UNI-CHARM CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160106069 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ANIMAL EXCREMENT TREATMENT MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION DEVICE THEREFORE - A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which a raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coating material is coated on the granular material. The step in which the coating material is coated on the granular material has: a step in which the coating material is arranged on the granular material; and a step in which a vibration is applied to the granular material having the coating material arranged thereupon. | 04-21-2016 |
20160044890 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ANIMAL EXCREMENT TREATMENT MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION DEVICE THEREFOR - A production method for animal excretion treatment material and a production device therefor, having a step in which a raw material is pulverized and a pulverized material is obtained and a step in which the pulverized material is granulized. In the step in which the pulverized material is obtained, the raw material is pulverized by a pulverizer and the pulverized material is obtained. The pulverizer has: an insertion port for the raw material; a pulverization chamber for the raw material; a pulverization mechanism provided inside the pulverization chamber; a mesh screen through which passes the raw material pulverized by the pulverization mechanism and having a plurality of openings; and a discharge port connected to the openings in the mesh screen. | 02-18-2016 |
20160044889 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR ANIMAL EXCREMENT TREATMENT MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION DEVICE THEREFORE - A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coloring agent is applied to the granular material. The step in which the coloring agent is applied to the granular material has: a step in which the granular material is suspended; and a step in which the coloring agent is sprayed on the suspended granular material. | 02-18-2016 |
20160000294 | PRODUCTION METHOD AND PRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR CLEANING IMPLEMENT - To provide a more logical construction technique relating to a production method and a production apparatus for a cleaning implement. Provided are a production method and a production apparatus for a cleaning implement having a cleaning sheet and a holder, the method including: a step of supplying a plurality of strip elements; a step of superimposing the plurality of strip elements; a step of supplying the superimposed strip elements to a bonding apparatus having a drum roll and a bonding process section; and a step of forming bonded zones in predetermined zones of the superimposed strip elements by the bonding apparatus. | 01-07-2016 |
20150305308 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER FOR PETS - A disposable diaper for pets having a shortest straight line point being further on a stomach-side waist area side than a diaper center point, and comprising: a rear-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; a flap section provided in the stomach-side waist area and having an end section in the rear-side direction; a diaper longitudinal direction center line; the diaper center point; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an attachment section arranged in the flap section; an attachment section intermediate point; an attachment area that receives the attachment section; and the shortest straight line point being a point on the diaper longitudinal direction center line at the shortest direct distance, via a rear-side end section of the flap section in a straight line from the attachment section center point to the diaper longitudinal direction center line. | 10-29-2015 |
20150305307 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER FOR PETS - A disposable diaper for pets, comprising: a back-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an area not having the absorbent core arranged therein; an attachment section in the stomach-side waist area; an attachment area that accepts the attachment section; an expandable/contractible elastic member for legs, arranged, in an extended state, in a prescribed area in the diaper longitudinal direction, between the absorbent core and an end section in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; an expandable/contractible elastic member for the waist, arranged, in an extended state, in the area not having the absorbent core arranged therein, in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; and a contraction force intersecting area in which the contracting force of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs and the expansion/contraction force of the expandable/contractible elastic member for the waist intersect. | 10-29-2015 |
20150305306 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER FOR PETS - A disposable diaper for pets, comprising: a back-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; both end sections in the diaper longitudinal direction; both end sections in a diaper longitude-intersecting direction; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an area not having the absorbent core arranged therein; an attachment section provided in the stomach-side waist area; an attachment area that accepts the attachment section; an expandable/contractible elastic member for legs, arranged, in the extended state, in a prescribed area in the diaper longitudinal direction, between the absorbent core and an end section in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; a leg gather formed by the contraction of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs; and a standing-up section in which the end sections in the diaper longitudinal direction stand up as a result of the contraction of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs. | 10-29-2015 |
20150196009 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE FOR PET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An absorbent article for pet to be worn and wrapped around a waist thereof, includes: a liquid permeable top sheet; a liquid impermeable back surface layer; an absorbent core; a first end portion and a second end portion opposing to each other; a first side portion and a second side portion opposing to each other, a first gather portion that is disposed on a top sheet side of the first side portion and configured to stand upright from the top sheet; a second gather portion that is disposed on the top sheet side of the second side portion and configured to stand upright from the top sheet; and a pair of releasably-joined portions in which the first gather portion is releasably-joined to itself in a state of being folded outward in the width direction of the absorbent article for pet, in the first end portion and the second end portion. | 07-16-2015 |
20150189853 | PET SHEET AND PET SHEET FOR PACKAGING BODY - A pet sheet for pet excrement has a fluid-permeable surface sheet and a fluid-impermeable rear sheet. The pet sheet has a first folded section and a second folded section that are formed by the folding of the surface sheet and the rear sheet so as to protrude on the surface sheet side. The surface sheet and the rear sheet positioned on both sides of the first folded section and the second folded section, respectively, are configured so as to fold out and be used as the pet sheet. Ridge lines formed in the surface sheet in the first folded section and the second folded section extend continuously along a first direction parallel to the surface sheet, from one end of the surface sheet in the first direction to the other end thereof. | 07-09-2015 |
20150189852 | SHEET FOR PETS - A sheet for pets, comprising an absorbent body, a surface sheet, and a rear surface sheet. The absorbent body has: a first absorbent layer formed by hydrophilic fibers; a second absorbent layer formed by water-absorbent resin; a surface-side covered sheet; and a rear surface-side covered sheet. The rear surface-side covered sheet comprises either a sheet comprising hydrophobized hydrophilic fibers, a sheet comprising hydrophilized hydrophobic fibers, or a sheet comprising a mixture of hydrophobic fibers and hydrophilic fibers. | 07-09-2015 |
20150048538 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ANIMAL LITTER SAND - An animal litter sand that effectively prevents scattering of particles without increasing the weight or density of the litter sand. The animal litter sand is prepared by forming particles by a step that adds water and mixes together at least a particulate substrate from an inorganic material, a hydraulic solidification material, and a water-soluble thickener. | 02-19-2015 |
20140290589 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE FOR PETS - An absorbent article for pets includes a top sheet, a back surface layer, an absorbent core, a first end portion, a second end portion, and a pair of side portions. Such absorbent articles for pets are stacked and packaged while each absorbent article is folded and the portion of the back surface layer which is near the first end portion forms a first outer surface. The absorbent article for pets also includes: a hook member provided on the portion of the back surface layer which is near the first end portion; an engaging section provided on the portion of the top sheet which is near the second end portion and engageable with the hook member; and a weak engagement section provided at a position at which the weak engagement section is in contact with the hook member of an adjacent absorbent article of the stacked absorbent articles for pets. | 10-02-2014 |
20140188066 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes an absorber having a crotch region. The central curving unit that allows the absorber to be convex in the inner direction is formed at a center in the widthwise direction of the crotch region. The first curving unit that allows the absorber to be convex in the outer direction is formed in the crotch region and outboard of the central curving unit. The second curving unit that allows the absorber to be convex in the inner direction is formed in the crotch region and outboard of the first curving unit. The concave unit is formed in the absorber to be concaved inwardly in the widthwise direction at the outside in the longitudinal direction relative to the first curving unit. The second curving unit is arranged outboard of an inside edge in the widthwise direction of the concave unit in the widthwise direction. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182462 | APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE THICKNESS OF AN ABSORBENT BODY AND METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided is an apparatus for reducing a thickness of an absorbent body having liquid absorbent fiber as a main material. The apparatus includes a pressing device that reduces the thickness of the absorbent body transported in a transport direction, by sandwiching and pressing the absorbent body in a thickness direction orthogonal to the transport direction, a pair of rollers that is positioned on a downstream side along the transport direction than the pressing device, and rotates while passing the absorbent body through a gap formed by outer circumferences of the pair of rollers opposing each other, a sensor that outputs measurement information relating to the thickness of the absorbent body at a position between the pressing device and the pair of rollers, and a controller that sets a size of the gap between the pair of rollers based on the measurement information. | 07-03-2014 |
20140131248 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE PACKAGE - An absorbent article package, includes: a plurality of absorbent articles each folded to define a first outer face and a second outer face; and a packing bag that stores the plurality of absorbent articles in a layered state such that the first outer face of each of the plurality of the absorbent articles makes contact with the second outer face of an adjacent absorbent article, in which each absorbent article includes an engagement member arranged on the first outer face thereof and engaging with the second outer face of the adjacent absorbent article, and the packing bag includes a first face positioned to face the first or second outer faces of the absorbent articles stored in the packing bag and configured to form therein an opening to allow the absorbent articles to be extracted. | 05-15-2014 |
20140116627 | DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - As viewed from above a straight line Lst that passes through the center of a widthwise direction of a lower end | 05-01-2014 |
20140107604 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In a method of manufacturing an absorbent article, an absorbent article | 04-17-2014 |
20140088485 | SANITARY TAMPON AND TAMPON AND APPLICATOR ASSEMBLY - A sanitary tampon | 03-27-2014 |
20140082872 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning element includes a fiber assembly having a plurality of fibers extending in a predetermined direction and a nonwoven fabric provided on the fiber assembly. A first fusion bonded part extends in a cross direction traversing the predetermined direction to fusion-bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric, and a plurality of second fusion bonded parts is provided discontinuously in the cross direction to fusion-bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric. Each of the second fusion bonded parts has a first area and a second area. A length in the predetermined direction from the first fusion bonded part to the first area is different from a length in the predetermined direction from the first fusion bonded part to the second area. | 03-27-2014 |
20140075892 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING WET TISSUE PACKAGE - A method for producing a wet tissue package by which a storage portion for wet tissues which have been used can be easily produced, and wet tissues stored in a package main body can be prevented from drying. A method for producing a wet tissue package provided with a package main body having an opening portion, a lid member to cover the opening portion, and a used wet tissue storage portion, wherein the method is provided with an opening portion formation step, an attachment step for attaching the lid member and an adhesive material, a folding back step for wrapping a plurality of wet tissues, a first sealing portion formation step for forming a first sealing portion and a first sealing extension portion, and a second sealing portion formation step for forming a second sealing portion and also forming the used wet tissue storage portion by joining the second sealing portion and the first sealing extension portion by the adhesive material. | 03-20-2014 |
20140075701 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - It is an object of the present invention to provide effective technique for a higher cleaning effect and higher operability of a cleaning element. According to the representative cleaning element | 03-20-2014 |
20140060999 | METHOD FOR CHANGING A TRANSPORTING CONFIGURATION OF A WORKPIECE OF AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of changing a transporting configuration of a workpiece of an absorbent article includes: for the workpiece having a shape in which a longitudinal central section is narrower in the lateral direction than longitudinal end sections, transporting a plurality of workpieces in longitudinal-direction flowing, the plurality of workpieces being transported in a state where the longitudinal end sections of each workpiece are adjacent to the central section of another workpiece and the plurality of workpieces form N workpiece lines (N is an integer of 2 or more) arranged in a lateral direction; forming each workpiece group including N workpieces by correlating, based on a predetermined correlation pattern; and changing a transporting configuration of the workpieces of the workpiece group from the longitudinal-direction flowing to the lateral-direction flowing. The forming of the workpiece group is performed by correlating workpieces arranged side by side in the lateral direction. | 03-06-2014 |
20140031778 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - There is provided an absorbent article with excellent absorption performance. The absorbent article | 01-30-2014 |
20140027943 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR ABSORBENT BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A device for manufacturing an absorbent body by depositing on a deposit portion liquid absorbent fiber contained in a first gas flowing through a duct. The device for manufacturing an absorbent body includes the deposit portion that travels along a predetermined travel path, the duct that distributes the liquid absorbent fiber from a distribution opening placed opposing the travel path, a particulate matter discharge tube, a tip end thereof being introduced into the duct, that discharges a second gas having particulate matter mixed therein from a discharge hole of the tip end, and an operable throttle portion that throttles a flow path of the particulate matter discharge tube to change discharge distribution of the particulate matter. The operable throttle portion is operated in conjunction with the travel of the deposit portion. | 01-30-2014 |
20140014284 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR NONWOVEN FABRIC - There is provided a method for producing a nonwoven fabric that can produce a nonwoven fabric having high strength, high bulk and softness. The method for producing a nonwoven fabric according to the invention comprises a step of supplying a water-containing paper-making material onto a support to form a paper layer | 01-16-2014 |
20130345656 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - The absorbent article of the present invention comprises: a liquid-pervious surface sheet, a liquid-impervious backside sheet provided at the position opposing said surface sheet, and an absorption body provided between said surface sheet and said backside sheet, wherein the absorbent article comprises an endless compressed groove, surrounding a central part of said absorbent article, which is formed in said surface sheet and said absorption body in the thickness direction, and a plurality of concave parts, provided inside and outside said compressed groove, which are formed in said surface sheet and said absorption body in the thickness direction, and an uncompressed region bordering inner and outer edges of the compressed groove, wherein the closest distance between said compressed groove and the nearest concave parts is greater than the distance between adjacent ones of those same concave parts. | 12-26-2013 |
