Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Takino

Shunsuke Takino 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: 7449015
    Abstract: A pants-type disposable wearing article includes leg-circumferential first elastic members attached to crotch region's lateral margins of an outer sheet and waist-circumferential second elastic members attached to waist regions' upper margins of the outer sheet. The elastic members are joined to the sheet while the sheet and the second elastic members are stretched at given extension ratios, respectively, in a transverse direction and the first elastic members is stretched at a given extension ratio in the leg-circumferential direction so that the sheet and the first elastic members may have substantially the same leg-circumferential dimensions after these sheet and first elastic members have been relaxed and the sheet and the second elastic members may have substantially the same transverse dimensions after these sheet and second elastic members have been relaxed. In addition, the waist regions' upper margins and the crotch region's lateral margins are substantially planar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Publication number: 20080234651
    Abstract: A pants-type disposable wearing article includes leg-circumferential first elastic members attached to crotch region's lateral margins of an outer sheet and waist-circumferential second elastic members attached to waist regions' upper margins of the outer sheet. The elastic members are joined to the sheet while the sheet and the second elastic members are stretched at given extension ratios, respectively, in a transverse direction and the first elastic members is stretched at a given extension ratio in the leg-circumferential direction so that the sheet and the first elastic members may have substantially the same leg-circumferential dimensions after these sheet and first elastic members have been relaxed and the sheet and the second elastic members may have substantially the same transverse dimensions after these sheet and second elastic members have been relaxed. In addition, the waist regions' upper margins and the crotch region's lateral margins are substantially planar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi OTSUBO, Shunsuke TAKINO
  • Patent number: 7326193
    Abstract: A disposable pants-type wearing article includes a body fluid absorbent assembly. In a crotch region of the wearing article, transversely opposite side edges of the body fluid absorbent assembly are respectively formed with folded portions so that a non-folded portion extending in from of the folded portions may have a relatively small extent and a non-folded portion extending behind the folded portions may have a relatively large extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Shimada, Shunsuke Takino, Takashi Tsukayoshi
  • Publication number: 20070299414
    Abstract: A body waste handling article includes a first sheet, a second sheet and a body fluid absorbent core sandwiched between these two sheets, wherein the first sheet defines a liquid-pervious skin-contacting surface. The second sheet is rectangular and has a pair of ends and a pair of lateral edges wherein inside these ends and lateral edges, end flaps and lateral flaps are formed. The end flaps and the lateral flaps are provided with elastic members attached in a stretched state thereto so as extend along the ends and the lateral edges and to become contiguous one to another at corners of the second sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke TAKINO, Yuki Maeda, Hiroyuki Tanji
  • Patent number: 7226437
    Abstract: A body fluid absorbing component of a pull-on disposable diaper is folded inward in a crotch covering region. Outside opposite side edges of the absorbing component, there are provided a pair of barrier walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the absorbing component. The barrier wall is provided along its zone opposed to an outer surface of the absorbing component, a distal edge of the barrier wall and an intermediate zone defined between the zone and the distal edge with first, second and third elastic members, respectively, each extending in a stretched state in the longitudinal direction of the absorbing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Sasaki, Shunsuke Takino, Kyoko Ito
  • 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: 7217261
    Abstract: An article includes an auxiliary elastic member extending in a waist-circumferential direction and arranged between a waist-surrounding elastic member extending in front and rear waist regions and leg-holes of a base sheet assembly in a stretched state. The base sheet assembly includes a first sheet and a second sheet. The auxiliary elastic member includes first elastic elements and second elastic elements. In the article, the first and second elastic elements respectively have longitudinally opposite end portions, middle portions and the remaining portions. The end portions of the first and second elastic elements are secured to the first and second sheet, the middle portions of the first elastic elements are secured to the second sheet and the remaining portions of the first and second elastic elements as well as the middle portions of the second elastic elements are let free from the first and second sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Patent number: 7207978
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper has front and rear waist covering regions and a crotch covering region wherein a bodily discharge absorbing component extends over the crotch covering region into the front and rear waist covering regions. In the crotch covering region, the bodily discharge absorbing component is folded inward along first, second and third folding guides in a transverse direction of the absorbing component. A pair of flaps are formed along transversely opposite lateral side edges of the bodily discharge absorbing component. In each of the flaps, a first lateral marginal edge extending along the associated lateral edge is bonded to an outer surface of the bodily discharge absorbing component and a second lateral marginal edge lies on the side of an inner surface of the absorbing component. An elastic member is attached to the flap in a stretched state in a longitudinal direction of the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takino, Toshifumi Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20070083177
    Abstract: A disposable wearing diaper includes a front panel section and a rear panel section facing each other so as to define respective waist regions. The rear panel section overlaps the outer side of the front panel section and these front and rear panel sections are connected to each other along transversely opposite side edges of the respective panel sections. The disposable diaper has finger-grips provided at positions on an upper end of the rear panel section at which the rear panel section overlap the front panel section. The finger-grip comprises a proximal zone and a distal zone extending from the proximal zone which is contiguous to the rear panel section and the distal zone is placed aside with respect to the proximal zone toward a lower end of the rear panel section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takino, Takayuki Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 7172583
