Disposable absorbent article with enhanced absorption properties

US8017827B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Harald Hermann Hundorf · Bonn, DE
• Holger Beruda · Schwalbach, DE
• Horst Blessing · Cincinnati, US
• Peter Dziezok · Hochheim, DE
• Axel Krause · Lechenich, DE
• Mattias Schmidt · Idstein, DE
• Lutz Stelzig · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 2008
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2011
• Expiry date: Aug 7, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/249982
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A substantially cellulose free absorbent core comprising absorbent polymer material having a saline flow conductivity greater than about 100×10−7 cm3·sec/g and a centrifuge retention capacity of greater than about 20 g/g. A disposable absorbent article is also disclosed.