Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Takigawa

Yoshikazu Takigawa 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: 6547774
    Abstract: An absorbent disposable undergarment includes an outer garment, such as pants, in combination with a detachable absorbent pad attached inside thereof. First suspending flaps hang down from an inner side of a stretchable waist-opening peripheral edge of the pants toward a crotch section of the pants. The first suspending flaps are provided with first fastener elements that are disposed remote from the waist opening of the pants. Second suspending flaps extend upwardly from longitudinally opposite ends of the absorbent pad. The second suspending flaps are provided with second fastener elements, that are adapted to mate with the first fastener elements, and are disposed remote from the core of the pad. These second fasteners are releasably engaged with the first fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Ono, Yoshihisa Fujioka, Yoshikazu Takigawa
  • Publication number: 20030045855
    Abstract: An absorbent disposable undergarment comprises pants and an absorbent pad detachably attached to the pants. First suspending flaps hang down from an inner side of a stretchable waist-opening peripheral edge toward a crotch section of the pants. The first suspending flaps are provided with first fastening means. Second suspending flaps extend from longitudinally opposite end of an absorbent core of the pad. The second suspending flaps are provided with second fastening means which are releasably engaged with the first fastening means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: YOSHIO ONO, YOSHIHISA FUJIOKA, YOSHIKAZU TAKIGAWA
  • Patent number: 6371949
    Abstract: Disposal securing arrangements provided on a backsheet of body fluids absorbent garment for disposal thereof has a first strip section bonded to the backsheet, a second strip section bonded to the backsheet, a third strip section having a proximal end portion connected to at least one of the first and second strip sections, and a free end portion. The third strip section includes a stretchable extent defined between these opposite end portions. The third strip section is separably held against the first strip section by a securing region provided thereon. The first and second section strip sections respectively have holding forces sufficient to remain held against the backsheet as the third strip section is peeled off from the first strip section and stretched. The holding force generated in the first strip section is equal to or higher than the holding force generated in the second strip section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Soga, Toshio Inoue, Hirotomo Mukai, Yoshikazu Takigawa