Patents Assigned to Wacoal Corp.
  • Publication number: 20180325186
    Abstract: A brassiere (1) includes: a pair of cup parts (20); a front part (2) that covers front sides of the pair of cup parts (20); a band-shaped part (4) that is connected to the front part (2), is to be disposed circumferentially under the breasts of a wearer, and is formed of a member that exerts a tightening force; and link parts (21 to 24) formed of at least four stretchy tape-shaped members for each of the cup parts (20). Widthwise sides of the respective tape-shaped members are connected to an upper side portion, an upper inner portion, a lower side portion, and a lower inner portion of the cup part (20), and a side of each of the tape-shaped members opposite to the side connected to the cup part (20) is connected to either the front part (2) or the band-shaped part (4). A center area of lengthwise sides of each of the tape-shaped members is separable from the front part (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Akemi YAMAMOTO, Satoko ADACHI
  • Patent number: 10039330
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exercise garment with a crotch part includes a main body portion formed from a material having stretchability; and a tightening portion having higher tightening force than the main body portion, in which the tightening portion includes a pair of right and left first tightening portions respectively covering an approximately triangular region formed by the upper part of the hip, the lateral side of the lumbar region, and the vicinity of a position corresponding to the greater trochanter as the apex of the triangular region, in the right and left sides of the wearer. The first tightening portions include plural partitioned tightening portions extending in the vertical direction and adjoining in the width direction. The partitioned tightening portions are formed such that the directions of high stretchability in the respective partitioned tightening portions approach closer to one another toward the lower side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Fumiko Tanaka, Nozomu Seike
  • Patent number: 9913498
    Abstract: The present invention provides a garment with cup sections, which can lift up entire breasts to a higher position and thus can attain improved breast-shaping properties. The garment with cup sections according to the present invention includes: a pair of cup sections 101; and a back section 103. The back section 103 is arranged on lateral sides of the pair of cup sections 101. Each of the cup sections 101 includes an upper breast retaining section 105 arranged between a front-center-side upper edge portion and a lateral-side upper edge portion on an inner side of the cup section 101. The upper breast retaining section 105 is formed so as to cover at least part of an upper breast region positioned obliquely upward to a lateral side relative to a nipple and apply a pressing force to the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Aya Ichiba, Asako Yasui, Mariko Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 9854852
    Abstract: A brassiere according to one embodiment of the present invention has cup parts, a base part, wings, lower edge portions each of which extends along a lower edge of the cup part in a boundary between the cup part and the base part, and side press parts each of which is located in a side lower part of the cup part on the back side of the cup part, has a non-stretchable or poorly-stretchable characteristic, and presses a breast side area; the side press part is superimposed on a side portion of the lower edge portion on the back side of the lower edge portion, is supported by any one of a lower area of a side edge of the cup part, a side area of a lower edge of the cup part, a side edge of the base part, and a side area of a lower edge of the base part, and is substantially not supported except in the supported portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Megumi Tachiri, Masumi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20170143044
    Abstract: A bottom garment includes: a back section covering a wearer's buttocks; a front section facing the back section; and a crotch section. Right and left end edges of the front section are connected to right and left end edges of the back section, respectively. A front end of the crotch section is connected to a lower end of the front section. A back end of the crotch section is connected to a lower end of the back section. In a pattern diagram, the back end of the crotch section protrudes, forming a V-shape having a protruding central portion and a gradually increasing width toward right and left end edges, the lower end of the back section to be connected with the back end of the crotch section is recessed, forming a V-shaped notch, and an angle of the V-shape is greater than an angle of the notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9642401
    Abstract: On the front side of the main part, the first start part separates the main part into a portion covering a knee joint of a wearer and a portion covering at least one of femoral and shin parts of the wearer. On the back side of the main part, the second start part separates the main part into a portion covering the knee joint of the wearer and a portion covering at least one of the femoral and shin parts of the wearer. On an outer side face side of the main part, the third start part at least partly extends under the portion covering the knee joint of the wearer. On an inner side face side of the main part, the fourth start part at least partly extends downward in a part lower than a crotch part of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takato Yamada, Yumiko Tanmatsu, Yuka Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9644293
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: WACOAL Corp.
