Fastener member
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorShuhei Nisogi
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Abstract
A fastener member (10) including: a base portion (11) having a surface (15); and a plurality of locking members (12) vertically provided on the surface, the locking members locking with a subject to be coupled so as to mechanically couple to the subject to be coupled; wherein the locking member includes a shaft portion (20), projecting from the base portion, having a pair of side faces (22A, 22B) that are opposite each other in a first direction (x) and, as viewed from the surface, diverge in a second direction (y) orthogonal to the first direction, and a barbed portion (21) provided on each of the pair of side faces; and, as viewed from the surface, the barbed portion provided on at least one of the side faces of the pair of side faces extends in a direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.
Claims19
A fastener member comprising:
- a base portion having a surface;
- and a plurality of locking members vertically provided on the surface, the locking members locking with a subject to be coupled so as to mechanically couple to the subject to be coupled;
- the locking member including:
- a shaft portion, projecting from the base portion, having a pair of side faces that are opposite each other in a first direction and, as viewed from the surface, each face extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction;
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- a barbed portion provided on each of the pair of side faces;
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- as viewed from the surface, the barbed portion provided on at least one of the side faces of the pair of side faces extending in a third direction non-parallel to each of the first direction and the second direction;
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- wherein a plurality of the barbed portions is provided on at least one of the side faces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.