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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1999
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a surface fastener wherein necessary engaging strength is maintained for a long term, the surface fastener is flexible and has a favorable touch without prickly feeling even when male engaging elements formed of fibers are employed, and strange peeling noise is not generated. The surface fastener includes at least a large number of male engaging elements planted on a foundation cloth which is a woven or knitted fabric or a non-woven fabric and is formed of fibers, the surface fastener being engaged with and disengaged from a mating surface fastener. The foundation cloth has groups each including a plurality of hook-shaped engaging elements having a small diameter and standing up from a common position of a face of the foundation cloth with respective base end portions of the hook-shaped engaging elements being in adjacent to each other, and the base end portions of the plurality of hook-shaped engaging elements constituting the groups are bonded and integrated by a part of synthetic resin as a backing agent which penetrates the woven or knitted foundation cloth.