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| 20090320663 | INTERMITTENT CUTTING TRANSFERRING DEVICE - The intermittent cutting transferring device | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090320993 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - A manufacturing method for an absorptive article according to the present invention includes: placing a continuum of the elastic members | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090321021 | INTERMITTENT CUTTING TRANSFERRING DEVICE - In the cutting transferring device | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100032263 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - A manufacturing method for an absorptive article having a waistband member, includes: transporting a continuum (for example, second to seventh continuum) including waistband regions | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100035740 | CUTTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - A cutting device | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100050411 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A manufacturing method of an absorbent article according to the present invention includes the steps of a leg circumference forming process of forming a leg circumferential region on a web which is continuously fed in an MD, in a conveyance device, and a folding process of folding the web in two after the leg circumference forming process, so that a second half region on one divided by a center line in a CD comes closer to or overlaps a first half region on the other side. In the folding process, the first half region is conveyed on a conveyance belt which drives horizontally in parallel to an installation surface of the conveyance device (for example, a folding device) and the second half region is folded towards the first half region by a guide unit that guides the second half region. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100078119 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Included is a tip end portion being a feeding position from which a filiform elastic member is fed. By an arm member guiding the elastic member, the tip end portion is alternately moved in a first direction and a second direction, and thereby the elastic member is brought into contact with the web and is arranged in a gather waveform. Here, the first direction is from the center portion of a web being conveyed in a predetermined direction and having sequentially-arranged component parts forming one part of an absorbent article, to a first end portion in a cross direction crossing with a conveyance direction, and the second direction is from the center to a second end portion which is an end portion opposite to the first end portion. At this time, in a planar view of a composite web, when a nip point exceeds a position where an angle between the conveyance direction and a tangent to the gather waveform is largest, a distance between the tip end portion and the nip point is largest. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100078127 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention provides a method includes the steps of: conveying in a conveyance direction MD a second web in which components forming one part of an absorbent article are sequentially arranged; swinging an elastic member in a cross direction CD at a predetermined cycle by using a swing guide mechanism for guiding the elastic member; and pressing, between one pair of press rollers, the second web on which the elastic member is arranged. The swing guide mechanism has a motor with a rotational shaft, an arm member for guiding the elastic member to a predetermined position on the second web in the cross direction, and a speed reducer provided between the rotational shaft and a base of the arm member to make a rotational speed of the arm member slower than a rotational speed of the rotational shaft. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100096065 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The manufacturing method of an absorbent article according to the present invention includes: a step A of bonding, by using an ultrasonic bonding device, a continuum of a front waistband region and a continuum of a rear waistband region in predetermined regions each corresponding to a bonded region of the front waistband region and the rear waistband region after overlapping the continuum of the front waistband region and the continuum of the rear waistband region under conveyance; a step B of outputting a first predetermined signal indicating a failure state when it is determined that an output signal from the ultrasonic bonding device does not satisfy a first specified condition; and a step C of outputting a second predetermined signal indicating a failure state when it is determined that a bonded area in any of the predetermined regions does not satisfy a second specified condition. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100116409 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - In the present invention, ultrasonic vibration is outputted to predetermined regions of a first web and a second web from an output surface of an ultrasonic horn so that the predetermined regions may be bonded. The output surface includes a central output portion in a center region of three equal regions into which each predetermined region is divided, and both-ends output portions in both-ends regions at sides of the center region. A central maximum amplitude of the ultrasonic vibration outputted from the central output portion is smaller than an end maximum amplitude of the ultrasonic vibration outputted from each of the both-ends output portions. A central bonding strength of the center region is smaller than an end bonding strength of each of the both-ends regions. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100122766 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A work conveying mechanism according to the present invention includes a rotation drum in which an adsorbing pad for adsorbing an absorber is provided. The work conveying mechanism rotates the rotation drum and arranges the absorber on a third web being conveyed. In an outer shape of the work adsorbed by the adsorbing pad, an outer edge portion thereof is closer to a shaft center side of the rotation drum than a central portion thereof is. A work conveying mechanism includes a roller mechanism provided on a side of the third web opposite to the rotation drum side and configured to locate the third web on the adsorbing pad side. At a passing point, the roller mechanism arranges an outer edge portion of the third web in a width direction on a shaft center side of the rotation drum closer than a central portion thereof is. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100175807 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes an arm member having a tip end portion feeding the elastic member. The tip end portion moves alternately in a first direction and a second direction, so that the elastic member is brought into contact with a web being conveyed in a predetermined direction with a continuum of components constituting one portion of the absorbent article and is placed in a predetermined waveform. Here, in a plan view of the web, a distance between the arm member and a nip point becomes largest when the nip point goes beyond a position on the predetermined waveform where an angle between the predetermined direction and a tangent line to the predetermined waveform becomes largest. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179042 | FOLDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The folding apparatus for folding a continuous web in two along a folding line extending in a conveyance direction MD of the web by bringing one side edge of the web, toward an opposite side edge thereof, includes a large-diameter roller configured to press a reference region extending from the folding line to the opposite side edge, a folding guide bar configured to support the web at the folding line and a guide mechanism configured to guide a folded region toward the reference region, the folded region extending from the folding line to the one side edge. The folding guide bar includes a slide portion configured to allow the web to slide thereon. The slide portion has a friction coefficient of not more than 0.4. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100181007 | CONVEYOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The web conveyor conveys a continuous web for L size or M size. The conveyor includes a guide mechanism changing a passing position of a side edge portion of the web, a detection mechanism detecting the passing position of the edge portion of the web, and a drive mechanism moving the guide mechanism and the detection mechanism together in the cross direction of the web according to the L size or M size, by being in contact with a first side edge portion and a second side edge portion of the web. The drive mechanism moves the guide mechanism and the detection mechanism by an equal traveling distance in the cross direction of the web. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100200145 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An adhesive is applied in such a curved trajectory that an angle formed by a tangent line and an axis falls within a range of ±90° in a plan view of a web obtained by the overlapping a first web and a second web. The tangent line is drawn at any point on the trajectory of the adhesive. The axis is orthogonal to a trailing side of a pressing region, in which the web is pressed by an upper roller, in a conveyance direction. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100212814 | ADHESIVE EJECTING APPARATUS - An ejecting mechanism includes a pump, a pump controller unit, a distribution pipe, a restricting unit, and adhesive nozzles. The pump controller unit is configured to control to increase or decrease the amount of adhesive to be taken in by the pump. The distribution unit is configured to send a predetermined amount of adhesive to the adhesive nozzles out of the adhesive supplied by the pump, and to return the rest of adhesive to a discharge pipe out of the supplied adhesive, except for the predetermined amount of adhesive. The restricting unit is configured to disposed between the distribution unit and the discharge pipe and configured to restrict an amount of adhesive to be returned to a pipe. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100213231 | WEB CONVEYOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The web conveyer for manufacturing an absorber including an absorber core and a covering member covering the absorber core, conveys an absorber web including the absorber core sandwiched by a pair of webs to form the covering member. A thickness of the absorber core is larger than a thickness of the covering member. The web conveyer includes a direction changing mechanism which changes a conveyance direction of the absorber web by 90° or more. A rotation distance of the absorber web, that is, the length of a semi-circumference of the changing roller, is larger than is longer than a length of each of the absorber cores in the conveyance direction MD of the absorber web. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100218881 | JOINING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A joining apparatus includes an ultrasonic vibrating device, and an anvil roller facing the ultrasonic vibrating device with superimposed continua of front waistline portions and back waistline portions interposed therebetween. The anvil roller includes a protrusion configured to press the continua in a predetermined region between the anvil roller and the ultrasonic vibrating device, a motor configured to rotate the anvil roller, a belt configured to connect the anvil roller and the motor and to be driven by the motor, and a pressing mechanism configured to press the belt in a cross direction perpendicular to a driving direction of the belt. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100219224 | CONVEYOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A conveyor conveys a continuous stretchable web. The conveyor includes a press mechanism configured to press the web in at least a center region C in a cross direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the web, or at least side edge regions S located in positions shifted from the center region toward both side edges of the web in the cross direction. The press mechanism is provided in a position shifted from a conveyance plane R of the web when viewed along a surface of the web in the cross direction. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110048622 | CUTTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - A cutting device | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110057012 | MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ABSORBENT ARTICLE - Included is a tip end portion being a feeding position from which a filiform elastic member is fed. By an arm member guiding the elastic member, the tip end portion is alternately moved in a first direction and a second direction, and thereby the elastic member is brought into contact with the web and is arranged in a gather waveform. Here, the first direction is from the center portion of a web being conveyed in a predetermined direction and having sequentially-arranged component parts forming one part of an absorbent article, to a first end portion in a cross direction crossing with a conveyance direction, and the second direction is from the center to a second end portion which is an end portion opposite to the first end portion. At this time, in a planar view of a composite web, when a nip point exceeds a position where an angle between the conveyance direction and a tangent to the gather waveform is largest, a distance between the tip end portion and the nip point is largest. | 03-10-2011 |
