Patent ID: 7293434

Claim:
A knitted/woven concealed type slide fastener in which a continuous fastener element row comprised of a synthetic resin monofilament is knitted or woven into a fastener element attaching portion of a knitted/woven fastener tape having a warp knitting structure or a weaving structure at the same time when the fastener tape is knitted or woven, the knitted/woven fastener tape comprising a tape main body and the fastener element attaching portion, with each coupling head of the continuous fastener element row directed toward the fastener tape main body, the knitted/woven concealed type slide fastener comprising: multiple fixing yarns which are knitted or woven into the fastener element attaching portion and which fix each element of the continuous fastener element row onto the fastener element attaching portion, wherein an exposed portion of each element of the fastener element row covered with respective fixing yarns is located on a side of the coupling head, and when it is assumed that a distance from a front end of each coupling head to an inside face of a connecting portion is (a) while a dimension of each element in a direction of a leg portion thereof covered with the fixing yarns is (b), a value of (b/a) is larger than 1/2 and 4/5 or less, and a total thickness of each of the multiple fixing yarns for covering a surface of an upper leg portion of each element is 1.5 to 5 times thicker than a thickness of other constituent yarns of the fastener tape.