Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Okubo

Tetsuo Okubo 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: 10675193
    Abstract: The wearing article has front and rear waist regions and a crotch region wherein a first waist region as one of the front and rear waist regions includes an outer layer sheet located on non-skin-facing surface, an inner layer sheet located on the inner side compared to the outer layer sheet and an interlayer sheet interlaid between the inner and outer layer sheets and having a decorative element being visually recognizable from the non-skin-facing surface side of the outer layer sheet and the outer layer sheet is nonwoven fabrics formed from crimped conjugated fibers and a brightness value of the inner layer sheet is higher than a brightness value of the outer layer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo, Huanhuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10265222
    Abstract: A wearing article includes a front waist panel, a rear waist panel and a crotch panel having an absorbent structure wherein respective inner end edges of the front and rear waist panels cooperate with both side edges of the crotch panel extending in a longitudinal direction to define peripheries of a pair of leg-openings. The crotch panel is provided with a pair of elasticized leg sheets joined to both side edges of the absorbent structure and extending in a longitudinal direction. Each of the elasticized leg sheets having a non-elasticized region adjacent to the absorbent structure and an elasticized region adjacent to the non-elasticized region so that the non-elasticized region rises along the associated side edge of the absorbent structure to the associated leg-opening and the elasticized region extends outward in a transverse direction of the wearing article so as to form the associated leg-opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Okubo, Tatsuya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10166154
    Abstract: A shaped non-woven fabric for an absorbent has a first surface and a second surface and is usable with the second surface facing a constituent member of an absorbent article. The shaped non-woven fabric is includes a thermoplastic resin fiber. The non-woven fabric includes a plurality of first recesses which have openings in the first surface and are recessed toward the second surface, and a plurality of through-holes which penetrate from the first surface to the second surface. Each of the plurality of first recesses has a peripheral wall section which extends in the thickness direction from the end edges of the openings toward the second surface, and a bottom section connected to the end edge of the peripheral wall section. At least a portion of the plurality of first recesses includes a hole section which penetrates from the first surface to the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo, Huanhuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10123915
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a disposable pull-on diaper improved so that the diaper may be conveniently put on the wearer's body. Each of leg side flaps of a crotch panel has an outer side region and an inner side region. In the lowest region of the crotch region, the outer side region and the inner side region respectively have a dimension of at least 10 mm in a transverse direction wherein the inner side region extends in a longitudinal direction and the outer side region extends in the transverse direction from the inner side region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Jun Fukasawa, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20180193208
    Abstract: A shaped non-woven fabric for an absorbent has a first surface and a second surface and is usable with the second surface facing a constituent member of an absorbent article. The shaped non-woven fabric is includes a thermoplastic resin fiber. The non-woven fabric includes a plurality of first recesses which have openings in the first surface and are recessed toward the second surface, and a plurality of through-holes which penetrate from the first surface to the second surface. Each of the plurality of first recesses has a peripheral wall section which extends in the thickness direction from the end edges of the openings toward the second surface, and a bottom section connected to the end edge of the peripheral wall section. At least a portion of the plurality of first recesses includes a hole section which penetrates from the first surface to the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsuya HASHIMOTO, Tetsuo OKUBO, Huanhuan CHEN
  • Patent number: 10016317
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable wearing article having leg-openings of sufficient size to assure that respective peripheries of the leg-openings to reliably cover the wearer's buttocks without apprehension that the peripheries of the leg-openings might collapse inward. A crotch panel at least includes an absorbent structure located on a skin-facing surface of a crotch region and a pair of elastic side flaps extending outward in a transverse direction from both side edges of the absorbent structure. The elastic side flaps have inelastic regions defined on the outer sides in the transverse direction of both side edges of the absorbent structure and elastic regions defined on the outer sides in the transverse direction of the respective inelastic regions. The crotch panel has a dimension in the transverse direction corresponding to about 55 to about 70% of a dimension in the transverse direction of the front and rear waist regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20170156945
    Abstract: The wearing article has front and rear waist regions and a crotch region wherein a first waist region as one of the front and rear waist regions includes an outer layer sheet located on non-skin-facing surface, an inner layer sheet located on the inner side compared to the outer layer sheet and an interlayer sheet interlaid between the inner and outer layer sheets and having a decorative element being visually recognizable from the non-skin-facing surface side of the outer layer sheet and the outer layer sheet is nonwoven fabrics formed from crimped conjugated fibers and a brightness value of the inner layer sheet is higher than a brightness value of the outer layer sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya HASHIMOTO, Tetsuo OKUBO, Huanhuan CHEN
  • Patent number: 9381121
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article includes, in an inner end portion of a front waist region, a pair of first side elastic zones spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction and a first middle inelastic zone lying between the first side elastic zones. The article further includes, in an inner end portion of a rear waist region, a pair of second side elastic zones spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction and a second middle inelastic zone lying between the second side elastic zones. A crotch panel includes a pair of leg elastics intersecting with the first and second side elastic zones. A dimension in the transverse direction of the second middle inelastic zone is larger than that of the first middle inelastic zone. A dimension in the transverse direction of the respective first intersection zones is larger than that of the respective second intersection zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo, Toshifumi Otsubo, Hiroyuki Tanji
  • Patent number: 9375363
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article includes an annular elastic waist panel having a front waist panel and a rear waist panel joined to each other and a crotch panel provided with an absorbent structure and connected to the elastic waist panels. Respective inner end edges of the front and rear waist panels cooperate with lateral edges of the crotch panel extending in a longitudinal direction to form a pair of leg-openings' peripheries. The crotch panel includes a pair of leg sheets connected to both lateral edges of the absorbent structure. The respective leg sheets include inner regions adjoining to the absorbent structure and outer regions adjoining the inner regions so that the inner regions rise above the absorbent structure along both lateral edges of the absorbent structure to define the leg-openings' peripheries and the outer regions are bent outwardly in the transverse direction so as to define the leg-openings' peripheries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Toshifumi Otsubo, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Patent number: 9333121
