JP2005137582A - Disposable absorbent article - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disposable absorbent article which enables a user to identify the back and front parts reliably. <P>SOLUTION: A back side part 13 around hips is formed on a diaper body 1. An elastic body 23 for the part around the hips is provided on the back side part 13 around hips. A back-and-front-side identifying member 26 with a protruded identifying part enabling the user to identify the front part from the back part by the sense of touch is provided on a part without the elastic body 23 for the part around the hips on the back side part 13 around hips. If the user wears the diaper in a dark place or a visually impaired person wears it, he/she can identify the back and front sides of the diaper body 1 reliably. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a disposable absorbent article for adults or for incontinence.

  Conventionally, this type of disposable absorbent article is provided with a substantially square-shaped absorbent article body having a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impervious back sheet, and an absorbent body disposed between the two sheets. . In this absorbent article body, a back side waist part, a both-sides leg part, and a front side abdomen waist part, which are the rear side, are integrally formed in order in the longitudinal direction. Further, the absorbent article body is formed in a pants shape having one waist opening and a pair of leg openings, with both sides of the back waist and abdomen waist joined together. . And the waist elastic body is provided in the back waist part and the abdominal waist part so that expansion and contraction is possible over the entire circumference of the waist opening.

  However, with this disposable absorbent article, it is not easy to identify the front and rear when wearing.

For this reason, a pattern or a character is applied in advance to at least one of a front body and a back body or a part of the pant-shaped absorbent article body, or a member to which a pattern or a character is applied is pasted. Thus, there is known a configuration that enables front and rear identification (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-298801 (page 2-4, FIGS. 1 to 4)

  However, in the above-mentioned disposable absorbent article, although it is possible to identify the front and back when acting in a bright place or when the caregiver wears on the wearer, for example, wearing at night or in a dark place, eyes are not good. When a free person wears it, there is a problem that it is difficult to see a pattern or characters and it is difficult to identify the front and back.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a point, and it aims at providing the disposable absorbent article which can identify front and back reliably.

  The disposable absorbent article according to claim 1 includes a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impervious back sheet, and an absorber disposed between the liquid-permeable top sheet and the liquid-impervious back sheet. A back waist part, a crotch part formed with leg parts on both sides, and an abdomen waist part are sequentially integrally formed in the longitudinal direction, and both sides of the back side waist part in the width direction; An absorptive article body in which both sides in the width direction of the abdominal waistline are joined to form a waistline opening and a pair of leg hole openings is provided, and the waistline opening includes the back A waist elastic body extending over the side waist and the abdomen waist is disposed on the entire periphery of the edge, and the pair of leg openings are for the legs around the entire periphery of the edge. Each of the elastic bodies is disposed, and at least one of the back side waist part and the ventral side waist part The portion where the waist elastic member is not disposed, in which the front and rear discriminating member having an identification part that allows identifying the longitudinal provided tactilely.

  And the identification which makes it possible to identify the front and back by a tactile sensation in a portion where at least one of the back waist part and the abdomen waist part formed in the absorbent article body is not provided By providing the front / rear identification member provided with the portion, it is possible to reliably identify the front / rear, for example, when worn in a dark place or when worn by a blind person.

  The disposable absorbent article according to claim 2 is the disposable absorbent article according to claim 1, wherein the absorbent article body is an inner sheet piece facing the liquid-impermeable back sheet side and an outer sheet facing the outer side. The exterior sheet | seat which has a piece and was couple | bonded with the outer surface side of the said liquid-impermeable back sheet | seat is provided, and the member for front-back identification is provided between the said inner side sheet piece and the said outer side sheet piece.

  And front and rear identification between the inner sheet piece facing the liquid-impervious back sheet side of the exterior sheet bonded to the outer surface side of the liquid-impervious back sheet of the absorbent article body and the outer sheet piece facing the outside By providing the working member, it is possible to identify the identification portion from the outside of the absorbent article body by tactile sense, and to prevent the texture from being impaired.

  The disposable absorbent article according to claim 3 is the disposable absorbent article according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the identification portion is in Braille.

  In addition, by using the braille as the identification unit, for example, a visually impaired person can more reliably identify the front and rear.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the front and rear can be identified by tactile sensation in a portion where at least one of the back waist portion and the abdominal waist portion is not provided with the waist elastic body. By providing the front / rear identification member provided with the portion, it is possible to reliably identify the front / rear, for example, when wearing in a dark place or when wearing by a blind person.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the front and rear identification member is provided between the inner sheet piece facing the liquid-impervious back sheet side and the outer sheet piece facing the outer side. From this, it is possible to identify the identification part by touch, and to prevent the texture from being impaired.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the front and rear can be more reliably identified by, for example, a blind person, for example, by using braille as the identification unit.

  Hereinafter, the structure of the disposable absorbent article of the 1st Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG.

  In FIG. 1, the disposable absorbent article is a disposable paper diaper, for example, and includes a diaper body 1 as an absorbent article body. This diaper body 1 is worn along the body from the back side to the abdomen side of a wearer, such as a sick person or an incontinence person, from the unfolded state shown in FIG. 1 to the pants shape shown in FIG. . And this diaper body 1 has a liquid-permeable surface sheet 2 having liquid permeability, a liquid-impermeable back sheet 3 having liquid-imperviousness, these liquid-permeable surface sheet 2 and liquid-impermeable back sheet 3 The liquid-absorbing absorber 4 and the outer sheet 5 bonded to the outer surface side of the liquid-impermeable back sheet 3 are layered.

  Further, the liquid-permeable top sheet 2 and the liquid-impervious back sheet 3 are bonded to each other at the peripheral edge with an adhesive or the like, and the absorbent body 4 is sealed.

  Here, the liquid-permeable surface sheet 2 is formed of a sheet material that has liquid permeability and air permeability and is close to underwear, such as woven fabric, nonwoven fabric, porous film, or synthetic fiber. The excretory fluid is permeated to the absorber 4 and does not cause discomfort even if it directly contacts the body.

  The liquid-impermeable back sheet 3 is formed of a liquid-permeable and air-permeable sheet material such as a synthetic resin such as polyethylene (polyethylene) resin, for example, underwear such as urine. Prevents dirt from other clothes or sheets.

  Furthermore, the absorber 4 is formed into a sheet shape with a material mainly including pulp and partially including a substance such as a polymer absorber, and sufficiently absorbs excretory fluid such as urine.

  And these liquid-permeable surface sheets 2, the liquid-impermeable back sheet 3, and the absorber 4 are sequentially formed in the substantially square shape along the longitudinal direction of the diaper body 1, as shown in FIG.

  Furthermore, the exterior sheet 5 is formed to be larger than the liquid-permeable top sheet 2, the liquid-impervious back sheet 3 and the absorber 4, and has air permeability and liquid-imperviousness on the liquid-impervious back sheet 3 side. The inner sheet piece 11 facing the outer sheet piece 12 facing the outer side is formed by overlapping and integrally joining in the thickness direction, and the outer surface of the liquid-impermeable back sheet 3 is formed on the inner sheet piece 11. For example, it is joined with an adhesive or the like.

  In the unfolded state, the exterior sheet 5 has a back waist part 13, a crotch part 14, and an abdomen waist part 15 formed integrally in the longitudinal direction of the diaper body 1 in sequence, and substantially in the longitudinal direction. The crotch part 14 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape that is line-symmetric with respect to the center line, and leg side parts 16 that are cut out in a substantially concave arc shape are formed on both side edges in the width direction of the crotch part 14.

  Further, the liquid-permeable top sheet 2, the liquid-impermeable back sheet 3 and the absorbent body 4 are substantially along the longitudinal direction of the exterior sheet 5 of the diaper body 1, and the back waist part 13 and the crotch part 14 In addition, the ventral waist part 15 is disposed over substantially the center.

  Further, the back waist portion 13 of the outer sheet 5 of the diaper body 1 is formed on one end side in the longitudinal direction of the diaper body 1 in the unfolded state, and the diaper body 1 is appropriately bent from this unfolded state, It is the part located on the back side of the waist. A dorsal coupling portion (not shown) is formed on both outer edges of the dorsal waist portion 13.

  Moreover, the crotch part 14 of the diaper body 1 is integrated with the longitudinal direction side of the diaper body 1 from the back waist part 13 to the abdomen waist part 15 in the middle part in the longitudinal direction in the unfolded state. The diaper body 1 is appropriately bent from this unfolded state, and is a portion located in the crotch of the wearer.

  And the abdominal side waist part 15 of the diaper body 1 is continuously formed integrally with the other end side opposite to the back side waist part 13 of the crotch part 14 in the longitudinal direction of the diaper body 1 in the unfolded state. The diaper body 1 is appropriately bent from this developed state, and is a portion located on the abdomen side around the waist of the wearer. The abdomen waistline 15 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape having a longitudinal direction substantially along the width direction of the diaper body 1, similarly to the back waistline 13.

