Patents by Inventor Hiroki Goda
Hiroki Goda 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).
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Publication number: 20120177889Abstract: Provided is a liquid-permeable nonwoven fabric having improved in air permeability in the thickness direction thereof, formed on its surface with ridges and troughs extending in parallel to each other in one direction. A nonwoven fabric formed of thermoplastic synthetic short fibers fused together is formed on its upper surface with ridges and troughs extending in parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction. In a cross section of each ridge taken in the transverse direction, the ridge includes opposite lateral regions in which the short fibers are densely distributed and a central region defined between the opposite lateral regions and in which the short fibers are sparsely distributed. The short fibers in the central region include short fibers in a crest of the ridge adapted to connect the opposite lateral regions to each other. This invention also discloses a method for manufacturing of the nonwoven fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiro Uematsu, Hiroki Goda, Satoshi Mizutani
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Publication number: 20100209667Abstract: A nonwoven fabric which, even when having a low basis weight, has a wide stretch range at time of use. It is inhibited from breaking or decreasing in strength upon stretching. It feels good to the touch and has excellent cushioning properties and high air permeability. The nonwoven stretch fabric has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. It has, arranged on each side, strip-form sparse regions extending in the longitudinal direction and strip-form dense regions extending likewise, the two kinds of regions being alternately and successively arranged in the transverse direction. The strip-form dense regions on one side and those on the other side are alternately arranged in the transverse direction. The nonwoven stretch fabric is constituted of a mixture of stretched fibers and stretchable fibers or is composed of stacked layers of these two kinds of fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Satoshi Mitsuno, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 7674730Abstract: Nonwoven fabric includes thermoplastic elastomer fiber and thermoplastic polyolefin fiber. A variation of b-value appearing in laboratory color specifying system before and after irradiation of the thermoplastic elastomer fiber with 5000 KJ/m2 of UV radiation is 20 or higher, a variation of b-value appearing in the laboratory color specifying system before and after irradiation of the nonwoven fabric with 5000 KJ/m2 of UV radiation is 10 or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Satoshi Mitsuno, Hirotomo Mukai, Hiroki Goda
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Publication number: 20080124995Abstract: Nonwoven fabric includes thermoplastic elastomer fiber and thermoplastic polyolefin fiber. A variation of b-value appearing in laboratory color specifying system before and after irradiation of the thermoplastic elastomer fiber with 5000 KJ/m2 of UV radiation is 20 or higher, a variation of b-value appearing in the laboratory color specifying system before and after irradiation of the nonwoven fabric with 5000 KJ/m2 of UV radiation is 10 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Uni-Cham CorporationInventors: Satoshi Mitsuno, Hirotomo Mukai, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 7255763Abstract: Component thermoplastic synthetic fiber having inelastic extensibility as well as fiber diameter of 5-20 ?m constituting a fibrous web is obtained by melt spinning a mixture of two or more thermoplastic synthetic resins each having a number-average molecular weight in a range of 20000-150000 at a draft ratio of 200-2300. In the case of the mixture consisting of at least two types of thermoplastic synthetic resin Ra, Rb having number-average molecular weights Ma, Mb, respectively, wherein a ratio Ma/Mb is 1.1 or higher, Ra is of 20-80 wt %, Rb is of 80-20 wt % and a sum of Ra and Rb makes up 50-100 wt % of the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2002Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Toshio Kobayashi, Hiroki Goda, Kazunari Isogai, Satoshi Mitsuno
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Patent number: 6720063Abstract: An elastically stretchable composite sheet includes an elastically stretchable first web and an inelastically stretchable second web of thermoplastic synthetic resin fiber which is intermittently bonded to the first web in a y-direction. Component fiber of the second web has its cress-section cut in a direction orthogonal to the y-direction defined by a width w and a height h dimensioned to be at a ratio h/w less than 0.5. The composite sheet having such a structure improve its flexibility.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Toshio Kobayashi, Hiroki Goda
