Abstract: A diaper has vertical and lateral directions, and a skin facing surface and a non-skin facing surface on an opposite side thereof, includes a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region positioned between the front and rear waist regions, and includes a pair of leg openings, and a waist opening defined by side edges of the front and rear waist regions. At least one of the front and rear waist regions includes a pair of tape fasteners fixed to the non-skin facing surface of the side edges. At least one of the front and rear waist regions includes a pocket openable toward the crotch region, on the skin facing surface. An upper end of a fixing part of the tape fastener is positioned at a lower side of a closing edge (folding part) positioned on the waist opening side of the pocket in the vertical direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disposable wearing article which prevents a position shift of a front waist region without a part of a front waist region receding in a concave portion of the abdomen of the wearer. A plurality of linear front waist elastics contractible in a lateral direction is disposed in a front waist region of a disposable wearing article. The front waist elastics have (include) a first elastic positioned adjacent to an outer side of a front-end edge of a liquid absorbent core in a vertical direction, a second elastic positioned adjacent to an inner side of the front-end edge in the vertical direction, and a third elastic positioned adjacent to an inner side of the second elastic in the vertical direction. A contractile force of the first elastic and the second elastic is weaker than a contractile force of the third elastic.

Abstract: In a disposable wearing article, a back waist region includes a back waist belt and a downward openable pocket facing the back waist belt at the middle. The pocket includes an inner wall facing the belt and an outer wall therebetween. The belt and the inner wall are contiguous at a contiguous lower edge of the belt and the inner wall. The inner and outer walls are contiguous at a contiguous upper edge of the inner and outer walls. The back waist region includes joining areas spaced from each other and joining the belt and the inner wall to each other. The joining areas include inside parts located on inner sides of any of respective imaginary lines extending upward along respective lateral edges of an absorbent and outside parts located on outer sides of the imaginary lines and the lateral edges of the absorbent.

Abstract: In a disposable diaper, a back waist region includes a belt region extending in a transverse direction on a skin-facing surface and a downward openable pocket facing, in a front-back direction, a central sub-region in the transverse direction of the belt region. The pocket is defined by a pocket outside wall facing the middle portion in the front-back direction and extending upward from the crotch region, a pocket inside wall facing the pocket outside wall and the belt region, respectively, in the front-back direction, and being continuous with the pocket outside wall through a folded portion and extending downward from the fold line so as to become continuous with the pocket inside wall of the middle portion in the belt region, and both pocket lateral portions formed from the respective lateral portions of the inside and outside walls, and tucked inward in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A disposable diaper has front and rear waist regions, a crotch region, and an absorbent chassis. The absorbent chassis includes an absorbent structure and a pair of side flaps. Each of the side flaps has layered sheet materials and includes a distal edge, a cuff branch line between the side edge of the absorbent structure and the distal edge, a leg-opening elasticized area between the cuff branch line and the distal edge, and a leakage-barrier cuff branched from the cuff branch line and intersecting with the leg-opening elasticized area. The leakage-barrier cuff has a free edge parallelly-spaced from the cuff branch line. The distance from the cuff branch line to the distal edge is larger than from the cuff branch line to the free edge. The number of sheet material layers included in the leg-opening elasticized area is larger than in the leakage-barrier cuff.

Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable wearing article in which a front waist region has an appropriate retaining force and free from a possibility that the lower abdominal region may be tightened. On a body facing surface, an elastic strip extending in a lateral direction between both lateral edges is located along a lower edge area of a front waist region of the disposable wearing article.

Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable absorbent wearing article with a given part curved to protrude outward. At least one waist region, which is at least one of front and rear waist regions in a disposable absorbent wearing article such as a pull-on diaper includes an elastic band that form a part of a skin-facing surface and extends in a lateral direction. The elastic band has a middle part in the lateral direction elastically contracting, with an elastic contraction amount of the middle part being larger than a component part of article facing the middle part without being joined to the middle part, in a thickness direction of the middle part in the lateral direction. An absorbent core material in the at least one waist region has a deformation guide extending in a direction crossing the elastic band, formed to facilitate forming of a bulging part in the wearing article.

Abstract: In a disposable diaper, a back waist region includes a belt region extending in a transverse direction on a skin-facing surface and a downward openable pocket facing, in a front-back direction, a central sub-region in the transverse direction of the belt region. The pocket is defined by a pocket outside wall facing the middle portion in the front-back direction and extending upward from the crotch region, a pocket inside wall facing the pocket outside wall and the belt region, respectively, in the front-back direction, and being continuous with the pocket outside wall through a folded portion and extending downward from the fold line so as to become continuous with the pocket inside wall of the middle portion in the belt region, and both pocket lateral portions formed from the respective lateral portions of the inside and outside walls, and tucked inward in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft, an outer coiled body covering at least a portion of the core shaft, and an inner coiled body positioned between the outer coiled body and the core shaft. The inner coiled body covers the at least a portion of the core shaft and a resin material is filled between the inner coiled body and one of the outer coiled body and the core shaft to form a resin layer. Preferably, a space between the inner coiled body and the other of the outer coiled body and the core shaft is not filled with the resin material.

