IP Library Granted Patent US 12,274,608
Granted Patent B2
US 12,274,608 · App. 17/771,620 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Disposable diaper with improved absorption and leakage protection

Inventor: Yuki Okada (Ehime, JP)
Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
A61F13/5126A61F13/49A61F2013/51117A61F2013/5127
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Patent No.
US 12,274,608
App. No.
17/771,620
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A disposable diaper capable of providing good suppression of diaper rash. A disposable diaper including top sheet 30 constituting a surface for use, liquid-impervious sheet provided on the under face side, and absorbent element interposed therebetween, wherein the top sheet is formed of perforated nonwoven fabric having a number of holes arranged at intervals and each penetrating the two sides of the fabric, and a moisturizer M composed mainly of glycerin is applied to the top sheet.

Claims (9)

1. A disposable diaper comprising a top sheet constituting a surface for use, a liquid-impervious sheet provided on an under face side, and an absorbent element interposed therebetween,

wherein an intermediate sheet, which has a faster body fluid permeation rate compared to the top sheet, is interposed between the top sheet and the absorbent element,

wherein the top sheet is formed of a first air through nonwoven fabric having a basis weight of 10 to 30 g/m 2 , and wherein the first air through nonwoven fabric is perforated having a number of holes arranged at intervals and each penetrating two sides of the fabric,

wherein the intermediate sheet is formed of a second air through nonwoven fabric having a basis weight of 20 to 80 g/m 2 , and a fineness of raw material fibers of the second air through nonwoven fabric is 2.0 to 10 dtex,

wherein imaginary linking lines connecting groups of the holes form a Moroccan pattern with a rhombic lattice which is slanted with respect to a front-back direction and a width direction all over the top sheet,

wherein an area of one non-perforated region encircled by an imaginary line connecting the holes in the Moroccan pattern with a rhombic lattice is 1.0 to 3.5 cm 2 ,

wherein each of the holes is in a circular shape with a diameter of 0.5 to 1.5 mm or a shape in 0.5 to 1.5 mm size in terms of equivalent diameter, and a center-to-center distance between adjacent holes in the front-back direction and the width direction is 1.0 to 4.0 mm, and

wherein a hydrophilic moisturizer containing 80 mass % or more glycerin is applied to the top sheet.

2. The disposable diaper according to claim 1 , wherein the moisturizer is applied along the front-back direction at intervals in the width direction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2022
From: OKADA, YUKI
To: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061245/0949 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-209788 · Nov 20, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220409448A1 · Dec 29, 2022
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