Disposable article having a discontinuous responsive system

US6160198A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Donald Carroll Roe · Sharonville, US
• Patrick J. Allen · Cincinnati, US
• Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger · Bad Soden, DE
• Mattias Schmidt · Idstein, DE
• Karl Ronn · Palo Alto, US
• Mikhail K. Kruchinin · Cincinnati, US
• Simon S. Litvin · Watertown, US
• Oleg N. Khomjakov · Saint Petersburg, RU

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F13/42
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disposable articles such as diapers, incontinent briefs, diaper holders and/or inserts, training pants, feminine hygiene garments, tampons, and the like, having a responsive system. The article includes a sensor that detects an input, an actuator that is adapted to perform a responsive function upon the input, and a feedback control loop in which the actuator is adapted to perform the responsive function upon the input in a discontinuous manner. The responsive system may include an open loop or a closed loop system.