    Abstract: In a disposable diaper, ends at a front waistline region side of the disposable diaper within a stretchable range in leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the front waistline region side as compared to an end at the front waistline region side within a stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. Ends at a rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the rear waistline region side as compared to an end at the rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. A tensile modulus of the crotch stretch unit is configured so as to be greater than a tensile modulus of the leg stretch units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Patent number: 9283124
    Abstract: In a wearing article including front and rear waist panels and a crotch panel, a pair of leg sheets including backing sheets and leg elastics attached under tension between two layers of the respectively doubled up backing sheets extends along lateral edge portions of the crotch panel, and distal end portions of the leg sheets are attached to respective skin-facing surfaces of the front and rear waist panels through first and second joint regions. In this way, the pair of leg sheets has an elastically contractible region between the first and second joint regions and elastically relaxed regions in end portions located outboard of the first and second joint regions in a longitudinal direction, and the elastically relaxed regions are formed on surfaces thereof with gathers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20160022510
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a pull-on disposable wearing article having leg-openings of sufficient size and assuring that respective peripheries of the leg-openings reliably cover the wearer's buttocks without apprehension that the peripheries of the leg-openings might collapse inward. A crotch panel at least includes an absorbent structure located on a skin-facing surface of a crotch region and a pair of elastic side flaps extending outward in a transverse direction from both side edges of the absorbent structure. The elastic side flaps have inelastic regions defined on the outer sides in the transverse direction of both side edges of the absorbent structure and elastic regions defined on the outer sides in the transverse direction of the respective inelastic regions. The crotch panel has a dimension in the transverse direction corresponding to about 55 to about 70% of a dimension in the transverse direction of the front and rear waist regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Tatsuya HASHIMOTO, Tetsuo OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20160015575
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a disposable pull-on diaper improved so that the diaper may be conveniently put on the wearer's body. Each of leg side flaps of a crotch panel has an outer side region and an inner side region. In the lowest region of the crotch region, the outer side region and the inner side region respectively have a dimension of at least 10 mm in a transverse direction wherein the inner side region extends in a longitudinal direction and the outer side region extends in the transverse direction from the inner side region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Tatsuya HASHIMOTO, Jun FUKASAWA, Tetsuo OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20160015574
    Abstract: A wearing article includes a front waist panel, a rear waist panel and a crotch panel having an absorbent structure wherein respective inner end edges of the front and rear waist panels cooperate with both side edges of the crotch panel extending in a longitudinal direction to define peripheries of a pair of leg-openings. The crotch panel is provided with a pair of elasticized leg sheets joined to both side edges of the absorbent structure and extending in a longitudinal direction. Each of the elasticized leg sheets having a non-elasticized region adjacent to the absorbent structure and an elasticized region adjacent to the non-elasticized region so that the non-elasticized region rises along the associated side edge of the absorbent structure to the associated leg-opening and the elasticized region extends outward in a transverse direction of the wearing article so as to form the associated leg-opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Tetsuo OKUBO, Tatsuya HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150164708
    Abstract: In a wearing article including front and rear waist panels and a crotch panel, a pair of leg sheets including backing sheets and leg elastics attached under tension between two layers of the respectively doubled up backing sheets extends along lateral edge portions of the crotch panel, and distal end portions of the leg sheets are attached to respective skin-facing surfaces of the front and rear waist panels through first and second joint regions. In this way, the pair of leg sheets has an elastically contractible region between the first and second joint regions and elastically relaxed regions in end portions located outboard of the first and second joint regions in a longitudinal direction, and the elastically relaxed regions are formed on surfaces thereof with gathers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20150073374
    Abstract: In a disposable diaper, ends at a front waistline region side of the disposable diaper within a stretchable range in leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the front waistline region side as compared to an end at the front waistline region side within a stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. Ends at a rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the rear waistline region side as compared to an end at the rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. A tensile modulus of the crotch stretch unit is configured so as to be greater than a tensile modulus of the leg stretch units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Tetsuo Okubo
  • Publication number: 20150051569
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article includes, in an inner end portion of a front waist region, a pair of first side elastic zones spaced apart from each other in a transverse direction and a first middle inelastic zone lying between the first side elastic zones. The article further includes, in an inner end portion of a rear waist region, a pair of second side elastic zones spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction and a second middle inelastic zone lying between the second side elastic zones. A crotch panel includes a pair of leg elastics intersecting with the first and second side elastic zones. A dimension in the transverse direction of the second middle inelastic zone is larger than that of the first middle inelastic zone. A dimension in the transverse direction of the respective first intersection zones is larger than that of the respective second intersection zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo, Toshifumi Otsubo, Hiroyuki Tanji
  • Publication number: 20150032072
    Abstract: A disposable wearing article includes an annular elastic waist panel having a front waist panel and a rear waist panel joined to each other and a crotch panel provided with an absorbent structure and connected to the elastic waist panels. Respective inner end edges of the front and rear waist panels cooperate with lateral edges of the crotch panel extending in a longitudinal direction to form a pair of leg-openings' peripheries. The crotch panel includes a pair of leg sheets connected to both lateral edges of the absorbent structure. The respective leg sheets include inner regions adjoining to the absorbent structure and outer regions adjoining the inner regions so that the inner regions rise above the absorbent structure along both lateral edges of the absorbent structure to define the leg-openings' peripheries and the outer regions are bent outwardly in the transverse direction so as to define the leg-openings' peripheries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Toshifumi Otsubo, Tetsuo Okubo