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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2001
Ryoichiro Uehara, Toyama-ken, JP;
Tomohisa Ishida, Saitama-ken, JP;
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A belt connecting device having a female member and male member engagable with each other; an engaged/disengaged portion of the female member having a substantially U-shaped pinching resilient portion open at a side of a belt connecting portion, having a narrow portion in the middle thereof, and extending substantially on one plane from the other end; an engaging/disengaging portion of the male member having a protruded portion projecting substantially from a rear middle portion of said plate shaped body and at least a belt connecting portion side end face portion thereof having a configuration to be circumscribed by a pinching surface of the pinching resilient portion of the female member; and a substantially C-shaped attachment flange, having a gradually increasing projection, whose rear face engages with a surface attachment face of the pinching resilient portion at an upper end of the protruded portion.