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Atsushi Toyama
  • Patent number: 9596893
    Abstract: To provide an exercise garment with crotch part that is capable of sufficiently improving performance of various types of exercises accompanied by three-dimensional movements such as rotation of the trunk and rotation/outward rotation/inward rotation of both legs. In an exercise garment with crotch part, when it is being worn, tightening forces of first tightening portions act on the muscle groups existing around the greater trochanter, so that the muscle groups are supported to broaden the extent of mobility of the pelvic band. On the other hand, on the inside of the closed-loop first tightening portions, the space between a first line and a second line gradually becomes wider toward the greater trochanter position, whereby a side hole is formed. Due to such formation of the side hole, the greater trochanter of the wearer is prevented from being pressed directly by the first tightening portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Chizuru Fukuyo, Nozomu Seike, Hiroshi Kouno
  • Patent number: 9351523
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP
    Inventor: Yuka Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 9314054
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Masaru Yuasa, Megumi Tachiiri, Keiko Ishii, Mariko Kanazawa
  • Publication number: 20160066645
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shoe that improves a series of motion of the foot at the time of running and walking and reduces the shift of the foot from side to side. Shoe (100) of the present invention includes heel side support line part (101) arranged from the outer side of a heel part to the inner side of the heel part via a sole side. Heel side support line part (101) is an elastic member. Heel side support line part (101) has outer end part (101A) arranged within the region posterior to the front end of the lateral malleolus, anterior to the virtual plumb line extending through the midpoint between the virtual plumb line passing through the most projecting point of the lateral malleolus and the virtual plumb line passing through the rear end of the calcaneus, and below the lower end of the lateral malleolus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yumiko TANMATSU, Takahiro KUBO
  • Publication number: 20160050983
    Abstract: The present invention provides a garment with cup sections, which can lift up entire breasts to a higher position and thus can attain improved breast-shaping properties. The garment with cup sections according to the present invention includes: a pair of cup sections 101; and a back section 103. The back section 103 is arranged on lateral sides of the pair of cup sections 101. Each of the cup sections 101 includes an upper breast retaining section 105 arranged between a front-center-side upper edge portion and a lateral-side upper edge portion on an inner side of the cup section 101. The upper breast retaining section 105 is formed so as to cover at least part of an upper breast region positioned obliquely upward to a lateral side relative to a nipple and apply a pressing force to the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Aya ICHIBA, Asako YASUI, Mariko KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160044969
    Abstract: This invention is a garment with a crotch, comprising: a tubular main portion (10) for covering an area around an abdomen and buttocks; and a tightening portion (20) having a desired area and having a tightening force stronger than that of the main portion (10), the tightening portion being disposed to vertically span a virtual reference line (L) extending from left and right greater trochanters (300) to an under-crotch position of a wearer by a shortest path along skin of buttocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventor: Toshiko MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9119424
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Maki Kakuno, Junko Kumai
  • Publication number: 20150107004
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bottom garment that effectively prevents the hem part from losing its shape. The bottom garment of the present invention includes a front part (101), a back part (102), and an intervening fabric member (103). The intervening fabric member (103) includes a crotch part (103A) and a back hemline-forming part (103B) extending laterally from a back end of the crotch part. A front end of the crotch part (103A) is connected to the front part (101). Both outer peripheries (a) at the back side of the front part in the width direction, both outer peripheries (b) of the crotch part in the width direction, and front side right and left peripheries (c) of the back hemline-forming part form hemlines at the time of wearing the bottom garment. In the back hemline-forming part (103B), the shapes of the front side right and left peripheries (c) forming the hemlines at the time of wearing the bottom garment are concave curves or straight lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Aya Ishiura, Satomi Kobayashi, Emi Sugiyama, Kikumi Sugihara, Kaori Tagawa, Haruka Ezawa, Mika Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150107000
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an exercise garment with a crotch part includes a main body portion formed from a material having stretchability; and a tightening portion having higher tightening force than the main body portion, in which the tightening portion includes a pair of right and left first tightening portions respectively covering an approximately triangular region formed by the upper part of the hip, the lateral side of the lumbar region, and the vicinity of a position corresponding to the greater trochanter as the apex of the triangular region, in the right and left sides of the wearer. The first tightening portions include plural partitioned tightening portions extending in the vertical direction and adjoining in the width direction. The partitioned tightening portions are formed such that the directions of high stretchability in the respective partitioned tightening portions approach closer to one another toward the lower side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Fumiko Tanaka, Nozomu Seike
  • Patent number: D743687
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Wacoal Corp.
    Inventors: Sakiko Nishioka, Nozomu Seike
  • Patent number: D762044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Satoko Adachi, Akemi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D770633
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Fumiko Tanaka, Nozomu Seike
  • Patent number: D784653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: WACOAL CORP.
    Inventors: Akemi Yamamoto, Akiko Tsuji