Patents by Inventor Satoko Konawa

Satoko Konawa 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: 20230338208
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes: a liquid-impermeable outer surface sheet; an absorber; and a liquid-permeable inner surface sheet. These are laminated in the order named. The absorbent article has a longitudinal direction that corresponds to the longitudinal direction of the body of the user of the absorbent article, and a width direction that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The absorbent article has a middle area that includes a body fluid discharging orifice facing area facing a body fluid discharging orifice in the body of the person, a front area that is joined to a front portion of the middle area, and a rear area that is joined to a rear portion of the middle area. A chemical-carrying portion is formed in at least one of the front area and the rear area of the absorbent article, the chemical-carrying portion being where a chemical is applied to a surface that is separate from an exposed surface of the absorbent article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Satoko KONAWA
  • Patent number: 11510828
    Abstract: (Object) To prevent a high compression portion from being defectively formed and also a top sheet from being torn. (Means of Achieving the Object) A sanitary napkin (1) in which a low compression portion (15) and a high compression portion (16, 17, 18) are formed on a bottom surface of a compressed groove (10) that is recessed from a skin contact surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoko Konawa, Yoko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11207221
    Abstract: An absorbent article, such as a sanitary napkin, a pantiliner or an incontinence pad, which improves diffusion property of a body fluid and maintains a stable absorption amount. In FIG. 3, a sanitary napkin (1) includes an absorber (4) including an upper layer sheet (10) disposed at a skin side, a lower layer sheet (11) disposed at a non-skin side, and a highly water-absorbing polymer (12) disposed between the upper layer sheet (10) and the lower layer sheet (11). The upper layer sheet (10) is provided with a plurality of protruding portions (14) bulging out to the skin side and forming space portions (13) to be filled with the highly water-absorbing polymer (12), and a joined portion (15) in which the upper layer sheet (10) and the lower layer sheet (11) are joined to each other intermittently on the peripheral edges of the protruding portions (14) along the circumferential directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 11173075
    Abstract: On a skin-contact surface on a front-surface side of a sanitary napkin 1, in a plan view, a concave low compression part 10 obtained by denting, from a skin-contact surface side, a closed region part partitioned by an inside curve 12 formed of a curved line swelling on a front end side of the sanitary napkin 1, and an outside curve 13 that is located on a front end side than the inside curve 12, is formed of a curved line swelling on a front end side of the sanitary napkin 1 and has both ends that are connected respectively to the both ends of the inside curve 12 is formed. In the low compression part 10, a plurality of high compression parts 11 formed discretely respectively along the inside curve 12 and outside curve 13 is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 11116676
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make the deformation of the absorber at the crotch portion less prone to influence the waist side of the absorber and allow the waist side of the absorber to be easily rounded along the surface of the wearer's body. The foregoing issue is solved by a disposable diaper including an absorber in a crotch portion, a ventral-side portion, and a dorsal-side portion, wherein the absorber is divided in a front-back direction by width-direction slits continuing in the width direction provided on both front and back sides of the crotch portion, and concave portions recessed toward the waist side are formed in width-direction centers of waist-side edges of the width-direction slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 11020291
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve the diffusibility of body fluid such that the body fluid can be quickly absorbed. The sanitary napkin 1 represented by FIG. 3 includes an absorbing body 4 with a highly water-absorbent polymer 12 interposed between an upper layer sheet 10 disposed on the skin side and a lower layer sheet 11 disposed on the non-skin side. The upper layer sheet 10 has a plurality of first protrusions 14 forming first space parts 13 that are to be filled with the highly water-absorbent polymer and that expand to the skin side, and a plurality of second protrusions 16 forming second space parts 15, each of which having a smaller volume than each of the first space part 13, that are to be filled with the highly water-absorbent polymer and that expand to the skin side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 10813800
