Unicharm Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Miou Suzuki

Ichiro Wada

Hisashi Takai

Yuichi Hirai

Masaho Hayashi

Hiroshi Uematsu

Toshihiko Uenishi

Kiyoshi Toda

Junichi Kobayashi

Shigeru Machida

Yoshikazu Ishitsuka

Ryousuke Miyagawa

Koichi Yamaki

Ryosuke Miyagawa

Maki Watanabe

Naruto Matsushita

Kenichi Okabe

Tetsuya Tanaka

Toshio Kobayashi

Naohito Takeuchi

Yoshihisa Fujioka

Hideyuki Ishikawa

Yuji Yoshitomi

Masashi Nakashita

Takayuki Hisanaka

Sachiyo Suzuki

Masaki Yoshida

Kenji Yoshida

Nobuaki Yoshioka

Kaori Yamauchi

Kei Tanimoto

Hiroko Endo

Wataru Tazoe

Akiomi Kouno

A urine disposal device for use with a urine detecting device that provides for smooth urination without compressing the wearer's urethra so that urination may be surely detected and voided urine may be quickly discharged out of the urine disposal devices. The urine disposal device has a front-back direction and includes a urination area having a first surface portion and a second surface portion cooperating to cover the penis of a wearer from the front-back direction and an opening through which the penis is inserted. The urination area has a urine collecting container provided in the second surface portion and the second surface portion lies on the side of the wearer's body.

Urine disposal device

A defecation detection apparatus including: a feces/urine receiving member that is placed to face the body of a wearer and that receives discharged feces and urine; a urine suction device that is detachably attached to the feces/urine receiving member and that can sucks urine discharged in the feces/urine receiving member; a temperature sensor that is placed at a defecation position where discharged feces are received in the feces/urine receiving member; and a control section that detects the presence of discharged feces based on a signal remaining after removing a signal that is output from the temperature sensor within a predetermined time after an operation of the urine suction device from a signal that is output from the temperature sensor.

Defecation detection apparatus

A water content detection sensor includes a circuit member in which low resistance conductors disposed in parallel to each other and a high resistance conductor connecting end portions of the respective low resistance conductors, a carrier body having a water-proof property and an insulating property, and a coating body having a water-proof property and an insulating property, the circuit portion being disposed between the carrier body and the coating body. A plurality of exposure holes is provided which expose the low resistance conductors at plural portions. When water content adheres between the exposure holes and the low resistance conductors are then short-circuited and a current value is made larger than that before the adhesion of the water content. When a small current passes, it is judged that the circuit is normal, and on the other hand, a large current passes, it is judged that water is generated.

Water content detection sensor

A urine suction device improved to achieve quick urine which includes a urine receiver unit and a urine detector unit. The urine detector unit includes a pair of electrode assemblies adapted to output a detection signal as soon as it is wetted with urine. The pair of electrode assemblies is sandwiched between a liquid-pervious first sheet and a liquid-pervious second sheet. The first and second sheets are put flat and joined together along joint zones provided outside respective pairs of opposite side edges of the electrode assemblies. Along the respective joint zones, at least one of the first and second sheets has its thickness locally reduced and the first and second sheets are kept in close contact with each other along the joint zones and in the vicinity of the joint zones.

Urine suction device

An excrement treating apparatusincludes an excretion receiverand an apparatus body. The excretion receiverincludes a receiver bodywhich receives excretions and an excretion sensorwhich detects the excretions. The apparatus bodyincludes a urine tankwhich stores urine, a vacuum pumpwhich sucks urine received by the receiver bodyinto the urine tank, and a control unit. The excretion sensorincludes a pair of urine sensor electrodesandwhich detect urine received by the receiver body. The control unitcontrols so as to reverse the polarity of the urine sensor electrodesandat prescribed time intervals. In the excrement treating apparatus, the excretion sensor's sensitivity is stabilized and urination is accurately detected and treated.

Excrement treating apparatus

An absorptive article in which a terminal section of a sensor is less likely to be damaged in production, packaging, and transportation. An output terminal () of a sensor member () is placed at a side end of a front edge () of a urine pad (). The side end of the front edge () is constructed only from a front face sheet () and a rear face sheet (). The front face sheet () and the rear face sheet () are not joined together and are separably arranged. When the urine pad () is not in use, the output terminal () is covered by the front face sheet () and the rear face sheet (). In use, the front face sheet () and the rear face sheet () are separated in the thickness direction and the output terminal () of the sensor member () is exposed.

