Patents by Inventor Yuki Noda

Yuki Noda 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).

  • Publication number: 20170135866
    Abstract: This absorbent article has sufficient pliability even when an absorbent body is bonded to a transport material, a wrap material, etc., and is pleasant to wear. In this absorbent article (1), an absorbent body (4) includes at least a hydrophilic fiber-containing hydrophilic fiber layer (5) having multiple non-through slits (8), and in the surface opposite of the surface having the slits (8), the hydrophilic fiber layer (5) has multiple recesses (9) in positions corresponding to the multiple non-through slits (8) in the thickness direction of the absorbent article (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuya TAMURA, Yuki NODA, Akira HASHINO
  • Publication number: 20170105889
    Abstract: A package comprises: wrapped absorbent articles comprising: an absorbent article having an absorber; and a wrapper for individually wrapping the absorbent article, the absorbent article being placed on the wrapper and folded together with the wrapper, and the absorbent article being wrapped individually by the wrapper; and a bag containing the plurality of wrapped absorbent articles, wherein the wrapped absorbent articles are provided with a perfume, at least one surface of the bag comprises: aperture through which the perfume of the wrapped absorbent articles contained in the bag can pass; and a perfume indicator for indicating an existence of the perfume, a compressibility of the package is 10% or more when a load of 1.35 kg in weight is applied in an area of 100 mm×200 mm of the package for ten seconds, and a compression resilience of the package is 95% or more after ten seconds has passed after removal of the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Kiyoko NISHIMURA, Yuki NODA, Toshihisa HAYASHI, Taro NITTONO
  • Patent number: 9522212
    Abstract: An individually packaged absorbent article has a pair of flaps for securing the absorbent article to clothing of a wearer. The absorbent article is folded multiple times along multiple folding axes such that the pair of flaps is folded over a liquid-permeable top sheet and the top sheet faces inward. The top sheet has a blood lubricating agent containing region, which contains a predetermined blood lubricating agent, in an area which overlaps with the pair of flaps in the thickness direction of the absorbent article. Moreover, the absorbent article is provided with a spacer for forming a space between the pair of flaps and the blood lubricating agent containing region of the top sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tamura, Yuki Noda, Akira Hashino
  • Patent number: 9498387
    Abstract: An absorbent article has a lengthwise direction and a widthwise direction. The absorbent article includes a body section provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet on a skin-side, a liquid-impermeable backsheet on a garment-side, and a liquid-holding absorbent body positioned between the top sheet and the backsheet; and wing sections extending outwardly from both side-edges of the body section in the widthwise direction. A surface of the wing sections on the skin-side is formed by the top sheet or from side sheets positioned on both sides in the widthwise direction of the top sheet. Furthermore, the surface of the wing sections on the skin-side includes a plurality of bending parts extending non-continuously in the lengthwise direction, arranged in the widthwise direction, and having a substantially U-shaped cross-sectional shape in the widthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tamura, Yuki Noda, Takashi Nomoto, Takashi Onozuka
  • Publication number: 20160226411
    Abstract: The display unit of the present disclosure has a main unit, a display disposed on the main unit so as to be movable between a first position and a second position, a motor for driving the display, a driving state detector for detecting the driving state of the motor, a current detector for detecting motor current, and a controller for controlling the driving state of the motor. When the current detector detects a predetermined current value suitable for the driving state detected by the driving state detector, the controller provides the motor with a predetermined drive control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: YUKI NODA, KEIJIROH NAGANO
  • Patent number: 9387135
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel absorbent article that prevents excessive compression of an absorbent body caused by deformation of the absorbent article, and rewetting associated with said compression. In order to solve such a problem, a sanitary napkin (1) is provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet (2), a liquid-impermeable back sheet (3), and an absorbent body (4) disposed between the top sheet (2) and the back sheet (3), wherein: an extensible area (21) having an extensible bellows-like section (210), and a flexible area (22) surrounding the extensible area (21) are formed in a waste supply area (20) of the top sheet (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Takashi Nomoto, Takashi Onozuka
  • Patent number: 9381122
    Abstract: In an absorbent article, in which each of pressure-bonded parts has a linear shape extending in the length direction of the absorbent article, the pressure-bonded parts are formed with spacing at regular intervals in a discontinuous manner with respect to the length direction of the absorbent article and are also formed in multiple lines with spacing at regular intervals with respect to the width direction of the absorbent article, depressed parts are formed on a back-sheet-facing surface of an absorbent body that is located beneath the pressure-bonded parts, each of an excretory opening-contacting region in a top sheet and the pressure-bonded parts contains a blood lubricity-imparting agent having a kinematic viscosity of 0.01 to 80 mm2/s at 40° C., a water hold percentage of 0.01 to 4.0 mass % and a weight average molecular weight of less than 1,000, and the amount of the blood lubricity-imparting agent in the pressure-bonded parts is larger than that in the excretory opening-contacting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura
  • Patent number: 9381268
    Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article having a dry top sheet without any feeling of stickiness in the top sheet, even after high viscosity menstrual blood has been absorbed. The absorbent article of the present disclosure has the following structure. The absorbent article (1) has a liquid-permeable top sheet (2), a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body (3). The absorbent article (1) is characterized by: having an excretory orifice contact region (4), first embossed portions (5), an external peripheral region (6), and second embossed portions (7); the first embossed portions (5) and second embossed portions (7) being formed by embossing a layer comprising the top sheet (2) and the absorbent body (3); and the top sheet (2) inside the excretory orifice contact region (4) and the second embossed portions (7) respectively comprising a prescribed blood lubricating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura
  • Patent number: 9375365
    Abstract: Provided is an absorbent article capable of suppressing leakage in the widthwise direction from an absorbent article (1) of a bodily fluid (31) which has seeped from an absorbent body (4) as a result of the application of pressure to the absorbent article (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tamura, Yuki Noda, Takashi Nomoto, Takashi Onozuka
  • Patent number: 9375356
    Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article that enables the rapid transfer of menstrual blood to an absorbent body, is not susceptible to the spread of menstrual blood above a top sheet, and is not susceptible to causing feelings of stickiness on the top sheet. The absorbent article of the present disclosure has the following structure. An absorbent article (1) having a liquid-permeable top sheet (2), a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body (3). The absorbent article (1) is characterized by: having an excretory orifice contact region (4) and embossed portions (5); the top sheet (2) inside the excretory orifice contact region (4) and the embossed portions (5) respectively containing a prescribed blood lubricating agent; and the amount of the blood lubricating agent in the embossed portions (5) being larger than the amount of the blood lubricating agent in the top sheet (2) in the excretory orifice contact region (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura
  • Patent number: 9364576
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body arranged between the top sheet and the back sheet. An excretory orifice contact area of the liquid-permeable top sheet has an area containing a blood slipping agent. The blood slipping agent has a kinematic viscosity of 0.01-80 mm2/s at 40° C., a water hold percentage of 0.01-4.0 mass %, and a weight average molecular weight of less than 1,000. An amount of the blood slipping agent on the clothing-side surface of the top sheet is greater than an amount of the blood slipping agent on the skin-side surface of the top sheet at a location in the area containing the blood slipping agent where the surfaces overlap in the thickness direction of the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Akira Hashino, Toru Oba
  • Patent number: 9351887
    Abstract: The objective of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article (1) having a high fiber density region (7) in which absorbed menstrual blood is not easily retained, so that after menstrual blood has been absorbed, feelings of stickiness are not easily caused on a top sheet (2), and the top sheet (2) remains dry. The absorbent article (1) of the present disclosure has a liquid-permeable top sheet (2), a liquid-impermeable back sheet (6), and an absorbent body (3). The absorbent article (1) is characterized by: the top sheet (2) having, in an excretory orifice contact region (A), a high fiber density region (7) and a low fiber density region (8); the top sheet (2) containing, in the excretory orifice contact region (A), a prescribed blood lubricating agent (9); and the basis weight of the blood lubricating agent (9) in the high fiber density region (7) being larger than the basis weight of the blood lubricating agent (9) in the low fiber density region (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Masashi Nakashita
  • Patent number: 9339423
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided to prevent pulp fibers and a superabsorbent polymer that constitute an absorbent body from leaking from openings, even if a top sheet does not cover the side wall portions of the absorbent body at the openings. The absorbent article includes: a liquid-permeable top sheet having openings; a back sheet; and an absorbent body having openings. At the openings of the top sheet and the openings of the absorbent body, the top sheet is detached from the absorbent body. The opening diameters of the openings on the clothing side of the top sheet are smaller than the opening diameters of the openings on the skin side of the absorbent body. An opening diameter of the openings on the clothing side of the absorbent body is no greater than the opening diameter of the openings on the clothing side of the top sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Takashi Nomoto, Takashi Onozuka, Tomoyuki Saga
  • Patent number: 9314383
