Abstract: There is provided an excretion sensing device adapted to electrically connect to an excretion sensor without creating a feeling of discomfort or any skin trouble against the wearer due to an electric connector to electrically connect to the sensor. The device includes an excretion receiver adapted to be attached to a suitable chassis. The receiver has an excretion sensor wherein an end of the sensor extends outward from the lower surface of the receiver. The end of the sensor extending out from the receiver is adapted to detachably and electrically connect to the electric connector.

Abstract: In a urine receptacle of an automatic urine disposal device, a urine backflow prevention sheet, with no water permeability, having funnel-shaped pores, is placed between a top sheet and a urine absorbing sheet. A pair of rectangular electrodes, constituting a urine detection sensor, is glued onto an electrode support sheet and is placed between the top sheet and the urine backflow prevention sheet. A plurality of funnel-shaped pores is formed on the urine backflow prevention sheet.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a thin and uniform ceramic filter formed with less membrane formation times and having less defects. A ceramic sol whose average pore diameter after the sol itself has been formed into a membrane is larger than that of a ceramic separation membrane and is 10 nm or less is brought into contact with the surface of a ceramic separation membrane having an average pore diameter of 0.5 to 10 nm, and the ceramic separation membrane having the ceramic sol is dried and then fired to repair a defect portion of the ceramic separation membrane.

Abstract: An automatic urine disposal apparatus adapted to detect the presence of feces in a wide range. A detector unit in an automatic urine disposal apparatus has a urination detector 102b and a defecation detector 102c. The urination detector 102b comprises a pair of first electrodes 218a, 218b and the defecation detector 102c comprises a pair of second electrodes 143a, 143b. The pair of first electrodes 218a, 218b and the pair of second electrodes 143a, 143b respectively have regions spaced one from another and extending in parallel one to another and these regions comprise portions 102d, 102e can be wetted with urine or moisture contained in feces.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a urine suction device improved to achieve quick urine suction. A urine suction device 102 comprises a urine receiver unit 102a and a urine detector unit 102b. The urine detector unit 102b includes a pair of electrode assemblies 118a, 118b adapted to output a detection signal as soon as it is wetted with urine. The pair of electrode assemblies 118a, 118b is sandwiched between a liquid-pervious first sheet 128 and a liquid-pervious second sheet 130. The first and second sheets 128, 130 are put flat and joined together along joint zones 301, 302, 303 provided outside respective pairs of opposite side edges 269a, 269b of the electrode assemblies 118a, 118b. Along the respective joint zones, at least one of the first and second sheets 128, 130 has its thickness locally reduced and the first and second sheets 128, 130 are kept in close contact with each other along the joint zones 301, 302, 303 and in the vicinity of the joint zones.

Abstract: An excrement treating apparatus 100 includes an excretion receiver 1 and an apparatus body 2. The excretion receiver 1 includes a receiver body 10 which receives excretions and an excretion sensor 20 which detects the excretions. The apparatus body 2 includes a urine tank 51 which stores urine, a vacuum pump 52 which sucks urine received by the receiver body 10 into the urine tank 51, and a control unit 53. The excretion sensor 20 includes a pair of urine sensor electrodes 21 and 22 which detect urine received by the receiver body 10. The control unit 52 controls so as to reverse the polarity of the urine sensor electrodes 21 and 22 at prescribed time intervals. In the excrement treating apparatus, the excretion sensor's sensitivity is stabilized and urination is accurately detected and treated.

Abstract: There is provided a ceramic filter provided with a ceramic porous membrane having few defects, small and uniform membrane thickness, and high resolution performance. The ceramic filter includes; a porous substrate 11 which is a microfiltration membrane (MF membrane), a titania UF membrane 14 which is an ultrafiltration membrane (UF membrane) formed on the porous substrate 11 and has an average pore size of 2 to 20 nm and an average thickness of 0.1 to 1.0 ?m, and a silica membrane 1 which is formed on the titania UF membrane 14 and a ceramic porous membrane a part of which has penetrated into pores of the titania UF membrane 14 or into pores of the UF membrane 14 and the porous substrate 11.

Abstract: Here is disclosed a urine receiver. The urine receiver which collects urine of a wearer of the urine receiver under suction force has a container member provided with a bottom, a peripheral wall and flange. The container member has a suction tube which extends through the peripheral wall and has a urine suction port opening toward the interior of the container member and a urine evacuation port opening toward the exterior of the container member. The evacuation port is adapted to be connected to a connector of a urine suction means provided externally of the container member.

Abstract: There are disclosed a ceramic porous membrane formed with less membrane formation times and having less defects, a small and uniform thickness and a high flux, and a ceramic filter. A silica membrane is formed on a titania UF membrane as an ultrafiltration membrane (a UF membrane) formed on a porous base member which is a microfiltration membrane (also referred to as an MF membrane) and having an average pore diameter smaller than that of the porous base member, and the silica membrane has an average pore diameter smaller than that of the titania UF membrane, and does not substantially permeates the titania UF membrane.

Abstract: 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 skin and serving to detect the urine. The paired electrodes covered with insulating coating. The coating is formed with through-holes adapted to expose a limited area of the electrodes.

Abstract: A wearer wears a urine receptacle in which a urine absorbent material 3 is housed in a substantially rectangular, non-breathable, liquid-impermeable outer sheet having a U-shaped cross-section, and the surface of the urine absorbent material is covered with a hard-breathable, liquid permeable top sheet. Urine is discharged from a urine drainage port formed on the bottom surface of the outer sheet to a sealed urine tank by a vacuum pump through urine drainage tubes.

