Patents Assigned to Uni-Charm Corporation
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Patent number: 10130069Abstract: A production method for animal excretion treatment material and a production device therefor, having a step in which a raw material is pulverized and a pulverized material is obtained and a step in which the pulverized material is granulized. In the step in which the pulverized material is obtained, the raw material is pulverized by a pulverizer and the pulverized material is obtained. The pulverizer has: an insertion port for the raw material; a pulverization chamber for the raw material; a pulverization mechanism provided inside the pulverization chamber; a mesh screen through which passes the raw material pulverized by the pulverization mechanism and having a plurality of openings; and a discharge port connected to the openings in the mesh screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Shotaro Mochizuki, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo, Tatsuya Sogo, Chiyo Takagi
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Patent number: 9888671Abstract: A disposable diaper for pets having a shortest straight line point being further on a stomach-side waist area side than a diaper center point, and comprising: a rear-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; a flap section provided in the stomach-side waist area and having an end section in the rear-side direction; a diaper longitudinal direction center line; the diaper center point; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an attachment section arranged in the flap section; an attachment section intermediate point; an attachment area that receives the attachment section; and the shortest straight line point being a point on the diaper longitudinal direction center line at the shortest direct distance, via a rear-side end section of the flap section in a straight line from the attachment section center point to the diaper longitudinal direction center line.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke Komatsubara
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Patent number: 9854786Abstract: A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which a raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coating material is coated on the granular material. The step in which the coating material is coated on the granular material has: a step in which the coating material is arranged on the granular material; and a step in which a vibration is applied to the granular material having the coating material arranged thereupon.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Shotaro Mochizuki, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo, Tatsuya Sogo, Chiyo Takagi
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Patent number: 9854782Abstract: An animal litter sand that effectively prevents scattering of particles without increasing the weight or density of the litter sand. The animal litter sand includes particulates each of which is configured in a manner so as to contain a particle substrate configured from an inorganic porous material, a hydraulic solidification material, and a water-soluble thickener.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Sogou, Takayuki Matsuo
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Patent number: 9486946Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent body of an absorbent article by depositing a liquid absorbent material on an air-permeable member by passing an air that contains the liquid absorbent material in a thickness direction of the air-permeable member, the apparatus including: a plurality of plates that are stacked in the thickness direction, that constitutes the air-permeable member, each of which includes a plurality of air holes that penetrate the plate in the thickness direction and that allow the air to pass, and each of which includes a joining portion for joining to an adjacent plate in the thickness direction in a portion of the plate in which the air holes are not formed, the plurality of air holes of each of the plates being arranged so as to communicate with corresponding air holes of an adjacent plate in the thickness direction, corresponding air holes of all the plates stacked in the thickness direction having a same shape.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Isshiki, Osamu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9452091Abstract: The absorbent article includes a chassis, a crotch region, an absorbent body, and an elastic member arranged along a side edge in width direction of the crotch region. The oblong absorbent body arranged in the crotch region includes a first narrow width section, a second narrow width section, a center low rigidity section formed along a center line that halves the absorbent article in the width direction and a pair of lateral low rigidity sections provided at both sides of the center low rigidity section in the width direction with a substantially equal interval. Skin contacting face-side sheets and non-skin contacting face-side sheets 6 and 10 are arranged in the crotch region. The initial tensile strength of the skin contacting face-side sheets is lower than that of the non-skin contacting face-side sheets or that of the chassis 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hirotomo Mukai, Akiyoshi Kinoshita, Tomoko Tsuji, Norihiko Ishikawa, Tatsuya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9445950Abstract: The absorbent article includes a chassis, a crotch region, an absorbent body, and an elastic member arranged along a side edge in width direction of the crotch region. The oblong absorbent body arranged in the crotch region includes a first narrow width section, a second narrow width section, a center low rigidity section formed along a center line that halves the absorbent article in the width direction and a pair of lateral low rigidity sections provided at both sides of the center low rigidity section in the width direction with a substantially equal interval. Skin contacting face-side sheets and non-skin contacting face-side sheets 6 and 10 are arranged in the crotch region. The initial tensile strength of the skin contacting face-side sheets is lower than that of the non-skin contacting face-side sheets or that of the chassis 2.