Abstract: Here is disclosed a disposable pull-on wearing article improved so that a body fluid absorbent core may be curved about a crotch region toward front and rear waist regions without forming thick creases creating a feeling of discomfort against a wearer, and wherein a concavity bulging downward may be quickly formed in the crotch region as the core is curved. The article includes a body fluid absorbent core which includes a first core lying on a transverse middle of a crotch region and a pair of second cores lying on both sides of the first core. Front and rear end portions of the respective second cores are spaced apart from the first core by slit-like gaps and intermediate portions extending between the front and rear end portions are contiguous to the first core. Outer side edges of the respective second cores are formed with laid down V-shape cutouts.

Abstract: A pull-on disposable wearing article is provided with a chassis and an absorbent batt structure extending on the inner surface of the chassis. The chassis has a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region and is composed of a base sheet which is substantially not elastically extensible/contractible, and first and second outer sheets stretched in a transverse direction and bonded in such a stretched state to outer surfaces of the base sheet in the front and rear waist regions, respectively, and being elastically extendible/contractible in the transverse direction. An absorbent batt structure is laid inside the chassis. The base sheet defining an inner surface of the chassis is formed with gathers as the first and second outer sheets contract.

Abstract: Here is disclosed a disposable pull-on wearing article improved so that a body fluid absorbent core may be curved about a crotch region toward front and rear waist regions without forming thick creases creating a feeling of discomfort against a wearer, and wherein a concavity bulging downward may be quickly formed in the crotch region as the core is curved. The article includes a body fluid absorbent core which includes a first core lying on a transverse middle of a crotch region and a pair of second cores lying on both sides of the first core. Front and rear end portions of the respective second cores are spaced apart from the first core by slit-like gaps and intermediate portions extending between the front and rear end portions are contiguous to the first core. Outer side edges of the respective second cores are formed with laid down V-shape cutouts.

Abstract: A disposable liquid-absorbent pad includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet and a liquid-absorbent core interposed between these two sheets. The pad is folded inwardly in the vicinity of transversely opposite side edges with the topsheet inside in a rear region, and folded outwardly in a transverse direction along folding lines extending in a longitudinal direction and joined together along the folding lines so that in the rear region of the pad defines an excretion receiving space extending up- and rearward to a rear end defining an apex and a pair of flanges extending outwardly from the respective folding lines to the side edges.

Abstract: A disposable wearing article has a pad member provided a pair of elastic thigh-tightening bands lying on transversely opposite side edges thereof. Front ends of first free zones and rear ends of second free zones of the respective elastic thigh-tightening bands are connected to the transversely opposite side edges in the vicinity of a waist-hole of pant member so that middle zones and first and second free zones of these thigh-tightening bands extend generally parallel to the respective leg-holes so as to substantially form loops.

Abstract: A disposable pull-on diaper has a disposal securing means. This means includes perforated lines which are formed between transversely opposite side edges of front and rear waist regions and respective first joining zones, along which top- and backsheets are torn together to define slits. The perforated lines extend in a longitudinal direction between the vicinity of a peripheral edge portion of a waist-opening and the vicinity of peripheral edge portions of respective leg-openings.

Abstract: A disposable diaper includes a pair of barrier flaps formed on an inner side of a disposable diaper. The barrier flaps are made of a spun bond nonwoven fabric of wick/sleeve type conjugated fibers having a polyethylen sleeve component. The spun bond nonwoven fabric has a relative hardness of 40˜50 mm in an MD-direction, 20˜37 mm in a CD-direction as measured by the cantilever method and a basis weight of 15˜30 g/m2. The respective barrier flaps are provided in their sealing surface zones with elastic members secured under tension thereto.

Abstract: A composite sheet includes a nonwoven fabric and a plurality of fine, flexible and continuous filaments extending parallel one to another in a first direction and spaced apart one from another in second direction orthogonal to the first direction and bonded to the nonwoven fabric, wherein the nonwoven fabric and the continuous filaments are formed with a plurality of recoverable crepes extending in the second direction and continuously arranged in the first direction.

Abstract: A disposable liquid-absorbent pad includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet and a liquid-absorbent core interposed between these two sheets. The pad is folded inwardly in the vicinity of transversely opposite side edges with the topsheet inside in a rear region, and folded outwardly in a transverse direction along folding lines extending in a longitudinal direction and joined together along the folding lines so that in the rear region of the pad defines an excretion receiving space extending up- and rearward to a rear end defining an apex and a pair of flanges extending outwardly from the respective folding lines to the side edges.

Abstract: A disposable wearing article has a pad member provided a pair of elastic thigh-tightening bands lying on transversely opposite side edges thereof. Front ends of first free zones and rear ends of second free zones of the respective elastic thigh-tightening bands are connected to the transversely opposite side edges in the vicinity of a waist-hole of pant member so that middle zones and first and second free zones of these thigh-tightening bands extend generally parallel to the respective leg-holes so as to substantially form loops.

Abstract: A disposable diaper includes a pair of barrier flaps formed on an inner side of a disposable diaper. The barrier flaps are made of a spun bond nonwoven fabric of wick/sleeve type conjugated fibers having a polyethylen sleeve component. The spun bond nonwoven fabric has a relative hardness of 40˜50 mm in an MD-direction, 20˜37 mm in a CD-direction as measured by the cantilever method and a basis weight of 15˜30 g/m2. The respective barrier flaps are provided in their sealing surface zones with elastic members secured under tension thereto.

Abstract: A topsheet for body fluids absorbent article is made of thermoplastic synthetic fibers mechanically entangled so as to extend substantially in a desired one direction and formed with liquid-permeable openings. The openings comprise a first group of openings each having a substantially oval shape defined by its major axis extending substantially in parallel to the direction in which the fibers extend and its minor axis extending orthogonally to the major axis and a second group of openings each having a substantially oval shape defined by its minor axis extending substantially in parallel to the direction in which the fibers 11 extend and its major axis extending orthogonally to the minor axis.

Abstract: A disposable pull-on diaper has a disposal securing means. This means includes perforated lines which are formed between transversely opposite side edges of front and rear waist regions and respective first joining zones, along which top- and backsheets are torn together to define slits. The perforated lines extend in a longitudinal direction between the vicinity of a peripheral edge portion of a waist-opening and the vicinity of peripheral edge portions of respective leg-openings.

Abstract: A composite sheet includes a nonwoven fabric and a plurality of fine, flexible and continuous filaments extending parallel one to another in a first direction and spaced apart one from another in second direction orthogonal to the first direction and bonded to the nonwoven fabric, wherein the nonwoven fabric and the continuous filaments are formed with a plurality of recoverable crepes extending in the second direction and continuously arranged in the first direction.

Abstract: The inventions concern a finger toothbrush including a finger sack portion having a friction surface at least on one outer side thereof, an extension connected to an opening of the finger sack portion, and a slit/slits or a hole/holes provided in a substantially intermediate region of the extension, and a finger toothbrush package unit, wherein a plurality of finger toothbrushes, the friction surfaces of which are hermetically sealed, are connected together. The finger toothbrush is advantageously easy to attach and detach, hygienic, and free from the danger of being inadvertently swallowed.

Abstract: A method for making an apertured nonwoven fabric includes the steps of: obtaining wet sheet from slurry containing 0.5˜20% by weight of fibrous component in water, which comprises, in turn, thermoplastic synthetic fibers having a length of 7˜30 mm and a fineness of 0.1˜0.8 d, and subjecting the wet sheet to a processing for fiber entangling by high velocity water jet streams and to a processing for aperture forming by aperture forming elements having predetermined configurations adapted to be followed by individual fibers.

Abstract: Isolated cDNAs derived from mRNAs expressed in human cells are provided, as are DNAs and RNAs comprising their nucleotide sequences, and vectors for expressing the cDNAs. The cDNAs encode proteins which have functions similar to known proteins.

Abstract: A topsheet for body exudates absorbent article includes a hydrophilic nonwoven fibrous sheet and a plurality of thermoplastic synthetic resin filaments extending in one direction parallel to one another and continuously bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fibrous sheet so that a composite sheet of these sheet and filaments have crests and troughs alternately repeating longitudinally of the filaments and respectively extend transversely of the filaments. An apparatus and a method for manufcturing the topsheet are also disclosed, wherein a pair of mutually engageable embossing rolls are used for forming the crests and the troughs onto the coposite sheet.

Abstract: A female member of a mechanical fastener includes a fibrous layer and a plurality of strips. A plurality of ridges are intermittently shaped from a bottom side toward a top side of the fibrous layer. A plurality of strips are bonded to the bottom side of the fibrous layer so as to be spaced one from another and extend in parallel one to another in one direction so that the bottom side of the fibrous layer is spaced toward the top side of the fibrous layer from the respective strips along the respective ridges.

Abstract: A topsheet for body exudates absorbent article includes a hydrophilic nonwoven fibrous sheet and a plurality of thermoplastic synthetic resin filaments extending in one direction parallel to one another and continuously bonded to an upper surface of the nonwoven fibrous sheet so that a composite sheet of these sheet and filaments have crests and troughs alternately repeating longitudinally of the filaments and respectively extend transversely of the filaments. An apparatus and a method for manufcturing the topsheet are also disclosed, wherein a pair of mutually engageable embossing rolls are used for forming the crests and the troughs onto the coposite sheet.