US 11,959,206 B2
Weft-knitted fabric
Norito Kashima, Tokyo (JP); and Yusuke Kikuyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/894,438.
Application 17/894,438 is a continuation of application No. 17/269,427, granted, now 11,459,677, previously published as PCT/JP2019/033795, filed on Aug. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-159123 (JP), filed on Aug. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0411976 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. D04B 1/18 (2006.01); D04B 1/10 (2006.01); D04B 1/24 (2006.01)
CPC D04B 1/18 (2013.01) [D04B 1/102 (2013.01); D04B 1/24 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A weft-knitted fabric comprising non-elastic fibers and elastic fibers, composed of:
a mesh part containing 2 courses in which a first course having alternate repetition of a stitch of a welt structure and a stitch of a knit structure is used with continuous knitting of the 2 courses in the same structural arrangement, and
a plain-knit part in which a first course having an all-knit structure is used with continuous knitting of 2 courses,
wherein the mesh part and plain-knit part are located alternately in a warp direction, and
wherein the 2 courses in the mesh part are adjacent in the warp direction and welt structures on the 2 courses in the mesh part are aligned in the warp direction.