# US 7,611,767 B2 · Foot warming heating element and method of manufacturing foot warming heating element > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,611,767 B2 - Document ID: US7611767B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 10/475,513 - Filed: 2003-04-11 - Published: 2004-08-05 - Granted: 2009-11-03 - Earliest claimed: 2002-05-20 - Assignees: Mycoal Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Kaoru Usui; Michio Aida; Hisao Kimura; Masato Nakamura; Yoshikazu Sakamaki; Toshihiro Dodo - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7611767B2 ## CPC - A61F 7/034: {Flameless} - A61F 2007/0045: {Foot} - A61F 2007/0098: {ways of manufacturing heating or cooling devices for therapy} - A61F 2007/026: {with a fluid absorbing layer} - A61N 2005/066: {far infrared} - Y10T 156/1052: with cutting, punching, tearing or severing - Y10T 428/24802: Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.] - Y10T 428/24893: including particulate material - Y10T 428/24909: Free metal or mineral containing - Y10T 428/249994: Composite having a component wherein a constituent is liquid or is contained within preformed walls [e.g., impregnant-filled, previously void containing component, etc.] - Y10T 428/28: Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component and having an adhesive outermost layer - Y10T 428/2848: Three or more layers - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) - A61N: ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infrared radiators for heating H05B) - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract There is provided such a heat-generating body for warming a foot in that a heat-generating composition is used that can retain the shape thereof irrespective of the pressure inside the container bag upon using by application to a foot, a footgear or a sock. The heat-generating body of the invention for warming a foot is characterized in that it contains a heat-generating formed article causing a heat-generating reaction in the presence of air and having a shape retaining degree of 70 or more charged in a container bag constituted with a base material, a covering material and the like. Further a process is provided for producing a heat-generating body for warming a foot in that the heat generation reaction of the heat-generating composition is suppressed to prevent loss due to the heat-generating reaction during production, quality deterioration of the heat-generating composition, and other problems. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A heat-generating body for warming a foot which comprises a container bag formed of a base material and a covering material and said container bag being charged with a formed heat-generating composition which can cause a heat generating reaction in the presence of air, the container bag being air permeable on at least at a part thereof; the formed heat-generating composition has a water mobility value of from 6 to 20, and the heat-generating composition contains, as essential components, from 1.0 to 50 parts by weight of a carbon component, from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a reaction accelerator and from 20 to 60 parts by weight of water, per 100 parts by weight of iron powder as a heat-generating substance generating heat upon reaction with oxygen, to which at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a water retaining agent, a water absorbing polymer, a pH adjusting agent, a hydrogen generation suppressing agent, a syneresis preventing stabilizer, a surface active agent, a defoaming agent, a hydrophobic polymer compound, a pyroelectric substance, a far infrared ray radiating substance, a negative ion generating substance, an aggregate, a fibrous material, a thickener, a binder, a fertilizer component and a heat-generating assistant is mixed depending on necessity. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the formed heat-generating composition has a structure containing two or more layers having different compositional ratios. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that a part of at least one of the base material and the covering material has a water absorbing capability, water of the formed heat-generating composition is absorbed by a material having water absorption property among the base material and the covering material, and the heat generating body is substantially in a state capable of generating heat in air. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the container bag, constituting the heat-generating body for warming foot, is water nonabsorbing, and the formed heat-generating composition is in a dehydrated state to enable substantial heat generation in air by at least one means selected from the group consisting of physical forced drainage by compression, decompression, compression and decompression; diffusion of water content by allowing to stand, and water absorption with a water absorbing material or a water absorbing agent. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that concave and convex parts are provided on a part of at least one of the base material and the covering material, and a heat-generating composition is provided at least on the concave part. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that concave and convex parts are provided on a part of at least one of the base material and the covering material. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that an air permeable adhesive layer is provided between the heat-generating composition and a member selected from the group consisting of the base material and the covering material. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the base material and the covering material are sealed at least at an outer peripheral part of the formed heat-generating article by adhesion, cohesion or fusion. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the heat-generating body for warming a foot corresponds to a plane surface of an entire foot. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the heat-generating body for warming a foot corresponds to a plane surface of a part of a foot. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the heat-generating body for warming a foot has a part having no formed heat-generating composition present, and has at least one part, at which the heat-generating body is capable of being folded up at that part. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the container bag has an antislipping layer on at least a part thereof. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that an adhesive agent layer is laminated on at least a part of at least one of exposed surfaces of at least one of the base material and the covering material. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that a medical or sanitary agent is carried on at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a formed heat-generating composition, an adhesive agent layer, the base material and the covering material. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that at least one of a character, a symbol, a numeral, a pattern, a photograph and a picture is provided on at least a part of constitutional components of the heat-generating body for warming a foot. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that at least a part of constitutional components of the heat-generating body for warming a foot is colored. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) A heat-generating body for warming a foot as described in claim 1, characterized in that the heat-generating body for warming a foot is charged and sealed in an air nonpermeable container bag. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) A process for producing a heat-generating body for warming a foot characterized in that the production process contains steps of laminating a heat-generating composition as described in claim 1 as a formed heat-generating composition laminated in a form covering an arbitrary part of a foot on at least one prescribed region on a base material in a film form or a sheet form, and overlaying a covering material, and the production process contains a step 1, a step 2 and a step 4 sequentially carried out as a basic process, and depending on necessity, with a step selected from the step 1, the step 2, a step 2A, a step 2B, a step 3, a step 3A, a step 3B, a step 3C, the step 4, a step 5, a step 6, a step 7 and a step 8 with possible duplications being subjected to arbitrary inter position in the basic process wherein the steps being the following: Step 1: a step of producing the heat-generating composition; Step 2: a step of forming; Step 2A: a forming step using a leveling plate and a magnet; Step 2B: a forming step using a pressing plate equipped with a vibrating device; Step 3: a laminating, diffusing or coating step on the heat-generating composition; Step 3A: a step of providing an air permeable adhesive polymer; Step 3B: a laminating, diffusing or coating step on the base material; Step 3C: a step of subjecting the heat-generating composition to a surface treatment; Step 4: a step of covering; Step 4A: a step of laminating by a means selected from the group consisting of heat fusion, press adhesion, and heat press adhesion; Step 5: a step of compressing; Step 6: a step of dehydrating; Step 7: a step of punching; and Step 8: a step of charging the heat-generating body in an air nonpermeable container bag.