US 7,320,158 B2
Fastener
Tatsuya Deto, Jakarta (Indonesia); Eiji Gonda, Kurobe (Japan); Toshitaka Inohara, Kurobe (Japan); Miyuki Kirita, Kurobe (Japan); and Kosuke Tanaka, Kurobe (Japan)
Assigned to YKK Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/281,759.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-347007 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0112523 A1, Jun. 01, 2006
Int. Cl. A44B 19/00 (2006.01); A44B 19/02 (2006.01); A41F 1/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 24—303  [24/433] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fastener comprising a pair of fastener tapes and two rows of individual magnetic elements each arranged in a row at a predetermined interval along a length of mounted on the opposed inner longitudinal edges of the two fastener tapes in a plane of the fastener with their poles oriented longitudinally of the fastener tapes, each magnetic element mounted on one fastener tape being adapted to fit entirely between and cling to two mating magnetic elements mounted on the other fastener tape.