Non-woven fabric substrate for wiping sheet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9782051-B2
Application number	US-201314440559-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 8, 2013
Priority date	Dec 4, 2012
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a nonwoven fabric substrate ( 1 ) in which ridges ( 2 ) and grooves ( 3 ) are alternately formed at positions corresponding to each other on each of both surfaces ( 1 a, 1 b ), and apertures ( 4 ) penetrating the grooves ( 3 ) of both surfaces are formed. The ridges ( 2 ) and the grooves ( 3 ) extend parallel to each other. The ridges ( 2 ) and the grooves ( 3 ) extend in a direction intersecting with each of a pair of both sides ( 1 c, 1 d ) extending in parallel of the nonwoven fabric substrate ( 1 ). In planar view, each of the grooves ( 3 ) alternately includes an aperture portion ( 3 h ) which has a plurality of the apertures ( 4 ), and a non-aperture portion which has no aperture ( 4 ) and is longer than a distance between the nearest end portions of the adjacent apertures ( 4 ) in the aperture portion ( 3 h ), and arrangement patterns of the aperture portion ( 3 h ) and the non-aperture portion ( 3 n ) provided in the adjacent grooves ( 3 ) are different from each other. When the nonwoven fabric substrate ( 1 ) is seen in planar view, the nonwoven fabric substrate ( 1 ) has an aperture region ( 11 ) formed by the aperture portion ( 3 h ) of the plurality of grooves ( 3 ), and a non-aperture region ( 12 ) formed by the non-aperture portion ( 3 n ), and the aperture region ( 11 ) and the non-aperture region ( 12 ) are arranged in a predetermined pattern.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet in which ridges and grooves are alternately formed at positions corresponding to each other on each of both surfaces, and apertures penetrating the grooves of both surfaces are formed,
wherein the ridges and the grooves extend parallel to each other, and extend in a direction intersecting with each pair of sides extending in parallel of the nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet,
in planar view, each of the grooves alternately includes an aperture portion which has a plurality of the apertures, and a non-aperture portion which has no aperture and is longer than a distance between the nearest end portions of the adjacent apertures in the aperture portion, and an arrangement pattern of the aperture portions and the non-aperture portions provided in the grooves is different from an arrangement pattern of the aperture portions and the non-aperture portions provided in adjacent grooves,
when a whole of the nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet is seen in planar view, the nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet includes aperture regions formed by the aperture portions of the plurality of grooves, and non-aperture regions formed by the non-aperture portions of the plurality of grooves,
each of the aperture regions and the non-aperture regions is arranged in a predetermined pattern,
wherein the aperture regions include a first aperture region arranged in a pattern in which a diamond shape is periodically repeated and spaced/discrete, and a second aperture region arranged in a pattern in which a V shape is periodically repeated and connected/continuous, in the extending direction of the aperture regions, and the first aperture region and the second aperture region have a pattern arranged alternately with the non-aperture regions interposed therebetween in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the aperture regions, and
wherein the non-aperture regions include a first non-aperture region in which the V shape is repeatedly arranged in the extending direction of the non-aperture regions, and a second non-aperture region in which an inverted V shape is repeatedly arranged in the extending direction of the non-aperture regions, so as to surround the diamond shapes of the first aperture region.

2. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the aperture regions and the non-aperture regions is arranged in a pattern in which each of the extending direction of the aperture regions and the extending direction of the non-aperture regions intersects with the extending direction of each of the ridges and grooves.

3. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according to claim 1 ,
wherein the apertures are formed by dividing and rearranging constituent fibers of the nonwoven fabric substrate.

4. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according to claim 1 ,
wherein the aperture regions include additional first aperture regions, wherein adjacent first aperture regions have the periodically repeated and spaced/discrete diamond shapes shifted by a half pitch.

5. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the non-aperture regions include additional first non-aperture regions, wherein adjacent first non-aperture regions have the repeatedly arranged V shapes periodically shifted by a half pitch.

6. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according to claim 1 , wherein the non-aperture regions have a constant width in the extending direction of the non-aperture regions, and the width is wider than an interval between the apertures adjacent to each other in the direction of the grooves in the aperture portions.

7. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according claim 1 , wherein the width of the first non-aperture region and the width of the second non-aperture region are formed in the same width.

8. The nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet according to claim 1 ,
wherein the nonwoven fabric substrate for wiping sheet is impregnated with a chemical solution.

Assignees

• Kao Corp

Inventors

• Hayase Taeko
• Shirasaki Emiko
• Wada Minoru

Classifications

• Y10T442/689

  Hydroentangled nonwoven fabric · CPC title

• Y10T442/60

  Nonwoven fabric [i.e., nonwoven strand or fiber material] · CPC title

• Y10T442/277

  Coated or impregnated cellulosic fiber fabric · CPC title

• Y10T442/2525

  Coating or impregnation functions biologically [e.g., insect repellent, antiseptic, insecticide, bactericide, etc.] · CPC title

• Y10T442/20

  Coated or impregnated woven, knit, or nonwoven fabric which is not [a] associated with another preformed layer or fiber layer or, [b] with respect to woven and knit, characterized, respectively, by a particular or differential weave or knit, wherein the coating or impregnation is neither a foamed material nor a free metal or alloy layer · CPC title