Patents by Inventor Noritomo Kameda
Noritomo Kameda 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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Patent number: 8851268Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes a processing device that, processes semi-finished products, and an inspecting device that inspects whether an actual processing position by the processing device is within an allowable range of the process target position on the semi-finished product. The inspecting device includes, a sensor section located in the transport direction and outputting a detection signal while the actual processing position of the semi-finished product is being detected, a reference signal outputting section outputting a reference signal having a waveform in which one wavelength is equivalent to a unit transport amount corresponding to a single semi-finished product, the reference signal having a first waveform portion at a phase corresponding to the allowable range in the wavelength, and a determining section determining whether the actual processing position is within the allowable range by comparing the detection signal with the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventor: Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20140234575Abstract: A layered nonwoven fabric with excellent feel on the skin and liquid permeability, and a method for producing the layered nonwoven fabric. The layered nonwoven fabric includes an upper layer consisting of a first nonwoven fabric and a lower layer consisting of a second nonwoven fabric. The layered nonwoven fabric has a first surface on the first nonwoven fabric side with a plurality of protrusions and recesses and a second surface on the second nonwoven fabric side. The protrusions on the first surface have a higher basis weight than the recesses on the first surface, and the protrusions on the first surface have a lower fiber density than the recesses on the first surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Satoshi Mitsuno, Jun Okuda, Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20140141970Abstract: An absorber containing non-wood pulp with the settling velocity in water between 2 and 5 seconds, the mean fiber size of 8 to 25 ?m, the apparent bulk density of 0.04 to 0.07 g/cm3, and the absorption for 0.9% physiological saline of at least 20-fold with respect to the pulp mass. The absorber has a thickness change of at least 600%, as the thickness after having absorbed 0.9% physiological saline with respect to the thickness before absorbing 0.9% physiological saline. When addition of 80 mL of 0.9% physiological saline to the absorbent article over a period of 10 seconds is performed three times every 10 minutes and the absorption rate of the absorbent article for each of the three times is evaluated as the time from addition of the 0.9% physiological saline until complete absorption, the absorption rate for each of the three times is not greater than 20 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Konishi, Masaki Yoshida, Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20140031778Abstract: There is provided an absorbent article with excellent absorption performance. The absorbent article 1 of the invention comprises two or more absorbers 4, 5 that absorb body fluids of a user and are stacked in the thickness direction, a liquid-permeable sheet 2 covering one side of the two or more absorbers, through which body fluid of a user permeates, and a liquid-impermeable sheet 3 covering the other side of the two or more absorbers, through which body fluid of the user does not permeate, wherein the absorber 5 on the liquid-impermeable sheet 3 side of the two or more absorbers 4, 5 contains non-wood pulp and SAP, and the settling velocity of the non-wood pulp in water is between 2 seconds and 5 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Takayoshi Konishi, Masaki Yoshida, Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20140014284Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a nonwoven fabric that can produce a nonwoven fabric having high strength, high bulk and softness. The method for producing a nonwoven fabric according to the invention comprises a step of supplying a water-containing paper-making material onto a support to form a paper layer 21 on the support, a step of injecting a high-pressure water jet stream onto the paper layer 21 from a high-pressure water jet stream nozzle 12 provided above the support, a step of injecting high-pressure steam onto the paper layer 21 on which the high-pressure water jet stream has been injected, from a steam nozzle 14 provided above the support, and a step of drying the paper layer on which the high-pressure steam has been injected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Konishi, Toshio Hiraoka, Masaki Yoshida, Toshifumi Hikosaka, Noritomo Kameda
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Patent number: 8591682Abstract: A manufacturing method for a composite sheet associated with an absorbent article includes: conveying a continuous body of a sheet continuously in a conveying direction; and bonding a continuous body of an elastic member with the continuous body of the sheet while a position on the continuous body of the sheet at which the continuous body of the elastic member bonds with the continuous body of the sheet is changing continuously in the intersecting direction by transporting the continuous body of the elastic member towards the continuous body of the sheet with a guiding member. The guiding member moves back and forth in an intersecting direction that intersects the conveying direction, and the continuous body of the sheet travels in the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Noritomo Kameda, Shinichi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20120118485Abstract: A manufacturing method for a composite sheet associated with an absorbent article includes: conveying a continuous body of a sheet continuously in a conveying direction; and bonding a continuous body of an elastic member with the continuous body of the sheet while a position on the continuous body of the sheet at which the continuous body of the elastic