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: 20150057628
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura
  • Publication number: 20150051566
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Akira Hashino
  • Publication number: 20150032073
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an absorbent article with which, both when dry, prior to absorbing blood, and when wet, after absorbing blood, is provided with a fit in a wearer's excretory orifice, especially the labia minora, and which is not prone to leaking. Provided is an absorbent article, including a liquid-permeable top sheet, a non liquid-permeable back sheet, and an absorbent body between the liquid-permeable top sheet and the non liquid-permeable back sheet. The absorbent article further comprises a center high part which protrudes in the thickness direction of the absorbent article in an excretory orifice contact region. The center high part further includes a portion of the top sheet, and a cushion part which is positioned between the top sheet and the absorbent body. The center high part further includes a central part, and an outer circumference part which surrounds the central part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Akira Hashino
  • Publication number: 20150032074
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article without a sticky feel on the top sheet and with a smooth top sheet, not only when a large amount of menstrual blood has been absorbed, but even when a small amount of menstrual blood has been absorbed. The absorbent article of the present disclosure is as follows. An absorbent article comprising 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, wherein the liquid-permeable top sheet comprises a blood slipping agent having a kinematic viscosity of 0.01 to 80 mm2/s at 40° C., a water holding percentage of 0.01 to 4.0 mass %, and a weight-average molecular weight of less than 1,000, on at least the projection in an excretory opening contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Masashi Nakashita, Ichiro Wada, Yuki Noda, Akira Hashino
  • Publication number: 20150018796
    Abstract: Provided is an absorbent article which makes it easy to fold wing sections of the absorbent article so as to match the shape of the edges of the leg openings of underwear. The present invention is an absorbent article (1) having a lengthwise direction (Y-direction) and a widthwise direction (X-direction), and including: a body section (10) provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet (2) on the skin-side, a liquid-impermeable backsheet on the garment-side, and a liquid-holding absorbent body (4) positioned between the top sheet (2) and the backsheet; and wing sections (5) extending so as to project in the widthwise direction from both side-edges of the body section (10). Therein, the surface opposite the garment-side surface in the wing sections (5) is configured from the top sheet (2) or from side sheets positioned on both sides in the widthwise direction of the top sheet (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tamura, Yuki Noda, Takashi Nomoto, Takashi Onozuka
  • Publication number: 20150018794
    Abstract: Provided is an absorbent article having a top sheet with an opening-formed area in which openings are formed, and non-opening-formed areas in which no openings are formed, said absorbent article being capable of preventing liquid from remaining on the surface of the opening-formed area of the top sheet. In the present invention, the top sheet is a resin sheet having an opening-formed area (12) in which openings are formed, and non-opening-formed areas (5, 14) in which no openings are formed. The opening-formed area (12) is disposed in an outlet-facing area (16) that faces at least an outlet for fluid from a wearer. The top sheet (2) has a blood modifier layer on the surface of at least the outlet-facing area (16). The blood modifier of the blood modifier layer has an inorganic/organic balance (IOB) of 0 to 0.60, a melting point of not more than 45° C., and an aqueous solubility of 0.05 g or less with respect to 100 g of water at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura, Takashi Nomoto, Takashi Onozuka
  • Publication number: 20140358102
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an absorbent article without a sticky feel on the top sheet and with a smooth top sheet, even after highly viscous menstrual blood has been absorbed. The absorbent article of the present disclosure is as follows. An absorbent article comprising 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, wherein the liquid-permeable top sheet comprises a blood modifying agent with an IOB of 0.00-0.60, a melting point of no higher than 45° C., a water solubility of 0.00-0.05 g in 100 g of water at 25° C., and a weight-average molecular weight of no greater than 1,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Shimpei Komatsu, Yuki Noda, Mitsuhiro Wada, Akira Hashino, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Masashi Nakashita, Ichiro Wada
  • Publication number: 20140228793
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide an absorbent article without a sticky feel on the top sheet and with a smooth top sheet, even after highly viscous menstrual blood has been absorbed. An absorbent article comprising a liquid-permeable top sheet, an absorbent body, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and a second sheet between the liquid-permeable top sheet and the absorbent body, wherein the top sheet and the second sheet comprise a blood modifying agent with an IOB of 0.00-0.60, 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Tatsuya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8802917
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. A heat absorbing material is provided inside the absorber, and depressions and projections are formed on that front side of the top sheet which faces the human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda, Shinpei Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20140052086
    Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide an absorbent article that allows the 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. The absorbent article of the disclosure is as follows. An absorbent article comprising 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, wherein the top sheet exhibits a color difference in the 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Komatsu, Yuki Noda, Mitsuhiro Wada, Akira Hashino, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Masashi Nakashita, Ichiro Wada
  • Publication number: 20140012219
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu, Hideyuki Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8585673
    Abstract: An absorbent article that can attain altering of the sensation of fitness thereof while maintaining a given capability of leakage prevention. The absorbent article is one comprising an absorbent article main body including at least a surface sheet part whose at least one area is permeable for liquid, disposed on one side in the direction of the thickness of the absorbent article and a liquid-retaining absorbent part disposed on the surface sheet part on the other side in the above direction of the thickness, and comprising, disposed on the other side in the direction of the thickness of the absorbent article main body, belt member (10) arranged so as to extend along the longitudinal direction (LD) of the absorbent article main body, the absorbent article shaped substantially longitudinally long. The belt member (10) has such a deformation region that at least portion thereof can be deformed so as to narrow in its width direction (WD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8563802
    Abstract: To apply a clear pattern to an absorbent article such as sanitary napkin without worsening the soft and comfortable touch to skin and allowing the colorant from coming into direct contact with the skin of a wearer. An absorbent article comprising a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, an absorber sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet, and side sheets joined to at least a part of the right and left both sides of the liquid-permeable sheet and to at least a part of the liquid-impermeable sheet, wherein a plurality of recess parts are provided in the side sheet, at least the portion provided with the recess part has a colored layer between the side sheet and the liquid-permeable sheet, and the recess part appears in a color different from the portion other than the recess part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Kumiko Nishikawa, Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8558054
    Abstract: An absorbent body material article includes an absorbent article main unit, an absorbent body material included in the absorbent article main unit and including absorbent fibers and a super absorbent resin, and interspersed sections in the absorbent body material and having a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction, and a thickness direction. A densely gathered state of the absorbent fibers in each of the interspersed sections is less dense than a densely gathered state of the absorbent fibers around each of the interspersed sections. An occupied volume ratio of the super absorbent resin in the interspersed sections is greater than an occupied volume ratio of the super absorbent resin around the interspersed sections. At least one of the interspersed sections overlaps a fold line and the longitudinal direction of the at least one of the interspersed sections is aligned with the fold line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda, Kumiko Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130211360
    Abstract: An absorbent article in which a plurality of first compressing units are provided spaced apart on both-side edges of a region corresponding to an excretion unit in an absorber, and a plurality of second compressing units are provided spaced apart over the entire region in the absorber 10 excluding the region 11 in which the first compressing units 12 are provided. The dimensions along the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article in the plan view shape of the first compressing units are configured so as to be longer than the dimensions along the width direction of the absorbent article, and the dimensions along the width direction of the absorbent article in the plan view shape of the second compressing units are configured so as to be longer than the dimensions along the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20130190711
    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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu, Hideyuki Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20130098793
    Abstract: A package for individually packaged good of absorbent article includes an individually packaged good having a main body portion and a pair of extended portions; a bag body housing individually packaged goods; and a box body that houses the bag body housing the individually packaged goods, in which the individually packaged goods are housed in the bag body such that a position of the extended portions is aligned; the bag body is housed in the box body such that a pair of side faces, to which the pair of extended portions is directed, is positioned to face a pair of opposite internal faces of the box body; and a length L1 between ends of the pair of extended portions of the individually packaged good, in a state in which the extended portions are straightened, is greater than a length L2 between the pair of internal faces of the box body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Noguchi, Yuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8377022
    Abstract: An elongated absorbent article including: an absorbent article body having at least: (a) a top sheet part which is at least partially liquid permeable and arranged on a first side in a thickness direction of the absorbent article; and (b) a liquid retainable absorber part arranged on a second side in the thickness direction of the absorbent article body; a cover member arranged on the second side in the thickness direction of the absorbent article body; an extensible belt-shaped member disposed between the absorbent article body and the cover member, a first end portion of the belt-shaped member being connected to the absorbent article body; an engaging part arranged at a second end portion of the belt-shaped member on a surface thereof on which the cover member is disposed; a peelable sheet arranged along a surface of the engaging part; and a fixing part for connecting and fixing the peelable sheet to the cover member; the fixing part being formed so that an end portion thereof in a direction of elongation o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda, Kumiko Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130030400
    Abstract: A packaging medium is provided only on non-skin side surfaces of a third portion and a fourth portion. The length of the packaging medium in a lengthwise direction of a sanitary napkin is shorter than the length of the sanitary napkin. A second portion includes a folded end portion which is formed by a first folded portion provided on a side of a first portion of the sanitary napkin which opposes a first folding portion. The folded end portion is folded over a non-skin side surface of the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Yuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8343124
    Abstract: An absorbent article including an absorbent article main body which is extended in a longitude direction and having a front end portion and a rear end portion, and which includes an absorber of liquid-retaining, a topsheet of liquid-permeable covering a surface of the absorber, and a backsheet of liquid-nonpermeable supporting the absorber from a back surface of the absorber, the absorbent article includes: a belt-shaped member extended in the longitude direction of the absorbent article main body, including a base end portion fixed to any one of the absorber and the backsheet and a tip portion not fixed, and being stretchable in the longitude direction; and an attaching sheet provided on a back surface of the belt-shaped member and configured to be attached to clothing, wherein the attaching sheet is extended in a width direction of the belt-shaped member and both end portions of the attaching sheet are fixed to the belt-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda