Patents Assigned to Wacoal Corp.
  • Publication number: 20140331390
    Abstract: Provided is a lower body garment for men that can retain the penis and the scrotum at the center in the transverse direction at the time of changing of the posture from a standing position to a sitting position, and can prevent the penis or the scrotum from being shifted. The lower body garment for men is configured to include a cloth patch that covers the penis and the scrotum, in which the upper end of the cloth patch and the upper end of the center section of the main garment body are joined, the two ends in the transverse direction of the cloth patch and the center section of the main garment body are joined, and the lower end of the cloth patch and the center section of the main garment body are joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Toshiko Matsumoto, Youji Katsuhara
  • Publication number: 20140329438
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a garment 1 having a cup part 12 for covering a bust, including a shape support part 20 for supporting a shape of the bust, the shape support part provided in at least a lower part of the cup part 12. The shape support part 20 is formed in a plate-like shape having a surface curved with respect to the bust, a curvature of the curved surface of the shape support part 20 is greater than a curvature of the cup part 12 with the shape support part being not disposed therein, and the shape support part 20 has elasticity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventor: Katsuko Horii
  • Publication number: 20140242876
    Abstract: A clothing end part structure (10) of the present invention has block-like second regions (11) that expand or contract at a second elongation in a length direction of an end part, and block-like first regions (12) that expand or contract at a first elongation that is lower than the second elongation, in the length direction of the end part. The second regions and the first regions are disposed alternately in the length direction of the end part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventor: Yuka Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 8769724
    Abstract: A conditioning bottom 1 has a main body 2 and a strong tightening portion 3 which is in the form of a belt and has a tightening force stronger than a tightening force of the main body 2. This strong tightening portion 3 has first strong tightening portions 3a and a second strong tightening portion 3b. When the conditioning bottom 1 is worn, the first strong tightening portions 3a extend so as to surround gastrocnemius muscles of a wearer along outer edges of the gastrocnemius muscles, and the second strong tightening portion 3b is coupled to the first strong tightening portions 3a and extends through the inside of the wearer's lower leg and thigh to a position of the wearer's crotch. Also, a first mesh portion 4 having a tightening force weaker than the tightening force of the strong tightening portion 3 is formed in a section surrounded by the first strong tightening portions 3a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Takayuki Semba, Tomoko Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8758081
    Abstract: A cup-possessing garment 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a pair of cup sections 12 for covering respective breasts and a pair of gathering sections 20 provided so as to cover at least a part of a front face of each cup section 12 in order to gather the pair of cup sections toward the front center, and each of the pair of gathering sections 20 is composed of a first portion 22 attached to a side portion of the cup section 12, and a second portion 24 formed with higher elasticity than the first portion 22 and formed in such a manner that ends of the second portions on the front center side join together in order to connect the first portions 22 to each other on the front center side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Megumi Tachiiri
  • Publication number: 20140154948
    Abstract: Provided is a women's garment with cup parts which make bust top positions look higher, while enabling breasts to appear larger in volume. A women's garment with cup parts has a pair of cup parts, each cup part having a first shaping region for covering a nipple and pressing a breast at the time of putting the cup part on the breast and a second shaping region, located lower than the first shaping region, for pressing the breast, the second shaping region having a volume larger than that of the first shaping region, the cup part having a top on a front face side residing within the first shaping region when seen from the front face side. While the second shaping region pushes the breast up, the first shaping region further presses the pushed-up breast, so the bust top positions look higher, while the breasts appear larger in volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Wacoal Corp
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Megumi Tachiiri, Junko Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20140141692
    Abstract: A garment 1 having a cup part in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises a brassiere part 20 having a pair of cup parts 21 for covering breasts, while being substantially free of a back part encircling a back to support the pair of cup parts 21, and a main part 10 incorporating the brassiere part 20 therein. The brassiere part 20 is provided so as to join to left and right side parts of the main part 10, while remaining parts are free from the main part 10. The main part 10 has a tightening part 11 covering at least lower and side regions of the brassiere part 20 out of peripheral regions of the pair of cup parts 21, and encircling a torso.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Junko Yamaguchi, Keiko Masuda
  • Publication number: 20140087624
    Abstract: A garment 1 having a cup part in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is a garment having a cup part for covering a bust. The cup part 10 has upper and lower cup portions 12, 16, with a middle cup portion 14 sewed therebetween. The middle cup portion 14 is arranged such that a bust top T is located at a boundary between the upper and middle cup portions 12, 14 or in the middle cup portion 14 and extends from a front center side edge 10lf of a lower portion or a front center side edge of an upper portion of the cup part 10 to an outer side edge of the lower portion, an edge 10s of a side portion, or an outer side edge of the upper portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Masaru YUASA, Megumi TACHIIRI, Keiko ISHII, Mariko KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20140020149
    Abstract: The present invention embodies a garment which can smoothen motions of its wearer by a new technique, which is totally different from that of exerting a tightening force on a muscle, according to findings that the range of motion of a joint can be widened if a structure for extending and gathering respective parts of a skin gathering and leaving when the joint works in relation to bending/extension or abduction/adduction of the wearer is added to the garment and that the range of motion of the joint can be widened if a structure for moving the skin along a direction of motion of a muscle when the joint works in relation to turning of the wearer is added to the garment, on the basis of a close relationship between a motion of the skin when the joint works and an extending direction of a tension line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takato Yamada, Yuka Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20140017977
    Abstract: In each cup portion 101 of the garment having cup portions, a support member 110 is provided so as to extend along the periphery of the swell of a wearer's breast. The support member 110 includes a lower support member 110A and an upper support member 110B. The lower support member 110A is stretchable in a direction connecting the front center side and the lateral side of the cup portion 101. The upper support member 110B is non-stretchable or slightly stretchable in a direction orthogonal to the above-described direction. At least part of a front center side-portion and at least part of a lateral side-portion of the upper support member 110B are fixed to the garment. At least part of a lateral side-portion of the lower support member 110A is fixed to the garment so that the lower support member 110A is displaceable relative to the cup portion 101.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Katsuko Horii, Masumi Fujii, Youji Katsuhara
  • Publication number: 20140017465
    Abstract: A knitted fabric includes: a first knitted fabric region and a second knitted fabric region. The first region and the second region have different elongations from each other. The knitted fabric further includes buffer regions. The buffer regions are provided in at least one of the first region and the second region so as to be in contact with the first region and the second region. The buffer regions each have an elongation set so that, as the buffer region extends toward either one of the first region and the second region, the difference between the elongation of the buffer region and the elongation of the first region or the second region toward which the buffer region extends is reduced gradually. Between the first region and the second region, there is no boundary line that is substantially parallel to the course direction of the knitted fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: KYUASA CO., LTD., WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Atsushi Toyama
  • Publication number: 20140007320
    Abstract: A conditioning bottom 1 has a main body 2 and a strong tightening portion 3 which is in the form of a belt and has a tightening force stronger than a tightening force of the main body 2. This strong tightening portion 3 has first strong tightening portions 3a and a second strong tightening portion 3b. When the conditioning bottom 1 is worn, the first strong tightening portions 3a extend so as to surround gastrocnemius muscles of a wearer along outer edges of the gastrocnemius muscles, and the second strong tightening portion 3b is coupled to the first strong tightening portions 3a and extends through the inside of the wearer's lower leg and thigh to a position of the wearer's crotch. Also, a first mesh portion 4 having a tightening force weaker than the tightening force of the strong tightening portion 3 is formed in a section surrounded by the first strong tightening portions 3a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Takayuki SEMBA, Tomoko OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130225046
    Abstract: A skirt liner 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a skirt-type main body 10, and an abdomen and crotch tightening part 20 joined at one end side thereof to a region around a front waist part of the main body 10, extending from the one end side so as to cover an abdominal part and a crotch part, and joined at the other end side thereof to a back lower center of the main body 10, in which the portion of the abdomen and crotch tightening part 20 other than the one end side and the other end side is unjoined to the main body 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP
    Inventor: Yuka Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20130210318
    Abstract: The bottom clothes have: a main body part 10 that covers at least each buttocks part; and a band-like first tightening part 20, 20 and a band-like second tightening part 30, 30 both of which are disposed in pairs on left and right sides of the main body part 10 and have tightening forces stronger than that of the main body part 10, wherein the first tightening part 20, 20 is disposed on a rear center side from a top D of the buttocks part and extends vertically from a main body upper part E to a gluteal fold F, and the second tightening part 30, 30 is disposed below the top D of the buttocks part, covers at least an upper section of the gluteal fold F and extends upward from a lower end part of the first tightening part 20, 20 upward to a side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Maki Kakuno, Junko Kumai
  • Publication number: 20130183885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a garment with cup sections, which prevents the occurrence of slippage due to an action of a wearer or the like and thus can maintain the wearer's bust silhouette fine without any effort of correcting the slippage when it is worn. The garment with cup sections according to the present invention includes: a pair of cup sections (101) and a back cloth(s) (103). The back cloth (103) is arranged on the lateral sides of the cup sections (101). Each of the cup sections (101) includes a stretchable member(s) (101a) and a linear or strip-shaped interlining member(s) (105). At least one end of the interlining member (105) is on a verge's line-corresponding portion in the cup section (101), and the stretchable member (101a) is arranged in a region between the interlining member (105) and the lower edge of the cup section (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yukio Yamazaki, Keiko Ishii
  • Patent number: 8245324
    Abstract: Filler clothes 3, which intersect with each other at a section corresponding to the middle point between the interspinal point and patellar midpoint of a human body, are formed on a front section of a bottom garment 1. The filler clothes 3 which are formed in this manner stimulates the rectus femoris muscle 14 which is a part of the quadriceps of a wearer. When the quadriceps is stimulated while walking, the legs can be kicked backward significantly in a natural fashion, whereby the gluteus maximus muscles can be used efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Reiko Kawasaki, Yoshihisa Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 8137155
    Abstract: Clothing having cups in which a front center supporting part is provided at a portion where front sides of left and right cups covering left and right breasts respectively which are disposed nearer to a front center in a left-to-right direction than top portions of the left and right cups are continuous with each other, with a front central position interposed between the front sides of the left and right cups. Upper and lower portions of the front center supporting part are spread in a left-to-right direction with the upper and lower portions thereof extended to upper and lower sides of the left and right cups respectively surrounding each of the top portions to such an extent that the upper portion is located at a position where the upper portion and a strap are continuous with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Katsuko Horii, Kiriko Kondo, Saori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8028547
    Abstract: A warp knitted fabric having the isotropy of strength. The warp knitted fabric is provided with a fabric weave and insertion yarn groups (14, 16). The insertion yarn group (14) comprises four yarns (Y4a-Y4d) of the same type. The insertion yarn group (16) comprises four yarns (Y5a-Y5d) of the same type. The yarns (Y4a-Y4d, Y5a-Y5d) are inserted into a warp-knitted fabric weave in the warp direction while being arranged parallel to each other at an interval of one wale in the weft direction. Each of the yarns (Y4a-Y4d, Y5a-Y5d) comprises a portion (14a) extending as a whole in the direction crossing the warp direction, a portion (14b) extending as a whole in the direction crossing the warp direction, and a portion (14c) extending as a whole in the direction extending along the warp direction and connecting the portions (14a, 14b) to each other. One of the yarns (Y4a-Y4d) is overlapped with a corresponding one of the yarns (Y5a-Y5d) when viewed from the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Ryuzo Suzuki, Yuko Sumitomo, Sachie Nakase
  • Patent number: D698518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Fumiko Tanaka, Nozomu Seike
  • Patent number: D707921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Fumiko Tanaka, Nozomu Seike, Jo Miyake