member bonds with the continuous body of the sheet is changing continuously in the intersecting direction by transporting the continuous body of the elastic member towards the continuous body of the sheet with a guiding member. The guiding member moves back and forth in an intersecting direction that intersects the conveying direction, and the continuous body of the sheet travels in the conveying direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Noritomo Kameda, Shinichi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20120037474Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article includes a processing device that, processes semi-finished products, and an inspecting device that inspects whether an actual processing position by the processing device is within an allowable range of the process target position on the semi-finished product. The inspecting device includes, a sensor section located in the transport direction and outputting a detection signal while the actual processing position of the semi-finished product is being detected, a reference signal outputting section outputting a reference signal having a waveform in which one wavelength is equivalent to a unit transport amount corresponding to a single semi-finished product, the reference signal having a first waveform portion at a phase corresponding to the allowable range in the wavelength, and a determining section determining whether the actual processing position is within the allowable range by comparing the detection signal with the reference signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20110162188Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for absorbent products that has a process for placing on connected flaps on latch members that are fastenable to prescribed areas on both sides of a center line that is parallel to the MD-direction of the flap line, a process for folding over both edges of the flap continuum toward the center line along the MD-direction on the flap line, a process for forming flaps by cutting the flap continuum along the CD-direction on the flap line, and a process for placing the flaps at prescribed intervals on absorbent article continuum on the main body line so that the center line is in the MD-direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Noritomo Kameda, Tomomi Oku
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Publication number: 20110155304Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for absorbent products that has a fastening member placement step wherein latch members, which are fastenable to prescribed areas, are placed on both sides of a center line that is parallel to the conveyance direction of the flap line on a flap continuum that are continuously conveyed on the flap line, a flap formation process wherein flaps are formed by cutting the flap continuum on the flap line in a direction that intersects with the conveyance direction of the flap line, and a flap placement step wherein flaps are placed on front waistline member continuum or the rear waistline member continuum or on the main body line so that the center line is orthogonal to the conveyance direction of the main body line, and both edges of the flap continuum on the flap line are folded over toward the center line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Noritomo Kameda, Tomomi Oku
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Publication number: 20110049210Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: a work carrying section that carries a continuous belt-like work; and a processing section within a travel path and processing while the work is being intermittently halted. The work carrying section includes an entering-side buffer mechanism within the travel path on an upstream side of the processing section; an exit-side buffer mechanism within the travel path on a downstream side of the processing section; an interlocking section that moves first and second moving elements for performing a reciprocating movement in an interlocked manner; an intermittent sending section that comes into contact with the work; an endless annular element that is wrapped around the carry rolls and the first and second moving elements; and a first drive roll that applies a rotational force to the carry rolls and a moving force to the first moving element and the second moving element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20110049758Abstract: Fluid absorbent fibers are accumulated in a form die without being interfered by a polymer charging member for charging a superabsorbent polymer. There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent body in which while a form die is moved in one direction along a predetermined moving path, fluid absorbent fibers are distributed toward the form die and accumulated in the form die, whereby the absorbent body is formed. A polymer charging member for charging superabsorbent polymer into the form die is disposed to intersect at least a part of a distribution path of the fluid absorbent fibers, and a space through which the fluid absorbent fibers are allowed to pass along the distribution path is formed in the polymer charging member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuo Takahashi, Noritomo Kameda
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Publication number: 20100276466Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: a processing section that is provided at the processing position Pn and that performs the processing on the work while the work is being halted; an entering-side buffer mechanism that is provided on an upstream side of the processing section in the predetermined direction and that can accumulate the work carried from upstream; an exit-side buffer mechanism that is provided on a downstream side of the processing section in the predetermined direction and that can accumulate the work having been processed and to be carried downstream; and a sending section that is provided between the entering-side buffer mechanism and the processing section and that sends out the work accumulated by the entering-side buffer mechanism to the processing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Noritomo Kameda