    Abstract: A polymer provided region (13) at which a superabsorbent polymer (12) is provided, and a polymer non-provided region (14) at which the superabsorbent polymer (12) is not provided are formed, a liquid diffusion sheet (15), that promotes diffusion of body fluid in a plane direction, is staked to be adjacent to a skin side surface of a lower layer sheet (11), and an upper layer sheet (10) is bonded with the liquid diffusion sheet (15) under a state that the upper layer sheet (10) contacts the liquid diffusion sheet (15), at the polymer non-provided region (14) to form a polymer sheet (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Publication number: 20200121523
    Abstract: (Object) To prevent a high compression portion from being defectively formed and also a top sheet from being torn. (Means of Achieving the Object) A sanitary napkin (1) in which a low compression portion (15) and a high compression portion (16, 17, 18) are formed on a bottom surface of a compressed groove (10) that is recessed from a skin contact surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Satoko KONAWA, Yoko SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190262193
    Abstract: On a skin-contact surface on a front-surface side of a sanitary napkin 1, in a plan view, a concave low compression part 10 obtained by denting, from a skin-contact surface side, a closed region part partitioned by an inside curve 12 formed of a curved line swelling on a front end side of the sanitary napkin 1, and an outside curve 13 that is located on a front end side than the inside curve 12, is formed of a curved line swelling on a front end side of the sanitary napkin 1 and has both ends that are connected respectively to the both ends of the inside curve 12 is formed. In the low compression part 10, a plurality of high compression parts 11 formed discretely respectively along the inside curve 12 and outside curve 13 is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko KONAWA
  • Publication number: 20180353353
    Abstract: A polymer provided region (13) at which a superabsorbent polymer (12) is provided, and a polymer non-provided region (14) at which the superabsorbent polymer (12) is not provided are formed, a liquid diffusion sheet (15), that promotes diffusion of body fluid in a plane direction, is staked to be adjacent to a skin side surface of a lower layer sheet (11), and an upper layer sheet (10) is bonded with the liquid diffusion sheet (15) under a state that the upper layer sheet (10) contacts the liquid diffusion sheet (15), at the polymer non-provided region (14) to form a polymer sheet (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Satoko KONAWA
  • Publication number: 20180049929
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve the diffusibility of body fluid such that the body fluid can be quickly absorbed. The sanitary napkin 1 represented by FIG. 3 includes an absorbing body 4 with a highly water-absorbent polymer 12 interposed between an upper layer sheet 10 disposed on the skin side and a lower layer sheet 11 disposed on the non-skin side. The upper layer sheet 10 has a plurality of first protrusions 14 forming first space parts 13 that are to be filled with the highly water-absorbent polymer and that expand to the skin side, and a plurality of second protrusions 16 forming second space parts 15, each of which having a smaller volume than each of the first space part 13, that are to be filled with the highly water-absorbent polymer and that expand to the skin side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko KONAWA
  • Publication number: 20180042782
    Abstract: An absorbent article, such as a sanitary napkin, a pantiliner or an incontinence pad, which improves diffusion property of a body fluid and maintains a stable absorption amount. In FIG. 3, a sanitary napkin (1) includes an absorber (4) including an upper layer sheet (10) disposed at a skin side, a lower layer sheet (11) disposed at a non-skin side, and a highly water-absorbing polymer (12) disposed between the upper layer sheet (10) and the lower layer sheet (11). The upper layer sheet (10) is provided with a plurality of protruding portions (14) bulging out to the skin side and forming space portions (13) to be filled with the highly water-absorbing polymer (12), and a joined portion (15) in which the upper layer sheet (10) and the lower layer sheet (11) are joined to each other intermittently on the peripheral edges of the protruding portions (14) along the circumferential directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko KONAWA
  • Publication number: 20170296400
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make the deformation of the absorber at the crotch portion less prone to influence the waist side of the absorber and allow the waist side of the absorber to be easily rounded along the surface of the wearer's body. The foregoing issue is solved by a disposable diaper including an absorber in a crotch portion, a ventral-side portion, and a dorsal-side portion, wherein the absorber is divided in a front-back direction by width-direction slits continuing in the width direction provided on both front and back sides of the crotch portion, and concave portions recessed toward the waist side are formed in width-direction centers of waist-side edges of the width-direction slits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventor: Satoko KONAWA
  • Patent number: 8859844