20130299096 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF COMPOSITE SHEET OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing a composite sheet includes joining a first elastic strip member to a sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the first elastic strip member to a continuous body of the sheet; and joining a second elastic strip member to the sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the second elastic strip member to the continuous body. The first elastic strip member supplied toward a first spindle portion side roller is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of the first spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of a first oscillating end side roller. The second elastic strip member supplied toward the second spindle portion side roller of a second oscillating arm is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of a second spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of the second oscillating end side roller of the second oscillating arm. | 11-14-2013 |
20130296152 | FOLDING APPARATUS AND A FOLDING METHOD FOR A COMBINED BODY OF A CONTINUOUS SHEET RELATED TO AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A folding apparatus for a combined body of a continuous sheet includes a standing guide member disposed at a predetermined position in a conveying direction, and standing an one end section of the combined body in a width direction by bending a predetermined section of the combined body in the width direction and forming a bent section; a folding guide member corresponding to the stood one end section in the conveying direction for folding the stood one end section by laying the one end section towards a section located closer to another side than the one end section in the combined body; and a shift-regulating guide member for regulating shifting of the combined body towards the one side in the width direction by coming into contact, from the one side, with the combined body when laying the one end section towards the section located closer to the other side. | 11-07-2013 |
20130291324 | CLEANING TOOL AND CLEANING SHEET - In a wet sheet, hydrophobic outer layer sheets are disposed on both sides of the hydrophilic inner layer sheet impregnated with cleaning solution. Each of intermediate layer sheets is folded over so as to form a space having an opening. End portions of the inner layer sheet are inserted into the spaces of the intermediate layer sheets. The inner layer sheet can come in contact with the outer layer sheet via a space between the intermediate layer sheets. With such a construction, sufficiently high frictional force acts between the inner layer sheet and the outer layer sheet. | 11-07-2013 |
20130270068 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE ROTATING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ROTATING AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article rotating apparatus includes a transporting section that transports an absorbent article along a transport direction with the absorbent article being sandwiched between a pair of belts, and a fixed member that rotates the absorbent article by coming into contact with a portion of an edge of the absorbent article, the portion being exposed from the belts, the edge being at a downstream side in the transport direction, the fixed member being fixed at a predetermined position in the transport direction. | 10-17-2013 |
20130267926 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - To provide an absorbent article that can further reduce leakage of body fluid from an end portion in a longitudinal direction. An elongated shaped absorbent article includes: a top sheet that has a skin contacting surface; a back sheet; and an absorbent core that is disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, in which a compressed groove is formed on the skin contacting surface; the skin contacting surface has an excretory contact region, a front region, and a rear region; the compressed groove has a pair of first central grooves and a first circular groove that is provided in at least any one of the front region and the rear region; and the first circular groove is arranged at a position overlapping a vertical center line. | 10-10-2013 |
20130244855 | WRINKLE SMOOTHING DEVICE FOR A COMPOSITE BODY OF A CONTINUOUS SHEET RELATED TO ABSORBENT ARTICLES, AND WRINKLE SMOOTHING METHOD THEREOF - A wrinkle smoothing device for a composite body of a continuous sheet related to an absorbent article includes a first belt that moves along a first travel path while retaining the central portion of the continuous sheet, and second and third belts that move along second and third travel paths while retaining side portions of the continuous sheet. The second and third travel path are inclined from the first travel path such that a downstream side is more spaced apart from the first travel path than an upstream side. The second and third belts retain side portions of the continuous sheet while relatively sliding in the width direction of the continuous sheet. | 09-19-2013 |
20130240136 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DRIP ABSORBENT SHEET - In a method of manufacturing a drip absorbent sheet, the drip absorbent sheet having: a plurality of holes through which drip, which is juice released from foodstuff, can pass; a porous resin film containing 1 to 3% by mass of a surface-active agent, and a liquid absorbent layer laminated with the porous resin film. The method includes at least: a laminating step of laminating the porous resin film and the liquid absorbent layer; a cutting step of cutting a laminate obtained in the laminating step into a product of a predetermined product dimension; and a product stacking step of stacking the product in sheets after the cutting step into stacks of a plurality of sheets. In at least one of the cutting step and the product stacking step, a contactless charge neutralization process is performed with respect to a front surface side of the porous resin film. | 09-19-2013 |
20130175312 | MEANDERING CORRECTION APPARATUS OF A CONTINUOUS SHEET ASSOCIATED WITH AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus for manufacturing absorbent articles includes: a detecting section detecting an edge position of a continuous sheet in the width direction when the detecting section is stopped at a stop position, a meandering correcting section correcting meandering of the continuous sheet, a motor moving the detecting section in the width direction, and a controller controlling the motor based on a movement signal related to movement of the detecting section. The controller has a value corresponding to a distance from a reference position to each stop position, moves the detecting section to each stop position based on the corresponding value and the movement signal. The controller detects that the detecting section reaches the reference position based on a current of the motor. The reference position is a limit position for physical movement in the width direction of the detecting section, and is at or outside the outermost stop position. | 07-11-2013 |
20130164413 | PET FOOD - A pet food with superior preference qualities for a pet, while including dietary fiber such as pulp. The pet food includes dietary fiber, in which the pet food contains lignin in an amount of no less than 0.5% by mass and no greater than 2.2% by mass. The pet food preferably contains the dietary fiber in an amount of no less than 10% by mass and no greater than 20% by mass. A fiber source material for pet food preferably includes lignin in an amount of no less than 5% by mass and no greater than 25% by mass. The pet food is preferably used as a cat food. | 06-27-2013 |
20130160626 | CUTTER APPARATUS FOR WORKPIECE OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A cutter apparatus for cutting a workpiece of an absorbent article that is being transported in a transport direction, includes: a cutter roller having a cutter blade projecting from an outer circumferential surface thereof; and an anvil roller that receives the cutter blade at an outer circumferential surface thereof disposed to face the outer circumferential surface of the cutter roller. While rotating mutually in the transport direction, the cutter roller and the anvil roller cut the workpiece by allowing the workpiece to pass between the rollers. In at least one of the cutter roller and the anvil roller, a dynamic-balance correction section is provided which corrects the dynamic balance of the roller so that the sum of the values of balance quality (mm/sec) defined in JIS B 0905 at one end and the other end of the roller in a rotational-axis direction is 6 or less. | 06-27-2013 |
20130140755 | PASSING APPARATUS OF A WORKPIECE ASSOCIATED WITH AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A passing apparatus for a workpiece associated with an absorbent article receives a first sheet-like workpiece at a receiving position, changes a longitudinal direction of the first sheet-like workpiece to a direction that intersects the longitudinal direction at the time the first sheet-like workpiece is received, and discharges the first sheet-like workpiece with the changed longitudinal direction at a discharge position. The passing apparatus includes: a plurality of holding pads each having a plane section to be in contact with and for holding the first sheet-like workpiece, a revolution mechanism for causing the holding pads to revolve about a revolution axis normal to the plane section, and a spin mechanism for causing the holding pad to spin about a spin axis normal to the plane section. On an orbit of the holding pad determined by the revolution mechanism, the receiving position and the discharge position are set. | 06-06-2013 |
20130123737 | Wearing Article - To alleviate any irritation experienced by the wearer's skin and/or to restrict body waste leakage in a wearing article, a sheet lying at least in a first waist region of a chassis is joined to the chassis in first and second joined regions extending in a transverse direction and opposed to each other in a longitudinal direction. Additionally or alternatively, the sheet is joined to the chassis and a liquid-absorbent structure in a pair of longitudinal joined regions respectively extending along the side edges of the liquid-absorbent structure and opposed to each other in the transverse direction. The sheet is elastic and the chassis is non-elastic, and vice versa. | 05-16-2013 |
20130098793 | PACKAGE FOR INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED GOOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A package for individually packaged good of absorbent article includes an individually packaged good having a main body portion and a pair of extended portions; a bag body housing individually packaged goods; and a box body that houses the bag body housing the individually packaged goods, in which the individually packaged goods are housed in the bag body such that a position of the extended portions is aligned; the bag body is housed in the box body such that a pair of side faces, to which the pair of extended portions is directed, is positioned to face a pair of opposite internal faces of the box body; and a length L | 04-25-2013 |
20130098302 | LIQUID-PERMEABLE PANEL - The liquid-permeable panel is mounted on a portion of the system toilet for animals, and the 15-degree bending strength defined below is at least 0.2 N and no greater than 10 N. The 15-degree bending strength is the load that is applied at a velocity of 500 mm/min to the central section of the liquid-permeable panel from the direction perpendicular to a plan view using a round plunger having a diameter of 8 mm, while both sides in the Y-direction in a plan view of the liquid-permeable panel are being supported, that deforms the liquid-permeable panel into the shape of a concavity along the X-direction such that, in a cross section of said concavity, the angle (θ) formed by a horizontal line that contains the bottommost point of said concavity and an oblique line linking the aforementioned bottommost point and either of the aforementioned both sides is 15 degrees. | 04-25-2013 |
20130098301 | LIQUID-PERMEABLE PANEL - Disclosed is a liquid-permeable panel that is of a system toilet for animals and that can prevent urine wetting resulting from torsion or folding over of a pee pad. The liquid-permeable panel covers the excrement containment section of the system toilet for animals. Of the aforementioned panel, the side-surface 1 cm compression deformation load, which is the load necessary for at least 1cm of torsion to arise with respect to load from the side-surface direction that is perpendicular to the direction of thickness of said panel, is at least 5 N and no greater than 20 N. Preferably, the liquid-permeable panel has a plurality of holes that penetrate said liquid-permeable panel in the direction of thickness, and has as a material corrugated cardboard wherein liquid goes through the aforementioned plurality of holes, passing through in the direction of thickness of the aforementioned liquid-permeable panel. | 04-25-2013 |
20130098300 | SYSTEM TOILET FOR DOGS - Disclosed is a system toilet for dogs that can reduce wetting of dog feet and that dogs can appropriately use for excretion. The system toilet for dogs is provided with: an excretion receptacle having an excrement containing section that can contain excrement and at which an absorbent sheet can be disposed; and a water-absorbent, disposable, liquid-permeable panel that is disposed in a manner so as to cover the top of the excrement containing section. The thickness of the liquid-permeable panel is 3-25 mm, and the height from the bottom end of the excretion receptacle to the top surface of the liquid-permeable panel is no greater than 65 mm. Also, the system toilet for dogs is further provided with a support section that is disposed between the excrement containing section and the liquid-permeable panel, and that supports the liquid-permeable panel. | 04-25-2013 |
20130092092 | LIQUID-PERMEABLE PANEL AND SYSTEM TOILET FOR ANIMALS USING SAME - Disclosed is a disposable liquid-permeable panel that is for a system toilet for animals that, without using a particulate, resists foot wetting when the animal performs excretion and can suppress the incidence of odors even if excrement is present for a long period of time. The liquid-permeable panel used in the system toilet for animals is water-absorbent, liquid-permeable, and disposable, and is configured from paper containing aluminum sulfate. Preferably, the paper is acidic paper containing a sizing agent and aluminum sulfate. More preferably, the liquid-permeable panel has a plurality of holes that penetrate in the direction of thickness and is a corrugated cardboard wherein liquids go through the plurality of holes, passing through in the direction of thickness of the liquid-permeable panel. Excrement odor suppression is achieved by means of the chemical deodorizing ability that aluminum sulfate has. | 04-18-2013 |
20130087289 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARTUS OF AN ABSORBENT BODY - A manufacturing method of an absorbent body used for an absorbent article, includes molding the absorbent body by sucking in a gas, mixed with a liquid absorbent fiber and a superabsorbent polymer, using a suction hole at a bottom portion of a mold, and laminating the liquid absorbent fiber and the superabsorbent polymer on the bottom portion, and making a lamination thickness of the absorbent body thin by sucking out gas in the absorbent body placed on a placement surface on which the absorbent body is placed by, after the molding, in a state in which the gas is not supplied, sucking air through the suction hole on the placement surface, and creating an air pressure, in a space in between fibers in the absorbent body while sucking out the air, lower than that in a space in between fibers in the absorbent body while laminating in molding. | 04-11-2013 |
20130068388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A ROLL OF SHEET - A method of manufacturing a roll of sheet includes forming a layered sheet by combining a plurality of overlapped fiber sheets which is moving in a continuation direction and winding the layered sheet. The forming of the layered sheet includes performing a first compression in which a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions are disposed in an alternating manner in the continuation direction, the second regions lying along an intersecting direction and performing second compression in which among the first regions and the second regions, at least the first regions are compressed. The accumulating of the layered sheet includes forming a loop of the layered sheet by disposing the layered sheet along the peripheral surface of a rotatable roller. The winding of the layered sheet includes winding the layered sheet on a winding mandrel located downstream of the rotatable roller. | 03-21-2013 |
20130062263 | DEFECTIVE-WORKPIECE DISCHARGING DEVICE - In a defective-workpiece discharging device, a defective workpiece is discharged to a discharge path from a conveyance path that conveys a plurality of workpieces related to absorbent articles at a predetermined conveyance pitch. The conveyance path has a first path and a second path downstream of the first path. A sorting mechanism between the first and second paths sorts workpieces into either the second path or the discharge path. A defect detection sensor detects a defect and outputs a defect detection signal. A passage detection sensor detects passage of the workpieces at a predetermined position on the first path and outputs a passage detection signal. A controller controls the sorting mechanism based on the defect and passage detection signals. An end of the first path on the sorting mechanism side and the predetermined position are separated by a distance greater than or equal to the conveyance pitch. | 03-14-2013 |
20130059713 | ABSORBENT-BODY MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - An absorbent-body manufacturing apparatus manufactures an absorbent body by depositing absorbent-body material in a plurality of recess sections spaced at an arrangement pitch on an outer circumferential face of a drum. The apparatus has a driving source that drives the drum in synchronization with another apparatus based on a synchronization signal. First and second signal-generating sections repeatedly generate first and second rotational-angle signals based on a rotation of the drum with a rotational angle of the drum as a unit, the rotational angle of the drum corresponding to first and second pitches, respectively. Depending on whether the arrangement pitch is set to the first or second pitch, a controller controls rotational driving operation of the driving source based on the first or second rotational-angle signal and on the synchronization signal. | 03-07-2013 |
