Patents by Inventor Akane Sakai

Akane Sakai 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).

  • Patent number: 7056311
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sanitary napkin which is effective in preventing liquid from leaking out obliquely rearward. The sanitary napkin has rear flaps rearward of fold-back flaps to be wrapped around a crotch part of an undergarment. The rear flap has a side edge substantially parallel to a longitudinal centerline. The rear flap is provided at its front portion with a rear pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The rear pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is disposed forward of a rear end of a leakage preventing wall and a rear end of a main absorbent region. Since the rear flaps can be firmly fixed through the rear pressure-sensitive adhesive layers, the leakage preventing walls hardly move, so that the leakage preventing walls, as well as the rear flaps outside them, can effectively prevent obliquely rearward leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Kinoshita, Kazuya Nishitani, Toshiyuki Tanio, Akane Sakai, Jun Kudo
  • Patent number: 7033342
    Abstract: An interlabial pad to be fitted to the labia providing an interlabial pad with flap portions that can maintain the retention state in the interlabial space irrespective of the quantity of body fluid discharge such as menstrual blood. A mini-sheet piece (3) is attached to the opposite side face to the body side face (2b) of the interlabial pad (2) in such a way that a pad of it protrudes from both side edges of the interlabial pad (2) forming flap portions (4A) and (4B). Adhesives (6A) and (6B) are applied to the body side face of the flap portions (4A) and (4B). The interlabial pad (2) is retained in the interlabial space and the flap portions (4A) and (4B) are affixed to the surface of the labia majora to fit the interlabial pad with the flap portions (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20050215969
    Abstract: In an inter-labia pad comprising an absorbing body for absorbing bodily fluid and a cover material for covering the absorbing body, the cover material has a human body-side face that faces the labia of a wearer and an absorbing body-side face that faces the absorbing body. The absorbing body includes a labia-following layer and a bodily liquid-storing layer. The labia-following layer, together with the cover material, deforms in accordance with the shape of the wearer's labia, and the bodily liquid storing-layer is in contact with the labia-following layer so that bodily liquid can move from the labia-following layer to the liquid-storing layer. The pad can be reliably fit to subtle shapes of the wearer's urethral opening, private parts, etc.; therefore the pad provides excellent appearance, and prevents bodily liquid from leaking without giving the wearer sense of discomfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20050177121
    Abstract: An interlabial pad, which is fitted between labia and absorbs menstrual blood and other body fluids, and a surface side sheet used in this interlabial pad are presented. The surface side sheet is used in the interlabial pad that is fitted between labia and has a fiber aggregate having a wet shear strength with respect to labial inner walls of no less than 15 cN/25 mm and no more than 60 cN/25 mm when containing an artificial menstrual blood at a content of 800%. The artificial menstrual blood being a fluid composition includes water, glycerin, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and a food dye preparation. Even when the shape of the labia changes because of movement of a wearer in a highly wet state after absorption of menstrual blood, since the shear force that arises between the labial inner walls and the interlabial pad can be resisted, positional deviation and falling off of the interlabial pad can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Yuki Noda, Akane Sakai, Katsushi Tomida
  • Publication number: 20040260262
    Abstract: A sanitary napkin has leakage preventing walls on a skin-side surface of a main body. The leakage preventing wall has a skin-contacting portion, of which an inner edge is fixed at an inner edge's front end and an outer edge is fixed at an outer edge's front end located forward of the inner edge's front end. Therefore, when the leakage preventing wall is in a rising position, the skin-contacting portion is inclined with the outer edge closer to the wearer's body than the inner edge. Accordingly, the skin-contacting portion can easily conform to the wearer's crotch on both sides of the vaginal opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishitani, Toshiyuki Tanio, Masataka Kinoshita, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040243087
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sanitary napkin which is effective in preventing liquid from leaking out obliquely rearward. The sanitary napkin has rear flaps rearward of fold-back flaps to be wrapped around a crotch part of an undergarment. The rear flap has a side edge substantially parallel to a longitudinal centerline. The rear flap is provided at its front portion with a rear pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The rear pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is disposed forward of a rear end of a leakage preventing wall and a rear end of a main absorbent region. Since the rear flaps can be firmly fixed through the rear pressure-sensitive adhesive layers, the leakage preventing walls hardly move, so that the leakage preventing walls, as well as the rear flaps outside them, can effectively prevent obliquely rearward leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Kinoshita, Kazuya Nishitani, Toshiyuki Tanio, Akane Sakai, Jun Kudo
  • Publication number: 20040243082