    Abstract: The purpose of this disclosure is to provide an absorptive article which can deform while following the movement of the wearer's legs and which can restore to the original shape. The absorptive article of this disclosure has the following configuration. The absorptive article (1) includes a liquid permeable top sheet (4), a liquid impermeable back sheet, and an absorption body (7). The absorptive article (1) is characterized in that the absorptive article (1) has, in the region thereof which is in contact with the excretory opening, a medium-high section (2) protruding in the thickness direction of the absorptive article (1) and including a cushion section, and in that the absorption body (7) has one or more compressed sections (3) which form a folding axis about which the absorptive article (1) is folded in the width direction thereof so that the skin contact surface of the top sheet (4) protrudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Akira Hashino
  • Patent number: 9308139
    Abstract: An individual packing product that makes it difficult to see an absorbent product disposed therein, not staining other individual packing products, and easy to put in a bag or pocket and carry. In the individual packing product, the absorbent product having an adhesive portion in a non-skin contact region is packed with a packing sheet. The absorbent product is fixed to the inner side of the packing sheet with the adhesive portion being disposed therebetween, the packing sheet is folded with the absorbent product being disposed therein, the packing sheet has a separable colored portion on the inner side thereof, and although the colored portion can be seen from the outside of the individual packing product, the absorbent product cannot be seen from the outside of the individual packing product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu, Hideyuki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9301885
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body between the liquid-permeable top sheet and liquid-impermeable back sheet. The top sheet exhibits a color difference in a range of 37-80, based on the L*a*b* color system and measured from a skin contact surface of the top sheet in a liquid dropping test. Further, the top sheet has a color-reducing agent having an IOB of 0.00-0.35, a melting point of no higher than 45° C. and a water solubility of 0.00-0.05 g in 100 g of water at 25° C. The absorbent article is configured to allow a user to visually confirm reduction in residue of highly viscous menstrual blood on the top sheet after its absorption, thereby providing reassurance to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Komatsu, Yuki Noda, Mitsuhiro Wada, Akira Hashino, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Masashi Nakashita, Ichiro Wada
  • Patent number: 9278035
    Abstract: An individually wrapped absorbent article that is wrapped in a wrapping sheet wherein the wrapping sheet has a colored part on the inner surface on the side of the absorbent article, and the colored part of the wrapping sheet can be seen from the outside of the individually wrapped product but the absorbent article cannot be seen from the outside of the individually wrapped product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu, Hideyuki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9248060
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body that is arranged between the top sheet and the back sheet. The absorbent article further includes a pair of flaps provided to both sides of the absorbent article in a lengthwise direction, a first area containing a blood lubricity-imparting agent, and a second area containing a blood lubricity-imparting agent. The first and second areas are provided to at least an excretory orifice contact area of the top sheet and to the pair of flaps. A basis weight of the blood lubricity-imparting agent in the first area is greater than the basis weight of the blood lubricity-imparting agent in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Akira Hashino
  • Patent number: 9233185
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article that can be made smaller because the crown section continues to fit the wearer's excretory opening, which has a complex shape, both when dry before absorbing menstrual blood and when wet after absorbing menstrual blood, and with which leakage does not occur easily. This absorbent article is as follows: The absorbent article (1), which comprises a liquid-permeable top sheet (4), a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and a specified absorbent (7) between the liquid permeable top sheet (4) and the liquid-impermeable back sheet, is characterized in that: the absorbent article (1) has a crown section (2), which protrudes in the thickness direction of the absorbent article (1) in the region that is in contact with the excretory opening and comprises a specified cushion section; and in the central section, the crown section (2) has a compression workload (WC) of 10-50 (N·m/m2) and a compression resilience (RC) of 35-100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Akira Hashino
  • Publication number: 20150366726
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent body that is both soft and resistant to twisting. The absorbent body of the present disclosure is as follows. An absorbent body for an absorbent article includes thermoplastic resin fibers and cellulose-based water-absorbing fibers, at least some of the thermoplastic resin fibers have a first section 6? exposed on a surface of the liquid-permeable layer side of the absorbent body, a second section 6? exposed on a surface of the liquid-impermeable layer side of the absorbent body and a joint section 6?? connecting the first section 6? and second section 6?, and the tensile strength in a thickness direction of the absorbent body is 100 Pa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki NODA, Masashi UDA, Takashi MARUYAMA