UNICHARM CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160128875 | DISPOSABLE PULL-ON DIAPER - A disposable pull-on diaper that keeps in close contact with a wearer's crotch region includes a lower torso cover and an absorbent chassis. The absorbent chassis has a front end portion overlapping a front waist region of the lower torso cover and a front end portion of the front end portion is joined to an elastic region in the lower torso cover. A front end adjoining portion of the front end portion is not joined to the elastic region. An area in the absorbent chassis being adjacent the front end adjoining portion on the side of the crotch region is joined to an inelastic region defined on the side closer to the crotch region than to the elastic region. The absorbent body contained in the absorbent chassis extends at least from the crotch region to the front end adjoining portion. The front end portion in the front end portion of the absorbent chassis is defined by a portion of the cover sheet wrapping the absorbent body which extends outward beyond the absorbent body. | 05-12-2016 |
20160082416 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING EXCRETION DISPOSAL MATERIAL AND EXCRETION DISPOSAL MATERIAL - A method for manufacturing a granular excretion disposal material having a core portion and a covering layer that covers the core portion. The method includes: a granulating step of granulating the core portion by blending a core portion raw material containing pulp and highly absorbent resin, with water; a covering step of forming the covering layer by spraying a covering layer raw material containing pulp and highly absorbent resin, onto a surface of the core portion granulated in the granulating step; a drying step of drying a granular matter, in which the covering layer is formed in the covering step, with hot air; and a cooling step of cooling the granular matter dried in the drying step | 03-24-2016 |
20150366724 | PULL-ON DIAPER - A pull-on diaper for younger baby has a transverse direction and a longitudinal direction, front and waist regions, a crotch region, and rear waist regions and leg cuffs extending along respective laterals of the crotch region. Each of front and rear waist panels is sectionalized into a first elastically contractible region and a second elastically contractible region wherein a dimensional ratio in the longitudinal direction between the first elastically contractible region and the second elastically contractible region is in a range of 1:1.6 to 1:2.2 and an elongation ratio of waist elastics attached to the first elastically contractible region is lower than an elongation ratio of the waist elastics attached to the second elastically contractible region and the elongation ratio of the waist elastics attached to the second elastically contractible region is lower than an elongation ratio of second leg elastics. | 12-24-2015 |
20150359687 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention addresses the problem of providing an absorbent article in which a bonding part for bonding a liquid-permeable layer to an absorbent core has been formed in a low-basis-weight region of the absorbent core and which has all of sufficient flexural rigidity of the bonding part, sufficient bonding strength of the bonding part, and sufficient liquid-absorbing properties. This problem is solved with an absorbent core which comprises a first region that has a given absorbent-material basis weight and second regions (regions | 12-17-2015 |
20150359404 | CLEANING TOOL - To provide a cleaning tool exhibiting excellent cleaning effectiveness. The present invention relates to a cleaning tool comprising a cleaning sheet, and a holding tool for holding said cleaning sheet. The cleaning sheet is provided with: a brush part; a base part; and insertion parts through which holding parts of the holding tool are inserted. The brush part is provided with a plurality of strip pieces. The strip pieces include first strip pieces, and second strip pieces having a higher rigidity than the first strip pieces. The second strip pieces are provided with scrape-out parts capable of scraping out dust on an object to be cleaned. | 12-17-2015 |
20150351600 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER, AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER - Provided are a novel production method and production system suitable for producing a cleaning member having excellent cleaning performance, said production method and production system enabling the cleaning member to be efficiently produced. This production method involves the following steps. The method for continuously producing a cleaning member obtained from a multilayer web that includes at least a fiber bundle with hollow fibers, and non-woven fabric strips, comprises at least: a step for preparing a guide member provided with a pair of width-adjusting members, and having a predetermined interval; a step for conveying a fiber bundle strip, such as the fiber bundle with hollow fibers, between the pair of width-adjusting members of the guide member, and adjusting the width of the fiber bundle strip so as to match the aforementioned interval; a step for forming the multilayer web by overlaying the strip-like fiber bundle, the width of which has been adjusted, on the non-woven fabric strips; and a step for joining the components of the multilayer web. | 12-10-2015 |
20150335044 | PET FOOD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PET FOOD - There is provided pet food including animal raw ingredients and a wetting agent, a moisture content being in a range of 11% by weight to 18% by weight, and a mastication property represented by a product of hardness, cohesiveness, and elasticity being in a range of 14.7 N to 41.2 N. | 11-26-2015 |
20150328359 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable top sheet configured to be arranged on a skin side, a liquid-impermeable back sheet configured to be arranged on a clothing side; a liquid-retaining absorbent body arranged between the top sheet and the back sheet; a first sheet arranged between the top sheet and the absorbent body and within the area in which the absorbent body is arranged; and a second sheet arranged between the first sheet and the absorbent body. The first sheet is liquid permeable and has liquid-retaining properties. The second sheet is liquid permeable but does not have liquid-retaining properties and hides the red color of menstrual blood absorbed by the absorbent body. | 11-19-2015 |
20150314486 | SEPARATING DEVICE AND SEPARATING METHOD OF MATERIAL OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A separating device separates liquid absorbent fibers from a material including the liquid absorbent fibers of an absorbent article and impurities. The separating device includes: a case; an insertion port for inserting the material into the case on an airflow; a rotation member in the case for agitating and opening the material; and a discharge port for discharging the liquid absorbent fibers from inside the case on an airflow. The rotation member has a revolving axis with an axial direction along a predetermined direction from the insertion port to the discharge port, and a shaft member rotating around a rotating axis that has been set with an axial direction along the predetermined direction, while revolving around the revolving axis. The shaft member has protruding sections protruding outward and intersecting with an axial direction of the shaft member. | 11-05-2015 |
20150305948 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - In a disposable diaper, a leg stretching unit stretchable in a longitudinal direction is disposed at an inside of a widthwise direction than a pair of leg opening units. An area between a backside leg opening unit and a straight line passing through a center in the widthwise direction and parallel to the longitudinal direction is larger than an area between a foreside leg opening unit and a straight line passing through a center of the longitudinal direction of the leg opening unit and extending in the longitudinal direction. A buttocks part stretching unit running across a crotch region and the back waistline region and stretchable in the longitudinal direction is disposed at an outside of the widthwise direction than the leg stretching unit. A front end of the buttocks part stretching unit is positioned more backward than a center of the longitudinal direction of the leg opening unit. | 10-29-2015 |
20150296741 | PET URINE COLLECTION DEVICE - A pet urine collection device, configured so that, when a dog discharges urine against a wall surface, a first panel laid on a floor surface is not soiled with urine over a wide range in a front-back direction. The pet urine collection device includes a first panel adapted to be laid on a floor surface and a flexible second panel joined with the first panel along a join line and adapted to be attached to a wall surface. The second panel has a high stiffness region extending in parallel to the join line and having a proximal edge and a low stiffness region extending in parallel to the high stiffness region and having a distal edge. | 10-22-2015 |
20150273105 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article is provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet and an absorbent body between the top sheet and the back sheet. The top sheet has a non-woven fabric having multiple convex portions and multiple concave portions. The individual convex portions and concave portions contain a blood lubricity-imparting agent that has a kinetic viscosity of 0.01-80 mm | 10-01-2015 |
20150272713 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE FOR PET ANIMALS - An absorbent article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction includes an absorbent panel having a ventral region, a dorsal region and an intermediate region between the ventral and dorsal regions in the longitudinal direction. The absorbent panel includes a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and a liquid absorbent core lying between the liquid-permeable topsheet and the liquid-impermeable backsheet. The absorbent core is arranged in a limited area extending from a zone of the intermediate region defined adjacent to a slit for formation of an opening into which the pet animal's tail is inserted into the ventral region and has a first end lying in the ventral region and a second end lying in the intermediate region. A dimension of the ventral region in the transverse direction gradually narrows from the side of the second end toward the first end. | 10-01-2015 |
20150238649 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An individually packaged absorbent article has a pair of flaps for securing the absorbent article to clothing of a wearer. The absorbent article is folded multiple times along multiple folding axes such that the pair of flaps is folded over a liquid-permeable top sheet and the top sheet faces inward. The top sheet has a blood lubricating agent containing region, which contains a predetermined blood lubricating agent, in an area which overlaps with the pair of flaps in the thickness direction of the absorbent article. Moreover, the absorbent article is provided with a spacer for forming a space between the pair of flaps and the blood lubricating agent containing region of the top sheet. | 08-27-2015 |
20150223993 | TAMPON APPLICATOR AND SANITARY TAMPON - A tampon applicator includes an outer tube for containing at least a part of an absorber therein, a first inner tube and a second inner tube. The second inner tube is telescopically received within the first inner tube. The first inner tube and the second inner tube are connectable to each other during use to push out the absorber from the outer tube. At least a part of the first inner tube and at least a part of the second inner tube overlap with each other in an overlap region outside the outer tube. A color difference between the outer tube and the overlap region is higher than a color difference between the overlap region and the second inner tube. | 08-13-2015 |
20150211157 | NONWOVEN CLOTH - A nonwoven cloth provided with both improved softness and adequate thickness and specific volume having thermally fused composite fibers that are mutually intersecting and overlapping, and a constricted thermally adhesive section in which the thermally fused composite fibers are thermally fused in the intersection region. The constricted thermally adhesive section has a recessed surface facing a center line extending in a direction overlapping with the thermally fused composite fibers across the center of the intersection region. The distance between the thermally fused composite fibers is larger than the sum of the radii of the thermally fused composite fibers, the thickness under a load of 3.0 gf/cm | 07-30-2015 |
20150147530 | COMPOSITE SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A composite sheet having an elastic layer and an inelastic layer and high breathability and a method for manufacturing such improved composite sheet. The composite sheet includes an elastic layer and an inelastic layer joined and laminated through a plurality of joints. The elastic layer is formed with first depressions overlapping the joints and extending in a transverse direction and first protrusions. Interior space if the first protrusions is filled with constituent fibers of the elastic layer. The inelastic layer is formed with second depressions overlapping the joints and extending in a longitudinal direction and second protrusions. Along the second depressions, the elastic layer and the inelastic layer come in contact with each other at the joints and, along the second protrusions, the inelastic layer is spaced from the elastic layer to define clearance gaps in these layers. | 05-28-2015 |
20150126953 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes a chassis, front and rear waist regions, and a crotch region between the front and rear waist regions and a liquid-absorbent structure extending at least in the crotch region. The chassis includes a pair of first leg elastics, and a pair of second leg elastics. The first leg elastics are arranged so as to be rectilinear in the longitudinal direction. The second leg elastics are arranged at a distance from the longitudinal axis as viewed in the transverse direction larger than a distance from the longitudinal axis at which the first leg elastics are arranged and have rectilinear portions extending in the longitudinal direct at least in a portion of the crotch region close to the front waist region and curved portions spaced apart outwardly from each other from the rear waist region side ends of the rectilinear portions. | 05-07-2015 |
20150088087 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article including a region in which the wearer's skin is not seen-through other than the existence region of the absorbent structure even when an area of the absorbent structure is relatively small so that the existence region of the absorbent structure may be un noticeable from the outside. A region of the absorbent structure of a diaper overlapping with the first waist region has a dimension in the transverse direction corresponding to 20 to 30% of a dimension in the transverse direction of the first waist region, the first waist region is disposed with a hardly see-through panel overlapping with the absorbent structure and includes a first region in which the chassis, the absorbent structure and the hardly see-through panel are laminated, second regions adjacent on both outsides in the transverse direction of the first region, in which the chassis and the hardly see-through panel are laminated and third regions adjacent on both outsides in the transverse direction of the respective second regions and only the chassis is included; and a differential total luminous transmittance between the first region and the second regions is smaller than a differential total luminous transmittance between the second region and the third region. | 03-26-2015 |
20150073374 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - In a disposable diaper, ends at a front waistline region side of the disposable diaper within a stretchable range in leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the front waistline region side as compared to an end at the front waistline region side within a stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. Ends at a rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the rear waistline region side as compared to an end at the rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. A tensile modulus of the crotch stretch unit is configured so as to be greater than a tensile modulus of the leg stretch units. | 03-12-2015 |
20150057633 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - An absorber of a disposable diaper includes a first region arranged partially in the crotch region; a second region arranged adjacent to the first region and having a lower bending rigidity than that of the first region; and a third region arranged adjacent to the second region and having a higher bending rigidity than that of the second region. A boundary between the first and second regions is arranged in a narrow region. A boundary between the second and third regions is arranged at the side of the crotch region from an end at the crotch region side of a waistline retaining unit in the front waistline region. An end at the front waistline region side of the third region is arranged at the side of the front waistline region from the end at the crotch region side of the waistline retaining unit in the front waistline region. | 02-26-2015 |
20150051569 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes, in an inner end portion of a front waist region, a pair of first side elastic zones spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction and a first middle inelastic zone lying between the first side elastic zones. The article further includes, in an inner end portion of a rear waist region, a pair of second side elastic zones spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction and a second middle inelastic zone lying between the second side elastic zones. A crotch panel includes a pair of leg elastics intersecting with the first and second side elastic zones. A dimension in the transverse direction of the second middle inelastic zone is larger than that of the first middle inelastic zone. A dimension in the transverse direction of the respective first intersection zones is larger than that of the respective second intersection zones. | 02-19-2015 |
20150051567 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide an absorbent article in which a top sheet ( | 02-19-2015 |
20150025490 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper | 01-22-2015 |
20150018796 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Provided is an absorbent article which makes it easy to fold wing sections of the absorbent article so as to match the shape of the edges of the leg openings of underwear. The present invention is an absorbent article ( | 01-15-2015 |
