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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8105305 | Absorbent article and composite sheet The present invention provides an absorbent article having a composite sheet with a plurality of gathers on an inner surface facing a wearer's body, which fits and adheres comfortably to the wearer's skin. The composite sheet is provided which includes a stretchable... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8057454 | Systems and methods for hydration sensing and monitoring Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for determining hydration of an article and/or a person. The physical and/or electrical properties of a device in the absorbent article may be altered by hydration received in the absorbent article. The altera... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7766889 | Absorbent article An absorbent article is provided including a backsheet, a topsheet and an absorbent core disposed therebetween. The diaper includes large rectangular fasteners that stretch in only one direction. At least one longitudinally extending, elasticized inner leg gather is... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7449016 | Disposable wearing article A wearing article includes a pair of connector sheet strips extending inward from transversely opposite side edges of the wearing article and serving to connect front and rear waist regions. The connector sheet strips can be easily turned around so as to extend outw... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449015 | Pants-type disposable wearing article A pants-type disposable wearing article includes leg-circumferential first elastic members attached to crotch region's lateral margins of an outer sheet and waist-circumferential second elastic members attached to waist regions' upper margins of the outer sheet. The... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7442188 | Elastic composites for garments An elongate elastic member is secured to a substrate to form an elastic composite. The elastic member extends along an elastic axis between a first location on the substrate and a second location on the substrate spaced longitudinally from the first location. At lea... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7410479 | Disposable absorbent article An absorbent article body part includes a liquid permeable surface side sheet, a liquid impermeable back face side sheet, and an absorbent body, positioned between the sheets, and having flap parts, extending outward to the respective sides of the absorbent body, an... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7404811 | Disposable garment comprising meltblown nonwoven backsheet A disposable garment includes a nonwoven backsheet formed by melt-blowing. The melt-blown nonwoven web has a basis weight of from about 3 g/m2 to about 60 g/m2 and an air permeability value of at least about 15 cm3/cm2/sec... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7396350 | Disposable diaper A diaper is provided on its inner side with a tufted sheet strip assembly. The assembly includes a plurality of sheet strips, a sheet-like base member to which fixed end zones of the respective sheet strips are permanently bonded, and elastically biasing element ada... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7381203 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper (1) comprising a liquid permeable topsheet (2), a liquid impermeable backsheet (3), and liquid retentive absorbent members (41), (42), and (43) interposed between the two sheets, wherein the absorbent mem... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7344524 | Disposable absorbent underpants A disposable absorbent article is disclosed having a waist opening and a pair of leg openings. The absorbent article has first, second and third pairs of leg elastics secured between an outer cover and an inner liner. The first, second and third leg elastics are arr... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7329245 | Disposable paper diaper and method of attaching expansible members of the disposable paper diaper A disposable diaper having an absorbent, a waist opening and right and left leg openings which are formed when the diaper is in use, and many stretchable members which are provided along the peripheral direction of the diaper at least in a girth area having a length... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329244 | Pull-on disposable diaper A pull-on disposable diaper has a body fluid absorbing component folded inward in a transverse direction of the diaper so that a width of the body fluid absorbing component may be reduced in a crotch covering region. In vicinities of leg-holes, elastic members inter... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326311 | Method of producing intermittently elastic webs A method of producing an intermittently elastic web. The method includes providing a first longitudinally extending web having a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge and an intermediate portion located between the first and second lateral edges. The method also... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326192 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper has a through-hole formed in an inner sheet destined to come in contact with a wearer's skin so that this through-hole may communicate with a pocket for receiving feces. The inner sheet is formed with an elastic area extending in a longitudinal d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318820 | Simple disposable absorbent article having breathable side barriers A simple disposable absorbent article including an absorbent assembly attached to a chassis. The absorbent assembly includes an absorbent core that may contain superabsorbent particles, which may be contained inside pockets. The absorbent assembly is folded laterall... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7314465 | Disposable undergarment having a slit A method of manufacturing a disposable undergarment includes moving a web of body panel material in a longitudinal machine direction, forming a cross-machine direction slit in the web, and connecting a crotch member to the web. The crotch member extends in the cross... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7250548 | Absorbent article with temperature change member disposed on the outer cover and between absorbent assembly portions An absorbent article may define a front region, a rear region, and a crotch region intermediate the front and rear regions. The article may include an outercover, a liner and an absorbent assembly front portion disposed intermediate the outercover and the liner in t... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7227051 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet, a liquid-absorbent core interposed between the top- and backsheets, a pair of liquid-impervious leak-barrier sheets and a pair of elastically stretchable sheets. Each po... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220251 | Pants-type disposable wearing article A pull-on disposable article has a liquid-absorbent first panel interposed between a liquid-absorbent sheet and liquid-impervious sheets, a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes. The leg-holes are surrounding by leg-surrounding flaps extending in a leg-surrounding dire... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7195621 | Disposable garment comprising meltblown nonwoven backsheet A disposable garment includes a nonwoven backsheet formed by melt-blowing. The melt-blown nonwoven web has a basis weight of from about 3 g/m2 to about 60 g/m2 and an air permeability value of at least about 15 cm3/cm2/sec... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192422 | Pull-on disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article has first and second barrier flaps on first and second side flaps, respectively. A crotch region is formed with first and second folding guide lines diverging from the vicinity of proximal edges of the first and second barrier flaps towa... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7179248 | Edge seal for absorbent article and method for making A disposable diaper comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet. The topsheet and backsheet define a periphery and longitudinal edges, portions of the longitudinal edges define leg openings when the diaper is... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174860 | Disposable animal diaper An easy-to-manufacture, easy-to-use disposable pet diaper having a lightweight upper portion and an absorbent bottom portion, comprising elongated strips from the upper portion and corresponding slits in the lower portion whereby the diaper may be tied across the ba... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172584 | Sanitary elasticized male guard A disposable sanitary absorbent article such as an absorbent pad (e.g., male guard) is provided which is defined by opposed lateral sides and opposed longitudinal sides extending between said lateral side, comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core dis... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169137 | Absorbent article having a decorative element An absorbent article includes a chassis defining front and rear waist regions, an absorbent panel laid on the inner surface of the chassis and a decorative element adapted to be seen through the chassis and interposed between an intermediate zone of the chassis and ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7169136 | Pull-on disposable diaper A pull-on disposable diaper is composed of a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending between these waist regions and a body fluid absorbing component formed on an inner side of these regions. The absorbing component is formed in the crotch... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7160282 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet, a liquid-absorbent base panel interposed between these two sheets, a pair of side flaps lying outside transversely opposite side edges of the base panel so as to extend ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7150733 | Disposable diaper A diaper is provided in a transverse middle of a crotch region with a pad seat formed from top- and backsheets. The pad seat has a pair of extensions bifurcated from a rear end of the pad seat toward respective tape fasteners. In the course of wearing the diaper as ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150729 | Disposable pull-on wearing article A disposable pull-on wearing article wherein: a body fluid absorbent assembly of a disposable pull-on wearing article is formed in a crotch region with a pair of inwardly folded portions on both sides of a longitudinal center line. The body fluid absorbent assembly ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7147628 | Absorbent article with improved liquid-handling ability An absorbent article (10) such as a sanitary napkin includes an elongate absorbent core (12) delimited by an upper surface (14) and a lower surface (16). A pair of opposed longitudinal edge portions (18, 20) terminates in longitudi... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7135013 | High swell absorbent changing a thin underpants-like garment into a thick diaper-like garment A pant-like absorbent garment having a swellable absorbent core positioned between an outer cover and a body side liner at least partially bonded to the outer cover. The swellable absorbent core is swellable to a final thickness (tf) which is at least thr... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135014 | Diaper with thigh elastics positioned beneath inner pad and overlapping second elastics positioned above backsheet A disposable diaper that includes an outer sheet having thigh-surrounding peripheral side regions curving inwardly in a transverse direction and an inner pad disposed to the inner side of the outer sheet. The outer sheet is provide in thigh-surrounding peripheral si... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7118557 | Disposable diaper A disposable diaper includes a liquid-impermeable topsheet, a liquid-permeable backsheet and an absorbent core therebetween. A pair of barrier cuffs which are elastically extendable in a longitudinal direction of the diaper are provided along transversely opposite s... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7118639 | Structured material having apertures and method of producing the same A method for producing an apertured structured material for accommodating passage of fluids, particularly high viscosity fluids, through the apertured structured material. In one embodiment, the apertured structured material is a composite material formed by differe... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108134 | Sample packing cover body for single article storage display for sales promotion purpose It is an object of the invention to make a single article storage display capable of fully showing performance or an appealing point to consumers. A portion of a sample packing cover member, in which a part of a sanitary napkin to be brought into contact with a wear... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104977 | Personal product emergency kit A personal care system (80) comprises a plurality of kit items, and an assembly mechanism (82) which holds the kit items together in a cooperating, combined unit. In a particular aspect, the kit items can include a substitute undergarment (20), ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7094227 | Disposable diaper having leg flap absorbent articles The present invention has a configuration such that a plurality of leg portion elastic members are arranged around the respective leg openings of a disposable diaper so that the respective leg portion elastic members are not connected or cross each other in a crotch... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7060058 | Disposable pants-type diaper having front panel with elasticized lower edge A disposable pants-type diaper includes a front waist region sheet, a rear waist region sheet and a body fluid absorbent pad. The front and rear waist region sheets are bonded together in the vicinity of transversely opposite side edges thereof and the pad is curved... | 06/13/2006 |
