SOLE AND SHOE

Japanese Patent JP2022101228

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To provide a sole in which, even if a grounding surface is composed of a buffer material, breakage of the buffer material or degradation of performance by entry of a foreign object is hard to be induced.SOLUTION: The sole is provided with a buffer material 1A at least in a part, and the buffer material 1A is made of a single member and contains a buffer part 10 and a cover part 20. The cover part 20 has a ground contact area 22 on the side opposite from the side where the buffer part 10 is situated. In the buffer part 10, when viewed along the normal direction of the ground contact area 22, there are provided a plurality of penetration parts 12 that penetrate the buffer part 10, with the cover part 20 covering at least one or more of them. In the cover part 20, one end opens for the penetration parts 12, with the other end provided with a communication path 23 that opens in the ground contact area 22. Where R is defined as a diameter of a virtual circle in the event that the largest virtual circle is drawn which inscribes the contour line of the opening of the communication path 23 on the ground contact area 22 side, and where L is defined as the length of the communication path 23 along the extending direction of the path 23, the condition of R