20140367290 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE CONTAINER - In the absorbent article package, display element unit that has display elements exhibiting a pattern and/or a mark and non-display element unit that does not have display elements are provided on a package sheet that encloses the absorbent article. A window unit, which is configured to allow the absorbent article packages contained therein to be seen, is formed on one side of a container bag and is configured so that only the non-display element unit can be seen through the window. A container bag display unit that shows the display elements is provided on the one side where the container bag window is provided. | 12-18-2014 |
20140343524 | ABSORBENT AND ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - In order to provide an absorbent, which contains no wood pulp and wood pulp and has improved liquid absorbability and improved liquid retention ability, and an absorptive article provided with the absorbent, no wood pulp having a settling time in water of 2-5 sec is used in an absorbent that contains no wood pulp and wood pulp. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338822 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method of manufacturing as absorbed article includes a first absorption layer-forming step of forming a first absolution layer configuring the absorber, and a second absorption layer-forming step of forming a second absorption layer configuring the absorber, and laminated on to the first absorption layer. In the first absorption layer-forming step, a first absorption layer is formed while forming the curving unit in symmetry with respect to a virtual central line dividing a width of the absorber in the widthwise direction into two, and extending in the longitudinal direction, and in the second absorption layer-forming step, the second absorption layer is formed without providing the curving unit in a crotch region that is adapted to be in contact with a crotch of the wearer. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338159 | FASTENING MEMBER AND FASTENING SEGMENT - Provided are a fastening member and a fastening piece for which an unpleasant texture and an incongruous appearance are significantly reduced, and that bring about an integrated feeling with the main body of a disposable article for wearing. A fastening segment includes a hook fastener and a base sheet. A hook height H1 of a hook is set to 45 μm to 150 μm, and a hook sheet thickness T2 is set to 45 μm to 75 μm. When in an L*a*b* color coordinate system, a color difference of L* is ΔL*, a color difference of a* is Δa*, and a color difference of b* is Δb*, a color difference ΔE between the hook fastener and the base sheet calculated using the ΔL*, the Δa* and the Δb*, is less than 5.5. | 11-20-2014 |
20140324010 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper has a diaper main body including a plurality of elastic members arranged in an extended state along a longitudinal direction of the absorber, at outer sides in a widthwise direction with respect to the absorber, a dorsal side flap protruded toward outer sides in the widthwise direction with respect to the diaper main body, at an outer end in the longitudinal direction of the diaper main body; and a joining unit configured to join the side flap and the diaper main body. The elastic member positioned at outermost sides in the widthwise direction out of the plurality of elastic members are overlapped in an extended state in the longitudinal direction, with the joining unit in a thickness direction of the disposable diaper. | 10-30-2014 |
20140316364 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A fastening tape | 10-23-2014 |
20140276350 | POSITION CONFIRMATION SHEET OF SANITARY TAMPON, EXPLANATORY NOTE OF SANITARY TAMPON, PACKAGE BAG OF SANITARY TAMPON, AND CONTAINER OF SANITARY TAMPON - A position confirmation sheet | 09-18-2014 |
20140246159 | WET WIPE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A wet wipe includes a nonwoven fabric impregnated with a liquid. A surface layer in a first surface of the nonwoven fabric has an apparent density of 0.030-0.10 g/cm | 09-04-2014 |
20140193233 | STACKING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF WEB MEMBER - A stacking device which stacks together web members which drop down while drawing a parabolic arc, this is provided with a horizontal movement limit part which limits movement of web members in a horizontal direction, a temporary supporting unit which can take a projecting position where it projects from the horizontal movement limit part and a retracted position where it is pulled in from the projecting position and does not stick out from the horizontal movement limit part, and a receiving table which is positioned under the temporary supporting means at the projecting position and stacks the web members. The temporary supporting unit temporarily supports a web member at the projecting position and, after that, shifts to the retracted position to make the web member drop under the temporary supporting unit, so that the stacking device stacks the web members on the receiving table. | 07-10-2014 |
20140190626 | METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF WEB MEMBER INCLUDING TOW - The method of production of a web having a tow according to the present invention has a transfer step of transferring a product form web member which is formed by a continuous web member being cut, which product form web member is configured having a plurality of fibrous members formed from tows, to a packaging step which packages the product form web member, the transfer step has a stacking step of stacking a plurality of product form web members to form a stacked member and a variation correction step of suppressing variation of bulk of the stacked member by pressing the stacked member from above the stacked member. | 07-10-2014 |
20140188064 | CATAMENIAL TAMPON - A catamenial tampon including a tampon body formed of a sponge adapted to be smoothly drawn out from the vaginal cavity. A catamenial tampon includes a tampon body and a withdrawal string. The tampon body is composed of an absorbent material formed of a liquid-absorptive sponge and a wrapping material formed of a liquid-permeable sheet material and adapted to wrap the absorbent material. The withdrawal string is attached to the wrapping material so as to extend in a direction in which the tampon body is drawn out. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187406 | METHOD OF PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER - To provide a novel method of production and system of production which are suitable for producing a cleaning member excellent in cleaning performance and further which enable efficient production. The present invention is a method of producing a cleaning member which is obtained from a multilayer web which contains at least a fiber bundle and a belt-shaped nonwoven fabric, the method including at least a step of conveying the fiber bundle and a step of conveying the belt-shaped nonwoven fabric, the tension of the fiber bundle in the step of conveying the fiber bundle being lower than the tension of the belt-shaped nonwoven fabric in a step of conveying the belt-shaped nonwoven fabric. | 07-03-2014 |
20140186538 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CLEANING MEMBER - The present invention provides a novel method and apparatus for manufacturing a cleaning member including a fiber bundle having an oil agent uniformly attached thereto with no irregularity, wherein a first fiber bundle fed continuously in a prescribed direction is brought into contact with a transfer roller rotated in a direction opposite to the feeding direction of the first fiber bundle to transfer the oil agent applied to the surface of the transfer roller to the first fiber bundle. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183929 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING CLEANING MEMBER - In a method for manufacturing a cleaning member comprising opened fiber bundle, in order to correct twisting of fiber bundle in the path for feeding the fiber bundle from a storage container to a driving roller to thereby stabilize manufacturing process, and in order to pre-open the fiber bundle in the path from a driving roller to the opening step to thereby speed-up the opening step, fiber bundle drawn out continuously from a storage container in a first direction is wound onto a non-rotational bar, and after being fed in a second direction, is fed to a first driving roller, and the fiber bundle fed from the first driving roller in a third direction is wound onto a second non-rotational bar, and after being fed in a fourth direction, is fed to a second driving roller and to the following opening step. | 07-03-2014 |
20140183928 | METHOD OF PRODUCING OPENED FIBER BUNDLE, METHOD OF PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER, APPARATUS WHICH OPENS FIBER BUNDLE, AND SYSTEM WHICH PRODUCES CLEANING MEMBER - An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method of producing an opened fiber bundle at high speed and in a space-saving manner. The method is as follows. A method of continuously producing an opened fiber bundle for a cleaning member, comprising the steps of (a | 07-03-2014 |
20140183780 | METHOD OF PRODUCING OPENED FIBER BUNDLE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER, APPARATUS WHICH OPENS FIBER BUNDLE, AND SYSTEM WHICH PRODUCES CLEANING MEMBER - A method of producing an opened fiber bundle is in a space-saving manner. The method of continuously producing an opened fiber bundle for a cleaning member, includes the steps of (a | 07-03-2014 |
20140182779 | METHOD OF PRODUCING OPENED FIBER BUNDLE, METHOD OF PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER, APPARATUS WHICH OPENS FIBER BUNDLE, AND SYSTEM WHICH PRODUCES CLEANING MEMBER - A method of continuously producing an opened fiber bundle for a cleaning member while conveying a fiber bundle, includes the steps of applying a tensile force to the fiber bundle; relaxing the tensioned fiber bundle to open the fiber bundle; and blowing air in a direction intersecting with the machine direction of the belt-shaped fiber bundle through an air outlet of an air feeder, to further open the belt-shaped fiber bundle and widen the belt-shaped fiber bundle in the width direction. An outer portion in the width direction of the air outlet is disposed downstream in the machine direction, compared with an inner portion in the width direction of the air outlet. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182767 | METHOD OF PRODUCING CLEANING MEMBER - To provide a novel production method and a novel production system that are suitable for producing a cleaning member having an excellent cleaning performance and that realize efficient production. The present invention is a method of producing a cleaning member obtained from a multi-layer web comprising at least a fiber bundle and a belt-shaped nonwoven fabric, wherein the method comprises at least the step of connecting the ends of the at least two the fiber bundles by melt-bonding. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182433 | CUTTING DEVICE OF WEB MEMBER INCLUDING TOW - The cutting device of the present invention is provided with a movement mechanism which moves together with a rotary blade member which is immovably fastened and which guides reciprocating movement of the movement mechanism, and a bearing which is placed between the guide mechanism and the movement mechanism to enable smooth movement of the movement mechanism with respect to the guide mechanism and, furthermore, is provided with a waste removing device which is attached to the movement mechanism and which blocks entry of fiber waste which is produced when cutting the continuous web member to the inside of the bearing by removing fiber waste which has deposited on said guide mechanism from the guide mechanism. | 07-03-2014 |
20140182429 | CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF CLEANING MEMBER USING CUTTING DEVICE - The invention relates to a cutting device which cuts a web member, which includes fiber bundles which extend continuously in a machine direction MD and which is intermittently conveyed in said machine direction, in a crossing direction CD which crosses the machine direction. The cutting device has a plurality of disk shaped rotary blades which rotate about rotary shafts which extend along the machine direction while moving in said cross direction so as to thereby cut said web member when the web member is at a stop. The plurality of rotary blades are arranged so as to be substantially aligned in the crossing direction and includes a rotary blade which rotates in one direction and a rotary blade which rotates in the opposite direction. | 07-03-2014 |
20140174628 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF A NONWOVEN FABRIC SHEET - A sheet of nonwoven fabric which has surface irregularities, the shape of the surface irregularities being less apt to be changed by external pressure, etc. The sheet has a machine, cross and thickness directions which are perpendicular to one another. The upper surface has a plurality of protrusions continuously extending, in parallel, in the cross direction and further has a plurality of recesses that are located between the adjacent protrusions and extend in the cross direction. The sheet includes first and second fibrous layers located on the upper-surface side and the lower-surface side, respectively. The first fibrous layer comprises heat-fusible fibers, and the second fibrous layer comprises coil-shaped three-dimensional crimp fibers that are oriented mainly in the machine direction and form a network by entanglement thereof without having been fused at the sites where the crimp fibers cross one another. | 06-26-2014 |
20140171892 | DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A disposable absorbent article includes a crotch inner sheet lying on a skin-facing surface, a crotch outer sheet lying on a non-skin-facing surface and a liquid-absorbent structure interposed between these inner and outer sheets. In this diaper, a total luminous transmittance from the outer sheet through the liquid-absorbent structure to the inner sheet is in a range of 15% to 65%. The liquid-absorbent structure has a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a thickness direction W and includes a first sheet and a second sheet overlapping each other and absorbent polymer particles interposed between these first and second sheets. Absorbing regions where the absorbent polymer particles are present and sealing regions where the absorbent polymer particles are not present are arranged alternately in the longitudinal direction. The first sheet and the second sheet are bonded in the sealing regions. | 06-19-2014 |
20140163507 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article that has a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorber, and a liquid-permeable top-layer sheet is joined with a skin contact surface side of the topsheet. The top-layer sheet is arranged along a lengthwise direction in a central portion of a widthwise direction of the absorbent article, and non-joined regions that are not joined with the topsheet are provided at both widthwise ends of the top-layer sheet. A compressing portion in which at least the topsheet and the absorber are compressed in the thickness-wise direction, is formed around the non-joined region. | 06-12-2014 |
20140158690 | SEALING LABEL AND PACKAGING CONTAINER - A sealing label that includes a first base material, and a second base material which is bonded to one surface of the first base material, and is repeatedly and removably bonded to an opening of a packing container so that the base material seals the opening; the label includes a sealing part which seals the opening; and a support part which is connected with at least one part of the sealing part and bonded to the packing container; wherein the sealing part and the support part has a boundary part, the boundary part has a cut line, wherein the cut line extends in a direction intersecting with a peeling direction to which the sealing part is peeled, the second base material is cut and divided into a proximal area, which is on the proximal side in the peeling direction, and a distal area, which is on the distal side in the peeling direction, by the cut line; and a peeling layer, which releases the first base material from the second base material, is provided between the first base material and the second base material and at the distal side from the cut line in the peeling direction. | 06-12-2014 |
20140157499 | URINE DISPOSAL DEVICE - A urine disposal device adapted to prevent a connector from being soiled with excrement. A urine disposal device has a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a thickness direction and includes a urine receptacle defining therein a urine receiving space and connector adapted to connect the urine receptacle through a connector to an external equipment at least including a vacuum pump for suction of urine from the urine receiving space. The urine receptacle has a first surface facing a wearer's skin, a second surface not facing the wearer's skin when the wearer is in a supine posture and an external outlet port (connecting region) in which the connector is connected. The external outlet port (connecting region) is arranged on the second surface. | 06-12-2014 |
20140155809 | TAMPON APPLICATOR - A tampon applicator comprises: an outer tube, in which an absorber stored inside, an aperture is disposed on one side thereof wherethrough the absorber is extruded, and a grip unit is disposed on the other side thereof; an inner tube which extrudes the absorber by moving within the outer tube; an auxiliary grip member. The auxiliary grip member further comprises a cover unit which covers the outer circumference surface of the grip unit, and collar unit which extends radially outwards from the outer circumference surface of the cover unit of the outer tube. | 06-05-2014 |
20140150727 | ANIMAL LITTER BOX - An animal litter box has a transverse direction, a longitudinal direction and a vertical direction and includes a lower container having an opening at an upper end thereof and allocated on the lower side, an upper side cover allocated above the lower container and a liquid passable litter tray interposed between the upper side cover and the lower container and cooperating with the lower container to close the opening. The lower container has an excrement tray provided so as to be manually movable in the longitudinal direction between a put-in position at which the excrement tray is set within the receiving space below the liquid passable litter tray and a drawn out position outside the receiving space and an end opening through which the excrement tray is put into or drawn out from the receiving space. | 06-05-2014 |
20140142531 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - Disposable wearing articles having a liquid-absorbent structure which is sufficiently thin to ensure a comfortable wear feeling and adapted to eliminate the possibility that the appearance of the absorbing region after absorption of the bodily fluids might be visually recognized from the outside. A liquid-absorbent structure including absorbent materials is attached to a chassis by means of a liquid-absorbent structure bonding region formed on a skin-facing side. The liquid-absorbent structure bonding region includes opposite end bonding zones serving to fix first and second end segments of the liquid-absorbent structure and opposite lateral bonding zones serving to fix opposite lateral segments of the liquid-absorbent structure and a central non-bonding region is defined by a region surrounded by the opposite end bonding zones and the opposite lateral bonding zones. | 05-22-2014 |
