Patents by Inventor Kaiyo Nakajima

Kaiyo Nakajima 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: 9289333
    Abstract: A disposable diaper using elastic sheet materials so that a contact surface pressure may be locally enhanced and thereby the diaper may be prevented from being noticeably displaced on the wearer's body during used thereof is provided. Of first and second waist regions at least the first waist region is contractible. The first waist region includes waist auxiliary elastic sheets extending in a direction of a transverse axis between opposite side edges of the first waist region and leg auxiliary elastic sheets extending along front peripheral edges of leg-openings. The waist auxiliary elastic sheets and the leg auxiliary elastic sheets overlap one another in areas of the opposite side edges of the first waist region adjacent to the leg-openings respectively. With the diaper put on the wearer's body, these areas come in contact with upper lateral regions of the wearer's iliac bones inclusive of the vicinity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Toshimitsu Baba, Ryuichi Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 9271882
    Abstract: An absorbent article configured to ensure that even when the excreted urine diffuses by running down the wearer's skin, the skin is prevented from remaining wetted. In the absorbent article of the present invention, when an artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the urination region of the crotch region, where an absorbent sheet is not disposed, the return amount of the artificial urine in the buttock region of the rear waist region, where an absorbent sheet is disposed, takes a value of 200 times less than the return amount of the artificial urine in the urination region; and the return amount of the artificial urine in the buttock region when the artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the buttock region takes a value of 0.7 or less of the return amount of the artificial urine in the urination region when the artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the urination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Haruki Toda
  • Patent number: 9044358
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided with a waist-cuff to prevent body waste from leaking beyond a waist-opening. An elastic sheet is used for the waist-cuff to be held in contact with the wearer's skin even if the wearer moves. The waist-cuff and a chassis may be joined to each other so as to be separated from each other in the vicinity of an absorbent structure to assure that fitness of the waist-cuff to the wearer's skin is not significantly affected by movement of the wearer and, at the same time, to assure that leg-cuffs can rise without being collapsed by the waist-cuff. The ends of the leg-cuffs are interleaved between the waist-cuff and the chassis to prevent body waste from leaking through a clearance which would otherwise be defined between the leg-cuffs and the waist-cuff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Toshimitsu Baba
  • Patent number: 9035127
    Abstract: An absorbent article ensuring that even when excreted urine diffuses by running down the wearer's skin, the urine is prevented from leaking out of the absorbent article. The absorbent article comprises an absorbent sheet that has at least one absorbent polymer-existing region in which the absorbent polymer is sandwiched by at least one liquid-pervious sheet and at least one absorbent polymer-nonexisting region which is free of absorbent polymer. The at least a part of the absorbent sheet is disposed in a rear waist region, and a planar shape of the absorbent polymer-existing region disposed on the rear waist region side of the longitudinal center of the crotch region of the absorbent sheet is a nearly V-shaped with an apex facing in the direction from the front waist region to the rear waist region in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Haruki Toda
  • Publication number: 20150119842
    Abstract: An absorptive article configured so that wrinkles in the absorptive article occurring when the absorptive article is worn by a wearer are reduced. This absorptive article is configured in such a manner that a surface sheet and a highly absorptive polymer sheet are joined together, a pair of wing sections respectively have ends in the longitudinal direction, longitudinal edges of the highly absorptive polymer sheet are located on the outside longitudinally of wing section action lines connecting the ends located side by side in the width direction, and the wing section action lines are located at the same positions as, or on the outside longitudinally of, folding positions at which the absorptive article is folded twice in the longitudinal direction in order to individually package the absorptive article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Shoshi Kosaka, Kaiyo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9011401
    Abstract: Disposable diapers improved so that waist regions are effectively elastic to assure high fitness are provided. In a first waist region, bonding region coated with adhesive lines includes a first bonding region coated with first adhesive lines extending from a peripheral edge of a waist-opening toward a crotch region and a second bonding region coated with second adhesive lines extending from the first adhesive lines into the crotch region wherein the first adhesive lines are noncontiguous to the second adhesive lines in the direction of the longitudinal axis so that, with the diaper put on the wearer's body, a region defined in the vicinity of a boundary between the first bonding region and the second bonding region folded inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kamiyama, Toshimitsu Baba, Kaiyo Nakajima, Reiko Nitta
  • Patent number: 9011396
