IP Library Granted Patent US 8,501,646
Granted Patent B2
US 8,501,646 · App. 12/529,485 · Granted Aug 6, 2013

Non-woven fabric laminate

Inventors: Shigeyuki Motomura (Chiba, JP); Kenichi Suzuki (Ichihara, JP); Kazuhiko Masuda (Chiba, JP); Hisashi Morimoto (Ichihara, JP); Naosuke Kunimoto (Yokkaichi, JP)
Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,501,646
App. No.
12/529,485
Granted
Aug 6, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A non-woven fabric laminate that is excellent in strechability, flexibility, and bulkiness, and that is less sticky and is suitable for a mechanical fastening female material. The non-woven fabric laminate includes a mixed fiber spunbonded non-woven fabric and a non-woven fabric comprising a crimped fiber that is laminated on at least one face of the mixed fiber spunbonded non-woven fabric, which includes a continuous fiber of a thermoplastic elastomer (A) in the range of 10 to 90% by weight and a continuous fiber of a thermoplastic resin (B) in the range of 90 to 10% by weight (where (A)+(B)=100% by weight). The non-woven fabric laminate can be suitably used for a sanitary material and other materials. More specifically, there can be mentioned for instance an absorbent article such as a disposable diaper and a menstrual sanitary product as a sanitary material.

Claims (7)

1. A female material of mechanical fastening, wherein the female material comprises a non-woven fabric laminate comprising a mixed fiber spunbonded non-woven fabric and a non-woven fabric comprising a crimped fiber, the mixed fiber spunbonded non-woven fabric comprising a continuous fiber of a thermoplastic polyurethane based elastomer in the range of 10 to 90% by weight and a continuous fiber of a thermoplastic resin (B) in the range of 90 to 10% by weight (where the thermoplastic polyurethane based elastomer+(B)=100% by weight), the non-woven fabric comprising a crimped fiber being laminated on at least one face of the mixed fiber spunbonded non-woven fabric,

wherein the crimped fiber is an eccentric core-in-sheath crimped fiber or a parallel type crimped fiber which comprises a first component comprising a propylene-α-olefin copolymer having a melting point (Tm) of 150° or less and a second component comprising a propylene based polymer having a melting point (Tm) of 155° C. or higher, and the ratio (the mass ratio) of the first component to the second component is in the range of 50/50 to 95/5.

2. The female material of mechanical fastening as defined in claim 1 , wherein a spunbonded non-woven fabric comprising the continuous fiber of the thermoplastic resin (B) has a maximum point extension percentage of not less than 50%.

3. The female material of mechanical fastening as defined in claim 1 , wherein the continuous fiber of the thermoplastic resin (B) is a continuous fiber of a propylene based polymer.

4. The female material of mechanical fastening as defined in claim 1 , wherein the crimped fiber is a continuous fiber.

5. The female material of mechanical fastening as defined in claim 1 , wherein the crimped fiber is a crimped fiber provided with a modified cross section.

6. The female material of mechanical fastening as defined in claim 1 , wherein the non-woven fabric comprising a crimped fiber has a maximum point extension percentage of not less than 50%.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 20, 2024
From: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
To: MITSUI CHEMICALS ASAHI LIFE MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 069647/0795 →
CHANGE OF ASSIGNEE ADDRESS Recorded Dec 20, 2024
From: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
To: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
Reel/Frame 069743/0783 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2009
From: MOTOMURA, SHIGEYUKI; SUZUKI, KENICHI; MASUDA, KAZUHIKO; MORIMOTO, HISASHI; KUNIMOTO, NAOSUKE
To: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
Reel/Frame 023178/0169 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-053410 · Mar 2, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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