable cover is a smooth circular-arc face, and the inner side face of the light-permeable cover is an irregular prism face.

3. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 1, characterized in that: the light-permeable cover encircles the edge of the sole and is corresponding to the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies, and both the inner side face and the outer side face of the light-permeable cover are irregular prism faces.

4. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 1, characterized in that: an accommodating groove is disposed at a position of heel on the sole, and the light-emitting controller is disposed in the accommodating groove.

5. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 4, characterized in that: the light-emitting body is an LED bead.

6. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 5, characterized in that: a plurality of concave bases are disposed at the edge of the sole, and the plurality of light-emitting bodies are respectively embedded in the concave bases in a manner of one-to-one correspondence.

7. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 5, characterized in that: the plurality of light-emitting bodies are electrically connected to a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), a slot disposed at the edge of the sole, and the flexible printed circuit board is embedded in the slot, the light-emitting bodies are located at the edge of the sole, and the light-emitting ends of the light-emitting bodies are corresponding to the outer side of the sole.

8. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 5, characterized in that: a vibration switch is disposed in the light-emitting controller.

9. A light-emitting shoe according to claim 8, characterized in that: a contact switch is electrically connected to the light-emitting controller, and is disposed at a position of the inner side of the light-emitting shoe where contact thereof with the foot of wearer can be realized.