Absorbent article with lotion

US9101680B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Mark Andrew Thornton · Oberursel, DE
• Cornelia Beate Martynus · Nidderau, DE
• Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko · Schwalbach am Taunus, DE
• Victor Nicholas Vega · Cincinnati, US
• Brandon Ellis Wise · Cincinnati, US
• Donald Carroll Roe · Sharonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 11, 2015
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L15/50
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An absorbent article to be worn by a wearer having a skin-contacting sheet such as a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core and a colored hydrophilic lotion, that not only helps to reduce the adherence of the menses or feces to the skin, thereby improving the ease of menses or bowl movement (BM) clean up, but that also may serve as a wetness indicator. The absorbent articles may be infant (baby) diapers, including training pants, adult incontinence articles and the like.