Deckers Outdoor Corporation

An article of footwear is provided and includes a sole including a longitudinal axis and a lateral support member, a medial support member and a front support member that are independent from each other and combine to form a triangular contact region on a bottom surface of the sole, where the lateral support member has a front end and a rear end the medial support member has a front end and a rear end, and the lateral support member and the medial support member are entirely spaced apart from each other across the longitudinal axis of the sole.

An article of clothing is provided and includes a body member having a base material and a plurality of insulating members on the base material, where the insulating members each having a thickness and are spaced a distance from each other. The base material and the insulating members being configured to help regulate the thermal temperature of a wearer's body.

First penetrating paths that penetrate an insulating film are formed by irradiation with a laser beam along the boundaries of multiple devices from a surface side of the insulating film prior to formation of a mask used when a wafer is divided by plasma etching (protective film forming step and second laser beam irradiation step). In this case, the irradiation condition of the laser beam for removing the desired part of the insulating film and the irradiation condition of the laser beam for forming the mask, that is, for removing the desired part of a protective film, can each be set to a preferable condition. As a result, it becomes possible to improve the processing accuracy when the wafer is divided to manufacture chips.

A creep feed grinding apparatus includes a chuck table, a grinding unit having a spindle and a grinding wheel mounted on a lower end of the spindle, the grinding wheel including a plurality of grindstones disposed in an annular array on a surface of an annular base, the grindstones following an annular track upon rotation of the spindle, a moving mechanism for moving the chuck table and the grinding unit relative to each other along a predetermined direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the spindle, and a bottom surface state adjusting mechanism for adjusting states of bottom surfaces of the grindstones by cleaning and/or correcting the bottom surfaces of the grindstones. The bottom surface state adjusting mechanism is positioned outside of a relative movement area of the chick table in which the chuck table and the grinding unit are moved relative to each other by the moving mechanism.

An article of footwear includes an upper including at least two straps, an adjustable connector attached to ends of the at least two straps and a pivot pin connecting the adjustable connectors to the upper, where the adjustable connectors each independently move about the pivot pin to adjust the positions of the at least two straps relative to a wearer's foot.