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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8147475 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article is provided with a pair of liquid-barrier sheets on a body-side surface of the article. A dimension by which distal edges of distal zones of the barrier sheets are spaced from each other in a transverse direction is gradually enlarged fr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147470 | Pants-type diaper The present invention provides a disposable pants-type diaper including on a crotch region thereof a separator adapted to prevent feces from coming in contact with the wearer's skin. A basic structure has the crotch region, which is provided with a folded sheet piec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8133212 | Disposable diaper In a disposable diaper, the crotch region is divided by a front folding guide and a rear folding guide into a front section, a rear section and an intermediate section. The crotch region is provided on the side of its inner surface with a pair of contracting members... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8057451 | Absorbent wearing article and process of making the same An absorbent wearing article including an air permeable and liquid-impervious backsheet and a liquid-retentive absorbent structure placed on the backsheet. An outer sheet has having elastic members is placed on and bonded to a surface of the backsheet opposed to its... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7939706 | Automatic urine disposal device and urine receptacle used therefor In a urine receptacle of an automatic urine disposal device, a urine backflow prevention sheet, with no water permeability, having funnel-shaped pores, is placed between a top sheet and a urine absorbing sheet. A pair of rectangular electrodes, constituting a urine ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7858842 | Absorbent article Disclosed is an absorbent article including a liquid absorbent layer for absorption and retention of liquid and a liquid passage layer located on a liquid-receiving side of the liquid absorbent layer. The liquid passage layer includes a first passage layer and a sec... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7779502 | Cleaning item The cleaning item of the present invention comprises: a brush part constructed from fibrous material; an inserted part with an inserted space into which a gripper is detachably inserted and which is formed by a pair of sheets, the inserted part being disposed in the... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7766888 | Disposable diaper with feces retaining pocket In a disposable diaper having a feces retaining pocket formed by body fluid absorbent panel sections overlapping each other in a crotch covering region so that the feces retaining pocket can be largely opened, a second panel section overlaps on a first panel section... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765614 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing diaper includes a front panel section and a rear panel section facing each other so as to define respective waist regions. The rear panel section overlaps the outer side of the front panel section and these front and rear panel sections are conn... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7749213 | Disposable diaper In a disposable diaper includes a pair of side flaps respectively extending from an end portion in a lateral direction of the diaper main body and a fixing tape disposed in proximity of a farthest edge of the respective side flaps, the fixing tape is provided with a... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7745354 | Cleaning tool An indoor cleaning tool having a dry fibrous base material is provided. An antigenicity-reducing composition including an antigenicity-reducing component, an oil and a surfactant are applied to the fibrous base material. Preferably, the antigenicity-reducing compone... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744578 | Absorbent article An absorbent article having leakage preventing walls that longitudinally exert an elastic contractive force to bend a main body. Each leakage preventing wall is provided, between front and rear ends, with a constraint portion so as to locally constrain an allowable ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7744577 | Disposable pull-on wearing article A disposable pull-on wearing article has its waist region divided into a front section and a rear section and connector sheets 21 adapted to connect these two sections together. Each of the connector sheets has joint zones to be joined to the front section an... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7737323 | Absorbent article An absorbent article is provided which has such a structure that a bled portion of the colored indicator is unnoticeable. The absorbent article includes a liquid permeable top sheet, a liquid impermeable back sheet, an absorbing core interposed between the two sheet... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7722590 | Pull-on disposable wearing article A pull-on disposable wearing article is provided with a chassis and an absorbent batt structure extending on the inner surface of the chassis. The chassis has a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region and is composed of a base sheet which is subs... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722587 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper has a chassis and a body fluid absorbent structure. The body fluid absorbent structure comprises a panel of body fluid absorbent material and a liquid-pervious sheet covering a surface of the panel facing the wearer's skin. The diaper is provided... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722273 | Cleaning implement A cleaning implement includes a cleaning head having on a bottom a cleaning operation surface, a holding portion arranged on the side opposite the cleaning head, a pipe for coupling the cleaning head and the holding portion, and a valve opening and closing device pr... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7717896 | Disposable pull-on wearing article A disposable pull-on wearing article has its waist region divided into a front section and a rear section and connector sheet strips adapted to connect these two sections together. Each of the connector sheet strips has zones to be joined to the front sections and a... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7708857 | Process for making disposable wearing article In a process for making disposable wearing article, a composite web running in a machine direction is formed with a pair of rectilinear slits extending in a cross direction and a notch intersecting these paired slits. A region surrounded by these slits and notch is ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7708485 | Cleaning implement A cleaning implement includes a cleaning head having a cleaning operation surface on a bottom, a holding portion arranged on the side opposite the cleaning head, a pipe for coupling the cleaning head and the holding portion, and a valve opening and closing device pr... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7708484 | Cleaning implement A cleaning implement includes a cleaning head having on the bottom a cleaning operation surface and a valve opening and closing device that is connected to the cleaning head and can hold a first container for receiving a first fluid or a second container for receivi... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7703602 | Easy-open encasement An easy-open encasement formed of a soft encasement member in the form of a film. An opening or an openable portion is formed in the soft encasement member, which allows a user to extract contents from the encasement. Furthermore, a lid member, which can be peelably... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7696402 | Absorbent article An absorbent article includes a compressed groove provided on a body-side surface of a sanitary napkin includes a pair of lateral groove segments extending substantially in the longitudinal direction symmetrically about a longitudinal center line and a pair of rear ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7695460 | Negative pressure urine receiver Here is disclosed a urine receiver. The urine receiver which collects urine of a wearer of the urine receiver under suction force has a container member provided with a bottom, a peripheral wall and flange. The container member has a suction tube which extends throu... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7686795 | Pull-on diaper A pull-on diaper includes a front waist region and a rear waist region joined together along joints defined by transversely opposite edges of these waist regions so as to form a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes. The joints are adapted to be ruptured for disposal o... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7674730 | Nonwoven fabric Nonwoven fabric includes thermoplastic elastomer fiber and thermoplastic polyolefin fiber. A variation of b-value appearing in laboratory color specifying system before and after irradiation of the thermoplastic elastomer fiber with 5000 KJ/m2 of UV radia... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7662137 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper is formed in one of front and rear waist regions with first wings which are elastically stretchable in a waist-surrounding direction and these first wings are provided on respective body facing surfaces with first fastener elements. The other wai... | 02/16/2010 |
| D609869 | Wiping sheet | 02/09/2010 |
| 7625363 | Absorbent article Disclosed is an absorbent article having a center absorbent element on a backsheet. The center absorbent element has a center absorbent sheet covered with a center topsheet. The center absorbent sheet is formed with a plurality of projections, wherein longitudinal g... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7597690 | Sanitary napkin having a protuberance and compressed portions A sanitary napkin includes a surface element that is formed of a liquid-permeable topsheet covering a liquid absorbent layer. The surface element is raised from the skin-side surface of a napkin body by an elastic force of an elastic member to form a protuberance ha... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7594907 | Disposable pants-type diaper having belt members A pants-type diaper includes a crotch region which is provided on the inner surface in a zone put aside toward a front waist region and in a zone put aside toward a rear waist region with belt-like members, respectively, both extending across a body fluid absorbent ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7594905 | Sanitary napkin having three-dimensional structure A sanitary napkin includes a napkin body containing a liquid absorbent layer and a three-dimensional structure is disposed on the skin-side surface of the napkin body. The three-dimensional structure is formed of a reinforcing member and a liquid-permeable sheet, an... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7588561 | Pull-on disposable wearing article with tapered folding guide lines and tucking zones A pull-on disposable wearing article is formed in a crotch region with first and second pairs of folding guide lines extending from first and second waist lateral margins toward a transverse middle of the crotch region, respectively. The crotch region is divided int... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7582077 | Wearing article A wearing article includes a chassis having front and rear waist regions, a fastener mechanism adapted to fasten transversely opposite side edges of the chassis, and an elastic adjusting element adapted to stretch or contract at least one of the front and rear waist... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7582076 | Open-type disposable wearing article Here is disclosed an open-type disposable wearing article composed of a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending between these waist regions wherein tape fasteners used to connect the front and rear waist to each other are attached to si... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7578813 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article is provided with a pair of tape fasteners each composed of inner and outer tape strips and a hook member. The outer tape strip has a proximal portion fixed to the side section of the rear waist region and a distal portion extending outwa... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7563337 | Composite sheet and process for making the same This invention aims to provide a composite sheet having a layer of inelastically stretchable continuous fibers improved so that a possible unevenness in fiber diameter may be minimized. A composite sheet comprises an elastically stretchable layer and an inela... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7563257 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article is provided with a skin-contactable panel laid in a front half of a crotch region of the article and a liquid-impervious partition laid in a vicinity of a transverse center line of the article. The panel has transversely opposite side ed... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7560002 | Water-absorbent structure and process for making the same A water-absorbent structure comprises an assembly of thermoplastic synthetic fibers, cellulose-based fibers, super-absorbent polymer and water-pervious sheets wrapping these components together. The assembly is a honeycomb construction having a plurality of through-... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7550646 | Absorbent article with resilient portion and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is an absorbent article including: a liquid-permeable topsheet on its skin surface; a backsheet on its garment surface; and an absorbent layer therebetween. First compressed portions and second compressed portions, in which the absorbent layer is compresse... | 06/23/2009 |