20130037218 | APPARATUS FOR MAKING BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT PAD - A bodily fluid absorbent pad has a shape symmetric in a longitudinal direction as well as in a transverse direction. A dimension of the pad in the transverse direction is larger in opposite end regions than in an intermediate region. The pad is formed along opposite side edges with first and second compressed lines. Paired compression rolls are used to form the first and second compressed lines, and at least one roll constituting the paired compression rolls is formed on a peripheral surface thereof with compressing units projecting from the peripheral surface. The compressing units are arranged in a circumferential direction to form one row and at least one additional row adjacent to the one row in an axial direction of the roll. There is an offset between the compressing unit in the one row and the compressing units in the other row in the circumferential direction. | 02-14-2013 |
20130036584 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TAMPON AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING TAMPON - The present invention provides a method for producing a tampon having an absorbent body that absorbs fluid and a string that is attached to the absorbent body, the method includes: attaching the string to the absorbent body; causing a regulation section to regulate movement of the absorbent body; causing a holding section to hold the string; and applying a tensile force to the string by increasing a distance in a longitudinal direction of the absorbent body between the regulation section and the holding section. | 02-14-2013 |
20130031813 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A STRETCHABLE SHEET - In a method of producing a stretchable sheet using a pair of gear rolls each having a plurality of teeth arranged on a circumference thereof, a raw sheet is drawn by passing the raw sheet through a gap between the pair of gear rolls. The raw sheet contains a plurality of types of fibers, and has a plurality of recessed sections formed by pressing. The recessed sections are formed collinearly at least along the drawing direction at a predetermined formation pitch in the drawing direction. An arrangement pitch of the teeth in the drawing direction is greater than the formation pitch and smaller than twice the formation pitch. | 02-07-2013 |
20130025534 | FLUID DISCHARGING DEVICE - A fluid discharging device that discharges fluid from a plurality of discharge openings towards a continuous sheet member which is continuously transported in a transporting direction. The fluid discharging device includes: a plurality of valves that correspond to the discharge openings and intermittently discharge the fluid from the discharge openings by opening and closing operations; and a controller that controls the opening and closing operations of each of the valves individually depending on a transportation amount of the continuous sheet member. The controller calculates a shared compensation value that is represented by a value indicating the transportation amount, based on a transport velocity of the continuous sheet member. The controller shifts an open-close timing of at least several valves of the plurality of valves from a previously-determined open-close timing, based on the shared compensation value. | 01-31-2013 |
20130025423 | CUTTER APPARATUS - A cutter apparatus includes a cutter roller with a cutter blade, and an anvil roller that receives the cutter blade. An annular protruding section is provided to an outer circumferential face of one of the cutter roller and the anvil roller, and comes into contact with the other roller. First and second motors drive the cutter roller and the anvil roller. A first motor control unit controls the first motor by position control or speed control. A second motor control unit controls the second motor. The anvil roller rotates to follow the cutter roller by a torque transmitted from the cutter roller via the annular protruding section, and a supplementary torque is imparted from the second motor to the anvil roller, based on a control by the second motor control unit, so as to assist a rotation of the anvil roller following the cutter roller. | 01-31-2013 |
20130020028 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes: first and second reference-signal outputting sections for outputting first and second reference signals indicating a conveyance amount of a workpiece, a processing device for processing the workpiece based on a drive signal, an adhesive discharging device for discharging adhesive toward the workpiece based on a discharge signal, and a controller. While manufacturing the absorbent article, the controller generates both the drive signal and the discharge signal based on the first reference signal. While inspecting a discharge amount of the adhesive, the controller generates the discharge signal based on the second reference signal, without outputting the drive signal. | 01-24-2013 |
20130019798 | FLUID DISCHARGING DEVICE - A fluid discharging device that discharges fluid from a plurality of discharge openings towards a continuous sheet member which is continuously transported in a transporting direction. The fluid discharging device includes: a plurality of valves that correspond to the discharge openings and intermittently discharge the fluid from the discharge openings by opening and closing operations; and a controller that controls the opening and closing operations of each of the valves individually depending on a transportation amount of the continuous sheet member. The controller has a shared adjustment value that is represented by a value indicating the transportation amount. the controller shifts open-close timing of at least several valves of the a plurality of valves from a previously-determined open-close timing that the several valves are subject to, based on the shared adjustment value. | 01-24-2013 |
20130014899 | APPARATUS TO MANUFACTURE ABSORBENT BODYAANM Nakano; TakumiAACI KagawaAACO JPAAGP Nakano; Takumi Kagawa JP - An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent body includes: a sheet supplying mechanism for supplying a sheet from a sheet roll; a crusher for crushing the sheet into a fibrous matter by scraping a reeling-out tip end of the reeled out sheet; and a fiber stacking device for forming the absorbent body in a predetermined shape by laminating the fibrous matter to be sent out from the crusher. When switching a supply of the sheet to the crusher from one to another sheet supplying mechanism, at least two sheet supplying mechanisms supply the sheet to the crusher over a predetermined period including a period in which the one sheet supplying mechanism decreases a sheet reeling-out speed, in correspondence with the period in which the one sheet supplying mechanism decreases the sheet reeling-out speed, the other sheet supplying mechanism increases a sheet reeling-out speed. | 01-17-2013 |
20130012906 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article including cover sheets used to cover front and rear ends of a liquid-absorbent structure and improved to alleviate undesirable irritation due to such cover sheets potentially experienced by the wearer. A diaper includes front and rear waist members and a liquid-absorbent structure by which the front and rear waist members are connected. The liquid-absorbent structure has front and rear ends overlapping the front and rear waist members, and front and rear cover sheets are laminated on these front and rear ends to cover them. The front and rear cover sheets are formed with bonded regions adapted to be bonded to the liquid-absorbent structure or the front and rear waist members, outside non-bonded regions lying outboard of the bonded regions and inside non-bonded regions lying inboard of the bonded regions. The inside non-bonded regions are respectively folded back along fold lines toward the wearer's body to form turnbacks. | 01-10-2013 |
20130000457 | ROTARY WORKING APPARATUS - A rotary working apparatus provided with a working unit and an actuator, wherein the working unit is provided with a unit frame and a cutter roll and anvil roll supported by the unit frame so as to be rotatable about mutually parallel axes of rotation, the anvil roll being further supported by the unit frame in a movable manner. The actuator is provided at the outside of the working unit and is provided with advanceable/retractable rods for making the anvil roll move to press the anvil roll against the cutter roll. A workpiece fed between the cutter roll and the anvil roll is worked by the rotating cutter roll and/or anvil roll. | 01-03-2013 |
20130000008 | PROTECTOR - A protector that lightens a shock when a wearer falls, and reduces an unpleasant feeling given to a wearer when worn for a long period of time. The protector is substantially circular in a plan view and is disposed at a position to cover near a femoral-neck portion from a side portion of a wearer. The protector is curved in a thickness direction so that an outer surface, comprising a single-layer structure composed of a polymer-foam body, is convex, and an inner surface is concave. An amount of displacement in the thickness direction when a load of 20 N is applied at a central portion of the outer surface when placed on a flat surface is 3 mm-20 mm. | 01-03-2013 |
20120323203 | METHOD FOR MAKING PACKAGE-ABSORBENT ARTICLE ASSEMBLY AND PACKAGE-ABSORBENT ARTICLE ASSEMBLY OBTAINED BY THE SAME - A method for packaging an absorbent article assembly that includes following the steps. First and second breast milk absorbent pads are fed onto wrapping sheet web. Next, the first breast milk absorbent pad is displaced from a transverse center line toward an upper end by ¼ of a dimension thereof as measured in a longitudinal direction, and the second breast milk absorbent pad is displaced from a transverse center line toward an lower end by ¼ of a dimension thereof as measured in a longitudinal direction. Next, the first and second breast milk absorbent pads are folded back from the upper and lower ends toward the transverse center line. Next, the upper and lower ends of the wrapping sheet web are folded back toward the transverse center line. Next, a joint zone is formed between the first and second breast milk absorbent pads and the pads are cut apart. | 12-20-2012 |
20120318204 | ANIMAL SYSTEM TOILET AND LIQUID PERMEABLE PANEL USED THEREWITH - An animal system toilet that allows for easy cleaning while almost completely eliminating wet feet due to urine during excretion and contamination of a room due to the wet feet, and a disposable liquid permeable panel for an animal system toilet is provided that allows for easy cleaning of the animal system toilet and that can remarkably prevent wet feet during excretion using the animal system toilet and contamination of a room caused by the wet feet. An animal system toilet is used that includes: an excrement storage unit; a liquid permeable panel that is disposed above the excrement storage unit and passes liquid through; and a supporting unit that supports the liquid permeable panel while forming a space between the excrement storage unit and the liquid permeable panel, in which the liquid permeable panel has water absorbency and is configured to be detachable with respect to the supporting portion. | 12-20-2012 |
20120317695 | PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE - A pants-type wearing article including a connecting member by the intermediary of which respective lateral regions of front and rear waist regions are connected together. In a pants-type wearing article, a lateral region of a front waist region and a lateral region of a rear waist region are connected to each other by the intermediary of a sheet-like connecting member. The connecting member is folded to form mountain folds and valley folds arranged alternately and collapsed in a circumferential direction. These mountain folds and valley folds are expanded from the folded state in the circumferential direction as these folds are pulled in the circumferential direction. | 12-20-2012 |
20120316048 | ROTARY PROCESSING DEVICE - A rotary processing device that comprises a plurality of processing, an anvil roll arranged facing the processing rolls, and an upstream nip roll and a downstream nip roll arranged on the upstream and downstream of the processing rolls while facing the anvil roll. A belt like body is so carried as to pass through between the upstream nip roll and the anvil roll and, next, through between the processing roll and the anvil roll and, thereafter, through between downstream nip roll and the anvil roll, so as to be processed by the processing rolls. | 12-13-2012 |
20120312463 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF AN ABSORBENT BODY - A manufacturing method of an absorbent body used for an absorbent article, includes molding the absorbent body by sucking in a gas, mixed with a liquid absorbent fiber and a superabsorbent polymer, using a suction hole at a bottom portion of a mold, and laminating the liquid absorbent fiber and the superabsorbent polymer on the bottom portion, and making a lamination thickness of the absorbent body thin by sucking out gas in the absorbent body placed on a placement surface on which the absorbent body is placed by, after the molding, in a state in which the gas is not supplied, sucking air through the suction hole on the placement surface, and creating an air pressure, in a space in between fibers in the absorbent body while sucking out the air, lower than that in a space in between fibers in the absorbent body while laminating in molding. | 12-13-2012 |
20120302985 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An underpants-type absorbent article having an outer body provided with a mutually separate front piece, back piece and connecting sheet, and wherein the front piece and the back piece are mutually joined at side areas and are mutually connected by the connecting sheet extending in an front-to-rear direction at the crotch area, and an inner body containing an absorptive body and which is overlapped and anchored to the connecting sheet on the inside of the outer body. At least a portion of both edges in the transverse direction of the connecting sheet are positioned farther to the inside in the transverse direction than both edges in the transverse direction of the inner body in a spacing area between the front piece and the back piece. | 11-29-2012 |
20120302417 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing an underpants-type absorbent article having an outer body provided with a mutually separate front piece, back piece and connecting sheet, and wherein the front piece and the back piece are mutually joined at side areas and are mutually connected by the connecting sheet extending in the front-to-rear direction at the crotch area, and an inner body containing an absorptive body and which is overlapped and anchored to the connecting sheet on the inside of the outer body, comprises, in turn, transporting a continuous body of the front piece in the form of a front piece web and a continuous body of the back piece in the form of a back piece web in a machine direction while maintaining a spacing area in a cross-machine direction, forming a continuous body of the outer body in the form of an outer body web by attaching the connecting sheet to the front piece web and the back piece web at intervals in the machine direction so as to straddle the spacing area, cutting the outer body web in order to form edges that define leg holes, and attaching the inner body to the outer body web. | 11-29-2012 |
20120297605 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing an underpants-type absorbent article which method comprises each of the steps of transporting a continuous body of a sheet that forms a front piece or a back piece in the form of a sheet web in a machine direction, supplying a continuous elastic body to the sheet web while oscillating in a cross-machine direction, alternately positioning the continuous elastic body on the sheet web and outside the sheet web, attaching those portions of the continuous elastic body positioned on the sheet web to the sheet web, holding those portions of the continuous elastic body positioned outside the sheet web with a holder, and cutting and removing those portions of the continuous elastic body positioned outside the sheet web. | 11-29-2012 |
20120297563 | CLEANING ELEMENT AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning element includes a fiber assembly having a plurality of fibers extending in a predetermined direction and a nonwoven fabric disposed on the fiber assembly. A first fusion bonded part extends in a cross direction crossing the predetermined direction to fusion bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric, and a plurality of second fusion bonded parts formed discontinuously in the cross direction at a lateral side of the first fusion bonded part to fusion bond the fiber assembly and the nonwoven fabric. The first fusion bonded part extends all the way through the fiber assembly in a thickness direction of the cleaning element. The plurality of second fusion bonded parts extend only a part of said fiber assembly in the thickness direction. | 11-29-2012 |
20120289921 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article improved to facilitate wrinkles created in a front waist region as well as in a rear waist region to be smoothed. A diaper includes front and rear waist members, a crotch member by the intermediary of which these front and rear waist members are connected. The front and rear waist members extend from waist ends toward the side of a crotch region and respectively include first regions overlapping front and rear end flaps of the absorbent structure and second regions adjacent the respective first regions, In the front and rear waist members, the first regions and the second regions are provided with first waist elastic members and second waist elastic members so as to be sandwiched between the respective top- and backsheets. The respective second regions are formed with inelastic zones overlapping the core and elastic regions lying on both sides of the inelastic regions in the transverse direction. The tightening force of the respective first regions are set to be lower than the tightening force of the respective second regions. | 11-15-2012 |
20120280434 | MANUFACTURING DEVICE FOR ABSORBENT BODY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A manufacturing device for an absorption body including an accumulation portion that is to have accumulated thereto liquid absorbent fiber in a first gas flowing through a duct and a polymer discharge tube that is introduced into the duct and that discharges from a discharge hole a second gas having high-absorbent polymer mixed therein toward the accumulation portion, wherein a flow path of the second gas formed in the polymer discharge tube has at a location on the discharge hole side of the flow path a distribution change area where a distribution state of high-absorbent polymer is changed, and a sectional area of the flow path at the distribution change area is narrower than a sectional area of a flow path at a part adjacent on an upstream side as well as a downstream side of the distribution change area. | 11-08-2012 |
