Patents by Inventor Nariaki Shimoe

Nariaki Shimoe 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).

  • Publication number: 20130131620
    Abstract: To demonstrate an effect of whitening easily-darkening wearer's groin portion, etc. An absorbent article according to the present invention comprises: a liquid permeable top sheet; a liquid impermeable back sheet; and an absorber disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, wherein in both-side edges on a skin contacting surface side of the top sheet and along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, application regions to which a phosphoric ester type vitamin is applied are arranged intermittently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hisanaka, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 8109915
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable wearing article has a base sheet including an inner sheet and an outer sheet. A plurality of auxiliary elastic members extending across a panel are interposed between the inner sheet and the outer sheet and attached to these sheets between waist surrounding elastic members and leg-holes so that these auxiliary elastic members may contract in the waist-circumferential direction. Each of the auxiliary elastic members has transversely opposite end portions secured to the inner and outer sheets and an intermediate portion not directly bonded to the inner and outer sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Nariaki Shimoe, Toshifumi Otsubo
  • Patent number: 7753900
    Abstract: A disposable pull-on diaper includes front and rear waist regions and a pair of tape fasteners secured to an outer surface of the front waist region or the rear waist region. A tape member forming each of the tape fasteners has a distal end portion and a proximal end portion wherein the distal end portion is releasably attached to joining zones along which the front and rear waist regions are joined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation, Ltd
    Inventors: Kyoko Ito, Kyota Saito, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7749210
    Abstract: A disposable diaper has a through-hole formed in an inner sheet destined to come in contact with a wearer's skin so that this through-hole may communicate with a pocket for receiving feces. The inner sheet is formed with an elastic area extending in a longitudinal direction along transversely opposite side edges of the through-hole. In a crotch region of the diaper, a stiffening sheet strips are attached to the inner sheet between the transversely opposite side edges of the diaper and the transversely opposite side edges so that the respective stiffening sheet strips extend in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mishima, Hironao Minato, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Publication number: 20080077110
    Abstract: A disposable diaper has a through-hole formed in an inner sheet destined to come in contact with a wearer's skin so that this through-hole may communicate with a pocket for receiving feces. The inner sheet is formed with an elastic area extending in a longitudinal direction along transversely opposite side edges of the through-hole. In a crotch region of the diaper, a stiffening sheet strips are attached to the inner sheet between the transversely opposite side edges of the diaper and the transversely opposite side edges so that the respective stiffening sheet strips extend in a transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MISHIMA, Hironao Minato, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7335191
    Abstract: A disposable diaper having a backsheet that defines a garment facing surface and an outer surface provided with an adhesive tape for holding the diaper in a rolled-up state. The adhesive tape includes fastening and reinforcing tapes. The fastening tape is folded back in an inner tape section and an outer tape section. The inner tape section is fixed near its end to the backsheet and spaced from the backsheet near a folded portion that is contiguous to the outer tape section. The outer tape section is coated with an adhesive and temporarily fixed to the inner tape section. The reinforcing tape is folded back in two sections in a direction opposite to that in which the fastening tape is folded back. The reinforcing tape is fixed to the inner tape section near the folded portion and is also to the backsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Suzuki, Keiichi Jibiki, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7329244
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper has a body fluid absorbing component folded inward in a transverse direction of the diaper so that a width of the body fluid absorbing component may be reduced in a crotch covering region. In vicinities of leg-holes, elastic members intersect transversely opposite side edges of the body fluid absorbing component above points X, Y at which the side edges of the body fluid absorbing component intersect folding guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7326192
    Abstract: A disposable diaper has a through-hole formed in an inner sheet destined to come in contact with a wearer's skin so that this through-hole may communicate with a pocket for receiving feces. The inner sheet is formed with an elastic area extending in a longitudinal direction along transversely opposite side edges of the through-hole. In a crotch region of the diaper, a stiffening sheet strips are attached to the inner sheet between the transversely opposite side edges of the diaper and the transversely opposite side edges so that the respective stiffening sheet strips extend in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mishima, Hironao Minato, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7322968
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article is provided on its garment facing surface with tape fasteners. The tape member forming each of the tape fastener has a fixed end portion and a free end portion adapted to be taken between the fingers longitudinally opposed to each other. The free end portion at least partially extend beyond the lateral edge of the wearing article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7220251
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable article has a liquid-absorbent first panel interposed between a liquid-absorbent sheet and liquid-impervious sheets, a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes. The leg-holes are surrounding by leg-surrounding flaps extending in a leg-surrounding direction outside transversely opposite side edges of the first panel. A transverse dimension between the transversely opposite side edges is minimized in the vicinity of bottoms of the respective leg-holes. The leg-surrounding flaps are formed with first folding lines extending in the leg-surrounding direction and second folding lines extending in a transverse direction. The leg-surrounding flaps are tucked along the first and second folding lines into the respective leg-holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7211709