20140141970 | ABSORBER AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorber containing non-wood pulp with the settling velocity in water between 2 and 5 seconds, the mean fiber size of 8 to 25 μm, the apparent bulk density of 0.04 to 0.07 g/cm | 05-22-2014 |
20140137805 | ABSORBENT SHEET - An absorbent sheet includes a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and a liquid-absorbent structure interposed between the top- and backsheets. In the sheet, the topsheet faces itself and is bonded to itself by a joining means extending in a transverse direction so as to define a fold edge extending in a transverse direction. The absorbent structure includes a first absorbent section extending between a front end edge and the fold edge, a second absorbent section extending between the fold edge and the joining means and a third absorbent section extending between the joining means and a rear end edge. Outboard of the third absorbent section of the sheet in the longitudinal direction, a non-absorbent region in which the absorbent structure is not present is formed. A portion of the backsheet of the sheet within the non-absorbent region is attached to a wall by attachments. | 05-22-2014 |
20140134306 | PET FOOD, AND PET FOOD MANUFACTURING METHOD - A highly palatable pet food that is formulated using a blend of ingredients having good nutritional balance with the health of the pet in mind, and a manufacturing method for the pet food. The present invention provides a pet food manufacturing method that includes a step of granulating a mixture of ingredients to obtain food granules, and a step of baking the food granules, wherein the baking temperature is preferably a temperature that generates pyrazines in the food granules. Further, the pyrazine content within the food granules following baking is preferably at least 0.10 ppm higher than the pyrazine content within the food granules prior to baking. Examples of the pyrazines contained within the food granules include 2,5-dimethylpyrazine, 2,6-dimethylpyrazine and/or 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine. Furthermore, the baking is preferably performed using far infrared radiation. | 05-15-2014 |
20140102618 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STRETCH SHEET - A method for manufacturing a stretch sheet draw a nonwoven fabric conveyed in a continuous state by teeth formed on an outer circumferential surface of a pair of rotating rollers by passing the nonwoven fabric through a gap between the rotating rollers meshing with each of the teeth. The method includes a step of joining a first end of the first nonwoven fabric roll and a second end of the other nonwoven fabric roll through a joint portion. The joint portion is arranged intermittently in a cross direction that crosses the conveyance direction. | 04-17-2014 |
20140087933 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A method for manufacturing an absorbent article including a mounting step of conveying a web | 03-27-2014 |
20140058348 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable wearing article includes an absorber having a crotch region that is in contact with a crotch portion of the wearer, and a back region arranged posterior to the crotch region and in contact with the hip portion of the wearer, and in the crotch region, a pair of curving means are provided along the crosswise direction so as to enable the absorber to curve in a convex shape in an inner direction, and outside the widthwise direction of the curving means, a pair of lifting units are provided along the crosswise direction so as to enable the absorber to be lifted up in an inner direction in the back region, and the back ends of the curving means are positioned anterior to the back ends of the lifting units. | 02-27-2014 |
20140052086 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An object of the disclosure is to provide an absorbent article that allows the user to visually confirm reduction in residue of highly viscous menstrual blood on the top sheet after its absorption, thereby providing reassurance to the user. The absorbent article of the disclosure is as follows. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052048 | TAMPON APPLICATOR - An tampon applicator includes an outer tube which contains an absorber therein, of which the one side is provided with a push-out aperture by which the absorber is to be pushed out, and of which the other side is provided with a grip tube unit; and an inner tube which is movable towards into the outer tube to push the absorber to the outside through the push-out aperture; and a collar unit extending radially outwards from an outer circumferential surface of the grip tube unit of the outer tube is included, and having a light transmissive means that enables the grip tube unit side to be visually confirmed from the push-out aperture side of the outer tube via the collar unit. | 02-20-2014 |
20140041783 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes a guide member that guides an elastic member fed on a web configuring a component of the absorbent article and being conveyed in a continuous state. The guide member includes: an arm member having a tip portion that is a feeding position of the elastic member to the web, and a base portion separated from the tip portion; a first driving member that swings the arm member about the base portion of the arm member as a rotational axis; and a second driving member that performs a back and forth movement of the arm member and the first driving member in a first direction in which the tip portion is close to a contact point where the elastic member is in contact with the web, and a second direction in which the tip portion is separated from the contact point. | 02-13-2014 |
20140039443 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Provided is an absorbent article such as a disposable diaper wherein, when using a configuration that attaches the fastening tapes directly to the outer nonwoven fabric layer without using target tapes, the strength of the outer nonwoven fabric layer can be maintained while the fastening strength of the fastening tapes is maintained even with repeated use. A disposable diaper ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140031783 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes a central curving unit that allows the absorber to curve in the inner direction in a convex shape is formed in the center of the absorber, a pair of first curving units along the front-back direction that allow the absorber to curve in the outer direction in a convex shape is formed outboard of the central curving unit of the absorber, a pair of second curving units along the front-back direction that allow the absorber to curve in the inner direction in a convex shape is formed outboard of the first curving unit of the absorber, and a front end of the central curving unit is positioned posteriorly of a front end of a second curving unit. | 01-30-2014 |
20140031782 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article adapted to prevent body exudates from leaking sideways beyond leg-opening peripheries and to prevent the wearer's body from being soiled with body exudates. Front and rear waist regions are elastically contractible at least in a transverse direction and a crotch region is provided in laterals with a pair of lateral elastic regions which are elastically contractible in a longitudinal direction. | 01-30-2014 |
20140025026 | WATER DISINTEGRATABLE LEAKPROOF SHEET - A water disintegratable leak-proof sheet for an absorbent article that has an excellent leak-proof property during wear and excellent water disintegrating property after disposal. The water disintegratable leak-proof sheet of the present disclosure has the following construction. A water disintegratable leak-proof sheet for an absorbent article comprising a water disintegratable base material layer and a water-insoluble and biodegradable resin layer on the water disintegratable base material layer, wherein the tearing strength in the planar direction of the water disintegratable leak-proof sheet is no greater than 0.15 N/40 mm in both a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. | 01-23-2014 |
20140012219 | INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED PRODUCT - An individual packing product that makes it difficult to see an absorbent product disposed therein, not staining other individual packing products, and easy to put in a bag or pocket and carry. In the individual packing product, the absorbent product having an adhesive portion in a non-skin contact region is packed with a packing sheet. The absorbent product is fixed to the inner side of the packing sheet with the adhesive portion being disposed therebetween, the packing sheet is folded with the absorbent product being disposed therein, the packing sheet has a separable colored portion on the inner side thereof, and although the colored portion can be seen from the outside of the individual packing product, the absorbent product cannot be seen from the outside of the individual packing product | 01-09-2014 |
20130338623 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - Embodiments of this invention provide a disposable wearing article facilitating even an aged person having relatively weak forth to pull a waist-opening periphery in the transverse direction to widen the waist-opening to a desired size, despite this and the waist region should not slip down during use of the wearing article. Waist elastic elements ( | 12-19-2013 |
20130331807 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper utilizing graphics to visually confirm whether the waist elastics are properly cut or cut off. A disposable diaper has a skin-facing side and a non-skin-facing side defining front and rear waist members, and includes an inner sheet lying on the skin-facing side, an outer sheet lying on the non-skin-facing side, waist elastics interposed between the inner and outer sheets and extending under a potential contractility in a transverse direction of the front and rear waist members, front and rear inelastic regions in which none of the waist elastics is present and graphic sheets having graphics adapted to be visually recognized through the outer sheet. End portions of the waist elastics interposed between the graphic sheets and the outer sheet extend from the outside of the graphic sheets across opposite side edges of the respective graphic sheets into the respective graphic sheets. | 12-12-2013 |
20130331763 | TAMPON APPLICATOR - A tampon applicator includes an outer cylinder in which an absorber is housed, and a push-out opening through which the absorber is to be pushed out is provided at one side and a grip cylinder unit is provided at the other side, and an inner cylinder which is inserted into the grip cylinder unit and being moved into the outer cylinder to be thereby able to push out the absorber outward through the push-out opening. The tampon applicator includes a grip jaw unit configured to extend from an outer circumferential face of the grip cylinder unit of the outer cylinder outwardly in a radial direction, wherein a finger hook unit by which a finger of a user is to be hooked is formed at the grip jaw unit. | 12-12-2013 |
20130317468 | DISPOSABLE PULL-ON DIAPER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A disposable pull-on diaper having a central inelastic region in at least one of a front waist region and a rear waist region, and a method for manufacturing the same. Front and rear waist regions of a disposable pull-on diaper are respectively of an elastically non-stretchable exterior sheet and elastically stretchable interior sheets. In lateral elastic regions of this waist region, the interior sheets are attached under tension to an interior surface of the exterior sheet and, in a central inelastic region, the interior sheets are spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction and regions of the interior sheets are in an elastically contracted and relaxed state in vicinities of the lateral elastic regions. | 11-28-2013 |
20130305894 | WEB MEMBER CUTTING APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WEB MEMBER THAT HAS A PLURALITY OF FIBERS INCLUDING TOWS AND WEB MEMBER CUTTING METHOD - An apparatus for cutting a continuous web includes a disc-shaped rotatable blade member for cutting the continuous web by moving in an intersecting direction, while rotating about an axis of a rotating shaft, a regulating section for regulating a relative movement of the continuous web in the predetermined direction with respect to the rotatable blade member throughout a time during which the rotatable blade member is cutting the continuous web, and a reciprocating mechanism for moving both the rotatable blade member and the regulating section along a forward path and a return path. The forward path has an equal velocity region where both the rotatable blade member and the regulating section move at a velocity value equal to a transport velocity value of the continuous web. The rotatable blade member cuts the continuous web while moving in the equal velocity region. | 11-21-2013 |
20130305892 | WEB MEMBER CUTTING APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WEB MEMBER THAT HAS A PLURALITY OF FIBERS INCLUDING TOWS AND WEB MEMBER CUTTING METHOD - Disclosed is an apparatus for cutting a web member along an intersecting direction. The web member has a plurality of fibers including tows along a predetermined direction intersecting the intersecting direction. The apparatus includes a disc-like rotatable blade member for cutting the web member by relatively moving in the intersecting direction with respect to the web member while rotating about a rotation shaft, the rotation shaft extending along the predetermined direction, the rotatable blade member including a cutting edge on an outer circumferential edge portion thereof, a plurality of recess portions being formed on the cutting edge, the plurality of recess portions being arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotatable blade member, a mean value of lengths of the plurality of recess portions in the circumferential direction being smaller than a mean value of diameters of the tows contained in the web member. | 11-21-2013 |
20130305891 | WEB MEMBER CUTTING APPARATUS FOR CUTTING WEB MEMBER THAT HAS A PLURALITY OF FIBERS INCLUDING TOWS AND WEB MEMBER CUTTING METHOD - A web-member cutting apparatus for cutting a web member at intervals in a transport direction includes: an intermittent transport mechanism for intermittently transporting the web member in the transport direction; a disc-like rotatable blade member for cutting the web member by moving along an intersecting direction while rotating about a rotation shaft during a suspension period of transport of the web member, and a downstream pressing member for regulating movement of the web member by pressing the web member against the intermittent transport mechanism at a position downstream from a target cut position in the transport direction throughout a period during which the rotatable blade member is cutting the web member. | 11-21-2013 |
20130296819 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURE AND ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE USING THE SAME - An absorbent structure that includes a first region, a second region and a central region extending between the first and second regions, the first region and part of the central region are formed with a thick segment. The second region is formed with a thin segment having a thickness dimension smaller than that of the thick segment. Between the thick segment and the thin segment, a thickness-sloped segment having a thickness dimension gradually reduced from the side of the first region toward the second region and the thin segment and at least a region of the thickness-sloped segment being adjacent to the thin segment are debossed. | 11-07-2013 |
20130291486 | PRODUCTION DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF LINKED PACKAGED PRODUCTS - A nuclear reactor is provided with a core which includes a new fuel part and a burning part at which neutrons are generated and fuel is burned. The burning part moves in a direction toward the new fuel part from the beginning to the end of the combustion cycle. The plurality of the fuel assemblies of the core include the fuel assemblies which are fastened to the core and the fuel assemblies which can move in the longitudinal direction of the fuel assemblies. By pulling out the fuel assemblies from the core, the nuclear reactor can be made to stop. Further, by inserting fuel assemblies into the core from the pulled out state, the nuclear reactor is started up. | 11-07-2013 |
20130289513 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - To facilitate a continuous tight fit of a diaper to a wearer, a disposable diaper having one waist opening and a pair of leg openings is provided with: a front-side section; a back-side section; a crotch section; and a pair of extensible or stretchable leg sheets. Longitudinal peripheral edge regions and inner lateral edge regions of the leg sheets are respectively joined, on one side of the crotch section, to lower edge regions of the front-side section and back-side section and lateral edge regions of the crotch section. The leg sheets each have notches facing inward from the outer lateral edges thereof. The pair of leg openings are defined by joining outer lateral edge regions of the leg sheets adjacent to front-side starting ends of the notches, and outer lateral edge regions of the leg sheets adjacent to back-side starting ends of the notches. | 10-31-2013 |
20130289510 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article ensuring that even when excreted urine diffuses by running down the wearer's skin, the urine is prevented from leaking out of the absorbent article. The absorbent article comprises an absorbent sheet that has at least one absorbent polymer-existing region in which the absorbent polymer is sandwiched by at least one liquid-pervious sheet and at least one absorbent polymer-nonexisting region which is free of absorbent polymer. The at least a part of the absorbent sheet is disposed in a rear waist region, and a planar shape of the absorbent polymer-existing region disposed on the rear waist region side of the longitudinal center of the crotch region of the absorbent sheet is a nearly V-shaped with an apex facing in the direction from the front waist region to the rear waist region in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article. | 10-31-2013 |
20130289509 | BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT ARTICLE INCLUDING BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT CORE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE CORE - Provided are a bodily fluid absorbent article improved to absorb bodily fluids quickly and a method for making a core for the bodily fluid absorbent article. A bodily fluid absorbent core for a bodily fluid absorbent article is formed with one or more elongated depressions. The core | 10-31-2013 |
