Waist Opening Patents (Class 604/385.3)
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Patent number: 12127606Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising front and back elastic belt regions and a crotch region between the front and back elastic belt regions; the front and back elastic belt regions each comprising a laminate, an elastic bonding continuously bonding an elastic member in the direction of stretch, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the elastic member to at least one of the inner and outer sheets, the vertical bonding having a transverse dimension VG2 and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG1, wherein the outer sheet comprises a repeating pattern of apertures, the repeating pattern of apertures spaced apart from each other with a longitudinal pitch DF2, and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch DF1, wherein VG1 is greater than DF1, and wherein the repeating pattern of apertures have a Longitudinal Orientation.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kaoru Ishihara, Shiqiao Li, Xuechun Wang, Koichi Morimoto, John Andrew Strasemeier, Vanessa Marie Melendez, Monica Renee Tournoux
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Patent number: 12016753Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent article's chassis that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics. The elastics in the chassis may be oriented parallel or transverse to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Uwe Schneider, Bret Darren Seitz, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
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Patent number: 12016758Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article comprising a core chassis and a leg gasketing system comprising a pair of wearer facing cuff regions comprising an inner cuff sealing and inner cuff free edge positioned inward from the inner cuff sealing, wherein the inner cuff sealing bonds the cuff material and a topsheet, and an inner cuff elastic element is disposed adjacent the inner cuff free edge; a pair of garment facing cuff regions formed by inwardly extending the cuff material over a garment facing side of the core chassis, and a pair of outer cuff elastic elements disposed on wearer facing cuff regions or garment facing cuff regions; and wherein the absorbent article has a Worn Leg Opening (WLO) of from about 300 mm to about 450 mm, a Minimum Leg Opening (MLO) of from about 225 mm to about 300 mm, and a ratio of WLO/MLO of from about 1.5 to about 1.7.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Mengmeng Zhang, Natalia Nikolaewna Gaiko, Christine Elisabeth Schober, Sarah Zitzer, Petra Ballenberger
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Patent number: 12004931Abstract: A disposable absorbent pant having a front belt portion and a rear belt portion is disclosed. The front and rear belt portions are joined at side seams and the rear belt portion has a greater length than the front belt portion. A lower edge of the rear belt portion forms at least in part edges of left and right leg openings to the rear of the side seams. The rear belt portion includes first and second layers of nonwoven web material sandwiching a plurality of laterally extending and laterally pre-strained elastic strands, disposed below the side seams. A first of the plurality of elastic strands differs from a second of the plurality of elastic strands by one or more of amount of pre-strain, tensile modulus, decitex, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jillian Marie Barnes, Ronald Joseph Zink
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Patent number: 11833012Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system and at least one waist gasketing element. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Zachary Aaron Freije, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Donald Carroll Roe, Andrew James Sauer, Christopher Erin Kiger, Aaron Duane Seitz
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Patent number: 11660237Abstract: An absorbent article includes: an absorbent main, an abdominal-side band member having a central portion fixed to one end part in a vertical direction of the absorbent main body while covering the one end part from a non-skin side of the absorbent main body, and a back-side band member different from the abdominal-side band member. The back-side band member has a central portion fixed to an other end part in the vertical direction of the absorbent main body, while covering the other end part from the non-skin side of the absorbent main body. The back-side band member has a length in the vertical direction longer than the abdominal-side band member. Each of the abdominal-side and back-side band members has an elastic member. The abdominal-side band member and the absorbent main body overlap at an overlap portion, the overlap portion including at least a part where the elastic member is disconnected.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Fukasawa
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Patent number: 11642252Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a main body and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt. At least some of the elastic bodies may be arranged in an array, the array defined as meeting: a) one array is formed by 2-10 elastic bodies; b) each elastic body within one array is disposed in an inner-interval between each elastic body of 2-4 mm; and c) one specific array disposed in an extra-interval between at least one neighboring elastic bodies outside the specific array of greater than the inner-interval. Further, the front belt may comprise at least 5 arrays.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng
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Patent number: 11622894Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction comprising an elastic belt region, a crotch region, a waist opening and two leg openings; wherein the elastic belt region is a laminate comprising an inner sheet made of nonwoven fiber, and an outer sheet made of nonwoven fiber, and a plurality of elastic bodies configured to stretch the elastic belt region in the transverse direction, wherein the article has a Compression Work index of at least about 70 gfcm and a Stretch Circumference Force of less than about 6.5N according to the measurements herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Hui Liu