    Abstract: A disposable pull-on wearing article includes front and rear waist regions, a crotch region extending between the waist regions, a chassis and an absorbent panel. The article has first and second tuckable side zones folded along first and second imaginary tuckable guide lines and tucked the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Patent number: 7169136
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper is composed of a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending between these waist regions and a body fluid absorbing component formed on an inner side of these regions. The absorbing component is formed in the crotch region with a V-shaped first folding guide, a V-shaped second folding guide and a third folding guide extending in a transverse direction between the first and second folding guides. The absorbing component is folded along the third folding guide so that a core forming a part of the component may have its outer surface sections facing each other and along the first and second folding guides so that the core may have its inner surface sections facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Publication number: 20070016157
    Abstract: A disposable pull-on wearing article includes front and rear waist regions, a crotch region extending between the waist regions, a chassis and an absorbent panel. The article has first and second tuckable side zones folded along first and second imaginary tuckable guide lines and tucked the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Toshifumi OTSUBO, Shunsuke TAKINO
  • Patent number: 7147630
    Abstract: An article is formed with a pair of first longitudinal fold guiding lines and a pair of second longitudinal fold guiding lines. A first zone defined between the first fold guiding lines is tucked inwardly of the article along the first fold guiding lines and a second zone defined between the second fold guiding lines is tucked inwardly of the article along the second fold guiding lines. Leg-holes remain opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunsuke Takino
  • Patent number: 7112189
    Abstract: A pants-type disposable wearing article includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet, a liquid-absorbent panel interposed between these sheets and a liquid-impervious outer sheet lying on the outer side of the backsheet, and having a waist-hole and leg-holes. This article has a first folding guide formed in left half of the crotch region, a second folding guide formed in right half of the crotch region and third folding guides transversely extending between the first and second folding guides so that first and second regions of the crotch region are folded along the first and second folding guides so as to be tucked toward inner sides of the respective leg-holes and the third region of the crotch region is folded along the third folding guides so as to be tucked toward the waist-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Patent number: 7014632
    Abstract: A pants-type disposable wearing article has a holder means and an absorbent pad means. The absorbent pad means has a crotch region extending to a front and rear waist regions of the holder means and has longitudinal front and rear ends attached to the front and the rear waist regions. The absorbent pad means has a liquid absorbent core and is provided with leak-barrier flaps rising from side edges of the core and a ribbon-like suspenders attached to the top edges of the leak-barrier flaps. The extensions of the suspenders from the front and rear ends of the absorbent pad means are connecting the top edges of the leak-barrier flaps with the inner surface of the front and rear waist regions of the holder means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takino, Toshifumi Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20050288648
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper is composed of a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending between these waist regions and a body fluid absorbing component formed on an inner side of these regions. The absorbing component is formed in the crotch region with a V-shaped first folding guide, a V-shaped second folding guide and a third folding guide extending in a transverse direction between the first and second folding guides. The absorbing component is folded along the third folding guide so that a core forming a part of the component may have its outer surface sections facing to each other and along the first and second folding guides so that the core may have its inner surface sections facing to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Publication number: 20050148989
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper is composed of front and rear waist covering regions and a crotch covering region and has a body fluid absorbing component extending over the crotch covering region and further extending into the front and rear waist covering regions. In the crotch covering region, the body fluid absorbing component is folded toward a center line A-A and covered with a liquid-pervious cover sheet. The cover sheet extends in the transverse direction of the absorbing component over an inner surface of the absorbing component and further extends to the side of an outer surface of the absorbing component. On the outer surface of the absorbing component, transversely opposite lateral edges of the cover sheet are folded back outward in the transverse direction. The folded-back lateral edges are joined to the inner surface of the sheet defining the crotch covering region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Publication number: 20050131374
    Abstract: Here is disclosed an article including an auxiliary elastic member extending in a waist-circumferential direction and arranged between a waist-surrounding elastic member extending in front and rear waist regions and leg-holes of a base sheet assembly in a stretched state. The base sheet assembly comprises a first sheet and a second sheet. The auxiliary elastic member comprises first elastic elements and second elastic elements. In the article, the first and second elastic elements respectively have longitudinally opposite end portions, middle portions and the remaining portions. The end portions of the first and second elastic elements are secured to the first and second sheet, the middle portions of the first elastic elements are secured to the second sheet and the remaining portions of the first and second elastic elements as well as the middle portions of the second elastic elements are let free from the first and second sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • 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