20130280481 | NONWOVEN FABRIC, ABSORBENT ARTICLE COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A nonwoven fabric that is easily deformed but resistant to collapse, and that has excellent air permeability in the planar direction. The nonwoven fabric comprises continuous fibers and bonded sections formed by bonding multiple fibers including the continuous fibers, wherein the nonwoven fabric comprises a first side and a second side on the side opposite the first side, the first side comprises a plurality of projections, each projection including at least one bonded section, a plurality of projections including no bonded section, and at least one recess, the second side comprises a plurality of recesses, each recess overlapping with at least a part of the projection of the first side, and the coefficient of variation of the diameters of the continuous fibers is at least 10%. | 10-24-2013 |
20130276275 | ROTARY DRUM FOR FIBER-STACKING DEVICE - A rotary drum for a fiber-stacking device includes a drum body, pattern plates each having a single fiber-stacking depression, and holding mechanisms each detachably holding a corresponding pattern plate on the outer circumferential surface of the drum body. Each holding mechanism has a fixed hook and a moveable hook. The fixed hook is immovably attached to one side of the drum body and forms a first groove with the drum body. The movable hook is attached to the other side of the drum body to be moveable between a holding position and a release position, forms a second groove with the drum body at the holding position, and opens the second groove at the release position. When the movable hook is at the holding position, the two side parts of the pattern plate are accommodated inside the first and second grooves. | 10-24-2013 |
20130267924 | ABSORBENT LAYER FOR DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - An absorbent layer has a front section lying on the side of a front waist region, a rear section lying on the side of a rear waist region and an intermediate section lying between the front and rear sections. The absorbent layer is formed in the intermediate section with a central depression extending in a longitudinal direction Y and a high density zones having density higher than those of the front and rear sections are formed on both sides of the central depression. | 10-10-2013 |
20130267401 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WET WIPES - The present invention prevents unevenness in the amount of impregnation by a predetermined chemical and prevents a decrease in ease of removal resulting from increasing the rate of impregnation by the predetermined chemical. A press device ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130256169 | PACKAGE STRUCTURE - In order to achieve both ease of removal and an increase in the rate of impregnation by a predetermined chemical, in this packaging structure of a package of wet wipes, a convex region is formed at a position containing a region that faces the opening of a main package body and that is on the upper surface of a stacked body of wet wipes. The convex region is formed protruding towards the main package body. A space is formed between the region (corresponding to the ends) aside from the convex region formed on the wet wipes and the upper surface to which the opening of the main package body is provided. | 10-03-2013 |
20130248398 | CONTINUOUS PACKING PRODUCT OF ABSORBENT ARTICLES, EXTERIOR SHEETS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CONTINUOUS PACKING PRODUCT OF ABSORBENT ARTICLES - A continuous packing product of an absorbent article has a plurality of packing bodies are continuous with the absorbent article being packed by means of an exterior sheet and the exterior sheet has: a first resin layer which is formed of a thermoplastic resin, and a second resin layer which is formed of a thermoplastic resin with a melting point higher than that of the thermoplastic resin forming the first resin layer. A bonded region configured to partition the packing unit by means of thermal bonding is formed on the exterior sheet. The second resin layer is laminated on the first resin layer in at least the bonded region and the thermoplastic resin configuring the second resin layer is soluble in a solvent. | 09-26-2013 |
20130245589 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article which has in a longitudinal direction from the front side to the rear side a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region located between the front and rear waist regions. An absorbent sheet is provided between a topsheet and a second sheet which includes at least one liquid-pervious sheet having sandwiched therein an absorbent polymer that is present between a topsheet and a second sheet. The second sheet has a higher liquid diffusibility than the topsheet, the topsheet, a backsheet, an absorption body and the second sheet are disposed across the front waist region, the crotch region and the rear waist region, and the absorbent sheet is disposed in at least a part of the rear waist region. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245588 | PANTS-TYPE DIAPER - In a pants-type diaper, two folding lines which are extensive in a longitudinal direction and which are spaced in a widthwise direction are formed at an absorber that is disposed in a crotch region A of the pants-type diaper. A plurality of compression lines which are extensive in the widthwise direction and which are spaced in the longitudinal direction are formed in a predetermined region of the absorber. An angle formed by a centerline in a widthwise direction in the compression lines and the widthwise direction is configured so as to be included in a range of 0 degrees to 45 degrees. Two of the compression lines are adjacent to each other in the longitudinal direction are configured so as to approach at a predetermined portion. | 09-19-2013 |
20130237944 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A bodily fluid absorbent structure that includes an absorbent core, an upper sheet covering an upper surface of an absorbent core and a lower sheet covering a lower surface of the absorbent core. Of the bodily fluid absorbent structure, at least an area extending in a central portion of a crotch region is formed with a high stiffness region including a plurality of debosses. The debosses are respectively shaped so that a length dimension thereof in a transverse direction is longer than a length dimension thereof in a longitudinal direction. The high stiffness region includes a plurality of longitudinal low stiffness zones extending in the longitudinal direction and formed with none of the debosses, a plurality of transverse high stiffness zones formed with the debosses arranged intermittently in the transverse direction and transverse low stiffness zones each lying between each pair of the transverse high stiffness zones being adjacent in the longitudinal direction and formed with none of the debosses. | 09-12-2013 |
20130226124 | DISPOSABLE PULL-ON WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable pull-on wearing article includes a waist panel having a skin-facing side and non-skin-facing side and a crotch panel connected to the waist panel. The crotch panel includes a crotch inner sheet lying on the skin-facing side, a crotch outer sheet lying on the non-skin-facing side, a pair of side flaps and a pair of end flaps extending along opposite side edges and opposite end edges of the inner and outer sheets, respectively, and paired sets of leg elastics extending along the opposite side edges in a longitudinal direction. Crossover regions of longitudinally opposite end portions of the side flaps and transversely opposite lateral portions of the end flaps are folded onto the skin-facing side and the crossover regions define nonexistent regions in which none of the elastics exists and the nonexistent regions are attached to the front panel of the waist panel. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226119 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article is formed by interposing superabsorbent polymer particles between overlapping two sheets. The pad-shaped absorbent article is composed of superabsorbent polymer particles bonded to the sheet with a hot melt adhesive, absorbing areas where the sheets are not bonded and sealing areas where the sheets are bonded together and surrounding the absorbing areas. Opposed two adjacent bonding areas of the absorbing areas have the sealing areas in between and facing edges which has the sealing areas in between. One of the facing edges is defined by a wavy line having crest and trough portions. | 08-29-2013 |
20130218115 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE HAVING PAD CONFIGURATION - An absorbent article having a pad configuration, including superabsorbent polymer particles. Superabsorbent polymer particles are interposed between opposed surfaces of first and second layers overlapping with each other to form an absorbent article. The article includes an absorbing region and a sealing region. In the absorbing region, the superabsorbent polymer particles are bonded to the second layer with a hot melt adhesive. In the sealing region, the first layer and the second layer are joined to each other to surround the absorbing region. | 08-22-2013 |
20130211354 | DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A disposable absorbent article includes a chassis and a liquid-absorbent structure. The chassis has an inner sheet lying on a skin-facing side and an outer sheet lying on a garment-facing side. The outer sheet has a first outer sheet and a second outer sheet lying inside the first outer sheet. The second outer sheet is formed on its outer surface with a display area extending in a longitudinal direction. The liquid-absorbent structure is formed with a central void and lateral voids in which core material for a core is not present. The display area can be visually recognized from the garment-facing side through the first outer sheet and from the skin-facing side also through the central void of the liquid-absorbent structure. | 08-15-2013 |
20130199710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WET WIPES - In a method for manufacturing wet wipes, ridge regions raised along the conveyance direction are formed in sheets by causing each of the sheets to pass through between upper folding plates and a lower folding plate and folding the sheet multiple times on itself; each of the sheets having the ridge regions formed therein is impregnated with a predetermined chemical solution; and each of the sheets having been impregnated with the predetermined chemical solution is stacked on each other. After passing through between the upper folding plates and the lower folding plate, each of the sheets makes contact at a surface thereof with a conveyance roller, the surface being located opposite an extended plane across the surface having the ridge region formed therein, the extended plane being a plane obtained by extending the surface of the lower folding plate. | 08-08-2013 |
20130190711 | INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED PRODUCT - An individually wrapped absorbent article that is wrapped in a wrapping sheet wherein the wrapping sheet has a colored part on the inner surface on the side of the absorbent article, and the colored part of the wrapping sheet can be seen from the outside of the individually wrapped product but the absorbent article cannot be seen from the outside of the individually wrapped product. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190710 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An interior body of a disposable diaper includes a liquid-permeable front sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet and a liquid-retaining absorbent core. The front sheet has a single sheet including spunbond layers on the front side and back side and a melt blown layer between the spunbond layers. The absorbent core has fiber aggregates and super-absorbent polymer particles. The front sheet is directly bonded to the skin side surface of the absorbent core. The length of the front sheet is longer than the length of the absorbent core, so that the front sheet has extended sections which extend outward in the lengthwise direction from both ends of the absorbent core in the lengthwise direction, while the extended sections are each continuously connected in the transverse direction with the front sheet or back sheet which overlaps with the extended section. The extended sections can directly contact the skin of the wearer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130184669 | DISPOSABLE PULL-ON WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable pull-on wearing article including a pant-shaped chassis and an absorbent panel. A pull-on wearing article includes a pants-shaped chassis and an absorbent panel. The chassis has a front portion including a front waist region and part of a crotch region and a rear portion including a rear waist region and part of the crotch region. The front portion has a plurality of front waist elastics extending in a width direction and the rear portion has a plurality of rear waist elastics extending in the width direction. A bottom elastic of the front waist elastics and a bottom elastic of the rear waist elastics are in a stretched state in front peripheral edge portion and rear peripheral edge portion of respective leg-openings and in a relaxed state in a portion of the crotch region defined between a pair of the leg-openings. | 07-18-2013 |
20130184666 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article for reducing uncomfortable feeling of stiffness to a wearer includes a bodily fluid absorbent structure extending from front and rear waist regions to a crotch region. At least one of front and rear end portions of an intermediate panel is attached to a skin-facing side of an elastic waist panel by the intermediary of attachment zones except middle zones of the intermediate panel in a transverse direction. Between non-attachment zones provided in a middle of the intermediate panel as viewed in the transverse direction X and the elastic waist panel, middle void spaces are formed. The bodily fluid absorbent structure has a sheet shape formed of super-absorbent polymer particles wrapped with a liquid-pervious sheet. At least one of front and rear ends of the bodily fluid absorbent structure lies in the middle void spaces. | 07-18-2013 |
20130184665 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet provided at a location opposing the top sheet, an absorbent provided between the top sheet and the back sheet, and a side sheet provided on both sides of the top sheet in the widthwise direction and having an area that overlaps the top sheet and the absorbent, wherein the absorbent contains an airlaid layer and a crushed pulp layer, the crushed pulp layer is provided on the top sheet side, the airlaid layer is provided on the back sheet side, and the absorbent article has a plurality of indentations formed by pin-embossing the top sheet, the side sheet and the absorbent, and a plurality of indentations formed by pin-embossing the top sheet and the absorbent. | 07-18-2013 |
20130184664 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article having water disintegratability that includes a water disintegratable top sheet, a water disintegratable back sheet, a pressure-sensitive adhesive section for attaching the absorbent article to clothing, disposed on the surface of the back sheet opposite the top sheet, and a release sheet for protection of a contact surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive section which contacts with clothing. One or more protrusions and one or more depressions are formed on the contact surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive section. | 07-18-2013 |
20130180835 | SORTING SYSTEM AND SORTING METHOD FOR ABSORBENT PRODUCTS - This distributing device for absorbent articles is provided with a main conveyor path, a branch conveyor path that branches from the main conveyor path, a main conveyor path that conveys absorbent articles along the main conveyor path, a diverting mechanism that diverts absorbent articles in the main conveyor path from the main conveyor path to the branch conveyor path, and a branch conveyor mechanism that conveys the absorbent articles diverted by the diverting mechanism along the branch conveyor path. The diverting mechanism is provided with a diverting part for diverting the absorbent articles. The diverting part moves without stopping, entering the main conveyor path from a standby position outside the main conveyor path and then, after leaving the main conveyor path, returning to the standby position. | 07-18-2013 |
20130178815 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet and an absorber between the top sheet and back sheet, and having a front body waist region, a crotch region and a back body waist region. The top sheet is a nonwoven fabric having on the skin contact surface a plurality of ridges and a plurality of recesses extending in the lengthwise direction of the disposable diaper, and alternating in the widthwise direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction. The top sheet has point-like compressed sections at a prescribed density in the front body waist region and/or back body waist region, the ridges in prescribed zones having different heights than the adjacent ridges at the same location in the lengthwise direction. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178811 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND DISPOSABLE DIAPER - An absorbent article has a liquid-permeable top sheet of a white non-woven fabric, a liquid-impermeable back sheet opposing the top sheet, and an absorbent between the top sheet and the back sheet. A colored element is provided on the side of the top sheet that does not contact the skin, is visible through the top sheet, and is colored to a color other than white. The top sheet has protrusions and indentations in the thickness direction. The basic weight of the protrusions is greater than the basic weight of the indentations. The color difference between the Lab value of the color of the colored element visible through the protrusions of the top sheet and the Lab value of the color of the colored element visible through the indentations of the top sheet is 2.8 or more. | 07-11-2013 |
20130174965 | APPARTUS AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC PROCESSING OF A FIBROUS WEB - An apparatus and a method for ultrasonic processing improved so as to prevent a fibrous web from being disfigured due to the ultrasonic processing. In an apparatus to ultrasonically process a fibrous web running in a machine direction MD, a first mechanical element defined by one of an ultrasonic horn and an anvil and a second mechanical element defined by the other of the ultrasonic horn and the anvil are moved forward or backward in a direction crossing the machine direction MD so as to pass transversely across the fibrous web. | 07-11-2013 |
