Patents by Inventor Ayami Suga
Ayami Suga has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6986762Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty having a waist band in a waist part, leg bands in leg openings, and a napkin fitting portion in a crotch part. In a three-dimensionally shaped condition as worn, a dimensional ratio between a center front length from the crotch part to the waist part and a minimum total length from the leg opening to the waist part is in a range of 80 to 200 in the total length, as taking that the center front length is 100. In a back part, an elastic lifting member extending from the crotch part to the waist part is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Publication number: 20050197643Abstract: The invention provides a panty realizing easy fit of a sanitary napkin for night use to a crotch portion, preventing the napkin from shifting out of position, alleviating digging into the crotch portion, and thus being comfortable to wear without giving feeling of constriction to the wearer. The panty includes a front part, a back part, a crotch part provided so as to bridge between the front part and the back part, a slightly elastic member is provided at the substantially center area of the back part, a highly elastic member is provided from a back parts lifting member to the entire area of the front part except for the waist hold part, a fixing member is provided on the substantially center area of the front part, a crotch lifting member is provided at the substantially center area of the crotch part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Ayami Suga, Shinobu Fujikawa, Hideki Kondo
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Publication number: 20050171463Abstract: Disclosed is a sanitary tampon including: an applicator composed of an outer tube having a front nose and a rear opening and a pusher inserted into the outer tube through the rear opening; and a tampon body contained in the outer tube and allowed to come out of the front nose when pushed by the pusher. The outer tube is provided with marks which serve as a measure of insertion distance of the outer tube into the vaginal cavity of a user. The marks are spaced away from the front nose of the outer tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6863664Abstract: Provided is an absorbent pad for being used with a sanitary tampon, which includes a pad body having liquid absorbency. The pad body has front and rear faces, and a string receiving portion. The string receiving portion passes through from the front face to the rear face so that a string extending from the tampon can be inserted into the string receiving portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6824852Abstract: A heat conductivity from a heating body to a user's skin is improved to provide satisfactorily warm feeling to the skin of the user. A laminated heating body has a heating body and a cover sheet covering the heating body. The cover sheet defines at least one low temperature portion formed from a material having low heat conductivity and at least one high temperature portion formed from a material having high heat conductivity. The at least one low temperature portion and the at least one high temperature portion are formed separately on a surface of the cover sheet contacting with a user's skin.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Naohito Takeuchi, Kiyoshi Miyazawa, Mitsuko Yamaji, Ayami Suga, Toshiyuki Tanio
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Publication number: 20030191444Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty having a waist band in a waist part, leg bands in leg openings, and a napkin fitting portion in a crotch part. In a three-dimensionally shaped condition as worn, a dimensional ratio between a center front length from the crotch part to the waist part and a minimum total length from the leg opening to the waist part is in a range of 80 to 200 in the total length, as taking that the center front length is 100. In a back part, an elastic lifting member extending from the crotch part to the waist part is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2003Publication date: October 9, 2003Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6626883Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty having a waist band in a waist part, leg bands in leg openings, and a napkin fitting portion in a crotch part. In a three-dimensionally shaped condition as worn, a dimensional ratio between a center front length from the crotch part to the waist part and a minimum total length from the leg opening to the waist part is in a range of 80 to 200 in the total length, as taking that the center front length is 100. In a back part, an elastic lifting member extending from the crotch part to the waist part is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6613034Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty including a front part, a back part, a crotch part positioned between the front part and the back part, and a waist portion formed by upper end portions of the front part and the back part. A pair of leg openings are formed below joining portions between side edges of the front part and side edges of the back part. A suspending member is formed with a stretchable material and extended from the front part, the crotch part and the back part. The suspending member is gradually reduced a width from the waist portion to the crotch part in the back part. An extension cloth extends from both sides of the suspending member to the leg openings at least in the crotch part.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Satoshi Nozaki, Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Publication number: 20030143347Abstract: A heat conductivity from a heating body to a user's skin is improved to provide satisfactorily warm feeling to the skin of the user. A laminated heating body has a heating body and a cover sheet covering the heating body. The cover sheet defines at least one low temperature portion formed from a material having low heat conductivity and at least one high temperature portion formed from a material having high heat conductivity. The at least one low temperature portion and the at least one high temperature portion are formed separately on a surface of the cover sheet contacting with a user's skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2003Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventors: Naohito Takeuchi, Kiyoshi Miyazawa, Mitsuko Yamaji, Ayami Suga, Toshiyuki Tanio
