BODILY FLUID TREATING ARTICLE AND WEARING ARTICLE INCLUDING SAME

• US 20110276020A1
• Filed: 12/21/2009
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Inventors: Mitsui, Koichiro
• Application Number:
  US13/144,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276020A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/385.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/49 Absorbent articles specially adapted to be worn around the waist, e.g. diapers
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/84 Accessories, not otherwise provided for, for absorbent pads
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/4405 Valves or valve arrangements specially adapted therefor A61F5/441 takes precedence; Fluid inlets or outlets A61F5/4407 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/451 Genital or anal receptacles A61F5/441, A61F5/442, A61F5/443 take precedence ; other body securing means A61F5/4408; devices for taking faeces samples A61B10/0038; devices for taking urine samples A61B10/007

Abstract

The present invention provides a bodily fluid treating article improved so as to assure that bodily fluids do not leak therefrom particularly when the wearer'"'"'s body weight is exerted thereon or the wearer'"'"'s posture changes, and a wearing article including the same. A bodily fluid treating article 1 is attached to a diaper 2 of a wearing article. A bodyside liner 61 and a backsheet 62 of the diaper 2 are formed with a chassis opening 59 extending therethrough in a thickness direction of them. A liquid-absorbent core 71 or a liquid-absorbent structure 70 is formed with a liquid-guiding opening 74 extending therethrough so as to be centrally aligned with the chassis opening 59. Within the liquid-guiding opening 74, a valve seat member 20 is provided as a component of the bodily fluid treating article 1 so that the outermost peripheral edge 25 of the valve seat member 20 may fit in the liquid-guiding opening 74. The opening 11 of the container 10 is exposed on the side facing the wearer'"'"'s body by the intermediary of the liquid-guiding opening 74 and faces the wearer'"'"'s external genitals.

Claims

1. A bodily fluid treating article having an opening through which bodily fluids flow into the article and an absorbent structure adapted to contain the bodily fluids flowing into the article, the bodily fluid treating article being characterized in that:

the bodily fluid treating article includes backflow preventing means adapted to restrict a possibility that the bodily fluids once having been collected within the container might flow back from the container through the opening;

the backflow preventing means comprises a valve seat member located in the opening, a valve plug adapted to come in watertight contact with the valve seat member and a supporting member serving to prevent the valve plug from falling into the container wherein the bodily fluids can flow into the container when the valve seat member and the valve plug are spaced from each other.

2. The bodily fluid treating article defined by claim 1, wherein:

the valve seat member includes a valve port extending from the interior to the exterior of the container;

and the valve plug comprises a small diameter segment having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the valve port, a contact region adapted to come in watertight contact with the valve port and a large diameter segment having a diameter larger than the diameter of the valve port wherein the contact region is defined between the small diameter segment and the large diameter segment of the valve plug, the small diameter segment defined at a level of the valve plug more remote than the large diameter segment outward from the container.

3. The bodily fluid treating article defined by claim 1, wherein the valve plug is set to have its density lower than a density of the bodily fluids.

4. The bodily fluid treating article defined by claim 1, wherein the supporting member is liquid pervious and located on the side of the valve plug facing the container.

5. A wearing article including a chassis which comprises a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a side facing the wearer'"'"'s body, a side facing away from the wearer'"'"'s body, a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending between the front and rear waist regions wherein the front waist region, the crotch region and the rear waist region are continuous in this order, the wearing article being characterized in that:

the wearing article includes the bodily fluid treating article defined by claim 1 at least in the crotch region; and

the opening of the bodily fluid treating article opens on the side facing the wearer'"'"'s body.

6. The wearing article defined by claim 5, wherein the chassis includes a chassis opening formed in the crotch region and centrally aligned with the opening of the bodily fluid treating article and the container lies on the side facing away from the wearer'"'"'s body.

7. The wearing article defined by claim 5, wherein:

the wearing article includes a liquid-absorbent structure at least in the crotch region;

the liquid-guiding opening is centrally aligned with the opening of the bodily fluid treating article and the container is located on the side opposite to the liquid-absorbent structure.