20130174652 | STATE QUANTITY DISTRIBUTION MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING STATE QUANTITY DISTRIBUTION OF SAMPLE - A state quantity distribution measuring apparatus that allows easy measurement of a state quantity distribution in an absorbent article that has irregularities. The state quantity distribution measuring apparatus comprises a sensor selected from the group consisting of a moisture sensor, a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a heat flow rate sensor and a wind speed sensor, which measures a state quantity of a sample, a sample stage on which a sample to be measured, consisting of an absorbent article, is placed, and which has a raised surface for placing the sample thereon, a support mechanism which supports the sensor such that the contact pressure of the sensor with respect to the sample is essentially constant, a moving mechanism which moves either or both the sensor and the sample so that the sensor moves relative to the sample, and a measuring mechanism that measures a state quantity of the sample at multiple locations using the sensor/while moving the sensor relative to the sample by controlling the moving mechanism, thereby measuring the state quantity distribution of the sample. | 07-11-2013 |
20130172841 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE - Disclosed is a disposable pants-type wearing article improved to prevent panels joined to one another from being peeled off from each other. A disposable pants-type wearing article includes a front panel | 07-04-2013 |
20130167629 | ULTRASONIC PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a ultrasonic processing apparatus, upstream conveyor and downstream conveyor allow a fibrous web to run in a machine direction continuously. Between the conveyors, a working surface of a first mechanical element serving as a stationary element of the ultrasonic processing apparatus extends diagonally with respect to the machine direction. The fibrous web runs in the machine direction above the working surface. The ultrasonic processing apparatus includes a second mechanical element adapted to move in a direction diagonally intersecting the machine direction. The working surface of the first mechanical element cooperates with the second mechanical element to subject the fibrous web to ultrasonic processing. One of an ultrasonic horn and an anvil is used as the first mechanical element and a remainder of the ultrasonic horn and the anvil is used as the second mechanical element. | 07-04-2013 |
20130165889 | INCONTINENCE LINER - An incontinence liner includes a liquid permeable skin contact side sheet, a liquid impermeable non-skin contact side sheet, and an absorptive body arranged between the skin contact side sheet and non-skin contact side sheet. The absorptive body includes a front region, a rear region, and an intermediate region between the front region and the rear region. The liner further has a pair of wings for fastening the liner to clothing, which are adjoining the intermediate region and are bent and superposed over the intermediate region when worn. The absorptive body includes a hygroscopic material. The basis weight of the hygroscopic material in the intermediate region is greater than the basis weight of the hygroscopic material in the front region and the basis weight of the hygroscopic material in the rear region. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165884 | LINER FOR INCONTINENCE - A liner for incontinence includes a skin contact side sheet, a non-skin contact side sheet, and an absorbent body arranged between these sheets and including an absorbent material. The absorbent material includes 30 to 70 mass % of SAP. The liner includes a main body and wings in an intermediate region of the main body. An SAP basis weight in the intermediate region is larger than in front and rear regions of the main body. The main body includes a front compressed region which is positioned between the intermediate region and the front region immediately in front of a urinating position (UP) of a wearer when worn, side compressed regions which extend from the intermediate region to the front region and rear region, respectively, and a rear compressed region which extends in the rear region in substantially the width direction. At the compressed regions, the absorbent body is continuous. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165883 | NONWOVEN FABRIC, METHOD FOR PRODUCING IT, AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A nonwoven fabric that minimizes the condition of rewet-back in which fluid absorbed into an absorbent body exudes out to the front side, as well as a method for producing it. The nonwoven fabric has a mutually perpendicular machine direction (MD), cross-machine direction (CD) and thickness direction, and has in the thickness direction a front side and a back side on the side opposite it, having on the front side heights and recesses formed so as to extend in an alternating fashion parallel to each other in the MD direction, forming repeating corrugations in the CD direction, and on the back side a back side section formed across the entire side, the heights being composed of height tips located at the tips of the heights and neck sections connecting the height tips with the back side section, the cross-sectional widths of the neck sections being narrower than the height tips in a cross-section of the heights in the CD direction, and having spaces between the recesses formed by the two neck sections supporting each of the adjacent height tips, and the back side section. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165882 | BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A bodily fluid absorbent article adapted to absorb bodily fluid over a wide range thereof. An absorbent structure in the bodily fluid absorbent article includes an upper absorbent component and a lower absorbent component. The absorbent structure further includes one of a dispersing surface constituting the upper absorbent component and kept in contact with the lower absorbent component and a dispersing surface constituting the lower absorbent component and kept in contact with the upper absorbent component. Such dispersing surface exhibits a dispersion velocity for bodily fluid higher than those exhibited by the absorbent sections defined immediately above and under this dispersing surface. | 06-27-2013 |
20130158497 | NON-WOVEN SHEET, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A nonwoven sheet for use in absorbent articles such as disposable diapers which is capable of reducing the range of surface diffusion of, and reducing re-adhesion to the skin of, highly viscous fluid excretion. The nonwoven sheet has mutually perpendicular longitudinal, transverse and thickness directions, and has in the aforementioned thickness direction a front surface and a back surface opposite thereof. Ridges and grooves are formed alternately so as to extend in parallel in the aforementioned longitudinal direction and so as to form repeated undulations in the aforementioned transverse direction. The nonwoven sheet has a bottom surface which, when the aforementioned nonwoven sheet is placed on a horizontal surface with the back surface (opposite of the front surface in contact with the skin of the wearer) down, is the surface that contacts the aforementioned horizontal surface. On the back surface of the aforementioned grooves are formed in the aforementioned longitudinal direction alternately areas where the height from the bottom surface is relatively high and parts corresponding to the bottom surface. Openings are formed at least in the areas where the height from the bottom surface is relatively high, and a space is provided below said openings. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156976 | FLUID ABSORBENT STRUCTURE FOR FOODSTUFFS - A fluid absorbent structure adapted to absorb fluids oozing from foodstuffs on its contacting surface with the foodstuffs even when the fluid absorbent structure is in a slanted position against the container bottom. A drip sheet includes an upper sheet, a lower sheet and an absorbent sheet interleaved between these upper and lower sheets. The upper sheet includes a perforated region and non-perforated region. The non-perforated region is formed with a display element which is visually recognized from an upper surface of the upper sheet. The upper sheet is formed with grooves which are depressed from the upper surface of the upper sheet toward a lower surface facing the absorbent sheet and at least partially overlaps with the perforations. The grooves include a first segment extending along a longitudinal imaginary center line, and second and third segment intersecting the first segment. The lower sheet is formed with a plurality of perforations which are breathable and liquid-permeable. | 06-20-2013 |
20130137328 | METHOD OF EASY PRODUCTION OF NONWOVEN FABRIC HAVING AT LEAST ONE PROJECTION AND AT LEAST ONE RECESS, AND METHOD OF EASY PROCESSING OF NONWOVEN FABRIC - It is an object of the invention to provide a method of easy production of a nonwoven fabric having at least one projection and at least one recess and to a method of easy processing of a nonwoven fabric. | 05-30-2013 |
20130131623 | INCONTINENCE LINER - An incontinence liner is provided with a liquid permeable skin contact side sheet, a liquid impermeable non-skin contact side sheet, and an absorptive body arranged between the skin contact side sheet and non-skin contact side sheet and including an absorptive material. The absorptive material includes 30 to 70 mass % of a high absorption polymer. The absorptive body includes an absorbing part positioned at a urinating position of a wearer when worn, a diffusing part extending around the absorbing part up to a peripheral edge of the absorptive body, and diffusion-suppressing parts scattered inside the diffusing part. An average absorptive material density of the diffusing part is higher than the absorbing part and the diffusion-suppressing parts. The absorbing part projects toward the skin contact side sheet more than the other parts of the absorptive body, while the diffusion-suppressing parts project toward the skin contact side sheet more than the diffusing part. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131620 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - To demonstrate an effect of whitening easily-darkening wearer's groin portion, etc. An absorbent article according to the present invention comprises: a liquid permeable top sheet; a liquid impermeable back sheet; and an absorber disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, wherein in both-side edges on a skin contacting surface side of the top sheet and along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, application regions to which a phosphoric ester type vitamin is applied are arranged intermittently. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131619 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article adapted to prevent indicators from being transferred to a liquid-absorbent structure and to make the indicators develop the color reaction quickly in response to a discharge of body exudates. A disposable diaper has a topsheet, a backsheet and a liquid-absorbent structure interposed between these top- and backsheets. A surface of a first backsheet facing the liquid-absorbent structure is formed with indicators. The indicators contain a hot-melt polymer, an indicator agent adapted to develop a color reaction and a plasticizing oil. The liquid-absorbent structure has a liquid-absorbent core, a liquid-diffusive wrapping sheet adapted to wrap the core. A hydrophilic bottom sheet is interposed between a bottom surface of the core and a bottom surface region of the wrapping sheet. A dimension in the transverse direction of the bottom sheet is larger than a dimension of a region in which the indicators are formed and smaller than a dimension in the transverse direction of the core. | 05-23-2013 |
20130123736 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A diaper includes front and rear waist members and a crotch member. The front and rear waist members are respectively formed with first narrowly-spaced elastic zones, widely-spaced elastic zones and second narrowly-spaced elastic zones adjacent one to another. Front and rear ends of the crotch member are bonded to respective sides of the front and rear waist members so that the crotch member's front and rear ends may positionally correspond to the second narrowly-spaced elastic zones. Cover sheets are attached to the side of the crotch member to cover the crotch member's front and rear ends respectively. A length dimension of the cover sheet in the longitudinal direction is set to be smaller than those of the front and rear waist members and a length dimension of the cover sheet in the transverse direction is substantially equal to those of the front and rear waist members. | 05-16-2013 |
20130123735 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A diaper includes front and rear waist members and a crotch member. The front and rear waist members are respectively formed with first narrowly-spaced elastic zones, widely-spaced elastic zones and second narrowly-spaced elastic zones adjacent one to another. Front and rear ends of the crotch member are bonded to respective sides of the front and rear waist members so that the crotch member's front and rear ends may positionally correspond to the second narrowly-spaced elastic zones. Cover sheets are attached to the side of the crotch member to cover the crotch member's front and rear ends respectively. A length dimension of the cover sheet in the longitudinal direction is set to be smaller than those of the front and rear waist members and a length dimension of the cover sheet in the transverse direction is substantially equal to those of the front and rear waist members. | 05-16-2013 |
20130110075 | WEARING ARTICLE | 05-02-2013 |
20130102987 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In the disclosed absorbent article, in a first region, a first elastic member extends linearly in the widthwise direction, in a second region, a second elastic member extends linearly in the widthwise direction, the elongational stress of the first elastic member is greater than the elongational stress of the second elastic member, and the length in the widthwise direction of the joining region that is of both the main body of an absorbent body and a chassis in the first region is configured in a manner so as to be shorter than the length in the widthwise direction of the joining region that is of both the main body of the absorbent body and the chassis in the second region. | 04-25-2013 |
20130096528 | PANTS-TYPE ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE - A pants-type wearing article adapted to inhibit a decrease in the effective area of the buttocks covering portion to cover the wearer's buttocks. A pants-type diaper having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a front-back direction, and including a front panel adapted to cover a front waist region of the wearer, a rear panel adapted to cover a rear waist region of the article wearer and a crotch panel connected to the front panel and the rear panel so as to cover a crotch region of the article wearer. The rear panel is formed with a rear waist covering portion having a dimension in the longitudinal direction substantially the same as a dimension of the front panel and a buttocks covering portion contiguously extending downward from the rear waist covering portion and adapted to cover at least partially the wearer's buttocks. The crotch panel includes an absorbent core and gasket cuffs extending in the front-back direction along lateral portions of the absorbent core and having gasket elastics adapted to be elastically contractible. The buttocks covering portion has buttock elastics extending in the transverse direction. The buttocks covering portion and the crotch panel are joined to each other in a zone defined between the gasket cuffs opposite to each other in the transverse direction and not joined to each other at portions in which the gasket cuffs are disposed. | 04-18-2013 |
20130090623 | DISPOSABLE DIAPERS - A disposable wearing article improved so that a front waist region of a chassis can be reliably folded outwardly by relatively simple handling and, in such state, the article can be reliably fitted to the wearer's body. An article chassis is provided with an absorbent core extending across a crotch region into front and rear waist regions and the absorbent core is formed with a fold guiding zone extending across the front waist region in a direction of a transverse axis. A fastening system includes a first fastening system composed of first fastening elements provided on respective skin-contactable surfaces of a pair of fastening members extending outward in the direction of the transverse axis from lateral edges of the rear waist region and a second fastening system composed of the first fastening elements and a third fastening element formed on the skin-contactable surface of the front waist region. | 04-11-2013 |
20130079743 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In the disclosed absorbent article ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130079742 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article having a waist-opening that can be easily folded back along a fold line extending in a transverse direction without increasing the stiffness in the vicinity of the waist-opening. A diaper includes front and rear waist members and a crotch member. A liquid-absorbent structure of the crotch member is formed outboard of in a longitudinal direction of a core with front and rear flaps exclusively composed of an absorption surface wrapping sheet, a leakage-barrier sheet and a bottom surface wrapping sheet. The front and rear waist members include first regions overlapping the front and rear flaps, respectively, second regions lying adjacent to the associated first regions and third regions lying adjacent to the associated second regions. The front and rear waist members are provided with the first, second and third waist elastics attached between respective inner and outer sheets in the first, second and third regions, respectively. A tensile stress of the first regions and the third regions is adjusted to be lower than that of the second regions. | 03-28-2013 |
20130079741 | THIN ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Disclosed is an absorbent article containing an absorbent body which is thin before absorption, and even after absorption does not inhibit super absorbent polymer (SAP) swelling and wherein deformation such as twisting is unlikely to occur. The disclosed absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable front surface sheet, a liquid impermeable rear surface sheet, and an absorbent body which is located between the two sheets. The absorbent body is formed from a super absorbent polymer containing layer and a non-woven fabric layer, with the non-woven fabric layer having regions wherein the between-fibre void ratio is relatively large and regions wherein the between-fibre void ratio is relatively small. The tip sections of the fibres forming the non-woven fabric layer are greater in number in the regions wherein the between-fibre void ratio is relatively large than the regions wherein the between-fibre void ratio is relatively small, and the non-woven fabric layer has expansibility. | 03-28-2013 |
20130066290 | BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A bodily fluid absorbent structure adapted to be stably secured in a state in which a liquid-absorbent core is wrapped with a core wrapping sheet and ensuring a high workability for a process of manufacturing the bodily fluid absorbent structure. A bodily fluid absorbent structure has a first surface and a second surface wherein, on the side of the first surface, a core wrapping sheet and a liquid-absorbent core are bonded to each other by the intermediary of a bond region defined by hot melt adhesive intermittently applied to substantially entire opposite surfaces of the core wrapping sheet and the liquid-absorbent core. On the side of the second surface, lateral portions of the core wrapping sheet are overlapped each other, and the core wrapping sheet and the liquid-absorbent core are secured to each other in compressed end portions formed in the first and second end regions and a compressed middle portions formed in lateral portions of a middle region except a central zone as viewed in a direction of a transverse axis. | 03-14-2013 |
20130061410 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WET WIPES, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, AND WET WIPES - A method of manufacturing wet wipes includes a step of continuously conveying a plurality of sheets by a conveyor, a step of folding each of the sheets toward a conveyor non-contact surface side of the sheets, a step of impregnating each of the folded sheets with the predetermined chemical solution, from a conveyor contact surface side of the sheets a step of laminating each of the sheets impregnated with the predetermined chemical solution, and a step of cutting the laminated sheets. | 03-14-2013 |
20130060220 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a disposable wearing article adapted to inhibit sweating and an uncomfortable stuffiness. Front and rear waist regions of a disposable wearing article have inner surfaces thereof at least partially formed of elastic sheets. The elastic sheets are made of a mixture of elastic fibers and inelastic fibers and formed with ridges and grooves. The elastic sheets have a thickness in the ridges repetitively reduced and restored as the elastic sheets repeat elastic stretch and contraction in the waist circumferential direction. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060219 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - In a crotch region in the disclosed absorbent article, a waist elastic member provided in a front waist region, and waist elastic members provided in a rear waist region are arranged so as to not come into contact with each other, and a linear identification part is provided in either the front waist region or the rear waist region, in a manner such that in a first region wherein an absorbent main body is provided the identification part is only visible from the side of the absorbent article which is not in contact with the skin, and in a second region wherein the absorbent main body is not provided the identification part is visible from both the side of the absorbent article which is in contact with the skin and that which is not. | 03-07-2013 |
20130046266 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes front and rear outer sheets, an inner sheet, and front and rear waist-opening sheets. Each of first sheet segments of the waist-opening sheets is longer than the corresponding second sheet segments. End portions are bonded to outer surfaces of the outer sheets. In areas where the end portions are spaced apart from the front and rear outer sheets, the first sheet segments and the inner sheet are overlapped to form low stiffness sub-regions. In respective sides inboard of the low stiffness sub-regions, the inner sheet, the front and rear outer sheets and the first sheet segments are respectively overlapped to form inner high stiffness sub-regions, and in respective sides outboard of the low stiffness sub-regions, the inner sheet, the second sheet segments and the first sheet segments are overlapped to form outer high stiffness sub-regions. | 02-21-2013 |
20130041340 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - In a disposable wearing article, front and rear waist elastics are attached between respective outer and inner sheets. An absorbent structure and leg-cuffs are attached to an inner side of the inner sheet. Lateral proximal portions of the respective leg cuffs are bonded between the absorbent structure and the inner sheet and lateral distal portions of the respective leg cuffs extend outwardly in a transverse direction beyond the absorbent structure and are not bonded to the inner sheet. These lateral distal portions are provided with a plurality of cuff elastics. Front and rear waist regions respectively include first through third sub-regions which are adjacent one to another in this order and the respective sub-regions are provided with first through third waist elastics. A tensile stress in the first and third sub-regions is higher than that in the second sub-region and the cuff elastics extend to at least the second sub-region. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041336 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable diaper has a central elastic member formed along the lengthwise direction L so that the absorber can be curved to be convex in the inward direction, and a pair of side slits formed along the lengthwise direction L so that the absorber can be curved to be convex in the outward direction. A thickness of the absorber at the central portion and at the side edge portions are smaller than a thickness of the absorber at the middle portions. | 02-14-2013 |
20130034686 | NONWOVEN FABRIC HAVING PROJECTIONS AND RECESSES, COMPRISING EXTENSIBLE FIBER AND ELASTIC FIBER, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING NONWOVEN FABRIC - It is an object of the invention to provide a nonwoven fabric having projections and recesses, comprising extensible fiber and elastic fiber, which has excellent feel on the skin and elasticity, and excellent air permeability in the planar directions and the thickness direction, as well as a method of producing the nonwoven fabric. | 02-07-2013 |
20130032656 | ELASTIC THREAD SUPPLY DEVICE - An elastic thread supply device including a tension controller configured to control the stress acting upon an elastic thread drawn from an elastic thread package, and a drive roll configured to supply the elastic thread dispensed from the tension controller to a processing line. The drive roll operates at a supply velocity slower than a conveyance velocity of a web, and increases or decreases the supply velocity depending on the fluctuation in the conveyance velocity. | 02-07-2013 |
20130030402 | DISPOSABLE WORN ARTICLE - A disposable worn article diaper includes: a central slit formed in an absorber such that the absorber is curved to be convex toward an inward direction toward a wearer in a crotch region; side curved portions formed in the absorber along the lengthwise direction such that the absorber is curved to be convex toward the outward direction. The disposable worn article diaper includes a crossing elastic member crossing the absorber in middle crotch regions and fixed to the absorber. The absorber is contracted by the crossing elastic member toward a center of the absorber in the widthwise direction. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030398 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable diaper has a central slit formed along the lengthwise direction L so that the absorber can be curved to be convex in the inward direction, and a pair of side slits formed along the lengthwise direction L so that the absorber can be curved to be convex in the outward direction. An average total weight of a water absorbent polymer at the central portion CT and the side edge portion S | 01-31-2013 |
20130025795 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING BODILY EXUDATES ABSORBENT STRUCTURES - An apparatus for manufacturing bodily exudates absorbent structures has a rotating drum to convey a first continuous sheet, a feeding mechanism, a second conveying mechanism to convey a second continuous sheet and a sealing mechanism to join the first and second continuous sheets. The rotating drum is formed on its peripheral surface with depressions, leaving a non-depressed peripheral surface segment. Each of the depressions is formed in a central region with a central through-hole extending through each depression from an outer surface to an inner surface of the rotating drum. Within the rotating drum, a suction mechanism is installed to provide a suction effect directed from the outer surface toward the inner surface of the rotating drum so that the first continuous sheet is formed with a first concave region having been deformed along each depression and a second concave region having been deformed toward the central through-hole. | 01-31-2013 |
20130025792 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - An absorbent structure manufacturing apparatus has a feeder that includes a measuring roller provided with a filling region to be filled with absorbent discrete material, a material feeding space to reserve and feed the absorbent material to the filling region, a scraper located downstream of the material feeding space to scrape surplus amount of the absorbent material fed to the filling region, a feed chute to receive and retain temporarily the absorbent material from the filling region, and an open-close movable shutter on a peripheral wall of the feed chute. The measuring roller is rotary driven by a rotary drive and the shutter is opened-closed by an actuator. The rotary drive is rotated at a velocity corresponding to a conveyance velocity of a continuous sheet and the actuator controls the shutter in timing corresponding to the conveyance velocity. The absorbent material is fed onto the continuous sheet. | 01-31-2013 |
20130023845 | BODILY FLUID-ABSORBENT STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a bodily fluid-absorbent structure improved so as to facilitate bodily fluids to disperse in a thickness direction of the structure. Core material of a bodily fluid-absorbent structure is formed of an aggregation of fluff wood pulp fibers. The aggregation has a basis mass in a range of 150 to 500 g/m | 01-24-2013 |
20130022784 | SHEET OF NON-WOVEN FABRIC AND PRODUCTION PROCESS OF SAME - A sheet of nonwoven fabric which has surface irregularities, the shape of the surface irregularities being less apt to be changed by external pressure, etc. The sheet has a machine, cross and thickness which are perpendicular to one another. The upper surface has a plurality of protrusions continuously extending, in parallel, in the cross direction and further has a plurality of recesses ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130020736 | STRETCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A manufacturing method for an absorptive article includes a sheet-stretching step of performing a stretching process to stretch a continuous body of the exterior sheet in a widthwise direction while conveying a continuous body. In the step of performing the stretching process, the continuous body is stretched by a stretching apparatus including a first roll and a second roll. An axial core of the first roll and an axial core of the second roll are correspond to the widthwise direction of the continuous body. The first roll and the second roll have surfaces each provided with columns of tooth units and untoothed units. | 01-24-2013 |
20130020017 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPOSABLE DIAPER - In a step of performing a stretching process performed by using an embossing roll mechanism, a continuous body of an exterior sheet is conveyed in a state in which strand-shaped members are joined with each of an end region and an end region of the continuous body of the exterior sheet, along a conveyance direction of the continuous body of the exterior sheet; and the strand-shaped members joined with the end region are sandwiched by tooth units of a first embossing roll and interdental units of a second embossing roll corresponding to the end region side, and the strand-shaped members joined with the end region are sandwiched by the tooth units of the first embossing roll and the interdental units of the second embossing roll positioned at the end region side. | 01-24-2013 |
20130019733 | CUTTING APPARATUS - A cutting apparatus includes a holding conveying mechanism configured to convey a web using a holding surface, and a cutting mechanism configured to perform first cutting to cut the web conveyed while being held by the holding conveying mechanism along a crossing direction crossing a conveyance direction of the web and performing second cutting to cut the web along the crossing direction with a predetermined distance from the first cutting. The holding surface includes a main holding area configured to hold the web along the crossing direction between the first cutting and the second cutting, and an auxiliary holding area configured to hold the web by a holding power weaker than the holding power in the main holding area, at least in either upstream or downstream of the conveyance direction of the main holding area. | 01-24-2013 |
20130017370 | NON-WOVEN FABRIC SHEETAANM Yamaguchi; MasashiAACI KagawaAACO JPAAGP Yamaguchi; Masashi Kagawa JPAANM Oba; ToruAACI KagawaAACO JPAAGP Oba; Toru Kagawa JP - A sheet of nonwoven fabric for use in absorbent articles such as disposal diapers, sanitary napkins, wipes, etc., the sheet of nonwoven fabric being suitable for holding high-viscosity excreta such as soft feces. The sheet of nonwoven fabric has, formed in a first surface thereof, a plurality of ridges and grooves which extend in the machine direction. The sheet comprises a first fibrous layer and a second fibrous layer, the first fibrous layer being located on the first-surface side and the second fibrous layer being located on the second-surface side, which is on the reverse side from the first surface. The second fibrous layer comprises fibers having the ability to be crimped, and the first fibrous layer comprises heat-fusible fibers which are not crimped at the crimping initiation temperature of the fibers having the ability to be crimped. In a plan view from the first-surface side, the peripheries of the ridges have a shape which is composed of repeated meanders. | 01-17-2013 |
20130014902 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE MANUFACTURING DEVICEAANM Oba; KenjiAACI KagawaAACO JPAAGP Oba; Kenji Kagawa JP - An absorbent article manufacturing device is formed by mutually combining a plurality of processing units. Spacers are provided on the bottom of the processing units to form a lower space between an installation plane where the processing units are installed and the processing units. Product-related articles such as materials are moved within the lower space. Alternatively, manufacturing-related articles such as electrical wiring are arranged within the lower space. | 01-17-2013 |
20130012907 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable pants-type wearing article adapted to prevent body waste from leaking out beyond the peripheries of the leg-openings when disposing of the used article. A disposable pants-type wearing article includes a front panel, a rear panel and a central panel. When the front panel and the rear panel are respectively folded with respective inner surfaces lying inside, opposite side edges of the central panel get close to each other in a midsection of a crotch region to a distance in a range of 0 to 50 mm. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012905 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article improved so that the crotch panel may be stably fastened to the outer surface of the waist panel and a relatively large amount of body waste may be absorbed and retained without deteriorating the absorption performance of the liquid-absorbent structure in the crotch panel. One of front and rear end portions of a crotch panel is attached to respective non-skin-facing sides of elasticized waist panels by the intermediary of bond-regions respectively including non-bond regions in midsections thereof. The waist region to which the one end portion is attached is formed at the midsection thereof with a separable portion extending in a longitudinal direction when a wearing article is put on the wearer's body. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012904 | INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED ABSORBENT PRODUCT - A sanitary napkin provided with an absorbent body which includes a liquid permeable skin contact side sheet, a liquid impermeable non-skin contact side sheet, and an absorbent core which is arranged between these skin contact side sheet and non-skin contact side sheet and with a cover sheet which covers the surface of the skin contact side sheet. An individually wrapped product is formed by wrapping the napkin in the ready-to-wrap state by the wrapping material. The wrapping material includes a belt-shaped material which surrounds the ready-to-wrap napkin across the entire circumference of the ready-to-wrap napkin. A width of the belt-shaped material is shorter than a length of the ready-to-wrap napkin in the width direction of the belt-shaped material. | 01-10-2013 |
20130012900 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article that includes an absorber capable of absorbing a body fluid of a user, a liquid-permeable sheet covering one surface of the absorber and allowing a body fluid of the user to pass through, and a liquid-impermeable sheet covering another surface of the absorber and disallowing a body fluid of the user to pass through, wherein the color of the liquid-permeable sheet has an L* value of 88 or more, an a* value of 0 to 0.3 and a b* value of −8 to 0 in the L*a*b* color system, and the color of the absorber has a b* value of 1 to 5 and an L* value of 93 or more in the L*a*b* color system. | 01-10-2013 |
20130008534 | STEAM INJECTION MECHANISM, PRODUCT PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING THE STEAM INJECTION MECHANISM, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE STEAM INJECTION MECHANISM - The present invention provides a steam injection mechanism improved so that water accumulation on an object to be processed can be reliably restricted. A steam injection mechanism comprises a common channel through which steam supplied from a steam supply source flows and distribution channels branched from the common channel to distribute the steam from the common channel wherein the steam is injected from steam injection orifices formed in distal ends of the distribution channels to an object (a fibrous nonwoven fabric) to be processed. When the steam injection mechanism is located above the fibrous nonwoven fabric, the lowermost region of the common channel functions as a condensed water collecting region and, when the steam injection mechanism is located under the fibrous nonwoven fabric, the uppermost region of the common channel functions as the condensed water collecting region. | 01-10-2013 |
20130006206 | URINE ABSORBENT STRUCTURE - A urine absorbent structure improved so as to prevent urine once having been absorbed by a pad from flowing back under the effect of the wearer's body weight exerted on the pad. A urine absorbent pad of a urine absorbent structure includes a core formed of an aggregate of water-absorbent materials. The core contains, as water-absorbent materials, at least fluff pulp and superabsorbent polymer particles. | 01-03-2013 |
20130001042 | SORTING APPARATUS - The belt conveyer | 01-03-2013 |
20120329352 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED AIR-THROUGH NONWOVEN FABRIC, AND POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED AIR-THROUGH NONWOVEN FA - The invention provides a method of producing an air-through nonwoven fabric comprising the steps of: forming a web comprising composite fibers comprising a first polylactic acid and a second polylactic acid having a lower melting point than the melting point of the first polylactic acid; a step of exposing the web to a first air-through treatment in the temperature range of the following temperature T | 12-27-2012 |
20120328838 | MOISTURE-PERMEABLE AND WATERPROOF FILM, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING IT - It is an object of the invention to provide a moisture-permeable and waterproof film that is biodegradable, has high biomass and exhibits high flexibility. The moisture-permeable and waterproof film comprises polylactic acid and an inorganic filler, wherein the film has high-stretch regions (H | 12-27-2012 |
20120325620 | LAMINATED PRODUCT TREATING APPARATUS - Laminated product treating apparatus improved to prevent falling off core material from the laminated product in the course of treating the laminated product containing the core material with steam. First and second mesh belts respectively have a plurality of first and second openings and first and second closed regions each defined between each pair of the adjacent openings. In the course of being fed and transported, the first mesh belt and the second mesh belt are relatively positioned so that the first openings are more or less out of alignment with the second openings, i.e., the second closed region overlap the first openings and thereby the second closed region partially closes the first openings. | 12-27-2012 |
20120325619 | WORK TREATING APPARATUS - A work treating apparatus includes an injection unit for injecting pressurized steam jets evenly to a work without dropping a temperature of pressurized steam jets. The apparatus includes a conveyor for conveying the work in a machine direction and an injection unit for injecting superheated and pressurized steam jets to the work. The injection unit has a lower surface including a plurality of injection orifices in a cross direction. The conveyor is flexible and includes a first mesh belt facing to an upper surface side of the work and a second mesh belt facing to a lower surface side of the work. The first and second mesh belts sandwich the work therebetweeen to convey the work in the machine direction. The lower surface comes in slidable contact with the first mesh belt to curve at least the first mesh belt of the first and second mesh belts downward. | 12-27-2012 |
20120321839 | NONWOVEN-FABRIC SHEET AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - A nonwoven-fabric sheet having a high liquid permeation rate and a process for producing the sheet. The nonwoven-fabric sheet comprises two layers, a first layer and a second layer, and is characterized in that the first layer has a plurality of ridges and grooves which extend in parallel in the lengthwise direction, that the first layer comprises heat-fusible fibers and the second layer comprises crimped fibers, and that the sheet has an average fiber angle of 70 or less in a cross-section parallel to the lengthwise direction. The nonwoven-fabric sheet can be produced by stacking a web comprising fibers having latent crimping properties and a web comprising heat-fusible fibers, ejecting a fluid from a plurality of nozzles arranged in the width direction, while conveying the stack, to form ridges and grooves, heating the stack using a means that reduces resistance against the crimping properties of the fibers having latent crimping properties, thereby crimping the fibers having latent crimping properties, and then fusion-bonding the heat-fusible fibers. | 12-20-2012 |
20120318111 | INTERMITTENT CUTTING TRANSFERRING DEVICE - In the cutting transferring device according to the present invention, the cut film sheet is configured to be sucked onto the outer peripheral surface of the lower blade roll at a position where both side edge regions of the cut film sheet and a front end region thereof in a proceeding direction face an edge area | 12-20-2012 |
20120312713 | WET TISSUE PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME - A wet tissue package that is easily to manufacture with a used wet tissue storage receptacle disposed on a package body. Configured is a wet tissue package equipped with a package body and a used wet tissue storage receptacle, wherein the package body is equipped with a first seal portion formed by joining a pair of first side edges of a sheet member, and a pair of second seal portions formed by joining a pair of second side edges, and a wet tissue housing. The used wet tissue storage receptacle is composed of a first seal extension portion formed by extending in a direction that intersects a direction that the first side edges extend from the first seal, and a sheet member that composes the package body. | 12-13-2012 |
20120310195 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article improved so that a pressure put on the wearer's body may be partially alleviated. A disposable urine absorbent pad as one example of the disposable wearing articles has an inner sheet, an outer sheet and a liquid-absorbent structure interposed between these sheets. The liquid-absorbent structure is formed on an absorbent surface thereof with a pair of first raised portions protruding to the side of the inner sheet. The first raised portions lie in the rear waist region and extend in a longitudinal direction along lateral edges of the liquid-absorbent structure. The first raised portions may be formed of the same material as a core of the liquid-absorbent structure, specifically, of a mixture of fluff pulp and superabsorbent polymer particles. | 12-06-2012 |
20120297946 | INTERMITTENT CUTTING TRANSFERRING DEVICE - An intermittent cutting transferring device configured to cut a first web into individual sheets and to intermittently transfer the individual sheets onto a second web being continuously fed includes an upper blade roll with a blade and a lower blade roll with an anvil element. Each of the individual sheets cut from the first web is arranged to be guided and transferred onto the second web while the first web is being sucked onto an outer peripheral surface of the lower blade roll by the suction through suction holes formed in a first region on an outer peripheral surface of the lower blade roll. The first region defined as a suction region includes a plurality of the suction holes and a non-suction region does not include the suction holes. The suction region and the non-suction region are provided alternately in a roll rotating direction. | 11-29-2012 |
20120296294 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURE FOR BODILY FLUID-ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention to provide an absorbent structure adapted to prevent the liquid-absorbent materials from falling off the wrapping sheets. An aggregate of liquid-absorbent materials in an absorbent structure has an inner surface covered with a first wrapping sheet and an outer surface and lateral surfaces covered with a second wrapping sheet. The first wrapping sheet and the second wrapping sheet respectively have first extended portions lying outboard of the lateral surfaces and second extended portions wherein the first extended portions and the second extended portions are put flat and bonded together to form laminated regions. The laminated regions cover the lateral surfaces of the aggregate and part of the outer surface which, in turn, covers these lateral surfaces and the outer surface. | 11-22-2012 |
20120292224 | PACKAGE OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A package includes a packaging bag unit configured to package an absorbent article and a skirt unit provided on a surface of the packaging bag unit. The skirt unit extends along a side surface and encloses a bottom surface. The packaging bag unit packages the absorbent article such that an absorbing surface of the absorbent article is upright with respect to the bottom surface. Thus, the absorbing surface of the absorbent article is not in contact with the bottom surface, and therefore, it is possible to prevent the absorbing surface of the absorbent article from absorbing water even when the water is generated as a result of condensation inside the bottom surface of the packaging bag unit. | 11-22-2012 |
20120289923 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article according to the present invention includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorber. The absorber has a body unit having a foreside constricted portion and a backside constricted portion, and a pair of extension units extending outside in the widthwise direction of the absorber from the body unit. An outer region is folded toward an inner region at the side of the topsheet, and the maximum length of the inner region along the longitudinal direction of the absorber is shorter than the maximum length of the outer region. | 11-15-2012 |
20120289922 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a disposable pants-type wearing article free from possibility that upper regions of the leg-openings' peripheral edges might be formed with frills even when the belt-like leg elastic members contract along the peripheral edges of the respective leg-openings. Belt-like leg elastic members in a disposable pants-type diaper each has inner and outer surfaces at least one of which is bonded to sheet-like members included in put flat and joined together regions and a crotch region of the diaper. The belt-like leg elastic members extend from the respective put flat and joined regions along leg-openings' peripheral edges. Over ranges in which the belt-like leg elastic members extend along the respective peripheral edges the sheet-like members also extend along the peripheral edges. | 11-15-2012 |
20120289920 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a disposable pants-type wearing article using belt-like leg elastic member. Respective opposite side edges of front and rear waist regions of a disposable pants-type wearing article are fusion-bonded together to define put flat and joined together regions. Belt-like leg elastic members respectively have front side upper ends lying in the front waist region and included by the put flat and joined together regions and rear side upper ends lying in the rear waist region and included by the put flat and joined together regions. In the put flat and joined together regions, lower edges of the upper ends and lower edges of the rear side upper ends are displaced one from another in such a manner that the one pair of the lower edges lie below the other pair of the lower edges. The one pair of the lower edges are fusion-bonded to at least one of a sheet-like member and a sheet-like member covering the other pair of the lower edges at a level lower than the other pair of the lower edges. | 11-15-2012 |
20120283682 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention provides a disposable wearing article having a position indicator mark formed on a crotch member and overlapped by front and rear waist members. Front and rear waist members overlap front and rear ends, respectively, of a crotch member and are bonded thereto to define first and second overlapping regions and an intermediate region extending between these first and second overlapping regions. A position indicator mark is formed in the first overlapping region, a graphic of fish is portrayed as a crotch graphic element in the second overlapping region and graphics of fish are portrayed in the intermediate region as crotch graphic elements. In the first overlapping region, a front waist sheet of the front waist member overlaps a front graphic film on which a graphic of penguin is portrayed as a front graphic element which, in turn, overlaps the position indicator mark. | 11-08-2012 |
20120272804 | CUTTING APPARATUS FOR STRIP-LIKE BODY OF ABSORBENT ARTICLES - A cutting apparatus includes a cutter roll and an anvil roll. The cutter roll has circumferential ports formed in the circumferential surface thereof and a side port formed in one side surface thereof. A positive/negative pressure manifold has a positive pressure port and a negative pressure port formed in its side surface that faces the one side surface of the cutter roll. When the side port is communicated with the negative pressure port, a negative pressure is applied into the circumferential ports causing a cut portion to be held by the cutter roll, and when the side port is communicated with the positive pressure port, a positive pressure is applied into the circumferential ports causing the cut portion being held to separate from the cutter roll. A slight gap is formed between the facing side surfaces of the cutter roll and the positive/negative pressure manifold. | 11-01-2012 |
20120271268 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS FOR ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A compressed portion is formed in the absorbent article by compressing the absorber through a compression process. The compressed portion has a top-surface groove formed on the skin-contact-surface side, and a back-surface groove formed on the clothing-contact-surface side. A bottom portion of the top-surface groove is flat. Since the recessed portions are formed in the bottom portion of the back-surface groove through the compression process, a compression part where the density of the absorber is increased more than in an uncompressed portion and high compression parts where the density of the absorber is increased more than in the compression part are formed in the bottom portion. Thus, the absorbent article can be permeate into by a thick liquid, and is more likely to absorb liquid. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271266 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - Provided is a disposable wearing article improved so that the tensile stress in the middle of the crotch region as well as in the vicinity thereof can be set to be higher than in the other regions without adjusting the number and thickness of the leg elastic elements and a relatively large body waist retaining space can be formed to protect the wearer's skin from being soiled with body waste. A crotch region is provided in both lateral portions thereof with a plurality of leg elastic elements extending in a longitudinal direction Y wherein the respective outermost elastic elements are laid so as to define concave curves in a middle zone of the crotch region and in the vicinity thereof. | 10-25-2012 |
20120267467 | BELT-LIKE MATERIAL-FEEDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A belt-like material-feeding apparatus for continuously feeding a belt-like material to a treating unit, comprises a splicing unit which splices a second belt-like material to a first belt-like material being fed to the treating unit to thereby switch the belt-like material being fed to the treating unit from the first belt-like material into the second belt-like material, an accumulating unit which is arranged between the splicing unit and the treating unit and is capable of temporarily accumulating the belt-like material, and a control unit which, prior to the splicing operation of the splicing unit, increases the amount of accumulation of the belt-like material to be larger than the amount of accumulation of the belt-like material during the steady operation and, during the splicing operation, releases the belt-like material from the accumulating unit to decrease the amount of accumulation of the belt-like material. | 10-25-2012 |
20120259307 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes a front side edges lying in a front waist region, rear side edges lying in a rear waist region and crotch side edges lying in a crotch region. A chassis of the diaper includes a first backsheet forming the front waist region and a part of the crotch region and a second backsheet forming the rear waist region and a part of the crotch region. The front and rear waist regions are provided with first front and rear waist elastic yarns or threads and front and rear region elastic sheets, and the crotch region is provided along the crotch side edges with front and rear leg elastic elements. Ends of front leg elastic elements on one side overlap the front side edges. Ends of the rear leg elastic elements on one side overlap the rear side edges. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259304 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A disposable wearing article includes a liquid-absorbent structure that is adapted to be spaced from the wearer's skin to protect the wearer's skin from being soiled with body waste. A crotch member defining parts of front and rear waist regions and a crotch region has a front end lying in the front waist region and a rear end lying in the rear waist region wherein at least one of the front and rear ends defines non-bonded regions in an intermediate zone as viewed in the transverse direction X of the crotch member and is attached to the outer surface of an elastic waist panel by the intermediary of square U-shaped bonded regions opening toward the crotch region. In areas defining the non-bonded regions, body waste retaining space(s) are formed between the elastic waist panel and the crotch member. | 10-11-2012 |
20120258277 | NOZZLE ASSEMBLY AND COMPOSITE STRETCH MATERIAL PRODUCED BY USING THE SAME - A nozzle assembly includes an upstream block, an upstream shim, an intermediate shim, a downstream shim and a downstream block arranged in this order in a machine direction MD from the upstream side to the downstream side. A lower end of the nozzle is formed with grooves as guide grooves to support elastics. A first pipe, a dispersion slit for a web and convergence slits for a web define first flow channels wherein the slits are respectively formed with outlets for a web. A second pipe, a dispersion slit for elastics and convergence slits for elastics define a second flow channels wherein the slits are respectively formed with outlets for elastics. The outlets for elastics are formed in the respective guide grooves and each of the outlets for a web lies between each pair of the adjacent outlets for elastics as viewed in the cross direction CD. | 10-11-2012 |