Abstract: An absorptive article which includes a locking part disposed on one end in the longitudinal direction so as to face the side of a wearing object and a locking part disposed on the other end in the longitudinal direction so as to face a side opposite to the wearing object. The care system includes the first locking part (251) disposed at an input terminal (250) fitted to an output terminal part (115) disposed on one end in the longitudinal direction (X) of the urine pad (100) so as to face the side of the wearing person and the second locking part disposed on the surface of a side opposite to the side of the wearing person, that is the other end in the longitudinal direction (X) of the urine pad (100). The urine pad (100) is used while the first locking part (251) is locked to a belt-like member put on the waist of the wearing person, and the second locking part is locked to the inner surface of an outer member so disposed as to cover the urine pad (100).

Abstract: There are disclosed a ceramic porous membrane formed with less membrane formation times and having less defects, a small and uniform thickness and a high resolution, and a ceramic filter. A silica membrane as a ceramic porous membrane is formed on a titania UF membrane as an ultrafiltration membrane (a UF membrane) formed on a porous base member which is a microfiltration membrane (also referred to as an MF membrane) and having an average pore diameter smaller than that of the porous base member, the silica membrane has an average pore diameter smaller than that of the titania UF membrane and a part of the silica membrane permeates the titania UF membrane.

Abstract: Here is disclosed a urine receiver. The urine receiver which collects urine of a wearer of the urine receiver under suction force has a container member provided with a bottom, a peripheral wall and flange. The container member has a suction tube which extends through the peripheral wall and has a urine suction port opening toward the interior of the container member and a urine evacuation port opening toward the exterior of the container member. The evacuation port is adapted to be connected to a connector of a urine suction means provided externally of the container member.

Abstract: An absorptive article in which a terminal section of a sensor is less likely to be damaged in production, packaging, and transportation. An output terminal (115) of a sensor member (110) is placed at a side end of a front edge (180) of a urine pad (100). The side end of the front edge (180) is constructed only from a front face sheet (105) and a rear face sheet (106). The front face sheet (105) and the rear face sheet (106) are not joined together and are separably arranged. When the urine pad (100) is not in use, the output terminal (115) is covered by the front face sheet (105) and the rear face sheet (106). In use, the front face sheet (105) and the rear face sheet (106) are separated in the thickness direction and the output terminal (115) of the sensor member (110) is exposed.

Abstract: An excrement detection sensor in which two pairs of conductors 1, 2 and 3, 4 are formed between a carrier body 6 and a coating body 7 both having water-proof property and insulating property, wherein the cover body is formed with an urine introduction port 8 correlating the paired conductors and with a faeces introduction port 9 correlating the other paired conductors, and when urine enters into the urine introduction ports, the one pair of the conductors are short-circuited and when faeces enters into the faeces introduction ports, the other one pair of the conductors are short-circuited, whereby the urination and the evacuation can be distinctively detected.

Abstract: A water content detection sensor includes a circuit member in which low resistance conductors 1,2 disposed in parallel to each other and a high resistance conductor 3 connecting end portions of the respective low resistance conductors, a carrier body 4 having a water-proof property and an insulating property, and a coating body 5 having a water-proof property and an insulating property, the circuit portion being disposed between the carrier body and the coating body. A plurality of exposure holes 6 are formed to the carrier body or the coating body so as to expose the low resistance conductors at plural portions, and when water content adheres between the exposure holes and the low resistance conductors are then short-circuited in a current conduction state, a current value is made larger than that before the adhesion of the water content. When a small current passes, it is judged that the circuit is normal, and on the other hand, a large current passes, it is judged that water is generated.

Abstract: An automatic urine disposal device has a urine collecting pad, vacuum pump, and urine tank. In the urine collecting pad, the top sheet comes in contact with the wearer's skin, the hydrophilic sheet is disposed on the bottom of the top sheet, and the urine absorbent sheet is disposed at the bottom. When discharged urine flows in the top sheet, the hydrophilic sheet widely diffuses urine to saturate its entire surface and then becomes non-breathable. As the vacuum pump vacuums the air from the urine tank, urine is directed from a urine drainage port of the urine collecting pad via a urine drainage tube to the urine tank which is a sealed container.

Abstract: A wearing article includes pants having a supporting sheet extending between front and rear waist regions and a body waste absorbing pad formed in its upper surface with a first opening and releasably attached to the inner side of the pants. The supporting sheet is formed with a slit through which a rear zone of the pad can be inserted. The pad is provided on its upper surface with a joined sheet having a second opening. A front zone and an intermediate zone of the pad are placed on the upper surface of the supporting sheet, the rear zone of the pad is inserted into the slit so as to be interposed between the pants and the supporting sheet, free front and rear zones are fastened to the upper surface of the supporting sheet and thereby the pad is attached to the pants by means of the supporting sheet.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a thin and uniform ceramic filter formed with less membrane formation times and having less defects. A ceramic sol whose average pore diameter after the sol itself has been formed into a membrane is larger than that of a ceramic separation membrane and is 10 nm or less is brought into contact with the surface of a ceramic separation membrane having an average pore diameter of 0.5 to 10 nm, and the ceramic separation membrane having the ceramic sol is dried and then fired to repair a defect portion of the ceramic separation membrane.