Absorbent garment

US7344526B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Yee-Pien Yang · Appleton, US
• Lisa Nickel · Menasha, US
• Kristi Bryant · Appleton, US
• Mark S. Franke · Neenah, US
• Cynthia H. Hendren · Oshkosh, US
• Richard Joseph Kamps · Wrightstown, US
• David Arthur Kuen · Neenah, US
• Katherine C. Wheeler · Appleton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 15, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2008
• Expiry date: Jan 24, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S2/92
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An absorbent garment has an absorbent assembly disposed within a garment shell configured for encircling the wearer's waist. The garment shell comprises a front panel assembly having laterally opposite side margins, and a back panel assembly having laterally opposite side margins. The absorbent assembly is attached at a front waist region thereof to the garment shell generally at the side margins of the front panel assembly to together define front side margins of the absorbent garment. The absorbent assembly is further attached at a back waist region thereof to the garment shell generally at the side margins of the back panel assembly to together define back side margins of the absorbent garment. The front side margins and the back side margins of the absorbent garment are releasably attached to each other to removably secure the absorbent garment on the wearer's waist.