20120255881 | INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED PRODUCT COMPRISING FIRST INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE, SECOND INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE AND ATTACHED PART - An individually packaged product is provided with a first individual package, a second individual package and an attaching part. The first individual package includes an absorbent article and a packaging sheet that packages the absorbent article. The second individual package includes a wipe and a packaging that protects the wipe. The attaching part attaches the second individual package to the first individual package such that the attaching strength of the attaching part for the second individual package is greater than the attaching strength of the attaching part for the first individual package, and at least a portion of the attaching part remains on the second individual package side after the second individual package has been removed from the first individual package. At least a portion of the attaching part has adhesiveness after the second individual package has been removed from the first individual package. | 10-11-2012 |
20120253307 | PANT-TYPE DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A pant-type disposable wearing article includes at least one waist region of front and rear waist regions, which includes an inner sheet lying on the skin-facing side and an outer sheet lying on the non-skin-facing side. The inner sheet has a contractile force higher than that of the outer sheet at least in the transverse direction X. Opposite lateral sections of the inner sheet and opposite lateral sections of the outer sheet are permanently bonded together and extend outward in the transverse direction X from arrays of side seam spots to form front flaps and rear flaps defining protruding rims. The front flaps and the rear flaps are curled inwardly. This article is improved so that opposite side edges do not irritate a wearer's skin even if the wearer's skin comes in contact with these side edges and, in addition, good appearance from a lateral view is assured. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253306 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - The present invention aims to provide a disposable wearing article improved so that front and rear waist regions may assure desired fitness without adversely affecting an absorption capacity of a bodily fluid-absorbent core assembly. At least one of front and rear waist regions includes an inner sheet lying on a skin-facing side and having stretch properties and an outer sheet lying on a non-skin-facing side and having a low elastic contractile force. In a section of this one waist region occupied by a liquid-absorbent core assembly including a bodily fluid-absorbent core, the inner sheet is partially cut to define a perforated region. Adhesive used to bond the liquid-absorbent core assembly to the inner sheet and adhesive used to bond the inner sheet to the outer sheet are put in contact with and joined to each other through openings developed by partially cutting the inner sheet. | 10-04-2012 |
20120247681 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A diaper manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an oscillating mechanism disposed on a top-sheet continuous body while oscillating leg gathers; an outer holding mechanism holding the leg gathers disposed in a predetermined waveform by the oscillating mechanism; and a cutting mechanism having a blade section cutting the leg gathers held by the outer holding mechanism. The outer holding mechanism holds, out of a region formed in a predetermined waveform, an outer end region OT which includes an outer end of the leg gathers and on which an adhesive is not applied. The blade section is disposed inside, relative to a crossing direction, the outer end region OT held by the outer holding mechanism. | 10-04-2012 |
20120245550 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE USING HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER - In a hook-and-loop fastener, the female member includes a plurality of lines of fiber dense portions in which the fibrous material has a high basis weight, a plurality of lines of fiber sparse portions provided between the plurality of lines of fiber dense portions, the fibrous material in the fiber sparse portions having a basis weight lower than that in the fiber dense portions, and pressed portions intersecting the plurality of lines of fiber dense portions and the plurality of lines of fiber sparse portions. Further, since the rib portions are pressed by the pressed portions obtained by the embossing process, the rib portions change shape from lines where the rib portions intersect the pressed portions, and curve toward the peeling direction shown by arrow a to be a convex shape. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245549 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes: a main body having a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable outer sheet an absorber provided between the topsheet and the outer sheet, and a gather. The gather includes a plurality of elastic members arranged in a width direction outboard of the absorber. The elastic members are fixed to the gather in a state where the elastic members are stretched in a longitudinal direction. A side flap is located in one of end portions of the main body in the longitudinal direction and projects outwardly beyond at least one of end portions of the main body in the width direction. A joint portion joins the side flap and the main body. In a spread-out state of the disposable diaper, an outermost elastic member among the elastic members is arranged outboard of the joint portion in the width direction. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245548 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes a side flap and a tape fastener. The tape fastener includes a tape attaching part attached to the side flap and exposed at an outer side face of the side flap. The side flap includes a leg periphery side region positioned closer to a leg of a wearer than the tape attaching part. The leg periphery side region is foldable upwardly to cover at least partially an end portion of the tape attaching part adjacent the leg of the wearer in response to a stress generated when the tape fastener is engaged, while being pulled, with the other end portion of the inner part in the longitudinal direction. | 09-27-2012 |
20120238989 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes: a main body, a side flap, and a pair of fastening tapes. The main body includes a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable outer sheet, and an absorber between the topsheet and the outer sheet. The side flap covers one of edge portions of the main body in a longitudinal direction and has a greater dimension in a width direction than the main body. The fastening tapes are attached to respective edge portions, in the width direction, of the side flap and configured to be fastened onto a fastening portion on an opposite one of the edge portions of the main body. One of edge portions of the absorber in the longitudinal direction is located inboard of an outer imaginary line connecting outermost points of the fastening tapes in the longitudinal direction. | 09-20-2012 |
20120238977 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - On the back sheet side, back-side recessed portions recessed toward the top sheet are provided in a surface of the absorber of the disposable diaper. The back-side recessed portions include multiple grooves, which are continuous in the longitudinal direction L of the absorber. The back-side recessed portions is visible from an outside of the back sheet in a state before the disposable diaper is used, and when the absorber absorbs liquid, the depth D of the back-side recessed portions is made smaller than that before the absorber absorbs liquid. When the hydrophilic fiber and the particulate SAP swells, and thereby the absorber expands in at least the thickness direction thereof, the back-side recessed portions seems to disappear from the outside. | 09-20-2012 |
20120234469 | BELT-LIKE MATERIAL-FEEDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A belt-like material-feeding apparatus for continuously feeding a belt-like material to an intermittently-treating unit comprises a splicing unit which splices a second belt-like material to a first belt-like material being fed to the intermittently-treating unit to thereby switch the belt-like material being fed to the intermittently-treating unit from the first belt-like material into the second belt-like material, and a control unit for controlling the splicing timing of the splicing unit based upon the treating timing of the intermittently-treating unit. When it is judged that a splicing region formed between the first belt-like material and the second belt-like material by the splicing operation of the splicing unit, is going to be treated by the intermittently-treating unit, the control unit controls the splicing unit so as to retard the splicing operation. | 09-20-2012 |
20120226255 | DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE - A chassis of a diaper includes a first outer sheet defining a front waist region and a part of a crotch region, a second outer sheet defining a rear waist region and a part of the crotch region and a middle sheet connecting these sheets and defining a part of the crotch region. To the skin-facing side of the chassis, a liquid-absorbent structure is attached. The liquid-absorbent structure is provided with first and second elastic sheets overlapping front and rear ends of the liquid-absorbent structure, respectively. The first elastic sheet is attached under tension in a transverse direction and in contractible manner between a bottom surface of the liquid-absorbent structure and the first outer sheet and the second elastic sheet is located on a skin-facing surface of the liquid-absorbent structure and attached thereto under tension in the transverse direction and in contractible manner. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226252 | DISPOSABLE BODILY FLUID ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE - Provided is a disposable bodily fluid absorbent wearing article including a liquid-pervious topsheet formed with ridges and troughs extending in parallel to each other, improved to attach a leakage-barrier thereto. A bodily fluid absorbent core material assembly is interposed between a liquid-pervious topsheet and a liquid-impervious backsheet. The topsheet is formed on its outer surface with ridges and troughs extending in parallel to each other in a front-back direction. Opposite outer edges in a width direction of the core material assembly are formed with leakage-barriers, respectively. Opposite lateral regions of the topsheet extending outward at least partially beyond opposite side edges of the core material assembly are compressed so as to lower a height of the ridges. | 09-06-2012 |
20120220971 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A compression region | 08-30-2012 |
20120211538 | WEB CONVEYOR - In a web conveyor, a boundary between a belt conveyer and a belt conveyer provided between an end portion in upstream and an end portion in downstream of a holding conveyer. In other words, the holding conveyor that presses on the top surface of the web is disposed at the boundary between the belt conveyor and the belt conveyor. | 08-23-2012 |
20120207871 | FOLDING APPARATUS - A sailor roll includes pressing rolls and a center roll provided between the pressing rolls the center roll configured to press a central region of a web. The portions of the web pressed down by the pressing rolls serve as a fold origin from which the web is folded. Each of the pressing rolls has a tapered shape in which the diameter becomes smaller toward the outer side in the cross direction CD. In other word, the pressing rolls respectively have tapered surfaces tapered toward a side region of the web. | 08-16-2012 |
20120196091 | NONWOVEN FABRIC - Short fibers of thermoplastic synthetic resin are fusion bonded to one another to form a nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric is formed on its upper surface with crests and troughs extending in parallel to one another. The crests include first crests having a uniform height dimension from a lower surface of the nonwoven fabric and second crests having a uniform height dimension from a lower surface of the nonwoven fabric which is smaller than the height dimension of the first crests. Density of the nonwoven fabric gradually increases in the order of the first crests, the second crests and the troughs. The first crests are formed so that the density of the first crests remains lower than the density of the second crests even when the first crests are compressed toward the lower surface until the first crests becomes flush with the level of the second crests. | 08-02-2012 |
20120191056 | LAYERED ABSORBENT SHEET - It is an object of the invention to provide a layered absorbent sheet with excellent absorption properties including fluid retention, fluid diffusibility and absorbed fluid retention volume, and with particularly excellent deformation resistance against deformation by twisting and wrinkles. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191055 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - It is an object of the invention to provide an absorbent article that is resistant to twisting and flattening, and that is superior in terms of fluid absorption rate, fluid diffusibility, absorbed fluid retention volume and fluid retention. The absorbent article comprises a top sheet on the skin contact side, a back sheet on the non-skin contact side, and an absorbent body situated between the two sheets, wherein the absorbent body comprises a bulky absorbent sheet, and the bulky absorbent sheet comprises heat-expanding particles that are dispersed in the bulky absorbent sheet and have been expanded by heat. | 07-26-2012 |
20120184424 | WEB JOINT APPARATUS AND WEB JOINT METHOD - A web joint apparatus is configured to join a pair of webs for absorbent article folded in the cross direction CD with reference to a folding line. The web joint apparatus includes: an ultrasonic horn configured to join the paired waistline portions; an anvil facing the ultrasonic horn and configured to pinch the intermediate web between the anvil and the ultrasonic horn; and a crotch hold bar configured to hold the intermediate web while stretching the intermediate web in a direction in which the crotch portions get away from the waistline portions, when the intermediate web are joined by the ultrasonic horn and the anvil. | 07-19-2012 |
20120178609 | WEB CONVEYING APPARATUS AND WEB CONVEYING METHOD - A web conveying apparatus configured to convey a pair of webs folded in the cross direction CD with reference to a folding line. The web conveying apparatus includes a crotch hold bar configured to hold an intermediate web in a conveyable manner with the folded intermediate web stretched in a direction in which the crotch portions get away from the waistline portions; and a conveying mechanism configured to convey the intermediate web and hands over the intermediate web to a joint apparatus and a cutting apparatus, while the crotch portions are being held by the crotch hold bar. | 07-12-2012 |
20120178608 | FOLDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A folding machine includes a conveyance roll configured to come into contact with both a first region and the second region being flush with each other; a web guide mechanism configured to cause the first region and the second region to face each other with reference to the folding line so that an angle between the first region and the second region becomes smaller toward downstream; a press mechanism configured to press at least any one of the first region and the second region. The press mechanism changes a pressing strength on the web to change at least either a track length (first track length) in which one side edge provided on a downstream of a conveyance roll is conveyed or a track length (second track length) in which other side edge is conveyed. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177889 | NONWOVEN FABRIC AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided is a liquid-permeable nonwoven fabric having improved in air permeability in the thickness direction thereof, formed on its surface with ridges and troughs extending in parallel to each other in one direction. A nonwoven fabric formed of thermoplastic synthetic short fibers fused together is formed on its upper surface with ridges and troughs extending in parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction. In a cross section of each ridge taken in the transverse direction, the ridge includes opposite lateral regions in which the short fibers are densely distributed and a central region defined between the opposite lateral regions and in which the short fibers are sparsely distributed. The short fibers in the central region include short fibers in a crest of the ridge adapted to connect the opposite lateral regions to each other. This invention also discloses a method for manufacturing of the nonwoven fabric. | 07-12-2012 |
20120175064 | ULTRASONIC JOINING APPARATUS AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - An anvil includes a base and projections and. The base is installed at an attachment position on an outer peripheral surface of a rotating drum. The projection protrudes from a front surface of the base in a normal direction H of the rotating drum and is formed in a line shape extending in the cross direction CD along the front surface of the base. On the front surface of the base, one end in the cross direction CD of the projection is provided forward of the other end in a rotation direction R. In the projection, a cut portion is formed to extend in a direction opposite to the protrusion direction of each protrusion. The cut portion extends from the front surface of the projection, protruding from the front surface of the base, to the vicinity of the middle of the projection. | 07-12-2012 |
20120174721 | CUTTING AND TRANSFERRING APPARATUS AND CUTTING AND TRANSFERRING METHOD - A cutting and transferring apparatus configured to from a second sheet by cutting a continuous body of second sheets and to transfer the second sheet onto a continuous body of topsheet. The cutting and transferring apparatus includes a blade roll having a blade; a bed knife; and a transfer roll configured to transfer the second sheet onto the continuous body of topsheet. The transfer roll receives an edge portion of the continuous body before cutting. The blade and the bed knife cut the continuous body of the second sheets, in a state where the machine direction MD and a vertical direction coincide with each other. | 07-12-2012 |
20120168084 | ULTRASONIC JOINING APPARATUS AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - An anvil has a temperature adjustment mechanism including a heater. The anvil has a heat transmitter transmitting heat generated by the temperature adjustment mechanism. The anvil has a temperature sensor detecting a temperature of an anvil attachment portion in which the anvil of rotating drum installed. The ultrasonic joining apparatus includes a controller configured to control a temperature to which the rotating drum should be heated by the temperature adjustment mechanism. The controller controls a heat generation amount of the temperature adjustment mechanism on the basis of a detection result by the temperature sensor. The temperature adjustment mechanism and the heat transmitter are installed in each of the multiple anvils. | 07-05-2012 |
20120167736 | CUTTING SYSTEM - A cutting system ( | 07-05-2012 |