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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2003
Nobuo Fujisawa, Macon, GA (US);
Craig Jay Graham, Eastman, GA (US);
Tsuyoshi Minato, Macon, GA (US);
Ryuichi Murasaki, Toyama-ken, JP;
Mitsuru Akeno, Toyama-ken, JP;
Nobuo Fujisawa, Macon, GA (US);
Craig Jay Graham, Eastman, GA (US);
Tsuyoshi Minato, Macon, GA (US);
Ryuichi Murasaki, Toyama-ken, JP;
Mitsuru Akeno, Toyama-ken, JP;
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a fastener strip having magnetically attractable particles which are not located across the entire volume of the strip, but rather are incorporated in a discrete, distinct area of the strip. The fastener strip has a base and many hook pieces which rise from a fastening surface of the base. One embodiment has a magnetically attractable body in a row which rises from the surface of the base and is located along a substantially center line of the fastener strip. The magnetically attractable particles are incorporated in the magnetically attractable body and a part of the base located below the magnetically attractable body, and the magnetically attractable particles are not dispersed across the whole area of the base. A method of manufacturing such a strip is also described here.