Patents Represented by Attorney Abbey A. Lopez

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  • Process for producing absorbent core structures
    Patent number: 8343296
    Abstract: The present invention is method for forming a sandwich structure having a pattern of particulate material enveloped between a carrier material and a cover material. The method allows accurate forming of pre-determined pattern at high production speed. Such a method is particularly useful in the manufacture of disposable absorbent articles, such as baby diapers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Horst Blessing, Hans-Adolf Jackels, Markus Rietz
  • Hydrophobic surface coated light-weight nonwoven laminates for use in absorbent articles
    Patent number: 8328782
    Abstract: The present invention relates to absorbent articles which include one or more barrier members comprising a light-weight nonwoven laminate that has been treated with a hydrophobic surface coating intended to render such components impermeable to liquids having relatively low surface tensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kemal Vatansever Catalan
  • Absorbent article with multiple elastic areas
    Patent number: 8277431
    Abstract: An absorbent articles, such as diapers, training pants, adult incontinence articles, feminine protection articles and the like having a specific elasticated topsheet comprising multitude of elasticated areas and one or more openings to receive e.g. feces, the elasticated areas being typically straight, but the elasticated areas operating jointly to provide a diverting-like elastic behavior, and the elasticated areas having optionally different elastic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Blanca Arizti, Darrell Ian Brown, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Ekaterina Anatolyevka Ponomarenko
  • Method and apparatus for transferring articles of different sizes
    Patent number: 8276745
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for transferring articles from a first carrier moving at a first speed to a carrier moving at a second speed. The apparatus may include a first transfer surface driven by a first motor and second transfer surface driven by a second motor. The first and second transfer surfaces receive and transfer different portions of an article at different speeds such that a desired amount of spacing can be provided between discrete articles in a process independent of the size of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Yoichiro Yamamoto
  • Process for making material for acquisition of liquids and disposable absorbent article comprising the material
    Patent number: 8258211
    Abstract: A process for making a material for acquisition of liquids comprising individualized, crosslinked cellulosic fibers having an effective amount of a polymeric acid crosslinking agent reacted with the fibers in intra-fiber crosslink ester bond form. A process for making disposable absorbent articles, such as diapers, containing this material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andreas Flohr, Marion Lutsche
  • System for bifolding an absorbent article
    Patent number: 8257237
    Abstract: A system is provided for bifolding disposable absorbent articles on a high speed production line on which the disposable absorbent articles are moved along a predetermined path. The system includes the use of one or more vacuum conveyor assemblies to engage and transfer the leading end portion of the article from the surface of a peel-roll to a folding drum. Thereby potentially reducing the occurrence of undesirable misalignment between opposing edges of an article during a bifolding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Glasgow Burns, Jr., Yoichiro Yamamoto
  • Container for cleansing wipes
    Patent number: D666488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Lucio Frias
  • Wipe substrate
    Patent number: D672963
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Astrid Annette Sheehan, Joshua James Norman, Adam Matthew Warren
  • Wipe substrate
    Patent number: D672964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Astrid Annette Sheehan, Joshua James Norman, Adam Matthew Warren
  • Wipe substrate
    Patent number: D672965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Astrid Annette Sheehan, Joshua James Norman, Adam Matthew Warren
  • Wipe substrate
    Patent number: D672966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Astrid Annette Sheehan, Joshua James Norman, Adam Matthew Warren
  • Wipe substrate
    Patent number: D672967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Astrid Annette Sheehan, Joshua James Norman, Adam Matthew Warren