Absorbent articles having textured zones

US10575996B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Ronald Joseph Zink · Blue Ash, US
• Sarah Marie Wade · Forest Park, US
• Tina Marie Glahn · West Chester, US
• Rachael Eden Walther · Morganfield, US
• Darrell Ian Brown · Mason, US
• Gary Dean LaVon · Kyles, US
• Nicholas Paul Goyette · Cincinnati, US
• Kaoru Ishihara · West Chester, US
• Amanda Margaret Bicking · Cincinnati, US
• Diana Woehnl Juratovac · Columbus, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2016
• Grant date: Mar 3, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T156/1039
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An absorbent article comprises a chassis having a belt portion extending therefrom. The belt portion comprises a side edge, a waist opening edge, a leg opening edge, first and second substrates engaged with each other, and elastic elements disposed intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion also comprises a first texture zone comprising a first portion of the substrates and the elastic strands and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the waist opening edge and a second texture zone comprising a second portion of the substrates and the elastic elements and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the leg opening edge. The first texture zone extends at least partially along a first lateral extent of the belt portion and the second texture zone extends at least partially along a second lateral extent of the belt portion.