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Publication number: 20030090020Abstract: Component thermoplastic synthetic fiber having inelastic extensibility as well as fiber diameter of 5-20 &mgr;m constituting a fibrous web is obtained by melt spinning a mixture of two or more thermoplastic synthetic resins each having a number-average molecular weight in a range of 20000-150000 at a draft ratio of 200-2300. In the case of the mixture consisting of at least two types of thermoplastic synthetic resin Ra, Rb having number-average molecular weights Ma, Mb, respectively, wherein a ratio Ma/Mb is 1.1 or higher, Ra is of 20-80 wt %, Rb is of 80-20 wt % and a sum of Ra and Rb makes up 50-100 wt % of the mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventors: Toshio Kobayashi, Hiroki Goda, Kazunari Isogai, Satoshi Mitsuno
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Patent number: 6503598Abstract: A composite sheet adapted to be used as a stock material for disposable garments comprises a film-like upper layer and a lower layer formed by a fibrous assembly. The upper layer is formed with a first surface region having plane zones and aperture arrays and a second surface region in the form of a depression. The lower layer has its density higher in a region immediately underlying the second surface region than in a region immediately underlying the first surface region. The composite sheet including such constituent features is suitable as stock material for disposable garments which require a soft touch and a rapid permeation of body fluids discharged on the garments.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2000Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hiroki Goda, Takayuki Hisanaka
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Patent number: 6417426Abstract: A body absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin including a topsheet having a skin-contactable surface, a skin-noncontactable surface and a plurality of liquid passages extending through the topsheet from the skin-contactable surface to the skin-noncontactable surface, wherein the topsheet comprises a base layer made of a hydrophilic thermoplastic synthetic resin film or nonwoven fabric and formed with the liquid passages and a flocked layer formed on a top surface of the base sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1998Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hisashi Takai, Junichi Noguchi, Hiroki Goda
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Publication number: 20020061390Abstract: An elastically stretchable composite sheet includes an elastically stretchable first web and an inelastically stretchable second web of thermoplastic synthetic resin fiber which is intermittently bonded to the first web in a y-direction. Component fiber of the second web has its cress-section cut in a direction orthogonal to the y-direction defined by a width w and a height h dimensioned to be at a ratio h/w less than 0.5. The composite sheet having such a structure improve its flexibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2001Publication date: May 23, 2002Inventors: Toshio Kobayashi, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6383441Abstract: A topsheet for body fluids absorbent article is made of thermoplastic synthetic fibers mechanically entangled so as to extend substantially in a desired one direction and formed with liquid-permeable openings. The openings comprise a first group of openings each having a substantially oval shape defined by its major axis extending substantially in parallel to the direction in which the fibers extend and its minor axis extending orthogonally to the major axis and a second group of openings each having a substantially oval shape defined by its minor axis extending substantially in parallel to the direction in which the fibers 11 extend and its major axis extending orthogonally to the minor axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hisashi Takai, Tomoko Tsuji, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6378134Abstract: An elastically stretchable sheet used, for example, as stock material for front and rear waist regions includes an elastically stretchable first sheet, a third sheet longer than said first sheet and bonded to said first sheet so as to form pleats, and a second sheet longer than said first and third sheets and bonded directly or indirectly to said first sheet so as to form pleats.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: UNI-CHARM CorporationInventor: Hiroki Goda
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Publication number: 20020026660Abstract: An elastically stretchable sheet used, for example, as stock material for front and rear waist regions includes an elastically stretchable first sheet, a third sheet longer than said first sheet and bonded to said first sheet so as to form pleats, and a second sheet longer than said first and third sheets and bonded directly or indirectly to said first sheet so as to form pleats.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2001Publication date: March 7, 2002Inventor: Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6270623Abstract: A method for making an apertured nonwoven fabric includes the steps of: obtaining wet sheet from slurry containing 0.5˜20% by weight of fibrous component in water, which comprises, in turn, thermoplastic synthetic fibers having a length of 7˜30 mm and a fineness of 0.1˜0.8 d, and subjecting the wet sheet to a processing for fiber entangling by high velocity water jet streams and to a processing for aperture forming by aperture forming elements having predetermined configurations adapted to be followed by individual fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1998Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hiroki Goda, Tomoko Tsuji