20120271269 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article having a chassis bent in a crotch region. A diaper is folded along an imaginary lateral center line so that front and rear waist regions are in contact with each other and so that front and rear upper end edges in the regions substantially have the same level with each other. In such a folded state, first folds extending in the longitudinal direction are defined in portions of gasket cuffs which are biased toward the front waist region relative to the imaginary lateral center line. The first folds are defined along lateral edges of core of a liquid absorbent structure, and the gasket cuffs being located outboard of the lateral edges are folded along the first folds onto a garment-facing side of an outer sheet. Second folds which extend in the longitudinal direction are formed in containment cuffs. The second folds are lying on a side closer to the front waist region in relation to the imaginary lateral center line, and folded distal ends are expanded and folded to the garment-facing side of the outer sheet. | 10-25-2012 |
20120247661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPOSITE OF A CONTINUOUS SHEET FOR AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In a method of manufacturing a composite continuous sheet for an absorbent article, a first continuous sheet is held sliding on a peripheral surface of a roll at a first speed lower than a peripheral speed of the roll. The first continuous sheet is cut with a cutter. The cut sheet is transported in the peripheral direction and at the peripheral speed while being held on the peripheral surface. A continuous sheet is selected among a plurality of continuous sheets including a continuous sheet transported at a second speed higher than the peripheral speed, and a continuous sheet transported at a third speed that is equal to or higher than the peripheral speed but lower than the second speed. The cut sheet is adhered to the selected continuous sheet supplied towards the peripheral surface of the roll. | 10-04-2012 |
20120247349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS THAT MAKES THICKNESS OF ABSORBENT BODY THIN - A method that makes a thickness of an absorbent body, including a liquid absorbent fiber and a superabsorbent polymer, thin, the method includes transporting the absorbent body by moving a holding surface while holding the absorbent body on the holding surface with suction air from a suction hole on the holding surface, and making the thickness of the absorbent body thin by sucking a belt member towards the holding surface using the suction air from the suction hole, in a predetermined range of a travel path of the holding surface, the belt member being arranged opposing the holding surface along the travel path and being arranged movably along the travel path over the predetermined range of the travel path, and sandwiching the absorbent body between the holding surface and the belt member. | 10-04-2012 |
20120238987 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - Front and rear waist regions of a diaper having a waist-hole of which a peripheral edge is elastically stretchable in a circumferential direction respectively include covering zones and elastic zones adapted to be stretchable beyond lengths of the covering zones in the circumferential direction. | 09-20-2012 |
20120232515 | BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A bodily fluid absorbent article having visually recognizable display elements formed of coloring material wherein an average mass of coloring material per a predetermined area gradually increases from inside toward outside as viewed in a longitudinal direction. A panty liner includes a liquid-pervious topsheet lying on a skin-facing side, a liquid-impervious backsheet lying on a garment-facing side and a second sheet sandwiched between these sheets as an intermediate layer. The panty liner is formed with display elements adapted to be visually recognized through the topsheet. The display elements are coated with coloring material in a gradation such that a density of the coloring material gradually increases outward from an imaginary transverse center line. Specifically, the density of the coloring material in the respective display elements gradually increases outward. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231946 | METHOD FOR THINNING AGGREGATE OF WATER-ABSORBENT MATERIAL AND THIN AGGREGATE OF WATER-ABSORBENT MATERIAL OBTAINED USING THE METHOD - A method for thinning an aggregate of water-absorbent materials. An aggregate of water-absorbent materials includes hydrophilic fibers and superabsorbent polymer particles and has a thickness direction. Steam at a temperature corresponding to water's boiling point or higher is ejected to the aggregate while the aggregate is compressed in the thickness direction. | 09-13-2012 |
20120226254 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article having a rear waist region which includes a rear waist main section facing a front waist region and a buttocks-covering section lying adjacent to a crotch region. The rear waist main section is divided into an upper area lying adjacent to a waist-opening and a lower area lying adjacent to the crotch region wherein a tensile stress per unit width dimension in the buttocks-covering section is lower than a tensile stress per unit width dimension in the lower area of the rear waist main section. | 09-06-2012 |
20120225764 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND A MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR A SHEET-LIKE MEMBER ASSOCIATED WITH AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - There is provided a manufacturing method for a sheet-like member associated with an absorbent article, the sheet-like member having a folded-up section which is temporarily-secured in a folded-up state. The method includes: forming the folded-up section by folding up a continuous sheet in a width direction of the continuous sheet, the continuous sheet continuing along a transporting direction, creasing the folded-up section in a folded-up state by pressing continuously the folded-up section along a direction of a fold line of the folded-up section, temporarily-securing the folded-up section in a folded-up state by pressing the folded-up section with a plurality of protrusions that are included in a pressing member, producing the sheet-like member by dividing the continuous sheet with a predetermined pitch in the transporting direction, the continuous sheet having been creased and temporarily-secured, and conveying the produced sheet-like member. | 09-06-2012 |
20120222798 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A COMPOSITE SHEET - In a method of manufacturing a stretchable composite sheet, the first continuous sheet is stretched while being transported from a first nip area to a second nip area. The first continuous sheet is either a sheet in which stretchability has already been developed or a sheet in which stretchability has yet to be developed. An opening is formed in the first continuous sheet intermittently in the transport direction, while transporting the first continuous sheet from the second nip area to a third nip area after the stretching operation. A second continuous sheet having a lower stretchability than the first continuous sheet is overlapped and adhered to the first continuous sheet in the third nip area. | 09-06-2012 |
20120220972 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article adapted to accelerate an absorption rate of the absorbent member, to enlarge an absorption area in the absorbent member and to improve an absorption capacity of the absorbent member. A urine absorption pad includes a topsheet, a backsheet, a first layer element and a second layer element. The first layer element is formed with a slot-like first through hole extending nearly vertically in a thickness direction from its upper surface to its lower surface. The second layer element is formed with a slot-like second through hole extending nearly vertically in the thickness direction from its upper surface to its lower surface and overlapping with the first through hole. An opening area of the first through hole is larger than that of the second through hole and, in an overlapping state of the first through hole and the second through hole, front and rear ends and opposite side edges of the second through hole extend inward from front and rear ends and opposite side edges of the first through hole so as to define a stepped region between the first through hole and the second through hole. | 08-30-2012 |
20120215191 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article including a buttocks-covering section having tensile force sufficient to prevent this section from lifting and/or quirking during use of the wearing article and being free from anxiety that the buttocks-covering section might irritate the wearer's skin even if this section comes in contact with the wearer's skin. In this diaper, a rear waist region includes an inner sheet lying on a skin-facing side, an outer sheet lying on a non-skin-facing side, a rear waist main section facing a front waist region and a buttocks-covering section located below the rear waist main section wherein the buttocks-covering section is provided with a plurality of buttocks-covering section elastic elements in the form of strands extending in a transverse direction at a given distance one from another in a longitudinal direction and, in the buttocks-covering section, the inner sheet and the outer sheet are bonded to each other by adhesive applied to peripheral surfaces of the respective buttocks-covering section elastic elements. | 08-23-2012 |
20120208688 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing an absorbent article includes forming a pair of side flap-folded sections by folding a continuous sheet such that end sections in a width direction of the continuous sheet are folded inwardly in the width direction, while the continuous sheet is being transported in a continuous direction of the continuous sheet, producing a flap segment by segmenting the continuous sheet at a predetermined pitch in the continuous direction, joining the flap segment to a continuous body of absorbent main bodies in an overlapped manner, while the continuous body of absorbent main bodies is being transported in a transport direction corresponding to a continuous direction of the continuous body, and dividing the flap segment into a section having the pair of first side flaps and a section having the pair of second side flaps by segmenting the continuous body of absorbent main bodies. | 08-16-2012 |
20120200310 | WATER CONTENT DETECTION SENSOR - A water content detection sensor includes a circuit member in which low resistance conductors disposed in parallel to each other and a high resistance conductor connecting end portions of the respective low resistance conductors, a carrier body having a water-proof property and an insulating property, and a coating body having a water-proof property and an insulating property, the circuit portion being disposed between the carrier body and the coating body. A plurality of exposure holes is provided which expose the low resistance conductors at plural portions. When water content adheres between the exposure holes and the low resistance conductors are then short-circuited and a current value is made larger than that before the adhesion of the water content. When a small current passes, it is judged that the circuit is normal, and on the other hand, a large current passes, it is judged that water is generated. | 08-09-2012 |
20120191057 | WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention aims to provide a wearing article adapted to prevent unintentional displacement of a crotch region relative to front and rear waist regions by elastics attached to the crotch region. A diaper includes front and rear waist members, a crotch member by the intermediary of which the front and rear waist members are connected with each other. The rear waist member is formed with a waist fit section and an appendix section. Of the crotch member, front and rear ends including front and rear end flaps are bonded to the front and rear waist members, respectively, to form front and rear bonded regions. Both side flaps are provided on respective inner surfaces thereof with gasket elastics attached thereto. Each of the gasket elastic overlaps at one end with a part of the front waist elastic and overlaps at the other end with a part of the appendix section elastic. Furthermore, the one end overlaps with the front bonded region and the other end overlaps with the rear bonded regions. | 07-26-2012 |
20120180800 | FACE MASK - A mask has a mask body and a pair of ear straps. The mask body includes an outer layer sheet and an intermediate layer sheet. The outer layer sheet is formed of hydrophobic fibers. The intermediate layer sheet is laid on the outer layer sheet so as to be located on a wearer's side of the outer layer sheet when the mask is worn. The intermediate layer sheet includes a first fiber layer which is formed of polyolefin fibers containing an inorganic antimicrobial agent and a second fiber layer which is formed of polyolefin fibers and has a larger fiber diameter than the first fiber layer. The fiber diameter of the first fiber layer is within a range of 0.5 to 2.8 μm and the ratio of a particle diameter of the inorganic antimicrobial agent with respect to the fiber diameter is within the range of 0.1 to 6.0. | 07-19-2012 |
20120177885 | SHEET HAVING AIR PERMEABILITY, WATER DISINTEGRATABILITY AND WATER IMPERMEABILITY - It is an object of the invention to provide a laminated sheet with air permeability, water disintegratability and water impermeability. | 07-12-2012 |
20120175280 | WET TISSUE PACKAGE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF WET TISSUE PACKAGE AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE OF WET TISSUE PACKAGE - To provide a wet tissue package that allows for easy taking out of a wet tissue accommodated in a package body. A wet tissue package includes: a package body having an opening; and a plurality of wet tissues accommodated in the package body in a state of being individually folded and stacked without being interfolded, in which each of the plurality of wet tissues includes: a first folding line parallel to the first side edge; a second folding line parallel to the first folding line; and a turn-back portion formed by folding the wet tissue on the first folding line and the second folding line, in which the turn-back portion is directed toward the opening and a part of the turn-back portion is disposed so as to be exposable through the opening. | 07-12-2012 |
20120168104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING PRODUCT FROM STOCK PULP SHEET - A method of production of a product from a stock pulp sheet uses conveyor rolls to convey a stock pulp sheet to a crusher. During conveyance to the crusher, a defective part in the stock pulp sheet is detected by a detector. The detected defective part is removed from the stock pulp sheet by a remover. The stock pulp sheet from which the defective part is removed is supplied to the crusher to produce crushed pulp. The produced crushed pulp is used to produce a product in a product producer. | 07-05-2012 |
20120150138 | MESH UNDERPANTS AND METHOD OF PUTTING ON SAME - Provided are mesh underpants and a method of putting on same, whereby soiling due to nighttime leakage is inhibited even if the wearer is unused to wearing an absorbent pad. The provided mesh underpants have a waist opening and a pair of leg openings and can be attached to the outside surface of a roughly-rectangular absorbent pad. When worn outside a disposable diaper that is worn so as to cover the outside surface of the absorbent pad, the provided mesh underpants can cover roughly the entire length of the disposable diaper. | 06-14-2012 |
20120124763 | HANDY MOP - It is an object of the invention to provide a hand-held mop in which a grip connected to a mounting part for mounting and supporting a mop body is prevented from being detached from the mounting part during cleaning operation. | 05-24-2012 |
20120118485 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR A COMPOSITE SHEET ASSOCIATED WITH AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A manufacturing method for a composite sheet associated with an absorbent article includes: conveying a continuous body of a sheet continuously in a conveying direction; and bonding a continuous body of an elastic member with the continuous body of the sheet while a position on the continuous body of the sheet at which the continuous body of the elastic member bonds with the continuous body of the sheet is changing continuously in the intersecting direction by transporting the continuous body of the elastic member towards the continuous body of the sheet with a guiding member. The guiding member moves back and forth in an intersecting direction that intersects the conveying direction, and the continuous body of the sheet travels in the conveying direction. | 05-17-2012 |
20120117744 | CLEANER HOLDER AND CLEANING TOOL - A cleaning element holder of a cleaning tool includes a handle to be held by user's hand, and a pair of holding parts which extend from the handle in a longitudinal direction of the cleaning element holder. Each of the holding parts has deflection displacement characteristics around a connection between the handle and the holding part, at least in a first direction transverse to an extending direction of the holding parts and a second direction transverse to the first direction. When a load of 2.5 N is applied in the first direction to an end, the holding part deflects 15 to 80 degrees in the first direction, and when a load of 2.5 N is applied in the second direction to the end, the holding part deflects 25 to 55 degrees in the second direction. | 05-17-2012 |
20120115718 | ABSORBENT CORE AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent core that can promote and/or inhibit gelling, and an absorbent article comprising it. The absorbent core includes a gelling agent that contains a polysaccharide capable of thickening in the presence of a polyvalent metal ion, a substance that can supply a polyvalent metal ion, and an organic acid and/or polyvalent metal ion scavenger. | 05-10-2012 |
20120115701 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING A SHEET MEMBER - A processing apparatus for a sheet member includes a mounting member where the sheet member is mounted, a rotating roller that rotates with a peripheral surface thereof opposing the mounting member, a processing component on the peripheral surface and movable on the peripheral surface along an axial direction of the rotating roller, and an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a relative position of the processing component with respect to the peripheral surface in the axial direction. The processing component is configured to process the sheet member by coming into contact with the sheet member with the rotating roller being rotated, while the sheet member is passing between the mounting member and the rotating roller with the sheet member being mounted on the mounting member. The adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust the relative position by moving the processing component on the peripheral surface along the axial direction. | 05-10-2012 |
20120111485 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING DISPOSABLE DIAPER - The present invention aims to provide method and apparatus for making a disposable diaper improved so that a region of the continuous elastic predetermined to extend across the middle of the crotch region may be attached to continuous web in a desired condition. A method for making a disposable diaper | 05-10-2012 |
20120103269 | ANIMAL LITTER - Animal litter is provided that causes little damage to the legs or the like of animals using a litter box and generates a small amount of ammonia. The animal litter includes a plurality of particulate matter, in which the plurality of respective particulate matter includes a group of particles configured with an inorganic porous material and an inorganic binder which binds the group of particles together, and the inorganic binder includes a non-cement solidifying agent. | 05-03-2012 |
20120101467 | TAMPON AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF - A tampon that has an absorbent body that absorbs a bodily fluid and that is to be inserted into a body cavity along a central axis of the absorbent body, wherein a leading end part in an inserting direction of the absorbent body includes a recessed part including a position of the central axis. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101461 | SHEET MEMBER, HIGH-DENSITY REGION-CONTAINING SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DISPOSABLE DIAPER USING SHEET MEMBER - A high-density region-containing sheet has a high-density region and a low-density region, and a sheet member is produced by joining the high-density region of the high-density region-containing sheet to an elastic member. A sheet in a soft state by imparting preheat is pressed between a pair of opposed shaping rolls and having a toothed region and rotatable. Thus, a high-density region-containing sheet where high-density regions and low-density regions are formed is produced. Such two high-density region-containing sheets are joined through an extended elastic member to form a projection/recess pattern. In such a way, a high-density region-containing sheet can be produced. A sheet member in which at least one of two sheets is a high-density region-containing sheet, the high-density regions are joined through an extended elastic member, and a projection/recess pattern can be formed when the elastic member is contracted is produced. | 04-26-2012 |
20120094819 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRAWING SHEET - A drawing apparatus to draw a sheet includes a first protrusion group aligned in rows along a drawing direction of the sheet; and a second protrusion group aligned in rows along the drawing direction and that meshes with the first protrusion group. The sheet is bitten in between the first and second protrusion groups. A space in which the sheet is bitten with the first protrusion group and the second protrusion group includes a first region, a second region adjacent to the first region, and a third region adjacent to the second region opposite to the first region. A drawing amount of the sheet in the case that the sheet is bitten with the first protrusion group and the second protrusion group in the second region is greater than the drawing amount in the first region and is smaller than the drawing amount in the third region. | 04-19-2012 |
20120090779 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARAUS OF COMPOSITE SHEET OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing a composite sheet includes joining a first elastic strip member to a sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the first elastic strip member to a continuous body of the sheet; and joining a second elastic strip member to the sheet by feeding and surface-contacting the second elastic strip member to the continuous body. The first elastic strip member supplied toward a first spindle portion side roller is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of the first spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of a first oscillating end side roller. The second elastic strip member supplied toward the second spindle portion side roller of a second oscillating arm is subsequently put around an outer circumferential face of a second spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of the second oscillating end side roller of the second oscillating arm. | 04-19-2012 |
20120090774 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus that manufactures an absorbent article includes a rotating member that rotates in a state where the rotating member is opposing one face of a continuous sheet that is moving, the rotating member having an arcuate retaining surface that retains a work, the rotating member causing the work to be moved to a position where the work is nipped between the one face and the arcuate retaining surface by rotating in a state where the work is retained on the arcuate retaining surface; and a pressing member that bonds a continuous sheet and a work together by coming into contact with another face of the continuous sheet when the work reaches the position and pressing the continuous sheet towards the arcuate retaining surface. | 04-19-2012 |
20120089074 | TAMPON - There is provided a tampon including an absorbent body that absorbs liquid. The absorbent body is characterized in that it includes on its outer surface a colored portion that is colored with a colorant and a non-colored portion that is not colored. | 04-12-2012 |
20120086145 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SHEET, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MATERIAL OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE, AND APPARATUS TO MANUFACTURE SHEET - A method of manufacturing a sheet includes: rotating in a circumferential direction, a first roll having a protruding portion group, and a second roll opposing the first roll and having a region with the different flexibility property; and sandwiching the sheet with the protruding portion group and the outer circumferential face of the second roll. The protruding portion group has a plurality of rows of protruding portion rows with intervals therebetween in the circumferential direction. Each of the protruding portion rows includes a plurality of protruding portions aligned along a rotational axis direction of the first roll. A position of a downstream end in the circumferential direction of at least one protruding portion of the protruding portions positioned most downstream of the protruding portion group in the circumferential direction is arranged shifted from a position of a downstream end of another protruding portion configuring the protruding portion row. | 04-12-2012 |
20120086140 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A TAMPON, AND A MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR A TAMPON - A manufacturing method for a tampon having an absorbent body that absorbs liquid includes obtaining the absorbent body by compressing and shaping an absorbent-body material, and applying a melted agent to an outer surface of the absorbent body, the outer surface having a temperature lower than or equal to a freezing point of a main ingredient of the agent. | 04-12-2012 |
20120077660 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT OF COMPOSITE SHEET OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing a composite sheet includes joining a continuous body of an elastic member in a predetermined meander pattern in respect to a continuous body of a sheet transported continuously in a transporting direction. The method further includes transporting the continuous body along the transporting direction; and joining the continuous body of the elastic member to a portion of the continuous body of the sheet by feeding the continuous body of the elastic member to the continuous body of the sheet. The continuous body of the elastic member supplied toward the spindle portion side roller through a supply route along a rotational central axis direction of the spindle portion is put around an outer circumferential face of the spindle portion side roller and an outer circumferential face of an oscillating end side roller successively and guided to the continuous body of the sheet. | 03-29-2012 |
20120073075 | CLEANING IMPLEMENT AND CLEANING BODY - A cleaning tool has a cleaning element which includes a pair of right and left elongate split cleaning parts, each having an insert hole for receiving a holding element. A space is provided between the split cleaning parts for receiving an object to be cleaned. A third bonded part defines an outer side of the insert hole. The third bonded part includes a bonding line which extends straight in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning element in a front end region of the cleaning element, a bonding line which is formed rearward of the bonding line in the cleaning element and extends straight in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning element, and a bonding line which is formed rearward of the bonding line in the cleaning element and extends straight in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning element. | 03-29-2012 |
20120071839 | TAMPON - A tampon has an absorbent body that absorbs liquid. The absorbent body includes, on its outer surface, an applied portion to which an agent is applied. The agent is a mixture of an active pharmaceutical ingredient, a first water-soluble carrier that carries the active pharmaceutical ingredient and is a main ingredient of the agent, and a second water-soluble carrier that carries the active pharmaceutical ingredient and has a melting point lower than that of the first water-soluble carrier. | 03-22-2012 |
20120065598 | TAMPON, A MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR A TAMPON, AND A MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR A TAMPON - A tampon has an absorbent body that absorbs liquid. On an outer surface of the absorbent body, the absorbent body includes an applied portion to which an agent is applied and that includes at least two applied layer. The at least two applied layer includes a first applied layer formed by applying a first agent, and a second applied layer formed by applying a second agent over the first applied layer, the first agent including active pharmaceutical ingredient and a first water-soluble carrier that carries the active pharmaceutical ingredient, the second agent including active pharmaceutical ingredient and a second water-soluble carrier that carries the active pharmaceutical ingredient and has a melting point lower than that of the first water-soluble carrier. | 03-15-2012 |
20120046630 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a front wing unit which is provided outside in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article more than an absorber, and extends to the outside in the widthwise direction of the absorber in an inside leg region which corresponds to an inside leg portion of a wearer; and a gather which is provided at each of edges of the absorber, which extends along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, and which prevents a bodily fluid of the wearer from leaking from the absorbent article. The front wing unit has a base part which is positioned at an innermost side in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article in the front wing unit; and the leakage gather extends to the outside in the widthwise direction of the absorbent article more than the base part as seen in plan view of the absorbent article. | 02-23-2012 |
20120041407 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - Disposable diapers improved so that waist regions are effectively elastic to assure high fitness are provided. In a first waist region, bonding region coated with adhesive lines includes a first bonding region coated with first adhesive lines extending from a peripheral edge of a waist-opening toward a crotch region and a second bonding region coated with second adhesive lines extending from the first adhesive lines into the crotch region wherein the first adhesive lines are noncontiguous to the second adhesive lines in the direction of the longitudinal axis so that, with the diaper put on the wearer's body, a region defined in the vicinity of a boundary between the first bonding region and the second bonding region folded inward. | 02-16-2012 |
20120037474 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes a processing device that, processes semi-finished products, and an inspecting device that inspects whether an actual processing position by the processing device is within an allowable range of the process target position on the semi-finished product. The inspecting device includes, a sensor section located in the transport direction and outputting a detection signal while the actual processing position of the semi-finished product is being detected, a reference signal outputting section outputting a reference signal having a waveform in which one wavelength is equivalent to a unit transport amount corresponding to a single semi-finished product, the reference signal having a first waveform portion at a phase corresponding to the allowable range in the wavelength, and a determining section determining whether the actual processing position is within the allowable range by comparing the detection signal with the reference signal. | 02-16-2012 |
20120035578 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention provides an absorbent article adapted to prevent body waste from leaking beyond leakage-barrier cuffs and thereby to restrict leakage of body waste from the article. A chassis | 02-09-2012 |
20120035576 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention provides an absorbent article improved so that bodily fluids can be absorbed by an absorbent structure from a skin-facing side of the absorbent structure and a non-skin-facing side thereof and thereby a liquid-absorbent core can be efficiently utilized. In a diaper | 02-09-2012 |
20120035573 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper configured to restrict development of gaps between a pair of leakage-barrier cuffs formed on respective sides of a crotch region and the wearer's skin. The disposable diaper has a pair of cuffs extending in a longitudinal direction and being stretchable and contractible along respective sides thereof. One cuff of the paired cuffs includes a first elastic member attached to an outer edge of this cuff. The other cuff of the paired cuffs includes a proximal edge fixed to an inner side thereof and a second elastic member attached to a free edge thereof. At least one of the paired cuffs additionally includes a third elastic member attached thereto in the vicinity of the zone in which the proximal edge is fixed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035572 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article has crotch-elastic elements extending in a longitudinal direction. Front and rear waist members and the crotch member are bonded one another by front and rear bonded regions. The front bonded region is contoured by first and second ends and both side edges obliquely extending in the longitudinal direction so as to intersect with the first and second ends and, outboard of the both side edges in a transverse direction, non-bonded regions in which the crotch member and the front waist member are not bonded to each other are defined. Front waist-elastic elements extend between both side edges of the front waist member. The crotch-elastic elements extend from a front end to a rear end of the crotch member in the longitudinal direction. In the front bonded region, the front waist-elastic elements and the crotch-elastic elements substantially intersect one another and interlock with one another. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035567 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus | 02-09-2012 |
20120035564 | PULL-ON ARTICLE - A pull-on article comprises a chassis including a first waist region, a second waist region and a crotch region between the first and second waist regions. The article is shaped into a pull-on having a waist and a pair of leg openings by weld-bonding side edges of the first and second waist regions. The waist and leg openings are respectively provided along respective edged defining the waist and leg openings with waist and leg elastic members which are respectively formed into a tape shape having a relatively width dimension. The first and second waist regions, and the leg and waist elastic members are respectively formed of a fibrous non-woven fabric including at least thermoplastic fibers wherein the leg and waist elastic members include at least elastically extendible fibers as the thermoplastic fibers. | 02-09-2012 |
20120029460 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes, in an elastic region in a periphery of at least a waist- or leg-opening, an elastic band formed of a fibrous non-woven fabric which is elastically contractible and has a plurality of first gathers extending in a length direction so as to undulate in a width direction thereof. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029453 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In an absorbent article | 02-02-2012 |
20120029415 | TAMPON - A tampon includes: a tampon main body; an accommodating cylinder that accommodates the tampon main body, the accommodating cylinder having an opening at a leading end; and a pushing member that pushes out the tampon main body outside of the accommodating cylinder from the opening, by moving inside the accommodating cylinder, wherein the accommodating cylinder has on an inner surface thereof ribs along a longitudinal direction of the accommodating cylinder. | 02-02-2012 |
20120024452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In a case where components such as side flaps and crotch portions are arranged on multiple webs which are being conveyed while being arranged side by side in the width direction of the webs, articles in various sizes can be handled easily by a web conveying step of conveying a front waistline web | 02-02-2012 |
