Thin comfortable interlabial absorbent structure

US6254584A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Thomas Ward Osborn, III · Cincinnati, US
• Katherine Louise Mayer · St. Bernard, US
• Letha Margory Hines · Wyoming, US
• Edward John Milbrada · Sharonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S604/904
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An interlabial absorbent structure is disclosed. The interlabial absorbent structure comprises a pair of absorbent panels that are sufficiently flexible such that the panels can, at least partially, conform to the walls of a wearer's interlabial space. The panels are joined by an isthmus which is positioned farthest into a wearer's interlabial space when the interlabial absorbent product is worn. Alternative embodiments of the isthmus are also described which direct bodily fluids that are deposited thereon along the longitudinal length of the interlabial absorbent structure.