Disposable absorbent articles having an interior design signal

US9226860B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Kathleen Marie Lawson · Sharonville, US
• Mark John Ciesko · Hilliard, US
• Christofer Fuchs · Kronberg, DE
• Alizha V. Smith · Wyoming, US
• Harald Hermann Hundorf · Bonn, DE
• Horst Blessing · Cincinnati, US
• Peter Dziezok · Hochheim, DE
• Mattias Schmidt · Idstein, DE
• Holger Beruda · Schwalbach, DE
• Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger · Bad Soden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2014
• Grant date: Jan 5, 2016
• Expiry date: Jan 9, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2013/8497
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disposable absorbent article comprising an interior design signal indicating absorbency and an absorbent core including first and second absorbent layers, the first absorbent layer including a first substrate and the second absorbent layer including a second substrate, the first and second absorbent layers further including absorbent particulate polymer material deposited on the first and second substrates and thermoplastic material covering the absorbent particulate polymer material on the respective first and second substrates, the first and second absorbent layers combined together such that at least a portion of the thermoplastic material of the first absorbent layer contacts at least a portion of the thermoplastic material of the second absorbent layer, the absorbent particulate polymer material is disposed between the first and second substrates in an absorbent particulate polymer material area, and the absorbent particulate polymer material is substantially continuously distributed across the absorbent particulate polymer material area.