20120022489 | Optical touch system and object detection method therefor - A diaper includes a chassis, a liquid-absorbent structure and containment cuffs. An inner sheet in the chassis includes a plurality of ridges and grooves extending in a longitudinal direction Y. Between a rear end of the liquid-absorbent structure and rear waist elastics, a spacing zone is defined. Cuff elastics are attached in a contractible manner to cuffs' inner side edges wherein opposite ends of the cuff elastics are spaced from cuffs' front and rear ends, respectively. Upon contraction of the cuff elastics, the cuffs' inner side edges is pulled inward in the longitudinal direction Y and folded about the inner ends of the respective inner bond zones toward the wearer's body so as to form a folded crest. Formation of the folded crest makes a portion of the inner sheet closer to its rear end than the folded crest to form a folded trough on the garment-facing side. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022488 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article has a chassis and leg elastic members of a flat band shape that are attached to the chassis along leg side edges thereof. The chassis has regions each of which overlaps one of the leg elastic members and includes at least one series of depressions extending along the respective leg side edge. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022484 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A sanitary napkin comprises an absorbing body. The absorbing body includes a fluid-permeable top sheet, a fluid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber arranged between the top sheet and the back sheet. The napkin comprises a cover sheet for covering the surface of the top sheet. A circumferential edge region of the cover sheet is joined to the absorbing body. A flap for fixing the absorbing body to underwear is sectionalized by a sectionalizing line in the central region of the cover sheet. At the time of use, the flap is folded in a folding region and is expanded so as to be fixed to the underwear. A mark is provided on the surface of the cover sheet positioned substantially at the center of the absorbing body to facilitate the positioning of the absorbing body relative to clothing. The mark is colored, but a surrounding portion surrounding the mark is not colored. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022483 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A sanitary napkin comprises an absorbing body. The absorbing body includes a fluid-permeable top sheet, a fluid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber arranged between the top sheet and the back sheet. The napkin comprises a cover sheet for covering the surface of the top sheet. A circumferential edge region of the cover sheet is joined to the absorbing body. A plurality of flaps for fixing the absorbing body to underwear are sectionalized by a sectionalizing line in the central region of the cover sheet. At the time of use, the flaps are folded in the folding regions and are expanded so as to be fixed to the underwear. The flaps include a front flat and a rear flap that expand in the back-and-forth direction, and a left flap and a right flap that expand in the right-and-left direction. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022482 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article is provided with a waist-cuff to prevent body waste from leaking beyond a waist-opening. An elastic sheet is used for the waist-cuff to be held in contact with the wearer's skin even if the wearer moves. The waist-cuff and a chassis may be joined to each other so as to be separated from each other in the vicinity of an absorbent structure to assure that fitness of the waist-cuff to the wearer's skin is not significantly affected by movement of the wearer and, at the same time, to assure that leg-cuffs can rise without being collapsed by the waist-cuff. The ends of the leg-cuffs are interleaved between the waist-cuff and the chassis to prevent body waste from leaking through a clearance which would otherwise be defined between the leg-cuffs and the waist-cuff. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022476 | BODILY FLUID TRAPPING UNIT AND WEARING ARTICLE INCLUDING THE SAME - A receptacle of a bodily fluid trapping unit is defined by first and second sheets bonded together along respective peripheral edges thereof. The first sheet is formed with openings extending therethrough in its thickness direction. Backflow preventing means includes a flat valve disc provided on the side of the first sheet facing the receptacle, a sheet-like support base serving to prevent the valve disc from falling into the receptacle and a spacer interposed between the first sheet and the support base. A peripheral edge of the valve disc's upper surface is adapted to come in water-tight contact with the associated valve seat formed on the side of the opening's peripheral edge facing the receptacle. Between the first sheet and the support base, a space is defined by a spacer's opening so that the valve disc is movably supported in the thickness direction of the spacer. | 01-26-2012 |
20120018078 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR AN ABSORBENT BODY, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN AIR-PERMEABLE MEMBER - By passing air | 01-26-2012 |
20120016334 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper using elastic sheet materials so that a contact surface pressure may be locally enhanced and thereby the diaper may be prevented from being noticeably displaced on the wearer's body during used thereof is provided. Of first and second waist regions at least the first waist region is contractible. The first waist region includes waist auxiliary elastic sheets extending in a direction of a transverse axis between opposite side edges of the first waist region and leg auxiliary elastic sheets extending along front peripheral edges of leg-openings. The waist auxiliary elastic sheets and the leg auxiliary elastic sheets overlap one another in areas of the opposite side edges of the first waist region adjacent to the leg-openings respectively. With the diaper put on the wearer's body, these areas come in contact with upper lateral regions of the wearer's iliac bones inclusive of the vicinity thereof. | 01-19-2012 |
20120010586 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes an absorbent body that has a fluid-absorbent member for absorbing fluid, and has a longitudinal direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction. A main body section is overlapped with the absorbent body in the thickness direction. One end section in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent body is fixed to the main body section. The absorbent body has a portion that is closer to the main body section than the fluid-absorbent member in the thickness direction, and a portion that is closer to the human body than the fluid-absorbent member. The portion closer to the main body section, in another end section in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent body, is covered with a fluid-impermeable layer. The portion closer to the human body, in the other end section, has a portion in which the fluid-impermeable layer is not included. | 01-12-2012 |
20110319854 | DISPOSABLE BODILY FLUID HANDLING COMPOSITE PAD - The present invention aims to provide a disposable bodily fluid handling composite pad improved so that, when it is desired to peel off each of component pads from the composite pad, an appropriate position of the composite pad to be pinched by the finger can be easily recognized. A menstruation napkin | 12-29-2011 |
20110319853 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper free from a possibility that the diaper might be significantly displaced and assuring the improved breathability. At least one of front and rear waist regions of the diaper is elastic and is divided into a first elastic zone extending in a transverse direction along a waist-opening's periphery and a second elastic zone defined between the first elastic zone and an inner end of the waist region and extending in the transverse direction. The second elastic zone is provided with waist elastics and consequently the second elastic zone has a tensile stress higher than that of the first elastic zone. The waist region is formed with a plurality of breathing pathways extending in a longitudinal direction and the breathing pathways in the second elastic zone respectively have a width dimension smaller than that in the first elastic zone. | 12-29-2011 |
20110309099 | OPENABLE AND CLOSABLE CONTAINER - An openable and closable container includes a container body having a take-out opening, and an opening-closing lid provided on the container body swingably about a swing axis on a base end side of the lid, the lid opening and closing the take-out opening. Plate rubber (an elastic member) is provided between the contain body and the opening-closing lid. A packing member (an elastic sealing body) is attached to the rear surface of the opening-closing lid such that the packing member seals the take-out opening of the upper plate. | 12-22-2011 |
20110301559 | DISPOSABLE BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a disposable bodily fluid absorbent wearing article so that the article can be easily fitted to a desired region of a wearer's body. A disposable bodily fluid absorbent wearing article | 12-08-2011 |
20110297301 | METHOD FOR MAKING PULL-ON DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - In a method for continuously making pull-on disposable wearing, a web is fed in a machine direction. The web is formed with first fastener elements on both sides of a region defining a cut line extending in a cross direction. Second fastener elements on a fastener base sheet are engaged with the respective first fastener elements, and a region between these first fastener elements is cut away from the web. Then, the web is folded in two and a side edge of the web is bonded to the fastener base sheet. Thereafter, the web is successively cut along the cut lines to separate the web into segments each of which is a pull-on wearing article having front and rear waist regions adapted to be detachably connected with each other by the first and second fastener elements. | 12-08-2011 |
20110294388 | WATER-DISINTEGRABLE NONWOVEN FABRIC - The present invention provides a water-disintegrable nonwoven fabric having a high strength and flexibility. The water-disintegrable nonwoven fabric includes fibers mechanically entangled with one another and adapted to be disentangled from one another when it is stirred in water. 10 to 50% by mass of the fibers is occupied by ultrafine thermoplastic synthetic fibers each having a fineness of 0.01 to 0.5 dtex and a fiber length of 3 to 10 mm. 90 to 50% by mass of the fibers is occupied by at least one of chemical fibers each having a fineness of 1 to 2 dtex and a fiber length of 5 to 20 mm and pulp fibers having a freeness of 600 to 770 cc. | 12-01-2011 |
20110288514 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Described is an absorbent article that includes at least a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, and an absorption body sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet. A pair of right and left compressed grooves are formed along the longitudinal direction. Each compressed groove is separated into a right or left compressed groove located in the longitudinal side edge part at least in the center region of the absorption body, a front-side compressed groove located in the longitudinal front part of the side edge part, and a rear-side compressed groove located in the longitudinal rear part of the side edge part and out of these compressed grooves. The compressed groove located on the widthwise innermost side is formed to allow its end part in the separation portion to run in parallel with the longitudinal centerline or face outwardly in the width direction. | 11-24-2011 |
20110287918 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT OF COMPOSITE BODY OF SHEET-LIKE MEMBER OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing a composite body of a sheet-like member of an absorbent article, the method includes: holding a first sheet-like member on a holding surface of a holding section; and delivering and attaching the first sheet-like member from the holding surface to a second sheet-like member. The first sheet-like member has a section that is to be delivered first, and a section that is to be delivered subsequently during delivery to the second sheet-like member. The first sheet-like member is held on the holding surface with suction air from a plurality of holes that have been formed on the holding surface. The holding section has at least two suction chambers. A first suction chamber is in communication with holes that suck the section that is to be delivered first, and a second suction chamber is in communication with holes that suck the section that is to be delivered subsequently. | 11-24-2011 |
20110277921 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method for manufacturing an absorbent article includes joining, one longitudinal end portion of a main absorbent body base material to a back-side band base material and another longitudinal end portion of the absorbent body base material to the abdominal-side band base material, folding the main absorbent body base material and overlapping the back-side band base material with the abdominal-side band base material, temporarily joining the overlapped back-side band base material and abdominal-side band base material cutting the temporarily joined back-side band base material and abdominal-side band base material and forming a back-side band base material piece and an abdominal-side band base material piece, and transporting the back-side band base material piece, the abdominal-side band base material piece and the main absorbent body base material in a transport direction with the back-side band base material piece and the abdominal-side band base material piece in a temporarily joined state. | 11-17-2011 |
20110276020 | BODILY FLUID TREATING ARTICLE AND WEARING ARTICLE INCLUDING SAME - The present invention provides a bodily fluid treating article improved so as to assure that bodily fluids do not leak therefrom particularly when the wearer's body weight is exerted thereon or the wearer's posture changes, and a wearing article including the same. A bodily fluid treating article | 11-10-2011 |
20110273727 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING A TAMPON - An inspecting apparatus inspects a tampon that includes a tampon main body that has a cord and an applicator that is cylindrical and that accommodates the tampon main body in such a manner that the cord is exposed from a rear end of the applicator. The inspecting apparatus includes a suction mechanism that extends the cord along a longitudinal direction of the tampon by sucking air, and a cord-length inspecting mechanism that inspects a length of the cord while the suction mechanism is sucking the air. | 11-10-2011 |
20110264068 | DISPOSABLE BODILY FLUID HANDLING COMPOSITE PAD - The present invention aims to provide a disposable bodily fluid handling composite pad allowing the wearer to recognize what number component pad is being used and how many useful component pads remain. A menstruation napkin | 10-27-2011 |
20110259504 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT OF COMPOSITE SHEET - A manufacturing method of a composite sheet includes: bonding a belt member to a sheet surface of the belt-like sheet by supplying a belt-like sheet to an outer circumferential surface of a bonding roll; supplying the belt member to a part of the belt-like sheet that is brought in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the bonding roll and overlapping the belt member to the part. The guide member has a reciprocating roller and a supply roller. The method further includes wrapping the belt member subsequently around the outer circumferential surface of the supply roller and the outer circumferential surface of the reciprocating roller, and leading the belt member to the belt-like sheet; and oscillating the supply roller so that the outer circumferential surface of the supply roller faces toward the reciprocating roller in accordance with a reciprocating motion of the reciprocating roller. | 10-27-2011 |
20110251577 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article configured so as to prevent bodily fluids from staying in the proximal side edges of the cuffs and thereby to restrict development of skin troubles such as diaper rashes due to such staying bodily fluids. The wearing article includes a chassis having an inner sheet lying on a side facing a wearer's body and an outer sheet lying on a side facing away from the wearer's body and a liquid-absorbent structure is sandwiched between these inner and outer sheet. The liquid-absorbent structure is formed with highly absorbent regions having a higher bodily fluid absorption capacity than that of a remaining region. The highly absorbent regions include front regions lying on the side of a front end and rear regions lying on the side of a rear end. The highly absorbent regions are formed by increasing a thickness of a liquid-absorbent core. Leakage-barrier cuffs are formed on the side of the inner sheet facing the wearer's body. Proximal side edges of the leakage-barrier cuffs are bonded to the inner sheet by bonding means which partially overlap the front and rear regions of the liquid-absorbent structure. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251575 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes at least a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, and an absorption body sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet. The absorbent article has a pair of compressed grooves for integrating from the liquid-permeable sheet to the absorption body formed along the longitudinal direction. The compressed groove has a high-compressed part and a low-compressed part. The high-compressed part is composed of nearly transverse high-compressed parts formed to almost fully traverse the compressed groove in the widthwise direction and disposed at intervals in the longitudinal direction of the compressed groove and non-transverse high-compressed parts formed not to traverse the compressed groove and disposed at intervals in the region between nearly transverse high-compressed parts, and by the arrangement of the non-transverse high-compressed parts. The low-compressed part is formed to continue in the longitudinal direction of the compressed groove between nearly transverse high-compressed parts. | 10-13-2011 |
20110247648 | COSMETIC PUFF - It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for realizing a desired moisture releasing property, in a cosmetic puff having an air-laid non-woven fabric sheet formed of pulp fibers. A cosmetic puff | 10-13-2011 |
20110219559 | CLEANING TOOL AND CLEANING ELEMENT - It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for realizing smoother cleaning operation in a cleaning tool having a cleaning element for cleaning an object to be cleaned. According to a representative cleaning tool, a cleaning element | 09-15-2011 |
20110209317 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TAMPON - An apparatus for manufacturing a tampon includes a pushing-member inserting mechanism that inserts a pushing member into an accommodating cylinder through a leading-end opening; and a tampon main body inserting mechanism that inserts a tampon main body into the accommodating cylinder from side including a cord through the leading-end opening; a drive section connecting the guide tube and the accommodating cylinder by moving one of the guide tube and the accommodating cylinder towards other one and thus contacting the guide tube and the leading-end part of the accommodating cylinder; a pressing part pressing the tampon main body inserted into the guide tube so as to insert the tampon main body into the accommodating cylinder connected to the guide tube; and an air suction device sucking air from rear-end side of the accommodating cylinder in a case where the tampon main body is inserted into the accommodating cylinder. | 09-01-2011 |
20110208147 | LIQUID-ABSORBENT STRUCTURE FOR WEARING ARTICLE - A liquid-absorbent structure configured to prevent a liquid-absorbent core material from being unevenly distributed and thereby to assure that bodily fluids can be smoothly absorbed by the liquid-absorbent structure. According to one embodiment the present invention provides a panty liner that includes a topsheet lying on a side facing the wearer's body, a backsheet facing the wearer's garment and a liquid-absorbent structure sandwiched between these sheets. A first inner surface of a first sheet forming the liquid-absorbent structure is coated with adhesives to form a plurality of first bonding regions and a second inner surface of a second sheet is coated with adhesives to form a plurality of second bonding regions. Each of the first non-bonding regions lies between each pair of the first bonding regions, and each of the second non-bonding regions lies between each pair of the second bonding regions. The first inner surface and the second inner surface face each other, the first bonding regions face the second non-bonding regions via the liquid-absorbent core material, and the second bonding regions face the first non-bonding regions via the liquid-absorbent core material. | 08-25-2011 |
20110203593 | MASK - An effective technique for balancing mask breathability and mask trapping capability at higher levels is provided in a mask to be worn on a wearer's face. A mask | 08-25-2011 |
20110203068 | CLEANING TOOL AND CLEANING ELEMENT HOLDER - It is an object of the invention to provide an elongate cleaning element holder which contributes to a smoother cleaning operation, for a cleaning tool in which a cleaning element for cleaning an object to be cleaned is attached to the cleaning element holder. The representative cleaning element holder | 08-25-2011 |
20110184371 | Bodily Fluid Containment Structure and Wearing Article Having the Same - A bodily fluid containment structure has an inner sheet and an outer sheet which are formed with through-hole extending through the sheets. The inner and outer sheets are bonded to each other along outer peripheral edges thereof to form an envelope. The inner sheet is formed with an opening. On both sides of this opening as viewed in a longitudinal direction Y, the containment structure further includes front and rear containment regions adapted to contain bodily fluids. The opening is aligned with the through-hole extending through the inner sheet and the outer sheet. The peripheral edge of the opening is bonded to the outer sheet by first bonding means. A bonded region is formed between the inner and outer sheets and includes a plurality of bonded line segments which define first channels. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184369 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a chassis, a liquid-absorbent structure placed the chassis and a separate sheet adapted to be spaced from the chassis. Opposite lateral regions of the separate sheet are joined to an inner sheet via first joint zones. First joint zones continuously extend in a longitudinal direction Y and substantially overlap the absorbent structure as viewed in a thickness direction. Leak-barrier cuffs provided on the side of the separate sheet are joined to the inner sheet via second joint zones lying outside the separate sheet as viewed in a transverse direction X, joined to the separate sheet via third joint zones, and joined to the separate sheet via fourth joint zones. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184368 | ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - An absorptive article ( | 07-28-2011 |
20110179612 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TAMPON - An apparatus for manufacturing a tampon which includes an absorbent body, an accommodating member and a pushing member, includes: an orienting mechanism; a first inserting mechanism that inserts the pushing member into the accommodating member; and a second inserting mechanism that inserts the absorbent body into the accommodating member in which the pushing member is inserted. The orienting mechanism has an opening through which the accommodating member is inputted; a pair of first protruded parts; and a pair of second protruded parts located on other-end side in the longitudinal direction of the opening and protruding inwardly in an opposing manner into the opening, a gap between the pair of first protruded parts, and a gap between the pair of second protruded parts being greater than the external diameter of the minor diameter part and smaller than the external diameter of the major diameter part. | 07-28-2011 |
20110178489 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper having a tensile stress well compatible with a wearer's average body contour including convex and concave and thereby to reduce creating an uncomfortable feeling of tightness against the wearer. The disposable diaper including a front waist region that is divided into a first elastic zone extending in the transverse direction along a peripheral edge of the waist-opening, a second elastic zone lying next to the first elastic zone and extending in the transverse direction and a third elastic zone lying next to the second elastic zone extending in the transverse direction between the second elastic zone and the crotch region and the rear waist region is divided into a fourth elastic zone extending in the transverse direction along the peripheral edges of the waist-opening, a fifth elastic zone lying next to the fourth elastic zone and extending in the transverse direction and a sixth elastic zone lying next to the fifth elastic zone and extending in the transverse direction between the fifth elastic zone and the crotch region. The correlation among values of the tensile stress in the elastic zones can be represented by the sixth elastic zone>the second elastic zone>the third elastic zone≧the fifth elastic zone>the first elastic zone and the fourth elastic zone. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178487 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND SANITARY NAPKIN - An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable front sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. The absorbent article also comprises a front region, a central region, and a rear region which are continuously arranged in the longitudinal direction of the absorber. An endothermic material is mounted inside the absorber, in a mounting region at least including the central region of the absorbent article. | 07-21-2011 |
20110172625 | URINE RECEIVER AND WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a urine receiver being capable of quickly sucking urine discharged by the wearer. | 07-14-2011 |
20110171423 | DRIP ABSORBENT SHEET - A drip-absorbent sheet includes a liquid-pervious upper layer sheet and a liquid-absorbent lower layer sheet bonded to the bottom surface of the upper layer sheet. The upper layer sheet is formed by thermoplastic film and has a non-display region occupying 70 to 99% of an entire area of the top surface of the upper layer sheet and a display region occupying 30 to 1% of the entire area of the top surface. The non-display region is defined by a section formed with a plurality of air- and liquid-pervious through-bores uniformly distributed and the display region is defined by an imperforated section surrounded by the non-display region and having a sufficient area to be formed with a plurality of said air- and liquid-pervious through-bores. The display region or display sub-regions thereof may be configured in the form of characters, graphics or patterns. | 07-14-2011 |
20110168521 | CONVEYING ROLLER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A conveying roller facilitates conveyance of a sticky material in the form of sheet or web to be conveyed. An outer peripheral layer of the convey roller is formed on its rolling surface with a plurality of pits at a predetermined occupancy ratio defined by an occupancy ratio of a total area occupied by all of the pits to an area of the rolling surface of the outer peripheral layer. The outer peripheral layer is formed on the rolling surface thereof with a plurality of pits at the occupancy ratio set depending on a degree of stickiness expressed by the sheet material to achieve peel properties of the outer peripheral layer which is compatible with the stickiness of the sheet material and thereby to prevent the sticky sheet material from twining around the conveying roller. | 07-14-2011 |
20110166538 | EXCRETION SENSING DEVICE - There is provided an excretion sensing device adapted to electrically connect to an excretion sensor without creating a feeling of discomfort or any skin trouble against the wearer due to an electric connector to electrically connect to the sensor. The device includes an excretion receiver adapted to be attached to a suitable chassis. The receiver has an excretion sensor wherein an end of the sensor extends outward from the lower surface of the receiver. The end of the sensor extending out from the receiver is adapted to detachably and electrically connect to the electric connector. | 07-07-2011 |
20110163100 | PACKAGE - It is an object of the invention to provide a technique which can prevent the occurrence of a wrinkle or bend in a lid which opens and closes an opening of a package. A body of a package has an opening through which wet tissues are taken out. A lid of the package has an opening-closing portion formed by a laminated portion of a first sheet and a second sheet, and a proximal portion formed by a portion of the second sheet which protrudes from the first sheet. A corner of the proximal portion of the lid on the side opposite to the opening-closing portion is rounded. The corner may be chamfered. | 07-07-2011 |
20110162503 | APPARATUS TO FORM PERFORATIONS - An apparatus of making perforations along which a package can be smoothly ripped includes a housing and a driving mechanism. Below a top wall of the housing, a top plate operatively is coupled to the driving mechanism. A blade assembly holding plate is attached to the bottom side of the top plate. Below the perforating blade assembly holding plate, there is provided a pressure plate including a base layer and a rubber layer, so that the blade holding plate is interposed between the pressure plate and the top plate. The pressure plate is formed with a slit extending therethrough in its thickness direction. Below the pressure plate, a loading plate is formed with a slit extending therethrough in its thickness direction and on which a film sheet can be loaded. Below the loading plate, a base plate is fixed to a bottom wall of the housing. | 07-07-2011 |
20110155738 | CONTAINER ARRANGEMENT - It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for taking out an article from a package housed within a container. Wet tissues are stored in a package, and the package is housed within a container. The package has an opening-closing portion formed by a laminated portion of a first sheet and a second sheet, and a proximal portion formed by a portion of the second sheet which protrudes from the first sheet. One side of the first sheet is removably bonded to the top of the body by a first adhesive. One side of the second sheet is bonded to the other side of the first sheet and also to the top of the body by a second adhesive. The package is housed within the container in the state in which the opening-closing portion of the lid is peeled off the top of the body, turned over and bonded to the back of the body by the first adhesive. | 06-30-2011 |
20110155298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING DISPOSABLE BODILY FLUID HANDLING COMPOSITE PAD - A method and an apparatus are provided for making a disposable bodily fluid handling composite pad having thickness-reduced regions on longitudinally opposite ends. The disposable bodily fluid absorbing composite pad | 06-30-2011 |
20110154964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT PAD - In making bodily fluid absorbent pads quantity of scrapped material is reduced. A bodily fluid absorbent pad (liner) | 06-30-2011 |
20110147257 | PACKAGE FOR ABSORBENT ARTICLES - The present invention aims to provide a package for absorbent articles allows the consumers to recognize at a glance principal functional information of the article displayed on the front surface of the package and thereby to be adequately informed of these principal functions. Two or more function displays on the front surface of the article package may be divided into a main-function display element and sub-function display elements wherein the main-function display element is displayed to be accentuated in comparison with the respective sub-function display elements. | 06-23-2011 |
20110144605 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND SANITARY NAPKIN - An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. A heat absorbing material is provided inside the absorber, and depressions and projections are formed on that front side of the top sheet which faces the human body. | 06-16-2011 |
20110144604 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND SANITARY NAPKIN - An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. A coating region to which an adhesive is applied is formed in a flat surface direction, on a surface of the back sheet which faces clothing. An endothermic material is provided inside the absorber. A region which, with respect to the thickness direction of the absorbent article, does not face an arrangement region in which the heat endothermic material is provided is formed in at least a part of the coating region to which the adhesive is applied. | 06-16-2011 |
20110137276 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article has a liquid permeable top sheet ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110137275 | ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - In an absorptive article the lower surface of the absorptive body and those portions of the rear surface sheet which are located at the side flaps are constructed as a continuous unitized structure. That portion of each side flap which is located between a lateral edge of the side flap and that edge of the side flap which is on the absorptive body side has a high moisture-permeable region having higher moisture permeability than the lower surface of the absorptive body. | 06-09-2011 |
20110125121 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention aims to provide an absorbent article with a barrier sheet preventing body waste from coming in contact with a wearer's skin and thereby to alleviate skin trouble such as eczema the wearer might suffer from. The article includes an absorbent chassis, a barrier sheet and a leak-barrier cuffs. An absorbent panel is disposed on the inner surface of the chassis, the barrier sheet is disposed above the absorbent panel and the leak-barrier cuffs are disposed along a lateral side of the barrier sheet. The barrier sheet has lateral zones a middle zone connecting the lateral zones, and front and rear through-holes defined by the lateral zones and the middle zone. Barrier sheet elastic members are provided along the lateral zones. Folds are formed so as to cross the middle zone in a transverse direction. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125117 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article having a napkin body ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110119852 | CLEANING TOOL - The disclosure provides an effective technique for enhancing a cleaning effect in a cleaning tool having a cleaning element for cleaning an object to be cleaned. According to a representative cleaning tool, a cleaning element includes a plurality of elongate split cleaning parts having respective insert regions for receiving the holding elements. In an inserted state of the holding elements into the insert regions, the fiber assemblies of the adjacent ones of the split cleaning parts overlap each other in the space in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction. | 05-26-2011 |
20110118693 | METHOD OF MAKING WEARING ARTICLE AND THIS WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a method of making a wearing article improved so that mount members in folded state can be easily released from a temporarily fixing effect. The method of making a wearing article involves folding back each of mount members from the side of a top-sheet of a front waist region toward an inner side facing the wearer's skin so as to define first regions, second regions and third regions; bonding the first regions to the top-sheet in the front waist region by means of first adhesive layers; bonding the first regions to the second regions by means of second adhesive layers; forming first arrays of adhesive spots between the second regions and the third regions; hook elements are bonded to surfaces of the third regions on the side of the top-sheet in a rear waist region; bond loop elements to the top-sheet in the rear waist region; and engaging the loop elements with the hook elements. The first arrays of adhesive spots are formed in area overlapping the hook elements. | 05-19-2011 |
20110118690 | ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - An absorptive article according to the present invention includes: a main absorber including at least a liquid-permeable top sheet, liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, absorbing and retaining fluid, and including a back-side region, a crotch region, and a belly-side region arranged in the longitudinal direction from the back side to the belly side in a state of wearing; and a left-and-right pair of side-flap portions provided on both sides in the width direction of the main absorber. A belly-side stretched region extended in the around-the-waist direction provided in the belly-side region of each side-flap portion. | 05-19-2011 |
