Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article having a liquid acquisition layer between a topsheet and a liquid absorbent layer. The liquid acquisition layer is an absorbent sheet that is three-dimensionally deformed to include: longitudinal ribs projecting toward the topsheet and extending parallel with each other in a longitudinal direction of the article; and transverse ribs projecting toward the topsheet and extending in a transverse direction of the article. The transverse ribs are arranged at intervals in the longitudinal direction and connect adjacent longitudinal ribs, thereby providing a plurality of recesses surrounded by the longitudinal ribs and the transverse ribs. At least the longitudinal ribs are in contact with an overlying component, whereas bottoms of the recesses are in contact with the liquid absorbent layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an elongated absorbent article including a liquid absorbent layer. In a region where the liquid absorbent layer is present, compressed grooves are disposed to extend symmetrically about a longitudinal centerline, defining a central region therebetween and side regions laterally outside the central region and adjacent the compressed grooves. The central region includes front, intermediate and rear central regions. The intermediate central region has a widened portion in which the separation distance is larger than in regions positioned forward and rearward thereof. Stiffness of the side regions is lower in portions laterally outside the intermediate central region than in portions laterally outside the front and rear central regions.

Abstract: Disclosed is an elongated absorbent article, in which liquid passage holes and embossments are dispersed in a central region including a front portion and a rear portion. Aperture density obtained by dividing (total of areas occupied by the liquid passage holes in the front portion) by (area of the front portion) is higher than aperture density obtained by dividing (total of areas occupied by the liquid passage holes in the rear portion) by (area of the rear portion), while embossment density obtained by dividing (total of areas occupied by the embossments in the rear portion) by (area of the rear portion) is higher than embossment density obtained by dividing (total of areas occupied by the embossments in the front portion) by (area of the front portion).

Abstract: Disclosed is an elongated absorbent article including: rear inner compressed grooves disposed in a rear half of the absorbent article and extending symmetrically about a longitudinal centerline of the absorbent article, defining therebetween a rear central region; and a rear connecting compressed groove connecting rear ends of the rear inner compressed grooves, defining a rear end of the rear central region. A liquid absorbent layer is recessed in the rear central region from the side of the garment surface toward the skin surface to have a backside compressed portion extending along the longitudinal centerline. The backside compressed portion has a rear end positioned forward of the rear connecting compressed groove.

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.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an absorbent article including: a topsheet formed from a nonwoven fabric; a backsheet; and a cushion layer disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet is achieved by applying heat to a cushion layer unwound from a material roll to restore the bulkiness of the tissue layer, blowing air into the cushion layer for rapid cooling after the application of heat to maintain the restored bulkiness of the cushion layer, and laminating the topsheet, cushion layer, and the backsheet onto each other.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hygiene product including an absorbent article having a top layer for facing a wearer and a back layer having a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on a garment surface thereof, and a packaging sheet in which the absorbent article is wrapped. The packaging sheet has a first surface and a second surface. At least 50% of the top layer of the absorbent article faces the first surface of the packaging sheet. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the absorbent article is covered with a release sheet. The absorbent article is wrapped in the packaging sheet such that the second surface of the packaging sheet appears externally.

Abstract: Provided is a method for evaluating an organic material in the order of nanometers. According to the present invention, suggested are a device and a method for evaluating an organic material in the order of nanometers, which have not been established in the prior art. In particular, information on energy in transition processes between electron energy levels in an organic material can be obtained with a spatial resolution power of several nanometers or less from the surface direction thereof or the cross-sectional direction thereof. The present invention can also be applied to evaluation of the interface state generated when different materials are jointed to each other. For example, the gradient of the potential or the electric charge state in the interface between an electrode and an organic layer in a semiconductor organic material or an organic luminous device can be evaluated. On the basis of the results, a band diagram of this element can be prepared.

Abstract: An absorbent article is capable of satisfactorily achieving deodorant effect or alternation restricting effect for body waste deposited on a surface sheet even in a thin absorbent sheet which can retain the body waste on the surface sheet. The absorbent article has a liquid absorbent surface sheet formed from at least one of natural fibers, regenerated fibers, mixture of natural fibers and regenerated fibers, composite fibers consisted of synthetic fiber and one of the natural fibers and the regenerated fibers, the surface sheet containing at least one of tea leaves and extract of tea leaves; and a hydrophobic back surface sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including a liquid-permeable top layer, a backsheet, and an absorbent layer disposed between the top layer and the backsheet. Fibers constituting the absorbent layer are bonded together. The absorbent layer includes hydrophilic fibers. The top layer and the absorbent layer are embossed together to have recesses in which fibers constituting the absorbent layer are bonded to the top layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a colored absorbent article to be attached to an inner side of an undergarment matching in color with the article. The absorbent article has a body surface for facing the skin of a wearer and a garment surface for facing the inner side of the undergarment. The absorbent article includes a topsheet appearing on the body surface. The topsheet is a nonwoven fabric formed of only colored fibers that are at least one kind of fibers selected from synthetic resin fibers, semi-synthetic fibers and regenerated fibers. When measured for the body surface of the absorbent article, a Munsell value is in a range of 5.7 to 9.3.

Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including a liquid-permeable top material layer, a liquid-impermeable back material layer, and an absorbent body that is narrower than the top material layer and the back material layer and disposed between the top material layer and the back material layer such that longitudinally extending side edges of the absorbent body are individually inwardly spaced apart from corresponding side edges of the top material layer and the back material layer. Along the individual side edges of the absorbent body, the top material layer is embossed to have compressed portions that are formed in a substantially continuous, longitudinally extending pattern.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a capacitor formed on a substrate and including a lower electrode, a dielectric film and an upper electrode; a selection transistor formed at the substrate; an electrically conductive plug for providing electrical connection between the selection transistor and the capacitor; and a diffusion barrier film provided between the electrically conductive plug and the lower electrode of the capacitor. The diffusion barrier film is a TaxSi1−xNy film or a HfxSi1−xNy film (where 0.2<x<1 and 0<y<1). The lower electrode includes an Ir film and an IrO2 film which are sequentially formed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hygiene product including an absorbent article having a top layer for facing a wearer and a back layer having a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on a garment surface thereof, and a packaging sheet in which the absorbent article is wrapped. The packaging sheet has a first surface and a second surface. At least 50% of the top layer of the absorbent article faces the first surface of the packaging sheet. The pressure sensitive adhesive layer of the absorbent article is covered with a release sheet. The absorbent article is wrapped in the packaging sheet such that the second surface of the packaging sheet appears externally.

Abstract: Disclosed is a colored absorbent article to be attached to an inner side of an undergarment matching in color with the article. The absorbent article has a body surface for facing the skin of a wearer and a garment surface for facing the inner side of the undergarment. A color given to the absorbent article is visually recognizable from the side of the body surface. When measured for the body surface of the absorbent article, a Munsell value is in a range of 5.7 to 8.7.

Abstract: A contact plug electrically connected with a MOS transistor is formed in a first interlayer dielectric. Then, a barrier metal material is deposited over the first interlayer dielectric and the contact plug, and patterned into a barrier metal electrically connected with the contact plug. After a SiN film is formed as an anti-oxygen-permeation film over the barrier metal and the first interlayer dielectric, the film is abraded by a chemical mechanical polishing technique until a top surface of the barrier metal is exposed. Then, a lower electrode material, a dielectric material and an upper electrode material are deposited in this order on the SiN film and the barrier metal, and then patterned such that a resulting lower electrode covers at least the entire upper surface of the barrier metal. Thereafter a second interlayer dielectric is deposited, and a heat treatment is performed in an oxygen ambient to recover film quality of a capacitor dielectric.

Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article elongated to have longitudinally opposed front and rear edges and transversely opposed left and right edges. The absorbent article includes a stack of: a backsheet having a liquid barrier effect; a liquid absorbent layer; a hydrophilic intermediate sheet including fibers; and a hydrophilic topsheet including fibers. The absorbent article has a central region of a predetermined width, which is spaced apart from the left and right edges and formed with a plurality of liquid passage holes continuously extending from the topsheet to the intermediate sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including: a topsheet formed from a nonwoven fabric; a backsheet; and a cushion layer disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The topsheet is three-dimensionally shaped to have hills and valleys alternating with each other. The hills and the valleys are arranged at a pitch of 0.5 to 5 mm. The three-dimensionally shaped topsheet has a thickness of 0.5 to 5 mm under a condition where a pressure of 49 Pa is applied thereto. The cushion layer, under a condition where a pressure of 49 Pa is applied thereto, has a thickness equal to or larger than the thickness of the topsheet. The cushion layer has a compression property value smaller than that of the topsheet.

Abstract: A contact plug electrically connected with a MOS transistor is formed in a first interlayer dielectric. Then, a barrier metal material is deposited over the first interlayer dielectric and the contact plug, and patterned into a barrier metal electrically connected with the contact plug. After a SiN film is formed as an anti-oxygen-permeation film over the barrier metal and the first interlayer dielectric, the film is abraded by a chemical mechanical polishing technique until a top surface of the barrier metal is exposed. Then, a lower electrode material, a dielectric material and an upper electrode material are deposited in this order on the SiN film and the barrier metal, and then patterned such that a resulting lower electrode covers at least the entire upper surface of the barrier metal. Thereafter a second interlayer dielectric is deposited, and a heat treatment is performed in an oxygen ambient to recover film quality of a capacitor dielectric.

Abstract: An absorbent article is capable of satisfactorily achieving deodorant effect or alternation restricting effect for body waste deposited on a surface sheet even in a thin absorbent sheet which can retain the body waste on the surface sheet. The absorbent article has a liquid absorbent surface sheet formed from at least one of natural fibers, regenerated fibers, mixture of natural fibers and regenerated fibers, composite fibers consisted of synthetic fiber and one of the natural fibers and the regenerated fibers, the surface sheet containing at least one of tea leaves and extract of tea leaves; and a hydrophobic back surface sheet.