Patents Assigned to YKK Corporation
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Patent number: 9750311Abstract: Systems and methods for joining two or more pieces of hook fastener tape. In some embodiments, the two or more pieces of tape are spliced together using ultrasonic welding. At least one of the splicing components used to splice the tapes together may be configured so that the component influences the profile of a connecting portion along which the two tapes are welded together. In some cases, at least one of the splicing components may be configured to minimize deformation of the tapes as they are welded together.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Nozaka, Yoshifumi Nakata, Chieko Dokyu, John Rene Hawkins, III, Howard Joseph Pfeuffer, Eric Tham Rice
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Patent number: 9750313Abstract: A slider for slide fastener has a slider body in which an upper wing and a lower wing are coupled via a coupling pillar at the front side. At the front part of the upper wing, provided is a downward slope descending toward the lower wing as extending away from a front mouth toward a back mouth of the slider body. At the front part of the lower wing, provided is an upward slope ascending toward the upper wing as extending away from the front mouth toward the back mouth of the slider body. The downward slope of the upper wing is steeper than the upward slope of the lower wing.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Keiichi Keyaki, Takanori Ozawa
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Patent number: 9743777Abstract: A drawn instrument for securely attaching a cover includes a tape member having left and right surfaces and attachable to a cover, and a drawn portion provided at the end of the tape member and projected from the left and right surfaces of the tape member, the drawn portion extending along the end of the tape member. The drawn portion includes a plurality of attached portions for clip attachment that are separated along the longitudinal direction of the drawn portion and are recessed at both left and right sides, and a plurality of walls separated along the longitudinal direction of the drawn portion and projected at both left and right sides. At both left and right sides each wall is provided adjacent to the attached portion and positioned inwardly of the tape member relative to the attached portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Saiga, Tetsuya Yoshino, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Publication number: 20170224062Abstract: There is provided a slider for a slide fastener. The slider includes a body, a pull tab, a shaft member, and a coil spring. The pull tab has a base portion, a gripper and a claw portion protruding from the base portion. The shaft member is configured to rotatably support the pull tab relative to the body. The coil spring is attached around the shaft member to urge the gripper to be laid down toward the body. A claw guide portion allows a tip end of the claw portion to protrude into the guide groove. A restricting portion of the body restricts rotation of the pull tab when the pull tab is raised by a predetermined angle from the body. A restricted portion of the pull tab comes in contact with the restricting portion when the pull tab is raised by the predetermined angle from the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Hsien Hsiang Hsu, Chun Chun Lai, Yuichi Iwase
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Patent number: 9723884Abstract: There is provided a slider for a slide fastener. A slider body includes an upper blade disposed at a front side of the slider body, which is a pull-tab attachment side, a lower blade disposed at a back side of the slider body, which is opposite to the front side, and a connecting post connecting the upper blade and the lower blade to each other. A fibrous fabric sheet is integrally fixed to a back surface of the lower blade at the back side, with an adhesive layer being interposed between the fibrous fabric sheet and the back surface of the lower blade.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Go Takani
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Patent number: 9700106Abstract: There is provided a slide fastener. A pair of fastener tapes is formed with a pattern on a front surface thereof. A pair of fastener element rows is respectively provided along opposing side edge portions of the pair of fastener tapes. A slider is configured to engage and disengage the pair of fastener element rows. A film member is fixed to the front surface of the pair of fastener tapes such that the pattern is visible. The film member is provided with a concave-convex shape on a surface thereof. The pattern of the fastener tapes and the concave-convex shape of the film member are respectively related to a pattern and a concave-convex shape of one of (a) animal skin, (b) a woven or knitting which is formed by performing weaving or knitting of fibers or bamboo strips, (c) woodgrain, and (d) stone pitching.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Masayoshi Kojima
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Patent number: 9687051Abstract: Provided is a polyamide resin slider for a slide fastener which provides both strength and durability. The slider material is a polyamide resin composition that includes an aliphatic polyamide having a melting point of 220° C. to 310° C., an aromatic polyamide having a melting point of 230° C. to 310° C., and reinforced fiber; wherein the ratio of the aromatic polyamide present in the summed mass of the aliphatic polyamide and the aromatic polyamide is greater than or equal to 10% by weight and less than or equal to 50% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Kazuya Mizumoto, Tatsurou Nara
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Patent number: 9681710Abstract: Provided is a slide fastener including: a first fastener stringer that includes a first element row and a first fastener tape, the first element row including a plurality of first elements and one or more second elements; a second fastener stringer that includes a second element row and a second fastener tape, the second element row including one or more second elements; and a slider that is slidable along the first and second element rows. Each of the first element and the second element includes a head coupled to a base via a neck. The base includes an opposite surface that is located at the opposite side of the head. The opposite surface of the second element is positioned farther from the opposed side edge than the opposite surface of the first element. At least two engaged second elements of the first and second element rows constitute a lock unit that is for locking the slider.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Go Takani
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Publication number: 20170164696Abstract: Provided is a slider having appearance or texture which cannot be obtained with a slider body made of metal or synthetic resin in the related art and further having properties superior than those of sliders in the related art. A slider of an embodiment of the invention includes a slider body formed by sintered bodies containing zirconium oxide as a main component and a tab held by a tab attaching portion of the slider body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Toru Yabuya, Keiichi Keyaki, Hisanori Kato, Tomoko Taguchi
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Publication number: 20170156452Abstract: There is provided a slide fastener slider. A slider body has an upper blade and a lower blade connected by a guide post at front end sides thereof, and a pull tab attached to a pull tab attachment portion formed on the upper blade. The pull tab attachment portion has a pair of right and left first members protruding from the upper surface of the upper blade, and a second member connecting the pair of the right and left first members. The first members have a base portion and a wall portion arranged to extend from the base portion toward at least one of front and rear sides thereof. The pull tab has a string-shaped member and the string-shaped member is attached to the pull tab attachment portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2014Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Koji Yamagishi, Natsuko Saitsu, Shigeyoshi Takazawa
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Patent number: 9668547Abstract: A slider body of a slider includes a slider main member and a slider sub-member. The slider main member includes at least a portion of a first blade and at least a portion of a second blade which are connected to each other through a guide column. The slider sub-member includes a pair of first flange sections and is assembled with and fixed to the slider main member. The slider can easily be attached to a fastener chain. Since the slider stably has a predetermined distance between the first and second blades, it is possible to secure satisfactory sliding properties and operability of the slider.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Morimasa Yoneoka, Haruo Matsushima
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Patent number: 9668549Abstract: This fabric fastener tape for a slide fastener is provided with an element mounting section and a tape main body section. The tape main body section is provided with a mesh section. The mesh section has a mesh structure having a framework formed by sets of warp yarns and weft yarns, and the mesh structure has openings formed among the sets of warp yarns and weft yarns. In the mesh section, the weave density of the outermost warp yarn and the outermost weft yarn of each of the sets of warp yarns and weft yarns is higher than the weave density of the warp and weft yarns which are on the inner side of the outermost warp and weft yarns. In the mesh structure of this fastener tape, mesh displacement can be prevented without thermally bonding the crossover points between the warp and weft yarns.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Mitsuo Tsuzuyama
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Patent number: 9668548Abstract: A slider for a slide fastener is provided which is capable of quickly fastening and unfastening the slide fastener in a remote operation manner. A string having pull tabs on longitudinally opposite sides is fixed to a body of the slider for a slide fastener such that the string is not moved in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Keiichi Keyaki, Kouji Yamagishi, Yohei Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20170150788Abstract: The molded surface fastener has a plurality of engaging regions having engaging elements and a plurality of space regions disposed between the engaging regions. Each space region has a plurality of wall pieces standing on a substrate portion and intrusion-accepted space portions which allows a foam resin material to intrude across the wall pieces in foam molding of a cushion body. By that, deformation or breakage of the engaging element in a manufacturing process can be prevented. Moreover, the molded surface fastener is firmly fixed in a state that the engaging elements are exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinich Imai, Mineto Terada, Kenji Okuda, Tsuyoshi Minato, Zhiyu Ren
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Patent number: 9661901Abstract: Provided is a slider which is lightweight, reduces production cost and is excellent in quietness, the slider having a slider body which is hardly deformed or broken. The slider includes a slider body made of synthetic resin and a slider handling tool which holds a top and bottom of the slider body and performs sliding operation. The slider handling tool has first and second arm parts connecting with a connecting axis part and first and second holding parts disposed at a tip end part of the first and second arm parts, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Makoto Yamazaki, Yuichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 9663007Abstract: There is provided a cover material fastening clip for attaching a cover material to a cushion material. The clip is provided with a locking portion, a hook portion and a guide portion. The hook portion is provided with an extending portion that extends downward from the locking portion, a first hook piece a second hook portion. The guide portion is formed in the locking portion or the extending portion and is located above the first and second hook pieces. A space between a leading end portion of the first hook piece and the guide portion serves as a first insertion opening with a predetermined gap into which the wire is inserted. A space between a leading end portion of the second hook piece and the guide portion serves as a second insertion opening with a predetermined gap into which the wire is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Murasaki, Genta Matsumura, Tomonari Yoshida, Yoshitomo Iyoda, Shinsuke Saiga
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Patent number: 9661887Abstract: A button mounting device includes: a button mounting unit that comprises a first die holding the button main body and a second die holding the button mounting tool; an intermediate material formation unit that forms an intermediate material, which is to be interposed between the button main body and the cloth or between the button mounting tool and the cloth, by cutting a strip-shaped sheet material; and an intermediate material transfer unit that transfers the intermediate material formed by the intermediate material formation unit to the button mounting unit to supply the first die or the second die.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Kanazawa
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Patent number: D794504Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shigeyoshi Takazawa, Masayoshi Kojima, Takayuki Inukai
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Patent number: D795131Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shigeyoshi Takazawa, Masayoshi Kojima, Takayuki Inukai
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Patent number: D795740Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Shigeyoshi Takazawa, Masayoshi Kojima, Takayuki Inukai