20110114248 | METHOD OF MAKING WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article configured so that loop elements engaged with the associated hook elements will not ride up or curl up in the course of the production process. Mount members are attached to an inner sheet in a front waist region so as to extend along first lateral zones of the front waist region and hook elements are attached to a chassis by the intermediary of these mount members. Loop elements are attached to the inner sheet in a rear waist region so as to extend along second lateral zones of the rear waist region. Third regions of the respective mount members are formed with sticking zones operatively associated with outer lateral edges of the respective loop elements. The sticking zones formed on the respective mount members are temporarily joined to the loop elements as the hook elements are engaged with the associated loop elements. | 05-19-2011 |
20110106040 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article provides on the side of a chassis facing the wearer's skin, a separator sheet adapted to be spaced from the chassis. The separator sheet is formed in a middle zone thereof with a first lotion-coated region and a liner provided on the side of a liquid-absorbent panel facing the wearer's skin is formed with a second lotion-coated region. The front and rear lotion-coated sub-regions are spaced from each other by the intermediary of the first lotion-coated region. The lotion is applied from the side facing the wearer's skin to the liquid-absorbent panel with the separator sheet laminated thereon so that the first and second lotion-coated regions may be simultaneously formed and the liquid-absorbent panel is formed on a region thereof opposed to the middle zone of the separator sheet with a lotion-uncoated region. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106037 | DIAPER AND URINE ABSORBING PAD FOR DIAPER - An effective technique for enhancing ease of mounting a urine absorbing pad on a diaper body is provided in a diaper to be worn by a diaper wearer. The diaper has a urine absorbing pad to be mounted on the diaper body. The urine absorbing pad includes a liquid-permeable sheet provided on a wearer's side, a liquid-impermeable sheet provided on a diaper body side, an absorber disposed between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet laid one on another, and an annular belt formed in a rear end edge region of the urine absorbing pad. When the urine absorbing pad is mounted on the diaper body, an insertion piece of the diaper body is inserted into an opening of the belt, so that the urine absorbing pad is positioned with respect to the diaper body. | 05-05-2011 |
20110101592 | STACK OF SHEETS AND SHEET CONTAINER - A representative stack of sheets including sheet bodies each of which is formed by folding a sheet and has a plurality of pieces between both ends of the sheet body. The sheet bodies are stacked one on another in such a manner that one of the plurality of pieces of each of the sheet bodies on one side in a stacking direction and another piece on the other side are inserted between pieces of an adjacent sheet body on one side in the stacking direction with respect to the sheet body and between pieces of an adjacent sheet body on the other side in the stacking direction, respectively, wherein an auxiliary piece is formed by folding an end of the piece of the sheet body. | 05-05-2011 |
20110098666 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article is improved to restrict a possibility that through-hole(s) formed in a separate sheet might have width dimension(s) narrowed as the separate sheet is spaced from a liquid-absorbent structure. The absorbent includes first front and rear elasticized regions outside of opposite lateral regions as viewed in a transverse direction of the separate sheet. Each of these first front and rear elasticized regions is paired and spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction and between respective pairs of first front and rear elasticized regions. Front and rear non-elasticized regions are free from any influence by the contractile force of the front and rear waist elastic members. The sub-regions of the front and rear waist regions unoccupied by a liquid-absorbent structure extend in the transverse direction between respective pairs of opposite side edges. | 04-28-2011 |
20110095042 | STACK OF SHEETS AND SHEET CONTAINER - It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for taking out folded sheets without increasing the height of a stack of sheets in a stacking direction. A representative stack of sheets includes first sheet bodies | 04-28-2011 |
20110071489 | PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE - A pant-type wearing article configured so as to prevent a lateral zone of a front waist region and an associated lateral zone of a rear waist region which should remain fastened together from being needlessly disengaged from each other. In the pant-type wearing article an outer surface of a base sheet strip constituting a front fastener component is bonded to a fixed region defined on an inner surface of a front lateral zone. The front lateral zone includes a free region to which the base sheet strip is not bonded. The free region normally takes a posture folded back in a waistline direction so that an outer surface of the front lateral zone lies inside. | 03-24-2011 |
20110066129 | WEARING ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A wearing article configured so that hook elements of a mechanical fastener can be firmly attached to a chassis and the hook elements can be held in engagement with loop elements of a mechanical fastener tightly without correspondingly increasing a manufacturing cost. The wearing article has front and rear waist regions that respectively include a first pair of lateral zones and a second pair of lateral zones, these lateral zones in each pair are opposed to each other in a transverse direction X and extending in a longitudinal direction Y. An inner sheet is provided in the first lateral zones with mount members attached thereto and hook elements are attached to the diaper via the mount members. In the second lateral zones, the inner sheet is provided with loop elements attached thereto. First and second arrays of the hook elements include deformed regions created over the entire areas thereof by pressure-treatment. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066125 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE DIAPER - A disposable pants-type diaper with the innermost sheet member interposed between a liquid-pervious inner sheet covering a bodily fluid-absorbent structure and the diaper's skin. The innermost sheet member is formed with a front opening and a rear opening communicating with a body waste retaining space defined between the inner sheet and the innermost sheet member. A portion of the innermost sheet member extending between these two openings is folded and joined together in a pair of joints arranged on a vertical center line of the diaper and extends downward toward the inner sheet to form a separator. | 03-17-2011 |
20110060307 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a void space between a separator sheet and a liquid-absorbent structure. The separator sheet has opposite lateral zones extending in a longitudinal direction, a middle zone via which the opposite lateral zones are contiguous to each other, a front through-hole formed on the side of a front waist region, a rear through-hole formed on the side of rear waist region, and separator sheet biasing elastic members attached under tension to the respective lateral zones. A chassis includes a front leg elastic member laid on the side of the front waist region and a rear leg elastic member laid on the side of the rear waist region wherein at least the rear leg elastic member includes a rear transverse segment extending across the crotch region and a position of the rear transverse segment corresponds to a position of the middle zone of the separator sheet. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060306 | PANTS TYPE DISPOSABLE DIAPER - The present invention aims to provide a pants type disposable diaper free from noticeable gathers formed on the innermost side of the crotch region. In the crotch region of the pants type disposable diaper, the bodily fluid-absorbent core is sandwiched between the liquid-permeable inner sheet and the liquid-impermeable outer sheet. Further inside the inner sheet, the innermost sheet is provided and this innermost sheet prevents the inner sheet from coming in contact with the wearer's skin. The innermost sheet is joined, in the regions extending in the vicinity of the ends thereof opposite in the front-back direction A, to at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet. The innermost sheet includes, in its region defined on the transverse center line P of the diaper, the tuck extending downward toward the inner sheet. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060305 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article includes front and rear waist regions joined together. A joint strength of joint arrays along the front and rear waist regions is generally uniformed. A chassis is formed along front waist region's side edges and rear waist region's side edges with the joint arrays. A liquid-absorbent structure includes front and rear ends opposed to each other in a longitudinal direction and extending in a transverse direction. The front end is covered with a front waist sheet and the rear end is covered with a rear waist sheet. Along the respective joint arrays, the front and rear waist sheets are spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction. | 03-10-2011 |
20110060304 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE DIAPER - A crotch region of a disposable pants-type diaper includes a bodily fluid absorbent structure comprising a liquid-pervious inner sheet, a liquid-impervious outer sheet and a bodily fluid absorbent core and, in addition, a body waste retaining space formed by the inner sheet and the innermost sheet member interposed between the inner sheet and the diaper wearer's skin. Segments of the innermost sheet member defining peripheral edges of a front opening and a rear opening face to each other in a front-back direction and are bonded to each other via two spacers spaced from each other in a transverse direction to form a space. A portion of the innermost sheet member extending between the segments sags toward the lowermost portion of the crotch region to form a separator. | 03-10-2011 |
20110059666 | METHOD FOR FORMING SHEETS WITH ELASTICIZED REGIONS AND SHEETS MADE BY THIS METHOD - In a method for forming a thermoplastic polymer sheet, a plurality of the forming blades are configured so as to have projected cross-sectional shapes on the sheet defined by similar curved lines and/or similar flexural lines arranged around a center of similitude and extending in the thickness direction of the sheet from the stationery mold and the movable mold so as to be engaged one with another but not to come in contact one with another. The method includes a step of introducing the sheet between the stationery mold and the movable mold and a step of bring the forming blades of the stationery mold and the movable mold into engagement with one another to stretch the sheet between distal ends of each pair of the adjacent forming blades. | 03-10-2011 |
20110057012 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Included is a tip end portion being a feeding position from which a filiform elastic member is fed. By an arm member guiding the elastic member, the tip end portion is alternately moved in a first direction and a second direction, and thereby the elastic member is brought into contact with the web and is arranged in a gather waveform. Here, the first direction is from the center portion of a web being conveyed in a predetermined direction and having sequentially-arranged component parts forming one part of an absorbent article, to a first end portion in a cross direction crossing with a conveyance direction, and the second direction is from the center to a second end portion which is an end portion opposite to the first end portion. At this time, in a planar view of a composite web, when a nip point exceeds a position where an angle between the conveyance direction and a tangent to the gather waveform is largest, a distance between the tip end portion and the nip point is largest. | 03-10-2011 |
20110054434 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE DIAPER - A disposable pants-type diaper includes an innermost sheet lying between a liquid-pervious inner sheet covering a bodily fluid-absorbent core and diaper wearer's skin and attached to the inner sheet to form a body waste retaining space. The innermost sheet is formed with a front opening allowing the passage of urine into the body waste retaining space and a rear opening allowing the passage of feces into the body waste retaining space. A portion of the innermost sheet extending between the front opening and the rear opening droops down and a lower end thereof to form a separator. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054432 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a rear waist region provided with a waist region elastic member attached thereto under tension. The waist region elastic member is formed with a plurality of slits each extending in a longitudinal direction and extending through the elastic member in a thickness direction thereof. The waist region elastic member is stretched in a transverse direction as the diaper is put on the wearer's body and thereupon the slits are opened up to form respective through-holes. A first graphics display region formed in combination with the slits includes note stems and note tails. Each of these note stems is contiguous to the associated through-holes. In the area nearer a crotch region than the first graphics display region, a second graphics display region is formed. The first and second graphics display regions cooperate to each other. | 03-03-2011 |
20110049758 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT BODY - Fluid absorbent fibers are accumulated in a form die without being interfered by a polymer charging member for charging a superabsorbent polymer. There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent body in which while a form die is moved in one direction along a predetermined moving path, fluid absorbent fibers are distributed toward the form die and accumulated in the form die, whereby the absorbent body is formed. A polymer charging member for charging superabsorbent polymer into the form die is disposed to intersect at least a part of a distribution path of the fluid absorbent fibers, and a space through which the fluid absorbent fibers are allowed to pass along the distribution path is formed in the polymer charging member. | 03-03-2011 |
20110049210 | PROCESSING APPARATUS - A processing apparatus includes: a work carrying section that carries a continuous belt-like work; and a processing section within a travel path and processing while the work is being intermittently halted. The work carrying section includes an entering-side buffer mechanism within the travel path on an upstream side of the processing section; an exit-side buffer mechanism within the travel path on a downstream side of the processing section; an interlocking section that moves first and second moving elements for performing a reciprocating movement in an interlocked manner; an intermittent sending section that comes into contact with the work; an endless annular element that is wrapped around the carry rolls and the first and second moving elements; and a first drive roll that applies a rotational force to the carry rolls and a moving force to the first moving element and the second moving element. | 03-03-2011 |
20110048622 | CUTTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - A cutting device | 03-03-2011 |
20110048617 | METHOD FOR MAKING DIAPER - A method of making a diaper includes: forming the continuous sheet at a distance in a width direction from an imaginary center line M bisecting the width dimension of the continuous sheet with let-through openings for passage of feces at a regular pitch, bonding absorbent panels, each having an absorbent core to the middle section of a sheet piece having an area larger than the area of the absorbent core; coating the surface of the continuous sheet opposite to the surface to which the absorbent panels have been bonded with hot melt adhesive HM; and cutting the assembly of the continuous sheet and the absorbent panels along the imaginary vertical line V defined between each pair of the adjacent absorbent panels at the regular pitch to obtain the diapers. | 03-03-2011 |
20110046598 | WEARING ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - The present invention aims to provide an improved wearing article allowing the dimension of the leg-openings to be adequately large without causing leakage of urine. A chassis is formed in a crotch region with an opening extending through inner and outer sheets in the thickness direction. The opening extends across the crotch region in a longitudinal direction partially into front and rear waist regions and also extends through parts of respective waist region elastic sheets in the thickness direction. An absorbent panel functioning as a liquid-absorbent structure is attached to the skin-facing surface of the chassis to cover the opening. The liquid-absorbent panel is joined along both side edges thereof to the inner sheet and the waist region elastic sheets by bonding or sealing technique and along front and rear ends thereof to the waist region elastic sheets by bonding or sealing technique. | 02-24-2011 |
20110046596 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article has a top layer, a bottom layer, an absorbent core and a pair of leak-barrier walls. Each leak-barrier wall has a proximal wall section, a first elastic overhang section extending outward in a transverse direction from around the upper end of the proximal wall section, and a second elastic overhang section formed below the first overhang section so as to extend outward in the transverse direction from around the upper end of the proximal wall section. The second overhang section has a stiffness higher than that of the first overhang section. | 02-24-2011 |
20110046593 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - The present invention aims to provide a disposable diaper including leak barriers improved in its function to prevent loose passage from infiltrating thereinto and eventually leaching out therethrough. | 02-24-2011 |
20110046590 | ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention aims to provide an absorbent wearing article having a feeling to wear well improved. | 02-24-2011 |