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hirotomo Mukai, Akiyoshi Kinoshita, Tomoko Tsuji, Norihiko Ishikawa, Tatsuya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9402367Abstract: A pet sheet for pet excrement has a fluid-permeable surface sheet and a fluid-impermeable rear sheet. The pet sheet has a first folded section and a second folded section that are formed by the folding of the surface sheet and the rear sheet so as to protrude on the surface sheet side. The surface sheet and the rear sheet positioned on both sides of the first folded section and the second folded section, respectively, are configured so as to fold out and be used as the pet sheet. Ridge lines formed in the surface sheet in the first folded section and the second folded section extend continuously along a first direction parallel to the surface sheet, from one end of the surface sheet in the first direction to the other end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Chiyo Takagi, Takeshi Ikegami
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Patent number: 9339418Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article having a first material and a second material includes (A) a holding body that includes a holding surface and that holds the first material with the holding surface and (B) a transfer section that transfers the first material to the second material by moving the holding body, that is holding the first material, to the second material. (C) The first material has a first portion and a second portion, the second portion having a thickness greater than that of the first portion in a thickness direction of the first material. (D) The holding surface has a first region and a second region, the second region being located at a position that is more recessed to an inner side than the first region in a height direction of the holding body. (E) The holding body holds the first material by causing the first portion to be held by suction on the first region and causing the second portion to be held by suction on the second region.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Akira Hamada
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Publication number: 20160106069Abstract: A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which a raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coating material is coated on the granular material. The step in which the coating material is coated on the granular material has: a step in which the coating material is arranged on the granular material; and a step in which a vibration is applied to the granular material having the coating material arranged thereupon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Shotaro MOCHIZUKI, Hidekazu YAMADA, Takahiro OTOMO, Tatsuya SOGO, Chiyo TAKAGI
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Patent number: 9314968Abstract: A pressing apparatus associated with an absorbent article, including: a pair of rollers that are driven and rotate with outer circumferential surfaces thereof facing each other, when a fibrous continuous sheet overlapped with an article to be overlapped with a thermoplastic adhesive therebetween is passed in a continuous direction of the fibrous continuous sheet through a roller gap between the pair of rollers, the pressing apparatus sandwiching and pressing the article to be overlapped and the fibrous continuous sheet between the outer circumferential surfaces, and a heating mechanism that heats at least a roller of the pair of rollers that is positioned on a side of the fibrous continuous sheet, the heating mechanism heating the roller so as to keep a temperature of the outer circumferential surface of the roller within a range from 70° C. to 120° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Fujiwara, Osamu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20160044890Abstract: A production method for animal excretion treatment material and a production device therefor, having a step in which a raw material is pulverized and a pulverized material is obtained and a step in which the pulverized material is granulized. In the step in which the pulverized material is obtained, the raw material is pulverized by a pulverizer and the pulverized material is obtained. The pulverizer has: an insertion port for the raw material; a pulverization chamber for the raw material; a pulverization mechanism provided inside the pulverization chamber; a mesh screen through which passes the raw material pulverized by the pulverization mechanism and having a plurality of openings; and a discharge port connected to the openings in the mesh screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: February 18, 2016Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Shotaro MOCHIZUKI, Hidekazu YAMADA, Takahiro OTOMO, Tatsuya SOGO, Chiyo TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20160044889Abstract: A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coloring agent is applied to the granular material. The step in which the coloring agent is applied to the granular material has: a step in which the granular material is suspended; and a step in which the coloring agent is sprayed on the suspended granular material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: February 18, 2016Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Shotaro MOCHIZUKI, Hidekazu YAMADA, Takahiro OTOMO, Tatsuya SOGO, Chiyo TAKAGI
