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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2021
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A natural leather-like patterned artificial leather is provided which has a pattern with excellent wear resistance, while having an excellently delicate design, where the artificial leather is composed of: a fiber entangled body which comprises, as a constituent, a nonwoven fabric configured from ultrafine fibers that are formed from a thermoplastic resin, while having an average single fiber diameter of from 1 μm to 10 μm; and an elastomer. At least one surface of the artificial leather is a design surface having at least a piloerection part and a fused part, where the difference between the thickness of the piloerection part and the thickness of the fused part is from 0.05 mm to 0.20 mm; and the formulae (1) to (3) described below are satisfied.Δ≥5 (1)0≤Δ≤1 (2)2≤φ≤150 (3)