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Patent number: 11413196Abstract: A disposable article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; and an elasticized waist gasketing element. The elasticized waist gasketing element has a lateral outboard edge and a longitudinal array of elastic members. The longitudinal array includes a primary waist elastic member disposed inboard of the waist edge by a minimum longitudinal distance A, a secondary waist elastic member disposed inboard of the primary waist elastic member by a minimum longitudinal distance B. The waist gasketing element comprises a Force Ratio of at least about 1.1.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kumardipti Chatterjee, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck
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Patent number: 11314274Abstract: An operation lever for a working vehicle, the operation lever being arranged to one side of an operator seat of the working vehicle, includes: a swing body configured to be swingable; and a grip arranged on an upper portion of the swing body. The grip includes: a gripping arranged to the one side; an operating portion arranged to another side opposed to the one side and provided with an operation switch; an extending portion extending backward from a lower portion of the gripping portion; and an anti-slip portion arranged between a surface of the gripping portion and a surface of the extending portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Takashi Kosaki, Wataru Sasaki
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Patent number: 11298272Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction comprising a center chassis and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt; the front and back belt each formed by a laminate comprising a plurality of elastic bodies running in the transverse direction, an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an outer sheet fold over; wherein at least one of the front belt and the back belt has: a) the longitudinal edge of the center chassis being distal than, preferably at least about 10 mm distal than, the outer sheet fold over proximal edge; b) in the left and right side panels: b-1) at least one elastic body, preferably at least two elastic bodies, disposed between the outer sheet and the outer sheet fold over in regions where the inner sheet does not overlap; b-2) one to no more than about 8 elastic bodies disposed between the outer sheet and inner sheet in regions where the outer sheet fold over overlaps in the thickness direction, and b-3) the remainingType: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Kazuaki Tameishi, DonSub Lee, Fumitake Yamashita, Ying Jia, Shiqiao Li
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Patent number: 11266547Abstract: A liquid permeable surface sheet (3) includes an upper layer non-woven fabric (20) which is provided at the skin side, and which is hydrophilic, and a lower layer non-woven fabric (21) which is provided at the non-skin side, and which is water repellent. Multiple apertures (22) are formed which penetrate the upper layer non-woven fabric and the lower layer non-woven fabric. Accordingly, body fluid transfers smoothly through the apertures to an absorbent body. The upper layer non-woven fabric at the skin side is made to be hydrophilic such that body fluid readily permeates therethrough. The lower layer non-woven fabric at the non-skin side is made to be water repellent such that the body fluid which has passed through is not readily absorbed again. Accordingly, the backflow amount of body fluid can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATIONInventor: Yoko Suzuki
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Patent number: 11007089Abstract: An absorbent article includes an absorbent element obtained by wrapping an absorbent body in a wrapping sheet, wherein the absorbent body is obtained by mixing and accumulating fibers and high absorbent polymer particles and includes an impregnation layer impregnated with a hot melt adhesive having melt viscosity of 1,000 to 6,000 mPa·s on at least one side of a front face side and a back face side thereof. A part of an internal surface of the wrapping sheet facing the impregnation layer is bonded to an external surface of the impregnation layer through an adhesive layer made of a hot melt adhesive having melt viscosity within a range of 4,000 to 9,000 mPa·s and having higher melt viscosity than melt viscosity of the hot melt adhesive impregnated into the impregnation layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Daio Paper CorporationInventors: Yuriko Nakamura, Yosuke Mori
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Patent number: 10857045Abstract: A disposable absorbent article is disclosed that includes a first waist region, a second waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and second waist region, a waist edge in the first waist region, at least one waistband in the first waist region, at least one fastener in the second waist region, and at least one discrete landing zone in the first waist region, the discrete landing zone comprising an lateral inboard edge, wherein the discrete landing zone and the waistband overlap to form an overlap region in the first waist region, and wherein the waistband does not overlap the lateral inboard edge of the discrete landing zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Andrew James Sauer, Mark James Kline, Kathleen Marie{grave over ( )} Lawson, Zachary Aaron Freije
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Patent number: 10639211Abstract: Resilient and elastic members are sandwiched between a first sheet material and a second sheet material and overlapping areas of the first sheet material and the second sheet material are not joined together at CD direction both end portions but are joined together at an area between the both end portions, thereby to form a belt-like continuous elastic belt. The elastic belt is cut in the middle of a CD direction thereof between the resilient and elastic members at a joined position of the first sheet material and the second sheet material to form a pair of divided elastic belt. CD direction positions of these divided elastic belts are exchanged or the divided elastic belts are vertically reversed. A ventral side outer body and a dorsal side outer body are formed from the pair of divided elastic belts.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATIONInventors: Sadanao Manabe, Yosuke Mori, Takashi Hagi
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Patent number: 10632025Abstract: A wearable article wherein least some of the elastic bodies may be arranged in at least 2 sets of a concentrated array defined as meeting: a) one concentrated array is formed by 2-4 elastic bodies; b) each elastic body within one concentrated array is disposed in an inner-interval between each elastic body of 2-4 mm; and c) one specific concentrated array disposed in an extra-interval between at least one neighboring elastic body outside the specific concentrated array of less than 8 mm. The entirety of the length of the belt side edge of the front belt may be seamed with a certain length of the belt side edge of the back belt to define a seam length LS. The front and back belts may each divided into 4 zones wherein at least 2 concentrated arrays are disposed on the front proximal tummy zone or the back distal tummy zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble PlazaInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng
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Patent number: 10632024Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a main body and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt. At least some of the elastic bodies may be arranged in an array, the array defined as meeting: a) one array is formed by 2-10 elastic bodies; b) each elastic body within one array is disposed in an inner-interval between each elastic body of 2-4 mm; and c) one specific array disposed in an extra-interval between at least one neighboring elastic bodies outside the specific array of greater than the inner-interval. Further, the front belt may comprise at least 5 arrays.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble PlazaInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng
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Patent number: 10624798Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a main body and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt. At least some of the elastic bodies may be arranged in at least 2 sets of a concentrated array defined as meeting: a) one concentrated array is formed by 2-4 elastic bodies; b) each elastic body within one concentrated array is disposed in an inner-interval between each elastic body of 2-4 mm; and c) one specific concentrated array disposed in an extra-interval between at least one neighboring elastic body outside the specific concentrated array of less than 8 mm. The entirety of the length of the belt side edge of the front belt may be seamed with a certain length of the belt side edge of the back belt to define a seam length LS. The front and back belts may each divided into 4 zones wherein at least 2 concentrated arrays are disposed on each of the front waist zone, the back waist zone, and the front leg zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng
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Patent number: 10624799Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wearable articles having an elastic belt having arrays of elastic bodies.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng
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Patent number: 10610422Abstract: Provided is a wearing article that can prevent the folding of a waist panel. In a disposable wearing article that includes a waist panel for forming first and second waist regions, a liquid absorbent structure that extends from a crotch region to the first and rear waist regions and includes a liquid absorbent core, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings, and at least in the first waist region out of the first and second waist regions, the liquid absorbent structure includes an end portion that extends from the end edge of the liquid absorbent core to the side of the waist opening, and the outer end edge of the end portion extends to the edge of the waist opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Fukasawa, Toshiyasu Yoshioka, Noriko Nagase
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Patent number: 10568782Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wearable articles having an elastic belt having arrays of elastic bodies.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Koichi Morimoto, Ling Tong, Chunmin Cheng
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Patent number: 10561540Abstract: The present invention provides a production method for an underpants-type disposable diaper in space-saving and simple facilities while reducing the risk of occurrence of wrinkles, including: supplying a continuous sheet material in the continuous direction thereof; disposing resilient and elastic members for imparting elasticity to a ventral side outer body and a dorsal side outer body at a CD direction intermediate portion of the sheet material; folding CD direction one side and other side parts across the CD direction intermediate portion toward the side of the CD direction intermediate portion with the resilient and elastic members, sandwiching and fixing the resilient and elastic members in the folded sheet material, and joining together the folded parts and the CD direction intermediate portion to form a continuous elastic belt; cutting the elastic belt at a CD direction intermediate position to obtain a dorsal side elastic belt and a ventral side elastic belt, and then assembling an inner body to the dType: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Mori, Sadanao Manabe