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article has a skin-contactable sheet moveable relative to a chassis. The chassis includes an inner sheet, an outer sheet and a liquid-absorbent panel interposed between these inner and outer sheets. The absorbent panel lies at least in the crotch region and extends into the front and rear waist regions in the longitudinal direction. In the rear waist region, a skin-contactable sheet adapted to come in contact with the wearer's skin is attached to the inner surface of the inner sheet. The skin-contactable sheet has front and rear ends extending in the transverse direction and lateral portions extending in the longitudinal direction and only the lateral portions are bonded to the inner sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Haruki Toda, Yoshikazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150005729
    Abstract: The present invention provides a disposable absorbent article improved so that a desired flexibility can be assured and the thickness dimension of the article can be locally reduced without decreasing the absorbent capacity of the article. In the article according to the present invention, at least one of a first end region and a second end region, a plurality of first depressed spots concaved from an upper surface side toward a rear surface side to an absorbent layer and a plurality of second depressed spots concaved from the rear surface side toward the upper surface side are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction as well as in a transverse direction wherein a part of the first depressed spots and a part of the second depressed spots overlap each other in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORTION
    Inventors: Hitomi Nakao, Kaiyo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8795249
    Abstract: A disposable diaper is provided with a skin-contactable sheet piece above a liquid-pervious topsheet. The skin-contactable sheet piece is formed with openings extending in a back-and-forth direction through which body waste is guided toward the topsheet and both lateral zones of the sheet piece on both sides of these openings as viewed in a transverse direction B are provided with elastic members attached under tension. Outside the skin-contactable sheet piece as viewed in the transverse direction B, leak-barriers are provided and the lateral zones of the skin-contactable sheet piece are bonded to the leak-barriers along regions defined between proximal edges and free edges of the respective leak-barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Hironao Minato, Kaiyo Nakajima, Naoko Takada
  • Patent number: 8728050
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an absorbent article with a barrier sheet preventing body waste from coming in contact with a wearer's skin and thereby to alleviate skin trouble such as eczema the wearer might suffer from. The article includes an absorbent chassis, a barrier sheet and a leak-barrier cuffs. An absorbent panel is disposed on the inner surface of the chassis, the barrier sheet is disposed above the absorbent panel and the leak-barrier cuffs are disposed along a lateral side of the barrier sheet. The barrier sheet has lateral zones a middle zone connecting the lateral zones, and front and rear through-holes defined by the lateral zones and the middle zone. Barrier sheet elastic members are provided along the lateral zones. Folds are formed so as to cross the middle zone in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Nitta, Kaiyo Nakajima, Hironao Minato
  • Publication number: 20130289510
    Abstract: An absorbent article ensuring that even when excreted urine diffuses by running down the wearer's skin, the urine is prevented from leaking out of the absorbent article. The absorbent article comprises an absorbent sheet that has at least one absorbent polymer-existing region in which the absorbent polymer is sandwiched by at least one liquid-pervious sheet and at least one absorbent polymer-nonexisting region which is free of absorbent polymer. The at least a part of the absorbent sheet is disposed in a rear waist region, and a planar shape of the absorbent polymer-existing region disposed on the rear waist region side of the longitudinal center of the crotch region of the absorbent sheet is a nearly V-shaped with an apex facing in the direction from the front waist region to the rear waist region in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Haruki Toda
  • Publication number: 20130237941
    Abstract: An absorbent article configured to ensure that even when the excreted urine diffuses by running down the wearer's skin, the skin is prevented from remaining wetted. In the absorbent article of the present invention, when an artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the urination region of the crotch region, where an absorbent sheet is not disposed, the return amount of the artificial urine in the buttock region of the rear waist region, where an absorbent sheet is disposed, takes a value of 200 times less than the return amount of the artificial urine in the urination region; and the return amount of the artificial urine in the buttock region when the artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the buttock region takes a value of 0.7 or less of the return amount of the artificial urine in the urination region when the artificial urine is dropped and absorbed in the urination region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Haruki Toda
  • Publication number: 20130123737
    Abstract: To alleviate any irritation experienced by the wearer's skin and/or to restrict body waste leakage in a wearing article, a sheet lying at least in a first waist region of a chassis is joined to the chassis in first and second joined regions extending in a transverse direction and opposed to each other in a longitudinal direction. Additionally or alternatively, the sheet is joined to the chassis and a liquid-absorbent structure in a pair of longitudinal joined regions respectively extending along the side edges of the liquid-absorbent structure and opposed to each other in the transverse direction. The sheet is elastic and the chassis is non-elastic, and vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kaiyo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8377025
