US 12,075,851 B2
Garment
Daichi Ando, Osaka (JP); Takamitsu Taniguchi, Osaka (JP); Masanori Sugino, Osaka (JP); Hirotaka Itou, Osaka (JP); Shingo Matsumoto, Hong Kong (CN); and Azuki Otsuka, Hong Kong (CN)
Assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., Tokyo (JP); and TORAY INDUSTRIES (H.K.) LTD., Hong Kong (CN)
Appl. No. 17/632,672
Filed by TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC., Tokyo (JP); and Toray Industries (H.K.) Ltd., Hong Kong (CN)
PCT Filed Aug. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/029838
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/025021, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-144059 (JP), filed on Aug. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0279862 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A41B 9/06 (2006.01); A41D 27/00 (2006.01); A41D 27/24 (2006.01)
CPC A41B 9/06 (2013.01) [A41D 27/00 (2013.01); A41D 27/245 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment made of a stretchable fabric and having an opening through which a body part of a wearer is passed, wherein
the opening has a folded structure in which a fabric edge is folded back, stretched and fastened to a main body of the fabric along a fold line with dotted adhesives in a single row or multiple rows along the folded fabric edge and along the main body within the folded structure wherein an average distance between adjacent adhesives in a row in a three-centimeter section of a portion of the folded fabric edge increases after the fabric edge is folded back, stretched and fastened to the main body,
a part of the folded structure of the opening is formed with a pattern in which a curvature of the opening changes, and the single row or a row of the multiple rows of adhesives along the folded fabric edge of the folded structure is disposed within 2 mm from the edge of the fabric,
a difference of within 15% exists between an average distance between adjacent adhesives in a row in a three-centimeter section of the main body having the largest curvature radius in the folded structure of the opening and the average distance between adjacent adhesives in a row in a three-centimeter section of the folded fabric edge which previously had a smaller curvature radius before it was folded in the folded structure of the opening,
the row of the adhesives on a side closest to the fold line is spaced from the fold line by 0.5 mm or more,
each of the dotted adhesives has a diameter of 1.0 to 2.0 mm when the fabric has a thickness of 0.8 mm or more,
each of the dotted adhesives has a diameter of 0.6 to 1.0 mm when the fabric has a thickness of 0.5 to 0.8 mm, and
each of the dotted adhesives has a diameter of 0.6 mm or less when the fabric has a thickness of 0.3 to 0.5 mm.