Molded surface fastener

• US 10,064,453 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2016
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Original Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Inventors: Mizumoto, Kazuya, Terada, Mineto, Fukuhara, Yoshiyuki, Abe, Hiromasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mercado, Louis A
• Application Number:
  US15/152,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20160331085A1
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 18/0049 obtained by moulding processes compression moulding or articles of indefinite length characterised by the shape of the surface B29C43/222; screen moulding B29C67/08
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 18/0076 Adaptations for being fixed to a moulded article during moulding
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 7/0252 PM holding devices H01F7/021, H01F7/0215, H01F7/0226 take precedence

Abstract

An integrally moldable molded surface fastener retains practical rigidity, while having attraction force to a magnet and is prevented from being easily broken during attachment and detachment handlings to and from loop-shaped engaging elements. A first resin composition including 80% by mass or more of a thermoplastic polyester and containing no magnetic material is used in at least a part of a substrate portion, and a second resin composition containing a thermoplastic polyester, a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a magnetic material at a certain proportion is used in at least a part of engaging elements of the molded surface fastener.

Claims

1. A molded surface fastener, the molded surface fastener being integrally molded using a first resin composition and a second resin composition as materials, the molded surface fastener comprising a substrate portion in a form of plate and a plurality of engaging elements that protrude from one main surface of the substrate portion, at least a part of the substrate portion being made of the first resin composition, and at least a part of the engaging elements being made of the second resin composition,

wherein the first resin composition comprises 80% by mass or more of a thermoplastic polyester and does not contain a magnetic material, and

wherein the second resin composition comprises a thermoplastic polyester, a thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a magnetic material at a total content of 90% by mass or more, a content of the magnetic material is from 20 to 50% by mass, and a content ratio by mass of the thermoplastic polyester and the thermoplastic polyester elastomer is in a range of the thermoplastic polyester/the thermoplastic polyester elastomer =50/50 to 90/10.

2. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein the second composition has a relationship of an equation:

Tm₂ −

40°

C. <

Tm₁<

Tm₂, where Tm₁ represents a melting point of the thermoplastic polyester elastomer and Tm₂ represents a melting point of the thermoplastic polyester.

3. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein both the first resin composition and the second resin composition have a melt volume rate (MVR) at 260°

C. of 0.3 cm³/10 min or more and 20 cm³/10 min or less.

4. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein a ratio (MVR₂/MVR₁) of a melt volume rate of the second resin composition (MVR₂) to a melt volume rate of the first resin composition (MVR₁) is from 0.5 to 40.

5. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein the molded surface fastener is comprised of three regions:

a central part having boundary lines along its longitudinal direction; and

left and right side edge parts thereof;

wherein each of the three regions has the substrate portion and the engaging elements, wherein for the central part, both the substrate portion and the engaging elements are made of the second resin composition, and wherein for the left and right side edge parts, both the substrate portion and the engaging elements are made of the first resin composition.

6. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein the molded surface fastener is comprised of three regions:

a central part having boundary lines along its longitudinal direction and left and right side edge parts thereof;

wherein each of the three regions has the substrate portion and the engaging elements, wherein for the central part, at least a part of the substrate portion is made of the first resin composition and all the engaging elements are made of the second resin composition, and wherein for the left and right side edge parts, both the substrate portion and the engaging elements are made of only the first resin composition.

7. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein the substrate portion has the first resin composition more than the second resin composition by volume fraction, and the engaging elements has the second resin composition more than the first resin composition by volume fraction.

8. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein a volume fraction of the second resin composition to the first resin composition is the second resin composition/the first resin composition =10/90 to 90/10.

9. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein said one main surface of the substrate portion further comprises a pair of left and right protective wall sections placed along a longitudinal direction on an outerside in a width direction of the plurality of engaging elements, and the protective wall sections are made of the first resin composition.

10. The molded surface fastener according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of another main surface of the substrate portion is made of the first resin composition.