Disposable article having sensor to detect impending elimination of bodily waste

US6372951B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Evgeny Ter-Ovanesyan · South San Francisco, US
• Donald Carroll Roe · Sharonville, US
• Peter Coles · Kelkheim, DE
• Colin Rudolph · San Francisco, US
• Keith McConnell · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2002
• Expiry date: Aug 3, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2013/8479
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A disposable article to be fitted to a wearer. The disposable article preferably comprises a sensor operatively connected to the article. The sensor is adapted to detect electrical activity in the wearer's smooth colonic muscles, abdominal muscles or the muscles surrounding the bladder or rectum which correlates to an impending elimination of bodily waste and to provide a signal to the wearer, a caregiver or an element of the article of the impending event.