    Abstract: To provide a body fluid absorbent article having a face sheet 1, a body fluid permeable member 20 including an assembly of fibers in tows, a body fluid retainable absorbent element AB in this order, and a face-side second sheet 10, which is interposed between the above face sheet 1 and the above body fluid permeable member 20 with such a positional relation that the above face-side second sheet 10 is at least partly superposed on the above body fluid permeable member 20; and embossing is carried out integrally on the above face sheet 1 and the above face-side second sheet 10 while embossing is not carried out on the above body fluid permeable member 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Diao Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonari Takeuchi, Satoko Konawa, Keisuke Ebitsuka, Tomotsugu Matsui
  • Patent number: 8486037
    Abstract: An absorbent article which can be fixed to an undergarment without creating wrinkles, a release paper sheet is composed of a first release paper sheet covering a main body displacement-preventing adhesive layer and wing displacement-preventing adhesive layers and a pair of second release paper sheets respectively covering seat displacement-preventing adhesive layers. When the article is applied to shorts, the first release paper sheet is removed, and the main body displacement-preventing adhesive layer and the wing displacement-preventing adhesive layers of the absorbent article are fixed to the shorts that are pulled down. Then, the shorts are pulled up and worn, and the second release paper sheets are removed to fix the seat displacement-preventing adhesive layers to the shorts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 8466334
    Abstract: [Subject] To obtain a body fluid absorbent article with the perfect protection against the body fluid leakage. [Means for Solving Problem] In the body fluid absorbent, the body fluid retainable absorbent member 53A is disposed under the face sheet 51. Then, the body fluid permeable absorbent member 52, which include the assembly of fibers in tows, is disposed between the face sheet 51 and the body fluid retainable absorbent member 53A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonari Takeuchi, Satoko Konawa, Tomotsugu Matsui
  • Patent number: 8366696
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises an absorbent interposed between a liquid-permeable surface sheet and a back sheet. The absorbent is constituted of a set of left and right absorbent elements arranged substantially along the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article. The absorbent element of one side is formed as a dogleg to the right in a top plan view whereas the absorbent element of the other side is formed as a dogleg to the left in a top plan view, so that the absorbent elements have an intersecting portion intersecting in at least the region containing the portion corresponding to the blood discharge opening of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: DAIO Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 7982091
    Abstract: An absorptive article includes a centrally high portion formed in the widthwise central portion of a napkin and made high on the side of a using face and a pair of left and right embosses formed individually on the two sides of the centrally high portion and extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of the napkin. The paired left and right embosses include a first bulging emboss having its individual emboss lines so formed of curves having centers of curvature on the center side of the napkin as to form an enlarged area of the emboss spacing width and a second bulging emboss having its individual emboss lines so formed of curves having centers of curvature on the center side of the napkin as to continue to the rear portion of the first bulging emboss through an intermediate arcuate emboss formed of curves having centers of curvature on the outer side of the napkin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Patent number: 7922706
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a standing gather structure having skin-contact planar portions formed into a planer shape, which brings the entire skin-contact planar portions into tight contact with the user's skin, and provides the cushioning properties to soften a contact to the user's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa
  • Publication number: 20100256585
    Abstract: To provide an absorbent article which, when the undergarment is being worn, can conveniently be fixed to an undergarment without creating wrinkles, a release paper sheet is composed of a first release paper sheet covering a main body displacement-preventing adhesive layer and wing displacement-preventing adhesive layers and a pair of second release paper sheets respectively covering seat displacement-preventing adhesive layers. When the absorbent article is applied to shorts, the first release paper sheet is removed, and the main body displacement-preventing adhesive layer and the wing displacement-preventing adhesive layers of the absorbent article are fixed to the shorts that are pulled down. Then, the shorts are pulled up and worn, and the second release paper sheets are removed to fix the seat displacement-preventing adhesive layers to the shorts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoko Konawa