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article comprises a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet and a liquid-absorbent panel interposed between the top- and backsheets. The backsheet is formed by a breathable and hydrophobic first fibrous nonwoven fabric layer underlying the panel, a breathable and liquid-impervious plastic film underlying the first fibrous nonwoven fabric layer and a breathable and hydrophobic second fibrous nonwoven fabric layer underlying the film. In a zone occupied by the panel, the first fibrous nonwoven fabric layer is intermittently joined to an under surface of the panel by means of a hot melt adhesive and the film is intermittently joined to the first fibrous nonwoven fabric layer by means of the hot melt adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nariaki Shimoe, Toshifumi Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20060282054
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable wearing article has a base sheet including an inner sheet and an outer sheet. A plurality of auxiliary elastic members extending across a panel are interposed between the inner sheet and the outer sheet and attached to these sheets between waist surrounding elastic members and leg-holes so that these auxiliary elastic members may contract in the waist-circumferential direction. Each of the auxiliary elastic members has transversely opposite end portions secured to the inner and outer sheets and an intermediate portion not directly bonded to the inner and outer sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nariaki SHIMOE, Toshifumi OTSUBO
  • Publication number: 20060206092
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article is provided on its garment facing surface with tape fasteners. The tape member forming each of the tape fastener has a fixed end portion and a free end portion adapted to be taken between the fingers longitudinally opposed to each other. The free end portion at least partially extend beyond the lateral edge of the wearing article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 7037301
    Abstract: A disposable body fluid absorbent wearing article such as a disposable diaper includes elastic members 12 associated with leg-holes each having a plurality of elastic members which are placed along cutouts of side flaps 6 to surround a wearer's thighs. The elastic members 12 associated with the leg-holes are converged into respective single bundles along first elastic zones S of a crotch region 10 and diverged in second and third elastic zones F, B extending forward and backward from the first elastic zones S so that the elastic members 12 associated with the leg-holes may have a tensile stress not higher along the first elastic zones S than in the second and third elastic zones F, B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Ohashi, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Publication number: 20060025744
    Abstract: A disposable diaper has a through-hole formed in an inner sheet destined to come in contact with a wearer's skin so that this through-hole may communicate with a pocket for receiving feces. The inner sheet is formed with an elastic area extending in a longitudinal direction along transversely opposite side edges of the through-hole. In a crotch region of the diaper, a stiffening sheet strips are attached to the inner sheet between the transversely opposite side edges of the diaper and the transversely opposite side edges so that the respective stiffening sheet strips extend in a transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Mishima, Hironao Minato, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Publication number: 20050148990
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable wearing article has a base sheet comprising an inner sheet and an outer sheet. A plurality of auxiliary elastic members extending across a panel are interposed between the inner sheet and the outer sheet and attached to these sheets between waist surrounding elastic members and leg-holes so that these auxiliary elastic members may contract in the waist-circumferential direction. Each of the auxiliary elastic members has transversely opposite end portions secured to the inner and outer sheets and an intermediate portion let free from the inner and outer sheets. A ratio of a dimension of the region of the base sheet to which the auxiliary elastic members are laid as these auxiliary elastic members have contracted to a dimension of the auxiliary elastic members in a non-stretched state is in a range of 1.0 to 1.1 as measured in the waist-circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nariaki Shimoe, Toshifumi Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20050143711
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper has a body fluid absorbing component folded inward in a transverse direction of the diaper so that a width of the body fluid absorbing component may be reduced in a crotch covering region. In vicinities of leg-holes, elastic members intersect transversely opposite side edges of the body fluid absorbing component above points X, Y at which the side edges of the body fluid absorbing component intersect folding guides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: 6905565
    Abstract: A disposable sanitary article having elastic members extending to be associated with leg-openings secured under tension to the article along transversely opposite side edge portions of the sanitary article. The transversely opposite side edge portions respectively have first elastic zones extending across a crotch region in the longitudinal direction along a desired length, second elastic zones extending from the first elastic zones into a front waist region along a desired length and third elastic zones extending from the first elastic zones into a rear waist region along a desired length. The sections of the elastic members extending along the second elastic zones and the third elastic zones has values of stretch stress represented by a relationship of the second elastic zones<the third elastic zones or the third elastic zones<the second elastic zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: UNI-Charm Corporation
    Inventor: Nariaki Shimoe
  • Patent number: D520135
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino, Nariaki Shimoe, Toru Sasaki
  • Patent number: D522653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino, Nariaki Shimoe, Toru Sasaki