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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7763002 | Disposable pull-on type diaper A disposable pull-on type diaper has a separator interposed between an inner surface of an absorbent chassis and the wearer's skin so as to protect the diaper wearer's skin from being soiled with feces. The separator is formed by a piece of sheet extending from a bo... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7763001 | Absorbent article An absorbent article includes a fluid permeable top sheet, a fluid impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body disposed therebetween, and in addition is provided with an evagination means extending in a longitudinal direction between the top sheet and the back she... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7758559 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article has longitudinally extending side edges of a front waist region. The side edges are defined by a pair of hydrophobic fibrous nonwoven fabric layers having mutually opposed surfaces tightly bonded to each other. Fastening zones are formed... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7755497 | Urine sensor Here is disclosed a urine receiver. The urine receiver comprises a container member adapted to suck urine discharged from a wearer of the urine receiver and a urine sensor provided with a pair of electrodes interposed between the container member and the wearer's sk... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7754939 | Disposable diaper having antislip elements A disposable diaper includes antislip elements having a frictional force higher than those of end flaps and side flaps. These antislip elements are attached to portions of the end flap extending immediately outside transversely opposite ends of a waist elastic membe... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7419480 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper has a pair of barrier cuffs. Each of the barrier cuffs includes inner and outer sheet strips provided separately of each other. The first and second sheet strips include bottom side edges fixed to the inner surface of the diaper and top side edge... | 09/02/2008 |
| D575869 | Absorbent pad for breast milk | 08/26/2008 |
| D575868 | Absorbent pad for breast milk | 08/26/2008 |
| D575867 | Absorbent pad for breast milk | 08/26/2008 |
| 7127975 | Rotary cutter and method for manufacturing fibrous product using the same Disclosed is a rotary cutter including a first roll and a second roll. With contact peripheries of the first roll being pressed against contact peripheries of the second roll, the first roll and the second roll are driven to rotate in synchronism with each other so ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6604628 | Wet tissue container and combination thereof A wet tissue container (10) includes a container body (11), a lid (23) supported for turning on the container body (11) and a bottom wall (12) hermetically closing the open lower end of the container body (11). A rubber plate (50) is extended between the ... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6530091 | Means for attachment of absorbent article for body exudates to undergarment Support for attaching an absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin to an undergarment and disposed between a sanitary napkin and an inner surface of a crotch region of the undergarment. The support is formed by a first sheet and a second sheet overlying... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6450996 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper includes transversely opposite side edge regions thereof and the side edge regions are folded to form pleats each presenting a Z-shaped cross section and an body waste disposal sheet is bonded along its transversely opposite side edge ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6440116 | Body waste disposable article and method for making same A body waste disposable article adapted to receive feces and/or urine discharged thereon, the article having a body fluids absorbent means above which an opening is formed by a surrounding wall partially covering the body fluids absorbent means and surrou... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6423042 | Pants-type disposable diaper A disposable diaper includes a pants-type outer cover and a liquid-absorbent pad. The outer cover has a zone adapted to cover the wearer's urethral meatus and the area in the vicinity thereof and being elastic transversely of the diaper. The pad is attach... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6413248 | Sanitary napkin A sanitary napkin includes an absorbent core, the core being bent substantially in an inverted V-shape along a first groove provided on a lower side of the core in its transverse middle and along a pair of second grooves provided on an upper side of the c... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6410822 | Sanitary napkin having elastic member that lifts upper portion thereof A sanitary napkin including therein an elastic member longitudinally extending under tension along a center line dividing a width of the napkin. An upper portion of the napkin protrudes upward as the elastic member contracts. In the vicinity of both side ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6406465 | Disposable diaper having lower concavity A disposable diaper includes a laminated panel having a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed therebetween to configure a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region; the laminated panel is provided with a concavity extendin... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6402728 | Disposable diaper A diaper includes a topsheet, a backsheet and a core disposed therebetween to define a front and rear waist regions and a crotch region. An elastic member surrounds a predetermined zone of the core about the vicinity of a longitudinal center line of the d... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6394989 | Absorbent article having deformation inducing means An absorbent article such as sanitary napkin having an absorbent laminate is provided on a skin-noncontactable side of the laminate with deformation inducing means. The deformation inducing means include a hydrophobic panel member and an elastically stret... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6395122 | Apertured web for disposable body exudates absorbent garments and method for making same A method for manufacturing an aperture web including bonding a first and second web together with the second web bonded to a lower surface of the first web and feeding the bonded web in a first direction, subjecting the first web to pillar-shaped water je... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6387083 | Pull-on disposable diaper A pull-on disposable diaper has front and rear waist regions placed upon each other along their respective side edges and bonded together at outer bonding zone intermittently arranged along these side edges. A plurality of sheet materials forming the resp... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6383170 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper including a pair of elasticized gasket cuffs disposed in transversely opposite sides of the diaper, a pair of elasticized barrier cuffs disposed adjacent the gasket cuffs and a three-dimensional feces receiving section extending at lea... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6383441 | Liquid-permeable topsheet for body fluids absorbent article and method of making this topsheet A topsheet for body fluids absorbent article is made of thermoplastic synthetic fibers mechanically entangled so as to extend substantially in a desired one direction and formed with liquid-permeable openings. The openings comprise a first group of openin... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6376740 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper has a first section forming a part of a front waist region and a second section forming the remaining part of the diaper. The first and second sections are joined together over the entire width of the diaper along a joined zone extendi... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6375644 | Body exudates absorbent article having exposed zone of alternating troughs or crests A body exudates absorbent article including a liquid-absorbent core having transversely opposite side edges extending in parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction of the article, a liquid-pervious topsheet covering an upper surface of the core an... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6371948 | Sanitary napkin A sanitary napkin includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-absorbent core, a shape-retaining panel lining the core and a back side member. The core and the shape-retaining panel are configured so as to present inverted V-shaped cross-sections, respec... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6368312 | Disposable pull-on diaper A disposable pull-on diaper includes a liquid absorbent core, and the core is joined to a topsheet in front and rear waist regions as well as in a crotch region but not joined to a backsheet in the front and rear waist regions. The topsheet and the backsh... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6338729 | Urine absorbing pad A urine absorbing pad comprising a laminate including: a liquid penneable internal surface sheet; a liquid impermeable external surface sheet; and an absorbent core sandwiched between the internal and external surface sheets. The laminate forming a bag bo... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6332250 | Mechanical fastener A mechanical fastener including a loop member includes a base sheet and a plurality of continuous filaments extending substantially parallel one to another on one surface of the base sheet substantially parallel one direction and the filaments are bonded ... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6323387 | Disposable body fluids absorbent article A disposable body fluids absorbent article including an absorbent core contained discrete particles, the discrete particles consisting of first polymer particles which have an initial water absorption rate and second polymer particles which have an initia... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6312420 | Pants-type disposable diaper A pants-type disposable diaper includes a pants-type outer cover and an absorbent pad attached on an inner surface of the outer cover, the outer cover having first elastic members which circumferentially extend in the vicinity of a waist-opening of the ou... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6308339 | Trunks type wearing article A trunks-type garment has crotch region formed by two sheets that are superposed and bonded together. Extensions of these two sheets extending from a bottom of the crotch region of the garment are folded back onto the respective sheets of form lapels.... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6296628 | Sanitary napkin A sanitary napkin comprising a first member including a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet and a first liquid-absorbent core disposed therebetween and a second member including a substantially liquid-pervious and elastically stretchab... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6293934 | Disposable absorbent article An absorbent article having a pair of side flaps along transversely opposite side edges of the article. Each of the side flaps is formed on its upper surface with a plurality of pleats that extends longitudinally of the side flap. Each of the pleats inclu... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6293937 | Trunks-type disposable pants Trunks-type disposable pants that include a pair of inner sheets and a pair of outer sheets. The inner sheets have cutouts depressed from the upper ends toward the lower ends and liquid-absorbent panels attached to opposed surfaces of the inner sheets in ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6293936 | Disposable pull-on diaper A disposable pull-on diaper having of a briefs-type absorbent structure and a trunks-type cover adapted to conceal the absorbent structure. The cover comprises substantially a pair of sheets placed upon each other and at least one of these two sheets is f... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6270623 | Method for making apertured nonwoven fabric A method for making an apertured nonwoven fabric includes the steps of: obtaining wet sheet from slurry containing 0.5~20% by weight of fibrous component in water, which comprises, in turn, thermoplastic synthetic fibers having a length of 7~30 mm and a f... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6248098 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper includes a main body and a supplemental member, the main body being formed on its inner surface in its transversely middle zone with a cavity adapted to receive excretion, for example, feces. The cavity is defined by a pair of side wal... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6229063 | Disposable training pants Training pants having a front region, a rear region and a crotch region therebetween includes a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core disposed therebetween, and the topsheet has a liquid-permeability lower in a tr... | 05/08/2001 |