Abstract: A disposable diaper having front and rear waist regions that comprise an upper elasticized region extending in a vicinity of a waist-opening periphery, lower elasticized regions, intermediate elasticized region extending between the upper elasticized region and the lower elasticized regions and outside longitudinally opposite ends of a liquid-absorbent structure. At least in the front waist region of the front and rear waist regions, there is a non-elasticized region opposed to a central zone of a liquid-absorbent core wherein a tensile stress of the intermediate elasticized region is lower than a tensile stress of the upper elasticized region.

Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft, and a coiled body wound around the outer circumferential surface of the core shaft. A bulged portion is provided at the tip portion of the core shaft. The front end of the coiled body is bonded to the front end of the core shaft with a bonding portion. The bonding portion is provided to enclose the bulged portion provided at the tip portion of the core shaft.

Abstract: There is provided a medical guidewire which reduces the resistance with a curved guiding catheter, and has improved durability that can keep the resistance reduced for a long time. A core shaft of the medical guidewire has a second cylindrical part, with a smaller diameter than that of a coiled body, on a proximal end side of the coiled body. This second cylindrical part is coated with a hydrophilic material. Further, the hydrophilic material coated on the second cylindrical part has a larger thickness than a hydrophilic material coated on the coiled body.

Abstract: There is provided a lipase powder which is a granulated material comprising a lipase and at least one member selected from the group consisting of fatty acids having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, alcohol esters thereof, and a mixture thereof. This lipase powder has an increased lipase activity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disposable diaper which prevents body waste from leaking sideways without sacrificing a bodily fluid absorbing capacity of a liquid-absorbent structure and to assure a high retention for urine and discharged feces. The waist elastic members includes first and second waist elastic members wherein elastic members extend in the transverse direction across opposite lateral regions so as not to present in central zones of front and rear waist regions. The second waist elastic members in the front waist region extend from transverse opposite side edges of the front waist region in the transverse direction beyond transverse opposite side edges of a liquid-absorbent core while the second elastic members in the rear waist region extend from transverse opposite side edges in the transverse direction and terminate short of the side edges of the core.

Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft having front and rear sections including a front end portion and a rear section, respectively, an outer coil body that covers the front section, and an inner coil body that is disposed within the outer coil body between the outer coil body and the core shaft, and covers the front section. The outer coil body includes a cylindrical large-diameter section positioned adjacent the rear end portion, a cylindrical small-diameter section positioned adjacent the front end portion, and a tapered section that connects the cylindrical large-diameter section to the cylindrical small-diameter section with a connecting portion provided therebetween, the tapered section having a diameter that decreases from an end adjacent the rear end portion to an end adjacent the front end portion. The inner coil body is disposed at least in the tapered section.

Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft, a coil body, and a tip portion. The coil body covers a distal end portion of the core shaft. The tip portion is formed by coupling a distal end of the coil body and a distal end of the core shaft using metal solder. The tip portion includes an outside diameter decreasing portion and a hemisphere-shaped portion. The outside diameter of the outside diameter decreasing portion decreases linearly in a direction of a distal end. The hemisphere-shaped portion is positioned at a distal end of the outside diameter decreasing portion.

Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft, an outer coiled body covering at least a portion of the core shaft, and an inner coiled body positioned between the outer coiled body and the core shaft. The inner coiled body covers the at least a portion of the core shaft and a resin material is filled between the inner coiled body and one of the outer coiled body and the core shaft to form a resin layer. Preferably, a space between the inner coiled body and the other of the outer coiled body and the core shaft is not filled with the resin material.

Abstract: A guidewire includes a core shaft, and a coiled body wound around the outer circumferential surface of the core shaft. A bulged portion is provided at the tip portion of the core shaft. The front end of the coiled body is bonded to the front end of the core shaft with a bonding portion. The bonding portion is provided to enclose the bulged portion provided at the tip portion of the core shaft.

Abstract: A palm oil of superior chromaticity and flavor and a manufacturing method therefor with which palm oil can be obtained with good yield even if a chemical refining method of alkaline deacidification is performed. Also a palm oil manufacturing method with which deodorized distillates wherein useful components have been highly concentrated can be obtained, the deodorized distillates and a manufacturing method therefor. Refined palm oil and deodorized distillates as by-product are manufactured with a manufacturing process flow including a process wherein the palm starting material is steamed within 24 hours of harvesting and then pressed to obtain crude palm oil, a subsequent refining process wherein the crude palm oil undergoes alkaline deacidification to obtain the alkaline deacidified palm oil, and a deodorizing process.

Abstract: There is provided a medical guidewire, which is capable of reducing the sliding resistance generated in the case of pulling the medical guidewire inside a catheter, a tubular organ or an intracorporeal tissue, and thus has favorable manipulability for a physician who performs an operation. An area between a proximal end portion of a coiled body and a core shaft is formed in streamlined shape. It is thus possible to reduce the sliding resistance generated in the case of pulling the medical guidewire inside the catheter, the tubular organ or the intracorporeal tissue. Hence it is possible to provide the medical guidewire with favorable manipulability for the physician who performs the operation. It is to be noted that the streamlined shape is preferably formed by use of a brazing material that joins the proximal end portion of the coiled body with the core shaft.