Patents Assigned to YKK Corporation
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Publication number: 20160264030Abstract: A cover fastening clip includes a locking section that locks with an end member to be locked that is provided on the edge of a cover, and a hook that engages with a wire disposed in a groove of a cushion material. The hook is provided with an extended section that extends down from the locking section and a claw-shaped section, and the locking section is provided with a guide piece. The guide piece extends down along the extended section of the hook, bends at a midway bending section, and extends toward the distal end of the claw-shaped section. A wire insertion opening that has a prescribed gap and into which the wire is inserted is formed by the distal end of the guide piece reaching a location that faces the distal end of the claw-shaped section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Saiga, Tetsuya Yoshino, Yoshitomo Iyoda
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Publication number: 20160255920Abstract: There is provided a slide fastener stringer. A substrate tape includes a first main side having a rough surface structure perceptible to the eye and/or the touch and a second main side opposite to the first main side. A gripping member is affixed to a longitudinal edge of the first main side of the substrate tape. A cover sheet is made of an artificial flexible material and has a 5 top surface provided with a predetermined design and a bottom layer made of a thermoformable material having a predetermined thickness. The bottom layer is attached to the second main side of the substrate tape such that the surface structure of the second main side of the substrate tape is not perceivable through the cover sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: YKK CORPORATIONInventors: Giovanni La Rocca, Gabriele Biava, Pier Marco Gabutti
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Patent number: 9434113Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a slide fastener. At least one of a pair of right and left fastener tapes and a pair of right and left fastener element rows is colored in a plurality of colors at a predetermined interval in a longitudinal direction by inkjet while the pair of right and left fastener element rows are engaged with each other to provide a fastener chain. The pair of right and left fastener element rows are disengaged. One of the pair of right and left fastener tapes is moved in the longitudinal direction. And then, the right and left fastener element rows are reengaged.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Yoshimichi Yamakita
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Patent number: 9433262Abstract: A molding hook and loop fastener includes a plurality of surface fastener portions and a coupling member that is formed of a resilient body and connects the surface fastener portions. The coupling member includes a pair of vertical wall coupling portions which is continuously disposed along a longitudinal direction on both sides in between an engaging element area and which connects the surface fastener portions. With this configuration, when the molding hook and loop fastener is integrally molded to a cushion body, it is possible to prevent a resin material from penetrating into the engaging element area of the surface fastener portion and to stably secure a desired fastening strength at the engaging element area.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Kenji Okuda, Shinichi Imai, Mineto Terada, Yuji Takada
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Publication number: 20160249746Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Shinsuke SAIGA, Tetsuya YOSHINO, Yoshitomo IYODA
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Patent number: 9427052Abstract: A slider provided with a stopping mechanism has a press molded slider body and a stopping pawl body. The stopping pawl body has a main body, a pawl portion extending from one end side of the main body, an extending portion extending from the other end side of the main body, and a projecting portion projecting from a tip portion of the extending portion, and the extending portion has a rotation support part of the stopping pawl body. A contact surface with which the rotation support part of the upper blade is in contact is formed into a flat surface. According to this constitution, a defect and failure of the stopping mechanism hardly occur in the slider, so that the stopping mechanism can be stably operated for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Koji Yamagishi, Keiichi Keyaki
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Patent number: 9427051Abstract: A slider is structured such that a tab attaching rod is integrally formed in a cantilevered state in an upper blade of a slider body, and a blocking member blocking an insertion gap which is formed between the upper blade and a free end portion of the tab attaching rod is engaged with a mounting portion of the slider body so as to be immovably fixed, and is provided with an occlusion retaining structure which retains a blocked state of the insertion gap at a time of fixing the blocking member and can prevent the other member from intruding into the insertion gap. Accordingly, the slider can easily attach a tab afterward to the tab attaching rod. Further, it is possible to securely prevent the other member from intruding between the upper blade and the free end portion of the tab attaching rod.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Hsien Hsiang Hsu, Morimasa Yoneoka
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Patent number: 9420853Abstract: A slide fastener is provided. Each of a pair of first and second stringers includes a tape and a row of coupling elements mounted on a longitudinal edge of the tape. Each of the coupling elements comprises a first non-connecting portion at an upper side of the tape and a second connecting portion at a lower side of the tape. The second connecting portion comprises a head portion and a body portion. The head portion is engageable with a head portion of opposing coupling element. The body portion is fixed to the tape.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Giovanni La Rocca, Naoyuki Himi, Futoshi Kozato, Kiyoyuki Okuyama
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Patent number: 9414650Abstract: There is provided a slide fastener. A pair of core sections are respectively provided along opposing tape side edge portions of a pair of fastener tapes. A pair of fastener element rows are respectively attached to the pair of core sections. Each of the pair of fastener element rows includes a plurality of fastener elements made of metal. Silica is applied to surfaces of the core sections and the fastener elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Akio Hayashi, Toshiyuki Jyougan
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Patent number: 9414647Abstract: A button includes a button body that is placed over a first main surface of a sheet having the first main surface and a second main surface opposing to the first main surface, the button body having a hole over the first main surface; a fixing member including a base that is placed over the second main surface, and a shaft that projects from the base and passes through the hole from the second main surface towards the first main surface side, in which a distal portion of the shaft includes: a plate-like base portion provided over the button body and covering the hole; and a plurality of ribs integrally formed with the base portion and onto a surface of the base portion, and radially extending from a center to a circumference of the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Kenji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 9414648Abstract: Open-ended slide fasteners that are watertight and/or airtight. The slide fasteners include box and pin mechanisms integrated with the slide fastener and configured to compress the tape edges and create a water and air tight seal, thus eliminating the need for installing a separate component after the slide fastener has been manufactured.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Suguru Ogura, Jesse Bryon Robinson, Wolfgang Coronel
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Patent number: 9392847Abstract: A method for manufacturing a slider for a slide fastener with an automatic stopper. A common part which includes a stopping pawl portion, a biasing portion and a cover portion and forms the automatic stopper is provided. At least two bodies selected from among a first body having a guide recess configured to guide metal teeth, a second body having a guide recess configured to guide resin teeth which are formed by injection molding, and a third body having a guide recess configured to guide teeth made of resin monofilaments are prepared. The common part is mounted on one of the bodies selected from the at least two bodies.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Oda, Keiichi Keyaki, Yoshikazu Hamada
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Patent number: 9388502Abstract: A button or fastener member is provided wherein aluminum or an aluminum alloy is used as raw material, a first copper plating layer is formed directly over the entire surface of said raw material, and a second copper plating layer is formed directly on top of the first copper plating layer, with the aforementioned second copper plating layer being thicker than the aforementioned first copper plating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Masayuki Iimori, Michael David Hopper
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Patent number: 9380840Abstract: A knitted surface fastener is provided that is capable of firmly forming warp knitting structure of a sewn area and achieving weight reduction as well as production costs reduction. A knitted surface fastener includes a pair of right and left sewn areas and a surface fastener area disposed between the right and left sewn areas. An average used amount of the weft insertion yarns in the sewn areas is set to be larger than an average used amount of the weft insertion yarns in the surface fastener area.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Mitsuhisa Okawa, Takeshi Kyuwa, Yuichi Yamashita
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Publication number: 20160174637Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may include beading for decorating a target member. The beading has a linear member, a leg portion and a colored portion. The linear member has a main portion formed of a light-transmitting material. The linear member has a first end and a second end opposite the first end on an outer periphery thereof. The leg portion extends from the first end of the linear member. The leg portion has a sewn portion that is sewn onto the target member by sewing thread. The colored portion is provided in the linear member or the leg portion. The colored portion has a smaller quantity of transmitting light than that of the main portion. The colored portion is situated and configured to suppress the visibility of the sewing thread when the linear member is seen from above the second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YKK CORPORATIONInventors: Kunio NISHIYAMA, Mitsuo KOBAYASHI, Eiichi SASADA, Makoto YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 9364053Abstract: A fastener element includes a coupling head and a pair of leg portions and has a coupling concave portion provided on a first surface of the coupling head and a coupling convex portion projecting from a second surface of the coupling head. An outer margin portion on a first surface side of the coupling head has a first margin portion formed like a ridge line and a pair of second margin portions disposed on both sides of the first margin portion and formed like an inclined surface or a curved surface and one end of each of the second margin portions is arranged on an inside of both end positions of a width direction of the coupling concave portion. Accordingly, the feel of the fastener element can be improved and also the strength of the slide fastener with respect to transverse pulling can stably be maintained.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Kosuke Seki
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Patent number: 9357816Abstract: There is provided a slider for slide fastener, including a slider body and a pull tab. A pair of supporting parts rotatably supporting the pull tab are provided on an upper surface of the slider body, and a claw for snapping elements of the slide fastener is provided on the pull tab. The pull tab is rotatable between a first posture in which the pull tab is placed down on the slider body and a second posture in which the pull tab is erected from the slider body. A stop member is provided on at least one of the slider body and the pull tab. The stop member limits the pull tab in an erect position of the second posture such that a front end of the claw is located within a protection space.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Hideyuki Matsushima
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Patent number: 9357815Abstract: A surface fastener member includes left and right longitudinal protective wall sections and front and rear lateral protective wall sections. Each of the lateral protective wall sections includes an outer first lateral wall section and an inner second lateral wall section. The first lateral wall section includes a continuous lateral wall body which is continuously placed between the left and right longitudinal protective wall sections at a predetermined height. The second lateral wall section includes a plurality of divided lateral wall bodies which are intermittently placed along a width direction, and a plurality of second engagement elements. According to this, when the molded surface fastener is integrally molded on a cushion body, it is possible to prevent resin material from entering an engagement element region of the surface fastener member.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Minato, Zhiyu Ren, Mineto Terada, Shinichi Imai, Kenji Okuda, Atsushi Nakaya, Yasuhiro Sugahara
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Patent number: 9340181Abstract: A belt member includes: a strip member having an elongate shape; a fastener disposed along the longitudinal direction of the strip member; and an opening-closing device that opens or closes the fastener. For reducing a contact pressure of the belt member per unit area, the fastener is opened by the opening-closing device to unfold the belt member into a form of a wide strip so that the width of the belt member is increased. On the other hand, when the fastener is closed by the opening-closing device, the belt member takes a form of a narrow tube so that the width of the belt member is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YKK CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Fukamoto, Atsuki Ito, Nobuhiro Yamada, Makoto Yamazaki, Yasuhiko Matsuda, Seiji Koga
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Patent number: 9339087Abstract: An incorporated slide fastener that is incorporated simultaneously with the weaving of the fastener tape for a zigzag-type continuous element. The weft yarn of the fastener tape is woven with one thread traversing and doubling back in the tape width direction, forming a set of two threads. Fastener elements have: engaging heads; first and second leg portions that each extend in the width direction of the tape; first connecting portions that connect first legs that are adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the tape; and second connecting parts that connect second legs that are adjacent in the longitudinal direction of the tape. Of the two yarns configuring the weft yarn, one yarn is woven diagonally straddling the first surface of a first leg and the second surface of a second leg of adjacent fastener elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Eiji Nishida
