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Granted Patent B2
US 10,888,468 · App. 15/776,896 · Granted Jan 12, 2021

Disposable wearing article

Inventors: Hideaki Maki (Kanonji, JP); Shunsuke Takino (Kanonji, JP); Takuya Inoue (Kanonji, JP)
Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,888,468
App. No.
15/776,896
Granted
Jan 12, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a disposable wearing article which prevents a position shift of a front waist region without a part of a front waist region receding in a concave portion of the abdomen of the wearer. A plurality of linear front waist elastics contractible in a lateral direction is disposed in a front waist region of a disposable wearing article. The front waist elastics have (include) a first elastic positioned adjacent to an outer side of a front-end edge of a liquid absorbent core in a vertical direction, a second elastic positioned adjacent to an inner side of the front-end edge in the vertical direction, and a third elastic positioned adjacent to an inner side of the second elastic in the vertical direction. A contractile force of the first elastic and the second elastic is weaker than a contractile force of the third elastic.

Claims (27)

1. A disposable wearing article having a vertical direction and a lateral direction, comprising:

a front waist region;

a rear waist region;

a crotch region extending between the front waist region and the rear waist region; and

an absorbent panel having a liquid absorbent core extending to the front waist region and the rear waist region centering on the crotch region, wherein

a plurality of linear front waist elastic member contractible in the lateral direction is disposed in the front waist region,

the front waist elastic members include a first elastic member positioned adjacent to an outer side of a front end edge of the liquid absorbent core in the vertical direction, a second elastic member positioned adjacent to an inner side in the vertical direction of the front end edge, and a third elastic member positioned adjacent to an inner side in the vertical direction of the second elastic member,

a contractile force of the first elastic and the second elastic members is weaker than a contractile force of the third elastic member, and

in the front waist elastics of the front waist region, an elongation rate of the first elastic member is lower than an elongation rate of the second elastic member and the third elastic member.

2. The disposable wearing article according to claim 1 , wherein the tensile stress of the outer elastic area of the rear waist region is higher than a tensile stress of the outer elastic area of the front waist region.

3. The disposable wearing article according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a pair of leakage barrier cuffs extending in the vertical direction on a skin facing side of the absorbent panel, wherein

the leakage barrier cuff has both end fixing parts opposite in the vertical direction, both side parts extending in the vertical direction, and a free edge part in which a plurality of cuff elastic members extending in the vertical direction is disposed, and

both end fixing parts are fixed at the front end edge and the rear end edge of the absorbent panel.

4. The disposable wearing article according to claim 1 , wherein a deformation guiding part extending inward in the vertical direction from the front end edge is formed in the liquid absorbent core.

5. A disposable wearing article having a vertical direction and a lateral direction, comprising:

a front waist region;

a rear waist region;

a crotch region extending between the front waist region and the rear waist region; and

an absorbent panel having a liquid absorbent core extending to the front waist region and the rear waist region centering on the crotch region, wherein

a plurality of linear front waist elastic member contractible in the lateral direction is disposed in the front waist region,

the front waist elastic members include a first elastic member positioned adjacent to an outer side of a front end edge of the liquid absorbent core in the vertical direction, a second elastic member positioned adjacent to an inner side in the vertical direction of the front end edge, and a third elastic member positioned adjacent to an inner side in the vertical direction of the second elastic member,

a contractile force of the first elastic and the second elastic members is weaker than a contractile force of the third elastic member,

the front waist region includes an inner end edge, an outer edge end, an outer elastic area positioned on the inner end edge side, a first intermediate elastic area adjacent to an inner side of the outer elastic area in the vertical direction, including the first elastic member and the second elastic member, a second intermediate elastic area positioned between the first intermediate elastic area and the inner elastic area, including the third elastic member, and a tensile stress of the first intermediate elastic area is higher than a tensile stress of the outer elastic area, and

for the front waist region, a correlation of tensile stress of elastic regions is a tensile stress of the second intermediate elastic area>a tensile stress of the first intermediate area≥a tensile stress of the outer elastic area>a tensile stress of the inner elastic area.

6. The disposable wearing article according to claim 5 , wherein a contractile force of elastic members in the first intermediate elastic area, excluding the first elastic member and the second elastic member, is stronger than a contractile force of the first elastic member and the second elastic member.

7. The disposable wearing article according to claim 5 , wherein the first intermediate elastic area of the front waist region overlaps in a planar view with the front end edge positioned outboard of the front end edge of the liquid absorbent core in the absorbent panel in the vertical direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 28, 2018
From: MAKI, HIDEAKI; INOUE, TAKUYA; TAKINO, SHUNSUKE
To: UNICHARM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045908/0800 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-227871 · Nov 20, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180333311A1 · Nov 22, 2018