  Further, in the vicinity of both outer side portions of the abdominal waistline portion 15, a ventral side coupling portion (not shown) joined to the backside coupling portion of the backside waistline portion 13 is provided. Then, by joining these abdominal side coupling portions to the back side coupling portion, as shown in FIG. 2, a waist circumference opening 21 is formed by the back side waist circumference portion 13 and the ventral side waist circumference portion 15, and a pair of A pair of leg openings 22 are formed by the leg parts 16 of the leg.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of, for example, three waist elastic bodies 23 are disposed between the inner sheet piece 11 and the outer sheet piece 12 in both waist portions 13, 15. . These waist elastic bodies 23 are elastic members such as string-like rubber, for example, and are stretched in the width direction of both waist parts 13 and 15, respectively, in the width direction of both waist parts 13 and 15 Are attached to each other with an adhesive or the like, and are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the diaper body 1 so as to be spaced apart from each other at substantially equal intervals.

  Therefore, these waist elastic bodies 23 are disposed over the entire circumference of the edge of the waist opening 21 when the diaper body 1 is formed in the pants shape shown in FIG. As a result, the elastic body 23 for waistline provides stretchability over substantially the entire area of the back waistline part 13 and the abdomen waistline part 15, that is, substantially the entire circumference of the wearer's waistline.

  Further, in the vicinity of both leg portions 16 positioned between the inner sheet piece 11 and the outer sheet piece 12 of the exterior sheet 5, for example, leg elastic bodies 24 such as string-like rubber are arranged in an extended state. Has been. That is, the leg-hole elastic body 24 is disposed over the entire circumference of the leg-hole opening 22. For this reason, the leg periphery 16 is given elasticity in the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the diaper body 1 by the leg periphery elastic body 24, and the leg periphery 16 of the diaper body 1 is formed in a gathered portion. .

  Furthermore, a rectangular front-rear identification member provided with an identification portion 25 at a position where the waist elastic body 23 is not disposed on the outer surface of the ventral waist portion 15 which is the front body of the exterior sheet 5. 26 is affixed.

  The identification unit 25 is a letter such as a convex “mae” protruding from the front / rear identification member 26 toward the front side of the diaper body 1, for example, both visually and tactilely before and after the diaper body 1 having a pant shape. Can be identified by The identification unit 25 is formed in a convex shape that can be identified when the wearer touches it with a finger or the like.

  The front / rear identifying member 26 is formed of a synthetic resin film such as polypropylene or polyethylene terephthalate. Further, the front / rear identification member 26 is provided at a position corresponding to the absorber 4. The front / rear identification member 26 preferably has a relatively low rigidity so as not to impair the texture of the diaper body 1. Specifically, the front / rear identification member 26 is formed of a synthetic resin film having a thickness of, for example, 0.01 mm to 0.1 mm in a thickness of about 2 cm × 2 cm.

  The front / rear identification member 26 is provided in the center region in the width direction of the diaper body 1.

  The front / rear identification member 26 is formed to be relatively large, for example, in a width dimension substantially equal to the width dimension of the absorber 4 in consideration of the visual acuity and tactile sensation of the wearer.

  Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described.

  At the time of wearing, the diaper body 1 is formed into a pants shape shown in FIG.

  At this time, the wearer or the like can touch the identification part 25 of the front / rear identification member 26 with his / her finger to identify the front / rear of the pant-shaped diaper body 1 by tactile sense. For example, when a person with reduced mobility wears it, the front and back can be reliably identified, and the front and back of the diaper body 1 can be easily worn without making a mistake.

  Moreover, since the front and back of the pants-shaped diaper body 1 can be discriminated both by tactile sensation and vision by using characters such as “mae” as the identification unit 25, the usability can be improved and the diaper body 1 can be more reliably connected. Can identify front and back.

  Further, by providing the front / rear identification member 26 at a position corresponding to the absorbent body 4, the stiffness of the synthetic resin film that forms the front / rear identification member 26 is prevented while preventing the texture of the diaper body 1 from being impaired. The diaper body 1 can be used without making it difficult to wear the diaper body.

  In the first embodiment, the front / rear identifying member 26 may be provided on the back waist portion 13 which is the back body of the diaper body 1 of the pants shape. In this case, the same effect as that of the first embodiment can be obtained by making the identification unit 25 a character such as “back”.

  Further, a configuration in which the front / rear identification member 26 is provided on both the back waist part 13 and the abdomen waist part 15 is also possible. In this case, the front and back of the pants-shaped diaper body 1 can be identified more reliably.

  Furthermore, even if the identification unit 25 is configured to be colored or provided with a pattern, the same effect as the case where the identification unit 25 is a character can be obtained.

