Absorbent articles with controllable fill patterns

US6465712B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Billie J. Matthews · Woodstock, US
• Richard A. Anderson · Waterloo, CA
• Andrew Scott Burnes · Lawrenceville, US
• Kuo-Shu Edward Chang · Charlotte, US
• Richard Norris Dodge, II · Appleton, US
• Stanley Michael Gryskiewicz · Woodstock, US
• Connie Lynn Hetzler · Alpharetta, US
• Margaret G. Latimer · Alpharetta, US
• Yong Li · Tacoma, US
• Sylvia Bandy Little · Marietta, US
• Tamara Lee Mace · Marietta, US
• James Brian Riddle · Dandridge, US
• Lawrence Howell Sawyer · Neenah, US
• Eugenio Varona · Marietta, US
• Hoa La Wilhelm · Appleton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 3, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Aug 3, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2013/4581
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

There is provided an absorbent system for personal care products which may be transversely divided into about an equally sized center zone, two intermediate zones and two end zones where the ratio of the amount of liquid stored in the center zone to the amount of liquid stored in at least one of the end zones 30 minutes each of three insults of 80 ml according to a MIST Evaluation Test after less than 5:1. Such an absorbent system may be used in personal care products like diapers, training pants, feminine hygiene products, absorbent underpants, adult incontinence products, and the like.