Absorptive article

Here is disclosed a urine receiver. The urine receiver which collects urine of a wearer of the urine receiver under suction force has a container member provided with a bottom, a peripheral wall and flange. The container member has a suction tube which extends through the peripheral wall and has a urine suction port opening toward the interior of the container member and a urine evacuation port opening toward the exterior of the container member. The evacuation port is adapted to be connected to a connector of a urine suction means provided externally of the container member.

Urine receiver

A water content detection sensor includes a circuit member in which low resistance conductorsdisposed in parallel to each other and a high resistance conductorconnecting end portions of the respective low resistance conductors, a carrier bodyhaving a water-proof property and an insulating property, and a coating bodyhaving a water-proof property and an insulating property, the circuit portion being disposed between the carrier body and the coating body. A plurality of exposure holesare formed to the carrier body or the coating body so as to expose the low resistance conductors at plural portions, and when water content adheres between the exposure holes and the low resistance conductors are then short-circuited in a current conduction state, a current value is made larger than that before the adhesion of the water content. When a small current passes, it is judged that the circuit is normal, and on the other hand, a large current passes, it is judged that water is generated.

Water content detection sensor system

An excrement detection sensor in which two pairs of conductorsandare formed between a carrier bodyand a coating bodyboth having water-proof property and insulating property, wherein the cover body is formed with an urine introduction portcorrelating the paired conductors and with a faeces introduction portcorrelating the other paired conductors, and when urine enters into the urine introduction ports, the one pair of the conductors are short-circuited and when faeces enters into the faeces introduction ports, the other one pair of the conductors are short-circuited, whereby the urination and the evacuation can be distinctively detected.

Excrement detection sensor

In a urine receptacle of an automatic urine disposal device, a urine backflow prevention sheet, with no water permeability, having funnel-shaped pores, is placed between a top sheet and a urine absorbing sheet. A pair of rectangular electrodes, constituting a urine detection sensor, is glued onto an electrode support sheet and is placed between the top sheet and the urine backflow prevention sheet. A plurality of funnel-shaped pores is formed on the urine backflow prevention sheet.

Automatic urine disposal device and urine receptacle used therefor

Here is disclosed a urine receiver. The urine receiver comprises a container member adapted to suck urine discharged from a wearer of the urine receiver and a urine sensor provided with a pair of electrodes interposed between the container member and the wearer's skin and serving to detect the urine. The paired electrodes covered with insulating coating. The coating is formed with through-holes adapted to expose a limited area of the electrodes.

Urine sensor

A wearer wears a urine receptacle in which a urine absorbent materialis housed in a substantially rectangular, non-breathable, liquid-impermeable outer sheet having a U-shaped cross-section, and the surface of the urine absorbent material is covered with a hard-breathable, liquid permeable top sheet. Urine is discharged from a urine drainage port formed on the bottom surface of the outer sheet to a sealed urine tank by a vacuum pump through urine drainage tubes.

Negative pressure urine receiver

An automatic urine disposal device has a urine collecting pad, vacuum pump, and urine tank. In the urine collecting pad, the top sheet comes in contact with the wearer's skin, the hydrophilic sheet is disposed on the bottom of the top sheet, and the urine absorbent sheet is disposed at the bottom. When discharged urine flows in the top sheet, the hydrophilic sheet widely diffuses urine to saturate its entire surface and then becomes non-breathable. As the vacuum pump vacuums the air from the urine tank, urine is directed from a urine drainage port of the urine collecting pad via a urine drainage tube to the urine tank which is a sealed container.

A urine receiver which is sanitary, easy to attach, and furthermore, prevents urine leakage even when a wearer repeatedly changes positions is provided. A urine receiveris implemented in a urine collection processing system wherein urine discharged from the wearer is suctioned into a urine tank via a urethral tube. The urine receivercomprises, at the least: a liquid permeable, air-impermeable sheetwhich is placed opposite of and covering the urethral meatus of the wearer; a leak-proof sheetwhich is placed on the surface of the air-impermeable sheetopposite to the urethral meatus and bonds to the outer border of the air-impermeable sheet; a suction partwhich is provided between the air-impermeable sheetand the leak-proof sheetand to which the urethral tubeis connected; and a gathers partfor sealing the space between the air-impermeable sheetand the wearer's skin surface which is provided on the outer border part of the air-impermeable sheeton the urethral meatus side.

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Kagawa, Japan

Miou Suzuki