  Next, a second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In addition, about the structure and effect | action similar to the said one Embodiment, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and the description is abbreviate | omitted.

  In FIG. 3, the front / rear identification member 26 is provided between the inner sheet piece 11 and the outer sheet piece 12, and protrudes to the front side of the diaper body 1.

  Further, the identification unit 25 is provided so as to contact the surface of the outer sheet piece 12 on the inner sheet piece 11 side and push the outer sheet piece 12 forward. Accordingly, the identification unit 25 can be identified from both the tactile sense and the visual sense from the outside of the diaper body 1.

  Then, by providing the front / rear identification member 26 between the inner sheet piece 11 and the outer sheet piece 12, it is possible to identify the identification unit 25 from the outside of the diaper body 1 by tactile sense, and the outermost piece of the diaper body 1. Since the exterior is covered with the outer sheet piece 12, it is possible to prevent the texture of the diaper body 1 from being impaired.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, as shown in FIG. 4, it is possible to provide a braille 31 as an identification portion on the front / rear identification member 26. The braille 31 is displayed as, for example, “mae”. For example, even when a blind person wears the braille 31, not only by identifying the unevenness of the braille 31 but also by reading the braille 31, the front and back of the diaper body 1 Can be identified, so that the front and rear can be identified more reliably.

  Similarly, as shown in FIG. 5, a configuration is also possible in which “back” is displayed in the Braille 31 and the front / rear identification member 26 is provided in the back waist portion 13.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, a configuration in which the identification unit 25 and the Braille 31 are provided together on the front / rear identification member 26 is also possible. In this case, for example, a person who is not visually impaired can reliably identify the front and back of the diaper body 1 by both the tactile sensation and the sight by the identification unit 25, and a person who is blind is haptic and visually identifiable by the Braille 35. Since both the front and rear of the diaper body 1 can be reliably identified, the usability can be further improved.

  Further, the front / rear identification member 26 can be provided at a position not corresponding to at least one of the absorber 4 of the back waist part 13 and the abdomen waist part 15.

  And if the identification part 25 can identify the front-back direction of the diaper body 1 by a tactile sense, not only the structure which protrudes with respect to the member 26 for front-back identification but the structure provided concavely with respect to the member 26 for front-back identification, etc. are possible. is there.

  The identification unit 25 may be a simple unevenness. In this case, since the identification part 25 can be easily formed on the front / rear identification member 26, the productivity can be improved.

It is a top view which shows the expansion | deployment state of the disposable absorbent article of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view which cuts out a part and disposes a disposable absorbent article same as the above. It is a perspective view which shows the disposable absorbent article of the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a top view which shows the member for front-back identification displayed as "before" in the braille of other embodiment of a disposable absorbent article same as the above. It is a top view which shows the member for front-back identification displayed as "back" in the braille of other embodiment of the disposable absorbent article same as the above. It is a top view which shows the member for front-back identification of other embodiment of a disposable absorbent article same as the above.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Diaper body as absorbent article body 2 Liquid-permeable surface sheet 3 Liquid-impermeable back sheet 4 Absorber 5 Exterior sheet
11 Inner sheet piece
12 Outer sheet piece
13 Back waist
14 Inseam area
15 Ventral waist area
16 Leg circumference
21 waist opening
22 Leg opening
23 Elastic body for waist
24 Leg elastics
25 Identification part
26 Front / rear identification member
31 Braille as identification part

Claims (3)

Each has a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impervious back sheet, and an absorbent body disposed between the liquid-permeable top sheet and the liquid-impervious back sheet, and has a back waist portion and legs on both sides. The crotch part and the abdominal waist part which formed the part are integrally formed sequentially in the longitudinal direction, and both side parts in the width direction of the dorsal waist part and both sides in the width direction of the ventral waist part An absorbent article body in which a waist part opening part and a pair of leg part opening parts are formed.
In the waist opening, an elastic body for waist around the back waist and the abdomen waist is disposed on the entire circumference of the edge,
Each of the pair of leg openings is provided with a leg elastic body over the entire circumference of the edge,
At least one of the back waist part and the abdomen waist part is provided with an identification part that can identify the front and back by a tactile sense in a portion where the waist elastic body is not disposed A disposable absorbent article characterized in that an identification member is provided. The absorbent article body includes an outer sheet that has an inner sheet piece facing the liquid-impervious back sheet side and an outer sheet piece facing the outer side, and is bonded to the outer surface side of the liquid-impervious back sheet. ,
The disposable absorbent article according to claim 1, wherein the front / rear identification member is provided between the inner sheet piece and the outer sheet piece. The disposable absorbent article according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the identification part is braille.

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