Ykk Corporation

Nao Yasuda

Tetsuya Yoshino

Yoshiyuki Sho

Zhiyu Ren

Atsushi Nakaya

Takayuki Matsui

Ayumi Fujisaki

Kazuhiro Nozaka

Yoshifumi Nakata

Kazuki Katsuki

Takayoshi Tanaka

Tomoya Kaido

Masayoshi Kinoshita

Yutaka Sunagawa

A slide fastener with which a slide fastener-attached product capable of preventing or suppressing exposure of a fastener tape can be manufactured is provided. The slide fastener includes fastener stringers and a slider, in which each of fastener elements includes an element base portion and a fin portion extending from the element base portion toward a tape inner side of a fastener tape and having a smaller dimension in a tape thickness direction than the element base portion, in which, at a shoulder-port-side end portion of a slider body, a leading end portion of the fin portion of each of the fastener elements is positioned on the outer side of the slider body with respect to an inner wall surface of a flange, and in which the ratio of a total fin width to an element maximum width is less than 40%.

Slide fastener and slide fastener-attached product

There is provided a fastening tape. A plurality of fastening cells on a surface of an elongated substrate. Each of at least some of the fastening cells includes: a fastening element array; one or more barriers at least partially surrounding the fastening element array; at least one slit provided in an upper portion of at least one of the one or more barriers; and a fastening element at least partially filling the slit. At least some of the fastening cells which are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction are separated from each other by an open space extending across the substrate in a lateral direction. The fastening element extends inward of the respective fastening cells in a direction away from a respective one of the open spaces.

Fastener

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Kurobe, Japan

Nao Yasuda