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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2001
Muchiji Shimono, Toyama-ken, JP;
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A woven slide fastener stringer comprising a fastener tape comprising a plurality of foundation weft yarns, a plurality of warp yarns, and a plurality of coupling element portions, which are continuously formed of synthetic resin monofilament, woven successively along a side edge of the fastener tape with a plurality of element fixing warp yarns arranged in parallel at the same time when the fastener tape woven. The coupling element portions have such a weaving structure such that a pair of upper and lower leg portions are tightened by the fixing warp yarns and the tightening force on a coupling-head side of the upper and lower leg portions is smaller than the tightening force to a connecting-portion side thereof.