    Abstract: A sanitary napkin in which diffusing liquid hardly reaches a rear end edge is adapted to make a liquid absorbent layer less deformable in a rear region so that it can easily be kept in close contact with the wearer's buttocks. The sanitary napkin has an elongated main absorbent region surrounded by compressed grooves that are formed in a skin-side surface. Since a rear end of the main absorbent region is far away from a rear end edge of the napkin to provide a relatively large rear region, worries about rearward leakage may be relieved. Furthermore, since auxiliary longitudinal grooves are provided in the rear region, a liquid absorbent layer may hardly be twisted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Masataka Kinoshita, Kazuya Nishitani, Toshiyuki Tanio, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040178104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapping body to be a member to discard an used interlabial pad, composed of a wrapping container to wrap the interlabial pad to provide the wrapping body where the interlabial pad is contained in the wrapping container realizing hygienic and smooth discards of used interlabial pads and compactness when carried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040162539
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad individual wrapping container of such a structure as facilitates surely and sanitarily fixing and unfixing an interlabial pad between labia, and an interlabial pad individual wrapping body, and provides the interlabial individual wrapping container which can be used as a preferred handling member at the time of fixing or unfixing the interlabial pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040158222
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an interlabial pad easy to wear between the labia and provides an interlabial pad of a structure allowing to wear between the labia of a woman easily and appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040158221
    Abstract: The present invention relates an interlabial pad to be fitted to the labia providing an interlabial pad with flap portions that can maintain the retention state in the interlabial space irrespective of the quantity of body fluid discharge such as menstrual blood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040158220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad that is worn by female wearers, placed in intimate contact and supported between the labia, which provides an interlabial pad that gives no discomfort to the female wearer in the body motions of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040158223
    Abstract: The invention relates to an interlabial pad used by being fitted between female labia, specifically an interlabial pad which can be used together with a sanitary napkin, and to a wrapping body in which the interlabial pad is enclosed in a wrapping container for separate wrapping. Provided is an interlabial pad which has a basic function of keeping sanitary property that skins of wearers are not contaminated in wide areas and a sense of safety that stains on underwear can be decreased and, at the same time, can be removed sanitarily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040149613
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wrapping container for individually wrapping an interlabial pad that is easy to be unwrapped and a wrapping body comprising this wrapping container to provide an interlabial pad individual wrapping container including an interlabial pad within a wrapping container that makes it possible to smoothly take out the interlabial pad included therein from the wrapping container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040153042
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interlabial pad, which includes an absorber (13) and comprises an absorbing sheet portion (14a), which faces against the body side in wearing the pad and a support sheet portion (14b), which backs the absorber (14a). The absorber (14a) comprises of a pair of absorbing sheet bodies (16) which are divided along the substantial center line of the interlabial pad 14, the absorbing sheet (16) and the impermeable support sheet (12) are bonded with each other on the peripheral edge portion (15) of the interlabial pad (14) to form a void portion (18) between the absorbing sheet body (16) and the support sheet (12) through which the menstrual blood can flow into. Thereby the menstrual blood flowing down along the inner wall of the labia can be rapidly transferred into the absorber and the shape fitness (fitting ability) of the pad in labia can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040147898
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad that can be easily fixed to the interlabial space and a wrapping body wherein a wrapping container contains the same providing an interlabial pad with a structure make secure and hygienic fixing to the interlabial space of females easier and a independent wrapping body to contain thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040147893
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad which is attached between female labia, especially to the pad which can be used together with the sanitary napkin, further to a wrapping body where said interlabial pad is contained individually in a wrapping container, and the present invention provides an interlabial pad in capable of rapidly directing the menstrual blood which flows down along the inner wall of labia to an absorbent body and in capable of improving the shape fitness (fitness ability) within labia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040147897
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad that is worn by female wearers, placed in intimate contact and supported between the labia, which provides an interlabial pad that causes no discomfort to the female wearer in the body motions of the wearer. The interlabial pad of the present invention is characterized by having bending elements which allows the interlabial pad to follow the changes in form flexibly even when a force is exerted on the interlabial pad by the wearer's body motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai