| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 604379000 | Compressed layer | 43 |
| 20080200892 | Tampon - A tampon suitable for feminine hygiene and/or medical purposes having a longitudinal body provided with a dome-shaped insertion end and a withdrawal end, from which a withdrawal cord extends is disclosed. The tampon is made of compressed absorbent fibrous material and has an outer circumferential surface which is at least partially provided with longitudinal grooves that are separated from each other by longitudinal ribs. The path of the grooves and the ribs in the longitudinal direction of the tampon correspond to a continuous curved line that has only one point of inflection defining one convex part and one concave part, and that preferably does not show a maximum and/or a minimum. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080287902 | TAMPON PLEDGET FOR INCREASED BY-PASS LEAKAGE PROTECTION - The present invention provides a tampon pledget with one or more of the following properties: increased absorbency rate; high absorbent capacity and fluid retention; rapid expansion potential; and ease of ejection of the pledget from the applicator. Surprisingly, the one or more properties are achieved by using a modified dual cross-pad, folded, compressed tampon pledget design. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090024103 | TAMPON - A tampon suitable for feminine hygiene and/or medical purposes is disclosed having a longitudinal body provided with a dome-shaped insertion end and a withdrawal end, from which withdrawal end a withdrawal cord extends. The tampon has compressed absorbent fibrous material and has an outer circumferential surface which is at least partially provided with longitudinal grooves that are separated from each other by longitudinal ribs. The path of the grooves and ribs of the tampon in the longitudinal direction are inclined and correspond to a continuous curved line that has only one point of inflection defining one convex part and one concave part that preferably does not show a maximum or a minimum. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090105678 | TAMPON HAVING ZONED APERTURED OVERWRAP - Tampons having a zoned apertured overwrap. The tampons can include a compressed absorbent member having an insertion end, a withdrawal end, a longitudinal axis, and a body disposed between the insertion end and the withdrawal end. The body can have a perimeter disposed substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis and an exterior surface. The tampons can further include an overwrap covering at least a portion of the exterior surface. The overwrap can have a first zone and a second zone, the first zone having a plurality of apertures of a first diameter and the second zone having a plurality of apertures of a second diameter. In addition, the first zone and the second zone can be spaced apart from one another. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090157032 | ABSORBANT ARTICLES HAVING A COMPRESSED TABLET - Absorbent articles including a compressed tablet are generally described. The compressed tablet of the present invention is configured to expand toward the skin of the wearer (i.e., in the z-direction of the absorbent article perpendicular to the plane of the absorbent article) upon contact with a liquid. However, the expansion of the compressed tablet is substantially limited to the z-direction. That is, the compressed tablet does not substantially expand in any direction parallel with the plane of the article (i.e., the x- and y-directions). As such, the compressed tablet does not significantly interfere with the absorbent capabilities of the absorbent article. Thus, the compressed tablet can be included within conventional absorbent articles without significantly sacrificing the absorbency characteristics of the article. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090281513 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE HAVING COLORED REGIONS - An absorbent article having colored regions. The absorbent article has at least three colored regions. The colored regions are spaced apart from one another. Each colored region has a major axis. The major axis of each colored region converges towards a common focal region on the longitudinal centerline of the absorbent article. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100049154 | Elastically deformable sanitary napkin - A dynamically deformable sanitary napkin for insertion within a person's intergluteal cleft has a plurality of functional layers serving absorbent, protective, and mechanical purposes and is held in position by the restorative force of a spring means. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100057031 | ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - 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. The space section is formed on each of both sides of or on one side of a projection section located on the opposite side of the compression section on the skin contact surface side. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100249739 | Absorbent Core - An absorbent core for use in an absorbent product, such as a sanitary napkin, a diaper, an incontinence protection or the like. The core after compression has a material density (based on the total content of the core) of at least 200 kg/m | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100268182 | TAMPON PLEDGET WITH IMPROVED BY-PASS LEAKAGE PROTECTION - A tampon pledget is made by assembling one or more pads in a pad compression configuration, radially compressing the pad compression configuration in a traverse direction into a cylindrical form, and axially compressing the cylindrical form in a direction along a vertical axis to form the tampon pledget. In one embodiment, the axial compression is performed as a pressure is applied to at least one of a first and a second end of the cylindrical form. In one aspect of the present invention, the formed tampon pledget has an absorbent capacity as measured by the syngyna test of between about 6.0 grams to 9.0 grams and a density of about 0.4603 grams/cubic centimeter. In another aspect of the invention, the formed tampon pledget has an absorbent capacity as measured by the syngyna test of between about 9.0 grams to 12.0 grams and a density of about 0.4755 grams/cubic centimeter. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20120010587 | TAMPON DISPOSED WITH LONGITUDINAL GROOVES AND INDENTATIONS - A tampon for feminine hygiene is provided having a longitudinal body showing in compressed condition a length and a width. The tampon includes compressed absorbent fibrous material and has an outer circumferential surface which is provided with longitudinal grooves. The longitudinal grooves are separated from each other by longitudinal ribs. A plurality of discrete indentations are arranged in the longitudinal direction and flanked by two longitudinal grooves. At least one indentation is spatially separated from the flanking longitudinal grooves. Some embodiments include a press and method for a tampon production. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120059343 | EMBOSS ROLLER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SURFACE SHEET USING EMBOSS ROLLER AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE EMPLOYING SURFACE SHEET - An emboss roller is provided that can give projecting-and-recess embosses to a surface sheet while uniform fiber density is realized through in an emboss roller which has a first emboss roll and a second roll formed as a set and gives projecting-and-recessed embosses by passing a surface sheet between these emboss rolls, and on the surface of the first emboss roll, a projecting portion projecting outward from a reference surface with the reference surface as a boundary and a recess portion recessed from the reference surface are provided, and the smooth reference surface is present in the periphery of the projecting portion and the recess portion, and on the surface of the second emboss roll, a projecting portion projecting outward from the reference surface with the reference surface as a boundary and meshed with the recess portion of the first emboss roll and a recess position recessed from the reference surface and meshed with the projecting portion of the first emboss roll are provided, and the smooth reference surface is present in the periphery of the projecting portion and the recess portion. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120101462 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT OR MENSTRUATION - The present invention relates to an absorbent fabric for medical treatment or menstruation, and more particularly, to a convenient and sanitary absorbent article to be used as a tampon, a blood-absorbing fabric for surgery, etc. The present invention provides an absorbent article for medical treatment or menstruation, wherein a flat absorbent article is provided with removal means and is formed into a cylindrical shape. The flat absorbent article is formed by forming an absorbent layer on a liquid passage layer. The removal means is arranged to cover the liquid passage layer and the absorbent layer of the flat absorbent article in the widthwise direction, and a portion of the removal means is outwardly exposed from the flat absorbent article in the widthwise direction of the flat absorbent article. The flat absorbent article is wound in the lengthwise direction and thus is formed into a cylindrical absorbent article, thereby fixing the removal means in the cylindrical absorbent article. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20130060218 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article that includes a first absorber. The first absorber is disposed over an excretion opening contact region in the absorbent article and a posterior region. In a width direction of the absorbent article, the first absorber is configured to be longer than a second absorber. The second absorber is not disposed in the excretion opening contact region but disposed in the posterior region. A liquid-penneable sheet is disposed farther inwardly of the skin contact surface side of the absorbent article than the second absorber over the excretion opening contact region and the posterior region. In the width direction, the liquid-penneable sheet is configured to be shorter than the first absorber. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130165884 | LINER FOR INCONTINENCE - A liner for incontinence includes a skin contact side sheet, a non-skin contact side sheet, and an absorbent body arranged between these sheets and including an absorbent material. The absorbent material includes 30 to 70 mass % of SAP. The liner includes a main body and wings in an intermediate region of the main body. An SAP basis weight in the intermediate region is larger than in front and rear regions of the main body. The main body includes a front compressed region which is positioned between the intermediate region and the front region immediately in front of a urinating position (UP) of a wearer when worn, side compressed regions which extend from the intermediate region to the front region and rear region, respectively, and a rear compressed region which extends in the rear region in substantially the width direction. At the compressed regions, the absorbent body is continuous. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20140163507 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article that has a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorber, and a liquid-permeable top-layer sheet is joined with a skin contact surface side of the topsheet. The top-layer sheet is arranged along a lengthwise direction in a central portion of a widthwise direction of the absorbent article, and non-joined regions that are not joined with the topsheet are provided at both widthwise ends of the top-layer sheet. A compressing portion in which at least the topsheet and the absorber are compressed in the thickness-wise direction, is formed around the non-joined region. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20150328063 | ABSORBENT CORE EXHIBITING CONTROLLED DEFORMATION IN USE AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE COMPRISING SAID CORE - An absorption body intended to form part of an absorbent disposable article includes a first absorption layer intended to face towards the user upon use and a second absorption layer intended to face away from the user upon use. The first absorption layer has a longitudinal opening in the crotch area and the second absorption layer has a longitudinal compression arranged in the crotch area. | 11-19-2015 |
| 604380000 | Having discontinuous areas of compression | 26 |
| 20100280475 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND ABSORBENT BODY - An absorbent article is provided that is likely to be in close contact with user's body. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110071486 | ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - An absorbent article with high fitting property and high absorptivity, where the end part is less deformed, is provided. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110130737 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes at least a liquid-permeable sheet, a liquid-impermeable sheet, and an absorber sandwiched between the liquid-permeable sheet and the liquid-impermeable sheet. The absorber includes an absorbing layer center part and an absorbing part formed in the periphery of the absorbing layer center part. On the skin-contact surface side of the absorbent article, compressed grooves are at least symmetry with respect to the longitudinal centerline and surround the absorbing layer center part. The compressed grooves have a pair of right and left intermittent portions across the longitudinal centerline. On the skin-non-contact surface side of the absorber, a space part being nearly convex toward the skin-contact surface side and formed between the absorber and the liquid-impermeable sheet, is present in the side part of at least a part of a compressed groove out of the compressed grooves provided along widthwise right and left side edges. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110251575 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - 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. The low-compressed part is formed to continue in the longitudinal direction of the compressed groove between nearly transverse high-compressed parts. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110288514 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - 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. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110319851 | THIN ABSORPTIVE ARTICLE - To provide an absorbent article which is a relatively thin absorbent article and which is hardly twisted while fitting to the body and exhibits excellent absorptivity. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120035566 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a pair of grooves in which each of the grooves has a central region in the longitudinal direction has a first section which is formed so as to be curved in a convex manner at an inside of a widthwise direction of the absorption layer; a second section and a third section which is linked with each end of the first section and is formed so as to be curved in a convex manner at an outside of the widthwise direction. A radius of curvature of the first section is smaller than the radius of curvature of either the second section or the third section. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120035567 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An apparatus | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120095425 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article includes a first curved portion and a second curved portion formed on the surface of a topsheet along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article. The first curved portion is arranged in one pair to be symmetrical to a centerline of the absorbent article in a region in which the contact region is included, the region being an inside region more than each side part in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article, and is formed along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article. The second curved portion is arranged in one pair in a region in which the contact region is included, the region being an inside region in the widthwise direction of the absorbent article more than the first curved portion, and is formed along the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article. The first curved portion and the second curved portion has a convex shape outward in the widthwise direction of the absorbent article, in the region in which the contact region is included. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120220971 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - A compression region | 08-30-2012 |
| 20130035656 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An absorbent article having a compressed region formed by a compressing process in an absorption layer on a side facing to the backsheet; and a plurality of pressed grooves are formed by a pressing process in the absorption layer on a side facing to the topsheet, within a region opposed to the compressed region. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130085464 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article in which a longitudinal-direction compression groove is formed along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article by a compression process performed from the top sheet side, width-direction compression grooves are formed along a width direction of the absorbent article by a compression process performed from the topsheet side, wherein the longitudinal-direction compression groove includes a high compression region, a medium compression region, and a low compression region and the width direction compression groove includes the high compression region and the medium compression region, and the low compression region is disposed over the longitudinal-direction compression groove in the width direction. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130123729 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article having compressed grooves wherein the surface sheet is pressed to the absorbent body along the longitudinal direction are provided in the absorbent article. The compressed grooves are divided into at least a central compressed groove and posterior compressed grooves. In the longitudinal direction, the central compressed groove is provided to extend over a central line in the region of the absorbent article that contacts the excretion orifices. The posterior compressed grooves are provided posterior to the central line of the region contacting the excretion orifices in the longitudinal direction. The posterior ends of the central compressed groove are provided posterior to the anterior ends of the posterior compressed groove in the longitudinal direction. The posterior ends of the central compressed groove are provided to the outside of the anterior ends of the posterior compressed groove in the direction of width. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130131623 | INCONTINENCE LINER - An incontinence liner is provided with a liquid permeable skin contact side sheet, a liquid impermeable non-skin contact side sheet, and an absorptive body arranged between the skin contact side sheet and non-skin contact side sheet and including an absorptive material. The absorptive material includes 30 to 70 mass % of a high absorption polymer. The absorptive body includes an absorbing part positioned at a urinating position of a wearer when worn, a diffusing part extending around the absorbing part up to a peripheral edge of the absorptive body, and diffusion-suppressing parts scattered inside the diffusing part. An average absorptive material density of the diffusing part is higher than the absorbing part and the diffusion-suppressing parts. The absorbing part projects toward the skin contact side sheet more than the other parts of the absorptive body, while the diffusion-suppressing parts project toward the skin contact side sheet more than the diffusing part. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130165885 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article, such as a sanitary napkin and the like, constituted of an absorbing body between permeable (skin contact surface) and impermeable (skin non-contact surface) sheets, is provided with intermittent recess grooves formed in a longitudinal direction on the absorbent article on the skin non-contact surface side of the absorbing body, a plurality of laterally elongated peripheral embosses formed at intervals in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article on absorbent body areas located peripherally to the recess grooves, and an absorbing body deficit portion formed at least between the recess grooves. Thus achieved are close contact with buttock cleavage and prevention of leakage to the rear. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130178815 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet and an absorber between the top sheet and back sheet, and having a front body waist region, a crotch region and a back body waist region. The top sheet is a nonwoven fabric having on the skin contact surface a plurality of ridges and a plurality of recesses extending in the lengthwise direction of the disposable diaper, and alternating in the widthwise direction perpendicular to the lengthwise direction. The top sheet has point-like compressed sections at a prescribed density in the front body waist region and/or back body waist region, the ridges in prescribed zones having different heights than the adjacent ridges at the same location in the lengthwise direction. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130211360 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - An absorbent article in which a plurality of first compressing units are provided spaced apart on both-side edges of a region corresponding to an excretion unit in an absorber, and a plurality of second compressing units are provided spaced apart over the entire region in the absorber | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130226123 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND SANITARY NAPKIN - An absorbent article has an upper layer unit which extends in a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article is provided on a skin contact surface side of the main body unit. The upper layer unit has an upper layer topsheet which is independent of the topsheet. A dimension of the upper unit in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article is configured to be smaller than a dimension of the main body unit in the widthwise direction. A central region including a center of the widthwise direction of the main absorber that is opposite to the upper layer unit is provided, and in at least a part of the central region, a low rigidity region of which flexural rigidity is lower than that of the central region is formed. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130296819 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURE AND ABSORBENT WEARING ARTICLE USING THE SAME - An absorbent structure that includes a first region, a second region and a central region extending between the first and second regions, the first region and part of the central region are formed with a thick segment. The second region is formed with a thin segment having a thickness dimension smaller than that of the thick segment. Between the thick segment and the thin segment, a thickness-sloped segment having a thickness dimension gradually reduced from the side of the first region toward the second region and the thin segment and at least a region of the thickness-sloped segment being adjacent to the thin segment are debossed. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140052089 | ELASTIC ABSORBENT SANITARY ARTICLE FOR ABSORBING BODILY FLUIDS - An absorbent hygiene product for acquiring fluids, having a flexurally yielding topsheet and a flexurally yielding backsheet, has, disposed between these sheets, an absorbent laminat, which in turn has two flexurally yielding outer plies, arranged adheringly between which are at least two diagonally intersecting, pre-tensioned plies of elastic filaments, a quantity of a superabsorbent polymer being incorporated in each of the discrete sections thus formed, and the topsheet-side outer ply of the laminate consists of a hydrophobic material, and the backsheet-side outer ply of the laminate consists of a hydrophilic material. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20150088084 | ABSORBENT STRUCTURE HAVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHY AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME - A method of making an absorbent structure having a three-dimensional topography includes placing at least a portion of the absorbent structure between opposed mold surfaces. At least one of the mold surfaces has a three-dimensional topography. The three-dimensional topography of the mold surface is imparted onto the absorbent structure so that the absorbent structure has a three-dimensional topography corresponding to the three-dimensional topography of the mold surface. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150148765 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention relates to an absorbent article having a body-facing surface and a transverse centerline, comprising; a hydrophilic topsheet, a backsheet joined to the topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a lateral topsheet on each longitudinal side of the body-facing surface of the absorbent article so that at least a part thereof covers the topsheet where the topsheet covers the absorbent core, wherein the lateral topsheet comprises an embedded zone along the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article comprising a plurality of compressed areas where the lateral topsheet and the topsheet are jointly compressed so that the lateral topsheet is embedded into the topsheet, and wherein the lateral topsheet in the compressed areas is one layer. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150320616 | ABSORBANT ARTICLE WITH ABSORBANT STRUCTURE WITH CROSS-DIRECTIONALLY ORIENTED PASSAGEWAY - The present invention is an absorbent article comprising at least one predominantly cross-directionally extending discontinuity, such as a slit, by which the absorbent core of the structure is adapted to form a z- and y-directionally opened passageway. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150359687 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - The present invention addresses the problem of providing an absorbent article in which a bonding part for bonding a liquid-permeable layer to an absorbent core has been formed in a low-basis-weight region of the absorbent core and which has all of sufficient flexural rigidity of the bonding part, sufficient bonding strength of the bonding part, and sufficient liquid-absorbing properties. This problem is solved with an absorbent core which comprises a first region that has a given absorbent-material basis weight and second regions (regions | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160175172 | Three-Dimensional Sheet Material and Absorbent Articles Including Such Material | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160250084 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE | 09-01-2016 |
