Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100114051 | STRETCHABLE COMPOSITE SHEET AND DISPOSABLE WEARING ARTICLE USING THE SAME - A stretchable composite sheet used in a waist region of a disposable wearing article. The stretchable composite sheet has a stretchable sheet and a non-stretchable sheet, and the stretchable sheet is stretched. Nip roll mechanisms are respectively arranged on one end side in the stretch direction (SD) and the other end side, and the stretchable sheet is bonded to the non-stretchable sheet by the nip roll mechanisms with the stretchable sheet contracted in the direction (CD) orthogonal to the stretching direction (SD). The above processes provide the stretchable composite sheet with basic weight change regions in which the basis weight of the stretchable sheet is changed depending on stretch conditions of the stretchable sheet. The basic weight of the basic weight change regions is greater than that of a center region of the stretchable composite sheet. | 05-06-2010 |
20100331801 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - According to an absorptive article (disposable diaper) | 12-30-2010 |
20110046586 | COMPOSITE SHEET AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE USING COMPOSITE SHEET - It is intended to provide a composite sheet which is excellent in comfort to the skin face when used in an absorbent article such as a disposable diaper. A composite sheet ( | 02-24-2011 |
20120078209 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - To provide an absorbent article capable of sufficiently fulfilling a function of preventing lateral leakage even when a force is applied in the width direction (transverse direction) during wearing. An absorbent article comprising a liquid-pervious surface sheet, a liquid-impervious leakage-preventive sheet, and a liquid-retentive absorption body disposed between the surface sheet and the leakage-preventive sheet, wherein the absorption body comprises at least two layers, at least one of the layers is a first absorption body layer composed of a hydrophilic sheet and a super-absorbent polymer, and in the longitudinal middle area of the absorbent article, the width of the first absorption body layer is larger than the width of other absorption body layer(s). In the first absorption body layer, a plurality of hydrophilic sheets are stacked, the super-absorbent polymer is disposed between hydrophilic sheets, and the hydrophilic sheets are joined in a region where the super-absorbent polymer is not spread. | 03-29-2012 |
20130035656 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An absorbent article having a compressed region formed by a compressing process in an absorption layer on a side facing to the backsheet; and a plurality of pressed grooves are formed by a pressing process in the absorption layer on a side facing to the topsheet, within a region opposed to the compressed region. | 02-07-2013 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20150202095 | WEARING ARTICLE - A wearing article making it possible to prevent a dimension in the transverse direction of respective recesses formed on an absorbent structure from being notably reduced even when the front and rear waist regions are disposed with waist elastic members directly or indirectly overlapping with the absorbent structure. The wearing article has a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal center line, a transverse direction parallel to a transverse center line, a skin-facing surface and a non-skin-facing surface opposite to the skin-facing surface, and includes a chassis having a first waist region defined by one of front and rear waist regions and being elastically contractible in the transverse direction, a second waist region defined by another of the front and rear waist regions and a crotch region lying between the front and rear waist regions, an absorbent structure disposed on the skin-facing surface of the chassis and extending in the longitudinal direction across the crotch region into at least the first waist region and recesses disposed on the absorbent structure, the absorbent structure includes a first region defined in the first waist region and the recesses at least partially lying in the first region and extending in the longitudinal direction; and a shape retention panel is disposed on the non-skin-facing surface of the first waist region so that the shape retention panel may indirectly or directly overlap the first region and the recesses as viewed in a thickness direction of the article. | 07-23-2015 |