Method for designing an absorbent article

US7684939B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Mel Allende-Blanco · Loveland, US
• Brian Bert Anderson · Monroe, US
• William Handy Hartt · Boca Raton, US
• Paul Martin Lipic · Sharonville, US
• Mattias Schmidt · Idstein, DE
• Douglas Gregory Stevens · Cincinnati, US
• Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger · Bad Soden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 16, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Sep 7, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2111/10
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.