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Patent number: 9237970Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for a composite body of a continuous sheet associated with an absorbent article, the composite body being manufactured by attaching a single-cut sheet to the continuous sheet at a predetermined attachment pitch.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Miwa Iida, Osamu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20160000294Abstract: To provide a more logical construction technique relating to a production method and a production apparatus for a cleaning implement. Provided are a production method and a production apparatus for a cleaning implement having a cleaning sheet and a holder, the method including: a step of supplying a plurality of strip elements; a step of superimposing the plurality of strip elements; a step of supplying the superimposed strip elements to a bonding apparatus having a drum roll and a bonding process section; and a step of forming bonded zones in predetermined zones of the superimposed strip elements by the bonding apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihide ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20150305307Abstract: A disposable diaper for pets, comprising: a back-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an area not having the absorbent core arranged therein; an attachment section in the stomach-side waist area; an attachment area that accepts the attachment section; an expandable/contractible elastic member for legs, arranged, in an extended state, in a prescribed area in the diaper longitudinal direction, between the absorbent core and an end section in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; an expandable/contractible elastic member for the waist, arranged, in an extended state, in the area not having the absorbent core arranged therein, in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; and a contraction force intersecting area in which the contracting force of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs and the expansion/contraction force of the expandable/contractible elastic member for the waist intersect.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke KOMATSUBARA
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Publication number: 20150305306Abstract: A disposable diaper for pets, comprising: a back-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; both end sections in the diaper longitudinal direction; both end sections in a diaper longitude-intersecting direction; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an area not having the absorbent core arranged therein; an attachment section provided in the stomach-side waist area; an attachment area that accepts the attachment section; an expandable/contractible elastic member for legs, arranged, in the extended state, in a prescribed area in the diaper longitudinal direction, between the absorbent core and an end section in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; a leg gather formed by the contraction of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs; and a standing-up section in which the end sections in the diaper longitudinal direction stand up as a result of the contraction of the expandable/contractible elastic member for legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke KOMATSUBARA
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Publication number: 20150305308Abstract: A disposable diaper for pets having a shortest straight line point being further on a stomach-side waist area side than a diaper center point, and comprising: a rear-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; a flap section provided in the stomach-side waist area and having an end section in the rear-side direction; a diaper longitudinal direction center line; the diaper center point; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an attachment section arranged in the flap section; an attachment section intermediate point; an attachment area that receives the attachment section; and the shortest straight line point being a point on the diaper longitudinal direction center line at the shortest direct distance, via a rear-side end section of the flap section in a straight line from the attachment section center point to the diaper longitudinal direction center line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke KOMATSUBARA
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Patent number: 9145267Abstract: A transfer device equipped with a rotating body having multiple workpiece holding units that support a holding surface holding a continuous sheet member through suction that faces outward in the radial direction of the rotation body. Between adjacent workpiece holding units, arranged in the direction of rotation, the device is equipped with bed knives that produce single sheets by sandwiching and cutting the continuous sheet member in combination with a cutter member arranged to face the outer surface of the rotation body. The workpiece holding units pivot to follow the radial direction of rotation of the rotation body and modify the long direction face of the single sheets when the rotation of the rotation body takes the workpiece holding units past the position where the cutter member is arranged. At this time, the workpiece holding units are arranged so that part of the workpiece holding units passes over a bed knife.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Kenji Takeuchi, Fumihito Kawazu
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Patent number: 9113612Abstract: An absorbent article for pets includes a top surface layer, a back surface layer, and an absorbent body, and is formed in a rectangular shape having opposing first and second end portions, and a pair of opposing side portions that are perpendicular to the first and second end portions, The top surface layer side of the first end portion is arranged on the body of the pet, and the top surface layer side of the second end portion is detachably attached to the back surface layer side of the first end portion when worn. The absorbent article includes a rectangular engaging member arranged on the back surface layer side of the first end portion; and a pair of folding line portions formed on the first end portion and constituting a point where the pair of opposing side portions begin to curve towards the front surface layer side.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Daisuke Komatsubara, Takeshi Ikegami