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Method for evaluation of absorption behavior of absorbent articles

US8498851B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger · Bad Soden, DE
Mattias Schmidt · Idstein, DE
Holger Beruda · Schwalbach, DE
Rodrigo Rosati · Francavilla al Mare, IT
Raffaele Virgilio · Champlin, US
Hans-Joerg Diersch · Königs Wusterhausen, DE
Volker Clausnitzer · Königs Wusterhausen, DE
Volodymyr Myrnyy · Königs Wusterhausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 26, 2010
Grant date	Jul 30, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 20, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2111/10
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved method and computer system is provided, for analyzing the two- or three-dimensional movement of a fluid in an absorbent article that comprises fluid-swellable composite material, which comprises a fluid-swellable solid material, and that comprises void spaces in the fluid-swellable composite material, the fluid-swellable composite material being defined by a virtual two-dimensional or three-dimensional mesh, to determine the performance or property of at least one feature of the fluid-swellable composite material thereof, or the absorbent article, the method comprising: inputting one or more properties for the fluid-swellable (composite) material into a model and evaluating this to determine the performance of a feature of the absorbent article or fluid-swellable composite material thereof, the virtual model.

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