Disposable absorbent articles having reduced surface wetness

US6107539A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Gianfranco Palumbo · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Mattias Schmidt · Idstein, DE
• Manfred Plischke · Rheinböllen, DE
• Wolfgang Meyer · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2000
• Expiry date: May 14, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2013/530897
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A disposable absorbent article comprising a backsheet, a topsheet, a fluid acquisition/distribution region and at least on fluid storage region, said article having a total product acquisition performance of more than 3.75 ml/sec in the first gush and more than 0.5 ml/sec in the fourth gush and an in bag stack height of less than 9.9 mm, characterized in that said topsheet allows to retain no more them 0.25 g of fluid as measured by the topsheet-on-acquisition-material-wetness test, and that said acquisition/distribution region has a drip capacity of at least 5.0 grams of fluid per gram of material.