Patents by Inventor Yuki Noda

Yuki Noda 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: 8328781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad which is attached between female labia, especially to the pad which can be used together with the sanitary napkin, which has a good sealing efficiency with the labia deepest portion when the user moves and can prevent the chance that the leak of the menstrual blood or the dropping off of the pad is occurred. Further the interlabial pad comprises the absorbing sheet portion facing to the body side upon wearing the pad and the support sheet portion backing the absorbing sheet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8304600
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising nonwoven fabric having convex and concave surfaces, and that allows liquid such as excreta and the like to permeate quickly. A sanitary napkin has a plurality of raised ridge portions and groove portions in a top sheet member. The fiber density of the side edge portions of each of the plurality of raised ridge portions in the thickness direction of the nonwoven fabric is substantially uniform, and is higher than the average fiber density in the raised ridge portions. The fiber density of the central portion between both the side edge portions of each of the plurality of raised ridge portions is substantially uniform in the thickness direction of the nonwoven fabric, and is lower than the average fiber density in the raised ridge portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda, Kumiko Nishikawa, Satoshi Mizutani, Hideyuki Ishikawa, Akihiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 8273943
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an absorbent article provided with a composite sheet which comprises a film sheet and a fiber mass and is excellent in the ability to draw in a liquid and the ability to prevent the backward flow. Namely, an absorbent article provided with a composite sheet comprising a film sheet having multiple pores formed therein and a fiber mass laminated on one side of the film sheet, wherein the fiber mass has a projected section in which a part of the fiber mass projects through the multiple pores toward the other side of the film sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8211075
    Abstract: An interlabial pad capable of reducing the likelihood of falling-off of the pad and leakage of bodily exudates is provided. Making the compression repulsive force from the portion contacting near the vestibule floor to be greater than the compression repulsive force from the portion contacting near the anterior ends of the labia minora pudenda allows a manufacturer to provide an interlabial pad capable of reducing the likelihood of falling-off of the pad and leakage of bodily exudates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Satoshi Mizutani, Wataru Yoshimasa
  • Patent number: 8201607
    Abstract: A sanitary absorptive article producing device and method, particularly suitable for producing interlabial pads, which are small-sized sanitary absorptive articles having a mini-sheet piece. The method comprises a main-section assembly step for disposing an absorptive body between a face-side sheet continuous-member and a back-side sheet continuous-member, joining the face-side sheet continuous-member to the back-side sheet continuous-member to form a main-section continuous-body having a portion continuous therewith which becomes the main section of the sanitary absorptive article, and a mini-sheet assembly step for joining the mini-sheet piece to the back-side sheet continuous-member of the main-section continuous-body to form a sanitary absorptive continuous-body. The sanitary absorptive article continuous-bodies have their unnecessary potions removed by a round-cutting step to become individual sanitary absorptive articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Masashi Hosokawa, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8192416
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interlabial pad that is worn by female wearers, placed in intimate contact and supported between the labia, which provides an interlabial pad that causes no discomfort to the female wearer in the body motions of the wearer. The interlabial pad of the present invention is characterized by having bending elements which allows the interlabial pad to follow the changes in form flexibly even when a force is exerted on the interlabial pad by the wearer's body motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Koichi Yamaki, Yuki Noda, Megumi Tokumoto, Akane Sakai
  • Patent number: 8183431
    Abstract: The present invention provides an absorbent body containing absorbent fibers in which fiber orientation is mainly adjusted, and fiber basis weight and shape are additionally adjusted. The absorbent body 110 of the present invention is an absorbent body containing absorbent fibers, a plurality of low fiber basis weight regions formed continuously in the first direction with a fiber basis weight that is less than an average fiber basis weight of the absorbent body 110, and a plurality of high fiber basis weight regions, formed along and on both sides of the low fiber basis weight regions in relation to the second direction perpendicular to the first direction, with a fiber basis weight that is greater than the average fiber basis weight of the absorbent body 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Hideyuki Ishikawa, Satoshi Mizutani, Koichiro Tani, Akihiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120116344
    Abstract: A leakage-preventing unit 50 of an absorbent article 1 is formed by elastic members 51 and sheets 52. The leakage-preventing unit 50 includes a central region C and a pair of end unit regions S positioned outside a longitudinal direction L from the central region C. The elastic members 51 includes a fixed unit 51A fixed to the sheet 52 in a state when the elastic members 51 extend in the longitudinal direction L and a free end 51B positioned outside the longitudinal direction L from the fixed unit 51A, which is not fixed to the sheet 52. The end unit regions S includes a joint processing unit 53A in which a joint process for joining the portions where the sheets 52 face each other is performed and a non-joint processing unit 53B in which the joint process is not performed. The free end 51B is arranged in the non-joint processing unit 53B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Nakajima, Yuichi Suzuki, Yuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8173858
    Abstract: An absorptive article in which an absorptive body is deformed into a stable recessed shape to prevent leakage of a large amount of discharged bodily wastes including bodily fluid. The absorptive article has a front side sheet at least a portion of which is liquid permeable and that is placed on the skin contact surface side, a liquid non-permeable back side sheet placed on the clothing contact surface side, and a liquid retainable absorptive body placed between the front side sheet and the back side sheet. The absorptive body has a compression section formed, when compressed from the clothing contact surface side to the skin contact surface side, into a projected shape projected on the clothing contact surface side, toward the skin contact surface side, and the absorptive body also has a space section formed, when compressed from the skin contact surface side to the clothing contact surface side, into a recessed shape recessed on the skin contact surface side, toward the clothing contact surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kuroda, Yuki Noda
  • Publication number: 20120109088
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a topsheet having a contact surface that comes into contact with a skin of a wearer; a liquid-impermeable backsheet which does not permeate a liquid; and an absorber that is arranged between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein a material including a refresher agent is provided between the topsheet and the backsheet, and the material including the refresher agent is arranged at each side in a widthwise direction of the absorber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinpei Komatsu, Yuki Noda
  • Publication number: 20120095424
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes cooling material including refreshing agent, provided between a topsheet and a backsheet. An amount of the cooling material disposed per unit area is larger in a contact portion where the excretion area of a wearer comes into contact than in a portion outside the contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinpei Komatsu, Yuki Noda
  • Publication number: 20120089106
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a topsheet having a contact surface in contact with the skin of a wearer; a liquid-impermeable backsheet through which a liquid does not pass; and an absorber provided between the topsheet and the backsheet, a cooling sensation material including a refresher agent in the topsheet or between the topsheet and the backsheet. On the outside of the planar direction of the topsheet from the contact region in which an excretion unit of the wearer is in contact in the topsheet, there is a region having a greater amount of the cooling sensation material per unit area than the amount of the cooling sensation material per unit area in the contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinpei Komatsu, Yuki Noda, Toshiyuki Tanio
  • Patent number: 8143177
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a nonwoven fabric prepared so as to be able to rapidly transfer a predefined liquid. The nonwoven fabric is formed by jetting a fluid, which consists mainly of gaseous matter, to a fiber web 100 supported from beneath by a predefined breathable support member, from an upper surface side in order to move fibers in the fiber web 100. A number of groove portions 1 and a number of convex portions 2 are formed on a jetted area of the nonwoven fabric in the direction in which the area is extended, and the fiber density of the groove portions 1 is less than the fiber density of the convex portions 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Hideyuki Ishikawa, Satoshi Mizutani, Akihiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120029453
    Abstract: In an absorbent article 1, an absorber 30 is arranged between a liquid-permeable topsheet 10 and a liquid-impermeable backsheet 20, and the absorber 30 includes electrolyte particles as a hygroscopic material 70. This enables exhibition of a sufficient hygroscopicity during wearing and more surely suppress a discomfort of a wearer due to sweatiness or tackiness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Mitsuhiro Wada, Tsukasa Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20110288514
    Abstract: Described is an absorbent article that includes at least a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, and an absorption body sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet. A pair of right and left compressed grooves are formed along the longitudinal direction. Each compressed groove is separated into a right or left compressed groove located in the longitudinal side edge part at least in the center region of the absorption body, a front-side compressed groove located in the longitudinal front part of the side edge part, and a rear-side compressed groove located in the longitudinal rear part of the side edge part and out of these compressed grooves. The compressed groove located on the widthwise innermost side is formed to allow its end part in the separation portion to run in parallel with the longitudinal centerline or face outwardly in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kuroda, Yuki Noda, Shinpei Komatsu, Osamu Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20110251575
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes at least a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, and an absorption body sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet. The absorbent article has a pair of compressed grooves for integrating from the liquid-permeable sheet to the absorption body formed along the longitudinal direction. The compressed groove has a high-compressed part and a low-compressed part. The high-compressed part is composed of nearly transverse high-compressed parts formed to almost fully traverse the compressed groove in the widthwise direction and disposed at intervals in the longitudinal direction of the compressed groove and non-transverse high-compressed parts formed not to traverse the compressed groove and disposed at intervals in the region between nearly transverse high-compressed parts, and by the arrangement of the non-transverse high-compressed parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kuroda, Yuki Noda
  • Publication number: 20110178487
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable front sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. The absorbent article also comprises a front region, a central region, and a rear region which are continuously arranged in the longitudinal direction of the absorber. An endothermic material is mounted inside the absorber, in a mounting region at least including the central region of the absorbent article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Mitsuhiro Wada, Shinpei Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20110144604
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. A coating region to which an adhesive is applied is formed in a flat surface direction, on a surface of the back sheet which faces clothing. An endothermic material is provided inside the absorber. A region which, with respect to the thickness direction of the absorbent article, does not face an arrangement region in which the heat endothermic material is provided is formed in at least a part of the coating region to which the adhesive is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda, Shinpei Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20110144605
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber mounted between the top sheet and the back sheet. A heat absorbing material is provided inside the absorber, and depressions and projections are formed on that front side of the top sheet which faces the human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Kenichiro Kuroda, Shinpei Komatsu
  • Patent number: 7955549
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multilayer nonwoven fabric includes a supporting step of arranging on a predetermined surface of a permeable supporting member a multilayer fiber aggregate, a moving step of moving the multilayer fiber aggregate supported on the permeable supporting member in a prescribed direction by a predetermined moving device, and a spraying step of spraying a fluid onto the multilayer fiber aggregate moved in the prescribed direction in the moving step from the second surface by a predetermined spraying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Noda, Hideyuki Ishikawa, Satoshi Mizutani, Akihiro Kimura