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Patent number: 6176954Abstract: A topsheet for body exudates absorbent article includes a hydrophilic nonwoven fibrous sheet and a plurality of thermoplastic synthetic resin filaments extending in one direction parallel to one another and continuously bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fibrous sheet so that a composite sheet of these sheet and filaments have crests and troughs alternately repeating longitudinally of the filaments and respectively extend transversely of the filaments. An apparatus and a method for manufcturing the topsheet are also disclosed, wherein a pair of mutually engageable embossing rolls are used for forming the crests and the troughs onto the coposite sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1998Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Tomoko Tsuji, Hisashi Takai, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6096016Abstract: A topsheet for body exudates absorbent article includes a hydrophilic nonwoven fibrous sheet and a plurality of thermoplastic synthetic resin filaments extending in one direction parallel to one another and continuously bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fibrous sheet so that a composite sheet of these sheet and filaments have crests and troughs alternately repeating longitudinally of the filaments and respectively extend transversely of the filaments. An apparatus and a method for manufcturing the topsheet are also disclosed, wherein a pair of mutually engageable embossing rolls are used for forming the crests and the troughs onto the coposite sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Tomoko Tsuji, Hisashi Takai, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6093871Abstract: A topsheet for body fluids absorbent article is made of thermoplastic synthetic fibers mechanically entangled so as to extend substantially in a desired one direction and formed with liquid-permeable openings. The openings comprise a first group of openings each having a substantially oval shape defined by its major axis extending substantially in parallel to the direction in which the fibers extend and its minor axis extending orthogonally to the major axis and a second group of openings each having a substantially oval shape defined by its minor axis extending substantially in parallel to the direction in which the fibers 11 extend and its major axis extending orthogonally to the minor axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1998Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hisashi Takai, Tomoko Tsuji, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6090089Abstract: A liquid-permeable topsheet used in a disposable body fluids absorbent garment has planar portions substantially extending in a horizontal plane, a plurality of ribs rising from the planar portions and extending parallel one to another, each presenting a cross-section in an inverted v-shape, and liquid-passages extending downward from the planar portions and thereby eliminate any appreciation that eruption and/or stuffiness might be caused by contact of the topsheet with the skin of a wearer.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1998Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Tomoko Tsuji, Hiroki Goda, Hisashi Takai
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Patent number: 6039555Abstract: A topsheet for body exudates absorbent article includes a hydrophilic nonwoven fibrous sheet and a plurality of thermoplastic synthetic resin filaments extending in one direction parallel to one another and continuously bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fibrous sheet so that a composite sheet of these sheet and filaments have crests and troughs alternately repeating longitudinally of the filaments and respectively extend transversely of the filaments. An apparatus and a method for manufcturing the topsheet are also disclosed, wherein a pair of mutually engageable embossing rolls are used for forming the crests and the troughs onto the coposite sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Tomoko Tsuji, Hisashi Takai, Hiroki Goda
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Patent number: 6015936Abstract: A body fluids absorbent article has a liquid-permeable topsheet formed by a nonwoven fabric of thermoplastic synthetic fibers. The topsheet is formed with a plurality of openings each having a diameter of 0.5.about.3 mm. These openings queue up so as to form plural columns of openings extending in parallel one to another. One half or more of a total number of the openings are reinforced by strands of thermoplastic synthetic resin each having a diameter of 0.1.about.0.5 mm and extending circumferentially of the respective openings.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1998Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Hisashi Takai, Hiroki Goda, Tomoko Tsuji