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Publication number: 20030078553Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including: a liquid permeable topsheet disposed on a body surface of the article; a liquid barrier sheet for preventing liquids from exuding toward a garment surface of the article; and an absorbent layer disposed between the topsheet and the liquid barrier sheet. The absorbent article has a liquid receiving region of a predetermined area where the topsheet and the absorbent layer overlap each other. A reference mark for visually measuring an extent of liquid spread in the liquid receiving region is provided on a body surface of the topsheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Publication number: 20030073970Abstract: An individual package of a body fluid absorbent article can instantly take care of used body fluid absorbent article without staining fingers with a used substance disposing sheet immediately after opening the package upon changing the body fluid absorbent article. In the individual package of a body fluid absorbent article, a used substance disposing sheet to be used for wrapping a used absorbent body taken out from a user's body for disposal, is packed within the individual package together with the body fluid absorbent article. The package sheet is provided with a cutting portion for separating the packaging bag into bag fractions. A part of the used substance disposing sheet is fixed to one of the bag fractions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Ayami Suga
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Publication number: 20030065300Abstract: Disclosed is an individually packaged body fluid absorbent article including: a body fluid absorbent article including an absorbent body to be inserted into the vagina of a user; and a bag in which the body fluid absorbent article is individually packaged. Instructions for use of the body fluid absorbent article are indicated on the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6539555Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty including a panty body formed with a front part, a back part and a crotch part located between the front part and the back part; and a support member. The panty body has a waist portion formed with an upper edge portion of the front part and an upper edge portion of the back part, and a pair of leg openings. The support member is provided inside of the panty body and has elastic stretchability in a longitudinal direction extending from the front part to the back part. The support member is fitted at both ends only with the front and back parts of the panty body. The support member has a narrower width portion of which the width is in a range of 20 to 40 mm and extending from the crotch part to the back part. The width of the support member gradually increases from a terminal end of the narrower width portion in the back part to the waist portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Ayami Suga, Mitsuhiro Wada
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Patent number: 6533771Abstract: Provided is a sanitary tampon including an absorbent wrapped by a liquid-pervious sheet. The absorbent is a mass of a plurality of compressed, small fiber agglomerations. At least the small fiber agglomerations located in the peripheral region of the absorbent are bonded to each other via hydrogen bonding therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Ayami Suga, Mitsuhiro Wada
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Patent number: 6502250Abstract: Provided is a sanitary panty including a front part, a back part, a crotch part located between the front part and the back part, a waist portion formed by an upper edge portion of the front part and an upper edge portion of the back part, a pair of leg openings defined below joining portions of both side edges of the front part and both side edges of the back part, a suspending member extending over the front part, the crotch part and the back part in a longitudinal direction, and an extension cloth extending from both sides of the suspending member located at least in the crotch part and the back part. The suspending member is gradually reduced a width from the waist portion to the crotch part in the back part. The suspending member has greater elastic modulus in a longitudinal direction than that in a lateral direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Ayami Suga, Mitsuhiro Wada
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Patent number: 6478764Abstract: An applicator for sanitary tampon includes an outer cylindrical tube formed with the maximum outer diameter region. The outer cylindrical tube has its outer diameter gradually increasing rearwardly from its front end until the maximum outer diameter region is reached and then gradually decreasing rearwardly. The maximum outer diameter region extends within ½ of a full length of the outer tube as measured from its front end.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6432075Abstract: Provided is an applicator for a tampon including an outer cylinder having a large diameter portion for fitting a tampon therein, a small diameter portion provided on the side of a rear end of the outer cylinder and having a smaller diameter than that of the large diameter portion; and a plurality of valves provided on the side of a leading end of the outer cylinder. The valves are converged to have a curved face portion to be diametrically gradually reduced toward the leading end of the outer cylinder, and a push-out member is movably inserted into the small diameter portion of the outer cylinder. A ratio A/B is at most 0.8, when an inflection point for the boundary between the maximum diameter portion of the large diameter portion and the curved face portion is designated by Z, a radius of the outer face at the inflection point Z is designated by A, and the axial length from the inflection point Z to the leading end of the curved face portion is designated by B. A ratio L/W is within a range of 1.0 to 2.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6432076Abstract: Provided is an applicator for a tampon including an outer cylinder having a protruding mouth at a leading end thereof, through which a tampon is pushed out and an opening at a root end thereof; and an inner cylinder for pushing out the tampon which has a front end located in the outer cylinder and a rear end protruding rearwardly from the outer cylinder through the opening. The inner cylinder is formed of an extruded material which is extrusion-molded of a thermoplastic resin into a cylindrical shape, and is provided at the front end thereof with a push portion which is deformed to have a larger diameter from the extruded material.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Publication number: 20020068894Abstract: Provided is an absorbent pad for being used with a sanitary tampon, which includes a pad body having liquid absorbency. The pad body has front and rear faces, and a string receiving portion. The string receiving portion passes through from the front face to the rear face so that a string extending from the tampon can be inserted into the string receiving portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Wada, Ayami Suga
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Patent number: 6355011Abstract: An applicator with a sanitary tampon includes an outer cylindrical tube and an inner plunger axially movable within the outer cylindrical tube for ejecting the tampon out of a front end opening of the outer cylindrical tube. The outer cylindrical tube is dimensioned to be longer than a length of the tampon by 50˜80 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Ayami Suga