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Patent number: 10561542Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a topsheet, backsheet, absorbent core, and an elasticized region disposed in an elasticized component. The elasticized region includes a first elastic member, a second elastic member that is adjacent to the first elastic member, and an attachment zone. In the attachment zone, the first elastic member is joined to the elasticized component at both a first attachment interval and a second attachment interval, wherein the first and the second attachment intervals are separated by an unattached span. In the attachment zone, the second elastic member is continuously joined to the elasticized component.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kumardipti Chatterjee, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck
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Patent number: 10398607Abstract: An absorbent article including a main body with an absorbent core, and a ring-like elastic belt, is disclosed. The article may include a front belt and a back belt each formed by an inner sheet, an outer sheet and a plurality of elastic bodies sandwiched therebetween and running in the transverse direction. The elastic bodies in the back belt may include a plurality of waist elastic bodies having elasticity over the entire transverse width of the back belt; a plurality of tummy elastic bodies removed of their elasticity in at least a portion overlapping the absorbent core, and a core edge elastic body disposed overlapping the absorbent core and adjacent the distal edge of the absorbent core, the core edge elastic body having elasticity over the entire transverse width of the back belt.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Koichi Morimoto
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Patent number: 10398606Abstract: Breathable, thermoplastic films, laminates, and methods of making films having a basis weight less than or equal to 15 gsm and a water vapor transmission rate of at least about 500 grams H2O/24-hour/m2, wherein the film has a ratio of the MD load at break to the CD load at break of less than about 10, and at least one of a machine-direction notched Elmendorf tear strength of at least about 5 g or a machine-direction notched trapezoidal tear strength of at least about 15 g.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Berry Film Products Company, Inc.Inventors: Leopoldo V. Cancio, Frank Eschenbacher, Jerry Ford
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Patent number: 10016317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo
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Patent number: 9901490Abstract: A disposable pant type undergarment includes a ventral member, a dorsal member and a crotch member that bridges the ventral member and the dorsal member. A crotch edge of the ventral member and the dorsal member each includes right and left edge lines, right and left tilted lines and a central line. The edge lines are approximately parallel in a waist-around direction. Nearer the central line, a distance between a waist opening of the undergarment and the tilted lines of the ventral member is shorter, and a distance between the waist opening and the tilted lines of the dorsal member is longer. Tilted portions of a leg-surrounding elastic body extend in a leaving direction from the crotch edge of the ventral member and extend into an area overlapped with the ventral member and the crotch member.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: KOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takamasa Takagi, Takehisa Mitsugi, Munetada Matsumiya, Kazuya Ise, Satoshi Katayama
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Patent number: 9867742Abstract: A wearing article improved so that an absorbent structure is not apt to be spaced away from the wearer's skin but stuffiness in the wearing article and/or eruption of the wearer's skin can be reliably prevented, which wearing article is a diaper that includes a front waist panel, a rear waist panel and a crotch panel. In the front and rear waist panels, elastics are respectively attached to front and rear waist sheets. The crotch panel includes an absorbent structure containing liquid-absorbent core material and, outboard of the absorbent structure as viewed in a longitudinal direction, front and rear end flaps are formed respectively. The crotch panel includes a first region which includes a front end of the absorbent structure and the front end flap and overlaps with the front waist panel and a second region which includes a front end of the absorbent structure and the rear end flap and overlaps with the rear waist panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventor: Takuya Inoue
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Patent number: 9566195Abstract: A disposable absorbent article comprising a first waist region, a second waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and second waist region; a first waist edge and a second waist edge; the disposable absorbent article comprising a first waistband near the first waist edge and a second waistband near the second waist edge, wherein the Front-to-Back Delta Chassis Contraction is greater than about 9.0%.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kathleen Marie Lawson, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Kathleen Ann Murphy Maciag, Raymond Scott Hamilton
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Patent number: 9456934Abstract: An absorbent garment has a chassis structure including a front panel having a front end edge, a back panel having a back end edge, a crotch panel arranged between the front and back panels. Elasticated front and back waist panels are arranged along the front and back end edges, and a core component is integrated with the chassis structure. The chassis structure also has a liquid permeable material having a garment facing side and a user facing side and forming a liquid permeable surface layer in the garment. The liquid permeable material extends continuously between the front end edge and the back end edge, and at least one of the front panel and the back panel includes an elastic web that has been bonded to the liquid permeable material with the elastic web stretched by 35-250% in at least one direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS ABInventor: Elisabeth Lakso
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Patent number: 9381121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Hashimoto, Tetsuo Okubo, Toshifumi Otsubo, Hiroyuki Tanji
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Patent number: 9333119Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a chassis having a belt portion extending therefrom. The belt portion comprises a side edge, a waist opening edge, a leg opening edge, first and second substrates engaged with each other, and elastic elements disposed intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion also comprises a first texture zone comprising a first portion of the substrates and the elastic strands and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the waist opening edge and a second texture zone comprising a second portion of the substrates and the elastic elements and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the leg opening edge. The first texture zone extends at least partially along a first lateral extent of the belt portion and the second texture zone extends at least partially along a second lateral extent of the belt portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ronald Joseph Zink, Sarah Marie Wade, Tina Marie Glahn, Rachael Eden Walther, Darrell Ian Brown, Gary Dean LaVon, Nicholas Paul Goyette, Kaoru Ishihara, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Diana Woehnl Juratovac
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Patent number: 9289331Abstract: A disposable absorbent product extends along a longitudinal dimension and a width dimension. The absorbent product has a backsheet, a topsheet overlaying the backsheet, and an absorbent core that is disposed between the backsheet and the topsheet for absorbing and retaining fluid secreted by a wearer of the absorbent product. The absorbent product also has a first multidirectional stretch material layer, adjacent the backsheet, that defines a first contoured leg opening of the absorbent product adapted to fit around a first leg of the wearer of the absorbent product.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS ABInventors: Frank Steven Glaug, Joshua Daniel Carney, Sue Uner
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Patent number: 9289329Abstract: A core forming unit feeds a core to a cutting unit, where a core is wrapped with a core topsheet and backsheet. The core insert is folded and a front wing web and a back wing web are coupled to the folded core. If a pant type diaper is desired, side seams of the front wing web and back wing web are bonded together at side seam regions. Next, portions of the front wing web and back wing web are folded over to create a compact product for packaging and shipment.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.Inventor: Michael R. Schaap
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Patent number: 9241842Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis, an absorbent core, a pair of elastically elongatable ears and a pair of fastening tabs. The elastically elongatable ears and the fastening tabs have a transverse axis. The ears are connected to the chassis such that the transverse axis of the fastening tabs is located in specific portions of the article. The absorbent core is free of cellulosic fibers.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Mark James Kline
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Patent number: 9173780Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to a disposable garment having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region extending between the front region and the back region. The disposable garment comprises a chassis in the front region, the back region, and the crotch region. The chassis comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The disposable garment comprises a pair of ear panels extending laterally outward from the chassis in the front region or the back region, a seam panel extending laterally outward from at least one of the ear panels, and a tab formed with the seam panel and extending laterally outward from the seam panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Barclay Buell, Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins, William Robert Vinnage, Jr., Mark James Kline
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Patent number: 9144523Abstract: In a disposable diaper in a developed state where a front cover sheet and a rear cover sheet are separated from each other to be developed, as distance in a left-right direction from an absorbent body increases, a lower edge of the rear cover sheet goes away from an upper edge of the rear cover sheet and then goes toward the upper edge. A leg elastic member is bonded on the rear cover sheet along its lower edge, in left and right of the absorbent body. As above, the lower end portion of the rear cover sheet is convex downward in each of left and right of the absorbent body, and lower portions of hips of a wearer are wrapped with the lower end portions. It is therefore possible to suppress leakage of excrement from the lower portions of hips of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: LIVEDO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Takahashi, Emi Amano
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Patent number: 9144522Abstract: An incontinence article in pants form for receiving bodily excretions, includes an abdominal section, a back portion and a crotch portion which extends in the longitudinal direction between the abdominal and back sections and is undetachably joined in overlapping regions to the abdominal portion and the back portion, wherein the abdominal portion and the back portion are connected to one another on both sides at the lateral seam regions forming a closed waist opening. The crotch portion extends with the long end thereof on the abdominal side and with the long end thereof on the back side to a respective imaginary line L1 or L2 which is parallel to the transverse direction, wherein the lines L1 and L2 divide the abdominal portion and the back portion into a respective first abdominal or back sub-region remote from the leg opening and a respective second stomach or back sub-region near the leg opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: PAUL HARTMANN AGInventor: Wolfgang Ostertag
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Patent number: 9114043Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to a disposable garment having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region extending between the front region and the back region. The disposable garment comprises a chassis in the front region, the back region, and the crotch region. The chassis comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The disposable garment comprises a pair of ear panels extending laterally outward from the chassis in the front region or the back region, a seam panel extending laterally outward from at least one of the ear panels, and a tab formed with the seam panel and extending laterally outward from the seam panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Barclay Buell, Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins, William Robert Vinnage
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Patent number: 9107777Abstract: Embodiments of this invention provide a disposable wearing article facilitating even an aged person having relatively weak forth to pull a waist-opening periphery in the transverse direction to widen the waist-opening to a desired size, despite this and the waist region should not slip down during use of the wearing article. Waist elastic elements (36) are stretched in the transverse direction X at a stretch ratio in a range of about 2.5 to about 3.0 and having fineness in a range of about 800 to about 1000 dtex, a dimension between the waist elastic elements (36) adjacent in the transverse direction X is in a range of about 5.5 to about 6.0 mm and each of waist elastic regions (38) in which the waist elastic elements (36) are present has a tensile stress at a moment of 255% stretching in the transverse direction X in a range of about 4.5 to about 6.0N/35 mm and a tensile stress at a moment of 167% stretching in the transverse direction is in a range of about 1.7 to about 2.1N/35 mm.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Akiyoshi Kinoshita, Maiko Suzuki, Kazuya Fujimoto, Yusuke Kawakami, Makoto Ichikawa, Nobuhiro Tagawa
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Patent number: 9028461Abstract: A pull-on wear article having a front portion that is adapted to be worn around the front side of a wearer, a crotch portion that is adapted to be worn along the wearer's crotch region, and a rear portion that is adapted to be worn around the wearer's rear side, which is formed into a pants form by bonding lateral side edges of the front portion and lateral side edges of the rear portion, wherein the front portion and the rear portion are each constituted by an outer cover in which an inner layer material and an outer layer material are laminated, the outer cover has plural single layer areas that are formed of the inner layer material or the outer layer material at intervals in the direction of length of the outer cover, and the laminate areas where the inner layer material and outer layer material are laminated have elasticity in the waist-surrounding direction of the outer cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Hayami Ishikawa, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 9028462Abstract: A garment comprises a laminate. The laminate comprises a first layer colored a first color, and a second layer colored a second color different than the first color. The laminate includes a folded flap in the waist region, thereby defining an integral, outwardly visible waistband having a waistband lower edge. The first layer and the second layer are coterminous at the waistband lower edge and the folded flap is an outwardly folded flap. The first layer is an inner layer and the second layer is an outer layer, and the outwardly visible waistband is colored the first color. The distinction between the first color and second color in conjunction with the fold creates a visible waistband effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Lacey L. Poole, Marleen R. Dins, Marie E. Boll, Julie Ann Paveletzke
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Publication number: 20150126950Abstract: An absorbent article includes a pair of ears secured to and extending transversely outward from opposite sides of a back portion of the article. Each of the ears is stretchable in at least a transverse direction of the article from a relaxed position to an extended position. A waistband includes a waist elastic disposed in at least the back portion. The waist elastic has an in product load loss of less than 60 percent according to a four-hour hold stress relaxation test. A fastening system has a primary fastening system and a secondary fastening system. In a wear configuration of the absorbent article, the secondary fastening system secures each of the ears of the pair of ears in the extended position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Catherine Hancock-Cooke, David Fleger Bishop, Robert Lee Popp, Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt, Wendy Lynn VanDyke
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Patent number: 9023007Abstract: A wearing article configured to smooth out wrinkles that tend to be created in front and rear waist regions. A diaper includes front and rear waist members connected to an intermediary crotch. The front and rear waist members extend from waist ends toward the side of a crotch region and respectively include first regions overlapping front and rear end flaps of the absorbent structure and second regions adjacent the respective first regions. In the front and rear waist members, the first regions and the second regions are provided with first and second waist elastic members sandwiched between the respective top- and backsheets. The respective second regions are formed with inelastic zones overlapping the core and elastic regions lying on both sides of the inelastic regions in the transverse direction. The tightening force of the first regions are lower than the tightening force of the respective second regions.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Yuki Hashino, Sarinee Phichetkitjawat, Shunsuke Masaki
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Patent number: 9023006Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a wearing article adapted to prevent unintentional displacement of a crotch region relative to front and rear waist regions by elastics attached to the crotch region. A diaper includes front and rear waist members, a crotch member by the intermediary of which the front and rear waist members are connected with each other. The rear waist member is formed with a waist fit section and an appendix section. Of the crotch member, front and rear ends including front and rear end flaps are bonded to the front and rear waist members, respectively, to form front and rear bonded regions. Both side flaps are provided on respective inner surfaces thereof with gasket elastics attached thereto. Each of the gasket elastic overlaps at one end with a part of the front waist elastic and overlaps at the other end with a part of the appendix section elastic. Furthermore, the one end overlaps with the front bonded region and the other end overlaps with the rear bonded regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Shunsuke Takino, Shunsuke Masaki
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Publication number: 20150119839Abstract: A quadruped diaper with extended rear leg covers is disclosed. A diaper of the disclosure includes a textile body band designed to encircle the body of the quadruped, an outer liner extending from the textile body band that is substantially liquid impermeable, wherein the outer liner comprises an extended covering extending from the textile body band and comprising leg portions of sufficient length to cover at least a quarter of a length of each rear leg of the quadruped, an inner liner extending from the textile body band that is substantially liquid permeable, wherein the inner liner comprises an outer perimeter secured to the outer liner to enclose a cavity there between, and an absorbent core retained within the cavity and extending through the leg portions of the diaper.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventor: Janet Southward
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Publication number: 20150119840Abstract: An absorbent article having a body-facing side and a garment-facing side generally comprises a chassis, a liquid permeable bodyside liner, an absorbent structure, a front bodyside waist elastic member, a rear bodyside waist elastic member, a front garment-side waist elastic member, and a rear garment-side waist elastic member. The chassis has a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region extending between the front waist region and the back waist region. The front and rear bodyside waist elastic members are disposed on the body-facing side of the absorbent article, and the front and rear garment-side waist elastic members are disposed on the garment-facing side of the absorbent article. At least one of the garment-side waist elastic members and the bodyside waist elastic members are configured to fully extend around a waist opening of the absorbent article when the absorbent article is in the wear configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Kathleen Irene Bennett, Marcille Faye Ruman, Thomas Harold Roessler, Joseph Daniel Coenen, Robert Lee Popp
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Patent number: 9011404Abstract: A pull-on absorbent article including a front outer cover to be worn around a wearer's front side, a rear outer cover to be worn around the wearer's rear side, and an absorbent assembly fixed to the front and the rear outer cover so as to bridge them and having a pair of side seals. The length of each of the front and the outer cover in the longitudinal direction of the article is uniform in the lateral direction and larger than that of the side seals so that the front and the outer cover have extension portions that extend downward from the side seals. The extension portions of the front and/or the rear outer cover have an elasticized region extensible in the lateral direction in a region located laterally outward of each side edge of the absorbent assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Ryoichi Yamamoto, Kenji Ando, Takuo Yanashima, Akio Morita
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Patent number: 9011401Abstract: Disposable diapers improved so that waist regions are effectively elastic to assure high fitness are provided. In a first waist region, bonding region coated with adhesive lines includes a first bonding region coated with first adhesive lines extending from a peripheral edge of a waist-opening toward a crotch region and a second bonding region coated with second adhesive lines extending from the first adhesive lines into the crotch region wherein the first adhesive lines are noncontiguous to the second adhesive lines in the direction of the longitudinal axis so that, with the diaper put on the wearer's body, a region defined in the vicinity of a boundary between the first bonding region and the second bonding region folded inward.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Ryuichi Kamiyama, Toshimitsu Baba, Kaiyo Nakajima, Reiko Nitta
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Patent number: 9011405Abstract: In an incontinence article in pant form, a longitudinal extent of respective lateral seams is 100-170 mm, a ratio between this extent and an extent of the incontinence article between a waist border and a transverse center axis of the incontinence article is at most 0.42, wherein first elastifying means have a distance to one another which is at least 20% greater than a distance between second elastifying means to one another defined in the lateral seam region of the incontinence article, wherein the first elastifying means have a thread strength which is at least 20% greater than a thread strength of the second elastifying means, wherein the first and second elastifying means are fixed in the stomach section and in the back section with a pre-tension, and wherein the pre-tension of the first elastifying means is at least 10% greater than the pretension of the second elastifying means.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Paul Hartmann AGInventors: Oliver Gassner, Andreas Beyrle, Rüdiger Kesselmeier, Krzysztof D. Malowaniec