US Patent Issued to YKK on July 8 for "Stopper for slide fastener and method to produce stopper for slide fastener" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,772, issued on July 8, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stopper for slide fastener and method to produce stopper for slide fastener" was invented by Koki Shinomiya (Kurobe, Japan), Jun Kiyohara (Kurobe, Japan), Masamichi Yamagata (Kurobe, Japan), Makoto Yamakoshi (Kurobe, Japan), Masashi Oshita (Kurobe, Japan), Atsushi Ogihara (Kurobe, Japan) and Hirofumi Tanikoshi (Kurobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a stopper for a slide fastener and a method for manufacturing a stopper for a slide fastener, which can reduce mutual adhesion and defective rates during the painting process. A coated metal stopper for a slide fa...