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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Mitsutoshi Ishihara, Toyama-ken, JP;
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a surface fastener made of a woven/knitted fabric which is extremely thin and flexible. Designs and the like on a rear face side of the fastener can be clearly seen through engaging elements and a substrate. Also, the fastener has a high productivity, thereby allowing a rational price setting. In a surface fastener made of a fiber woven/knitted fabric including a large number of female and/or male engaging elements which are woven simultaneously with weaving of a ground woven/knitted fabric formed of a ground structure and which project from a surface of the woven/knitted fabric, all of warp and weft constituting the ground structure and a yarn constituting the engaging elements are made of monofilament, synthetic resin applied to a rear face of the ground woven/knitted fabric adheres intensively to crossing portions of the monofilaments constituting the warp, the weft, and the engaging elements, and gaps are formed between weaving/knitting structure of the monofilaments constituting the warp, the weft, and the engaging elements.