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a void space between a separator sheet and a liquid-absorbent structure. The separator sheet has opposite lateral zones extending in a longitudinal direction, a middle zone via which the opposite lateral zones are contiguous to each other, a front through-hole formed on the side of a front waist region, a rear through-hole formed on the side of rear waist region, and separator sheet biasing elastic members attached under tension to the respective lateral zones. A chassis includes a front leg elastic member laid on the side of the front waist region and a rear leg elastic member laid on the side of the rear waist region wherein at least the rear leg elastic member includes a rear transverse segment extending across the crotch region and a position of the rear transverse segment corresponds to a position of the middle zone of the separator sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Hironao Minato
  • Publication number: 20120311770
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article has a skin-contactable sheet moveable relative to a chassis. The chassis includes an inner sheet, an outer sheet and a liquid-absorbent panel interposed between these inner and outer sheets. The absorbent panel lies at least in the crotch region and extends into the front and rear waist regions in the longitudinal direction. In the rear waist region, a skin-contactable sheet adapted to come in contact with the wearer's skin is attached to the inner surface of the inner sheet. The skin-contactable sheet has front and rear ends extending in the transverse direction and lateral portions extending in the longitudinal direction and only the lateral portions are bonded to the inner sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Haruki Toda, Yoshikazu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120310195
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article improved so that a pressure put on the wearer's body may be partially alleviated. A disposable urine absorbent pad as one example of the disposable wearing articles has an inner sheet, an outer sheet and a liquid-absorbent structure interposed between these sheets. The liquid-absorbent structure is formed on an absorbent surface thereof with a pair of first raised portions protruding to the side of the inner sheet. The first raised portions lie in the rear waist region and extend in a longitudinal direction along lateral edges of the liquid-absorbent structure. The first raised portions may be formed of the same material as a core of the liquid-absorbent structure, specifically, of a mixture of fluff pulp and superabsorbent polymer particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruki Toda, Kaiyo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8303559
    Abstract: A disposable diaper is provided with a skin-contactable sheet piece above a liquid-pervious topsheet. The skin-contactable sheet piece is formed with openings extending in a back-and-forth direction through which body waste is guided toward the topsheet and both lateral zones of the sheet piece on both sides of these openings as viewed in a transverse direction are provided with elastic members attached under tension. Outside the skin-contactable sheet piece as viewed in the transverse direction, leak-barriers are provided and the lateral zones of the skin-contactable sheet piece are bonded to the leak-barriers along regions defined between proximal edges and free edges of the respective leak-barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Hironao Minato, Kaiyo Nakajima, Naoko Takada
  • Publication number: 20120041407
    Abstract: Disposable diapers improved so that waist regions are effectively elastic to assure high fitness are provided. In a first waist region, bonding region coated with adhesive lines includes a first bonding region coated with first adhesive lines extending from a peripheral edge of a waist-opening toward a crotch region and a second bonding region coated with second adhesive lines extending from the first adhesive lines into the crotch region wherein the first adhesive lines are noncontiguous to the second adhesive lines in the direction of the longitudinal axis so that, with the diaper put on the wearer's body, a region defined in the vicinity of a boundary between the first bonding region and the second bonding region folded inward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kamiyama, Toshimitsu Baba, Kaiyo Nakajima, Reiko Nitta
  • Publication number: 20120022482
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided with a waist-cuff to prevent body waste from leaking beyond a waist-opening. An elastic sheet is used for the waist-cuff to be held in contact with the wearer's skin even if the wearer moves. The waist-cuff and a chassis may be joined to each other so as to be separated from each other in the vicinity of an absorbent structure to assure that fitness of the waist-cuff to the wearer's skin is not significantly affected by movement of the wearer and, at the same time, to assure that leg-cuffs can rise without being collapsed by the waist-cuff. The ends of the leg-cuffs are interleaved between the waist-cuff and the chassis to prevent body waste from leaking through a clearance which would otherwise be defined between the leg-cuffs and the waist-cuff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Toshimitsu Baba
  • Publication number: 20120016334
    Abstract: A disposable diaper using elastic sheet materials so that a contact surface pressure may be locally enhanced and thereby the diaper may be prevented from being noticeably displaced on the wearer's body during used thereof is provided. Of first and second waist regions at least the first waist region is contractible. The first waist region includes waist auxiliary elastic sheets extending in a direction of a transverse axis between opposite side edges of the first waist region and leg auxiliary elastic sheets extending along front peripheral edges of leg-openings. The waist auxiliary elastic sheets and the leg auxiliary elastic sheets overlap one another in areas of the opposite side edges of the first waist region adjacent to the leg-openings respectively. With the diaper put on the wearer's body, these areas come in contact with upper lateral regions of the wearer's iliac bones inclusive of the vicinity thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaiyo Nakajima, Toshimitsu Baba, Ryuichi Kamiyama