Unicharm Corporation

Uni-charm Petcare Corporation

Aruze Corporation

Shingo Shimizu

Yoshitaka Mishima

Takayuki Matsuo

Takeshi Ikegami

Hideyuki Suzuki

Takamitsu Igaue

Tomoko Tsuji

Toshiyasu Yoshioka

Shotaro Mochizuki

Hideaki Kitaoka

Masaki Murakami

Yoshikazu Ohnuki

The present invention provides a floor material for pet animal urination, which has an effect to allow urine to pass through by suppressing speed and amount of urine absorption, as well as an effect of low water absorbency allowing to gradually absorb residual urine sweating the grain surface, which also has good shape retentivity so as not to be collapsed even if urine is absorbed, and thus which is highly suitable as a floor material for pet animal urination. There is provided a floor material for pet animal urination, wherein a surface of each of water-absorbing grains (') is coated by a slow water-semipermeable coating (); and because of the slow water-semipermeable coating (), urine is prompted to pass between the water-absorbing grains, and residual urine () sweating the surface of the water-semipermeable coating () is gradually absorbed into the water-absorbing grains (&#x2032;) through the water-semipermeable coating ().

Floor material for pet animal urination

Provided is a litter, related to litter used for animal litter, which suppresses odors due to excretory substances remaining in litter and litter container using thereof. This animal litter comprises a plurality of granular materials, one part of a surface thereof comprising first granular material having water-shedding properties and second granular material having liquid-absorbing properties.

Animal litter

Animal litter includes a plurality of granular materials, each having a water-shedding part and a liquid-absorbing part.

A disposable diaper includes a pair of barrier flaps formed on an inner side of a disposable diaper. The barrier flaps are made of a spun bond nonwoven fabric of wick/sleeve type conjugated fibers having a polyethylen sleeve component. The spun bond nonwoven fabric has a relative hardness of 40&tilde;50 mm in an MD-direction, 20&tilde;37 mm in a CD-direction as measured by the cantilever method and a basis weight of 15&tilde;30 g/m . The respective barrier flaps are provided in their sealing surface zones with elastic members secured under tension thereto.

Disposable diaper

A gaming machine has a display arrangement for displaying symbols that are related to a game, and a controller that determines in response to a predetermined input signal whether or not the game condition will be transferred to a specified game condition that is advantageous to the player and controls the display arrangement to display a display mode corresponding to the result of the determination. The display mode includes a special symbol for informing that the game condition is transferred to the specified game condition by showing a predetermined stop state when a symbol variation is stopped, and a predictive symbol for predicting the stop state of the special symbol. The predictive symbol is provided as plural kinds of symbols having respective relationship. The gaming machine can provide to a player an indication of the possibility to transfer to a special game condition depending on the meaning of the relationship of the symbols that are displayed.

Gaming machine

A topsheet for body fluids absorbent article having a plurality of liquid-pervious apertures, the topsheet including an upper fibrous layer having a relatively low density and a lower fibrous layer having a relatively high density. Around each of the apertures, the first and second fibrous layers are integrated together so that the topsheet has a density progressively increasing from an upper surface towards a lower surface of the topsheet and has, in the proximity of the lower surface, a density further higher than in the second fibrous layer. The topsheet thus formed improves so that an upper surface thereof can be maintained in a dry state during use of the article having the topsheet.

Topsheet for body fluids absorbent article

A disposable diaper including a liquid-absorbent pad including an absorptive core and upper and lower absorptive sheets covering upper and lower surfaces of the absorptive core, respectively. The upper and lower absorptive sheets are bonded to the upper and lower surfaces of the absorptive core by means of adhesive applied on respective inner surfaces of the upper and lower absorptive sheets, and bonded to each other by means of the same adhesive at their portions extending outward beyond longitudinally opposite ends and transversely opposite side edges of the absorptive core. The adhesive describes spirals extending longitudinally of the diaper and these spirals on upper and lower absorptive sheets transversely alternate and each pair of adjacent spirals overlap each other at their transversely opposite side edges except in the proximities of their axes.

A disposable diaper provided with a pair of tape fasteners each having a proximal end section secured to a side portion of a rear waist region of the diaper and a distal end section folded back onto an inner surface of the diaper, a part of the distal end section is releasably welded to the inner surface of the diaper and thereby to facilitate handling of the diaper when it is put on the wearer.

Mechanical fastening system for disposable articles

A disposable body fluids absorbent article including a liquid-permeable topsheet 2, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and a liquid-absorbent core 4 disposed therebetween. The topsheet includes a hydrophobic first fibrous layer made of thermally meltable synthetic fibers having a fineness of 0.02.about.0.04 d, a hydrophobic second fibrous layer underlying the first fibrous layer and made of thermoplastic synthetic fibers and having a fineness of 1.0.about.2.5 d and a hydrophilic third fibrous layer underlying the second fibrous layer and made of thermally meltable synthetic fibers and having a fineness of 3.about.6 d. A plurality of hollows extend through the first and second fibrous layers so that these hollows are closed by the third fibrous layer so as to form a plurality of recesses.

Disposable body fluids absorbent article

A sanitary tampon applicator includes an outer cylinder around which there is provided a stopper having differently dimensioned vertical and horizontal extents. The stopper is tilted rearward at a desired angle along the vertical extent thereof.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shingo Shimizu