Abstract: A tampon including a pledget, a wicking member disposed in direct contact with the pledget, and a withdrawal cord is disclosed. The wicking member is non-coaxially arranged with respect to the withdrawal cord.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 17, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kevin Charles Strong, Henry A. Brown, Evan Joseph Durling, Ryo Minoguchi, Khalid Qureshi, Lymarie Semidey-Flecha
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to stranded elastomeric laminates (including bi-laminates and tri-laminates) comprising beamed elastics and may have inventive Dtex-to-Nonwoven-Basis-Weight-Ratios, Dtex-to-Spacing-Ratios, and/or Void-Area-to-Strand-Area-Ratios. The stranded laminates of the present disclosure may be used for disposable absorbent article components (including pant belts) and may comprise inventive bonding arrangements that yield inventive textures and texture arrangements. When the inventive stranded elastomeric laminates are used for pant belts, the pants may have inventive Application-Forces, Sustained-Fit-Load-Forces, and Sustained-Fit-Unload-Forces. Further, when absorbent articles are packaged under compression at inventive In-Bag-Stack-Heights, the stranded elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure maintain their inventive properties and characteristics, including their inventive textures.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Gary D. LaVon, Bret D. Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Joseph A. Eckstein, Vanessa M. Melendez, Monica R. Tournoux, Corinne A. Rowley, Elizabeth J. Bruns
Abstract: An aqueous cleaning composition comprising: a) from 0.01 to 0.5% by weight of the composition of a controlled-emulsification system having a turbidity of less than 500, as measured in a homogenized aqueous solution comprising 0.003% by weight of the solution of canola oil and 0.5% by weight of the solution of the controlled-emulsification system; b) a shine polymer comprising at least one monomer comprising a substantially planar 5-7 membered ring, said monomer preferably being selected from the group consisting of vinylpyrrolidone, vinylimidazoline, maleimide, styrene sulfonate and vinylcaprolactam; and c) optionally an antimicrobial agent.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Alan Edward Sherry, Nicola John Policicchio
Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 30, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
Abstract: A material web having a film layer and a nonwoven layer, along with methods of making the material web, are described. The material web has a plurality of micro-deformations and a plurality of macro-deformations, each of the macro-deformations having a distal end, wherein a first portion of macro-deformations has an open or partially open distal end and wherein a second portion of macro-deformations has distal ends which are configured differently than the distal ends of the first portion, and wherein the material web forms a portion of the topsheet.
Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example sanitary tissue products, such as toilet tissue, and more particularly fibrous structures containing a movable surface and methods for making same and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 17, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Joerg Kleinwaechter, Eric Bryan Bond, Matthew Gary McKee, Hasan Eroglu, Tyler Jacob Werner, Jeffrey Chan, Joshua Thomas Fung, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jean A. Ibrahim
Abstract: A manually operated pump including: an inlet one-way valve; a pump chamber downstream of and in fluid communication with the inlet one-way valve; a piston interior to the pump chamber and slideably engaged with the pump chamber; an actuator engaged with the piston or the pump chamber; a block thermoplastic elastomeric spring engaged with the actuator to move the actuator as the block thermoplastic elastomeric spring relaxes; and an optional outlet one-way valve downstream of and in fluid communication with the pump chamber.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2022
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kelsey Erin Gibboney, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, David Andrew Dalton
Abstract: Disclosed are particles comprising polyalkylene glycol, an effervescent system and perfume for hard surface cleaning as well as a composition including these particles. Additionally, a method of making such particles and a method of using such particles for cleaning are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 8, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Heidi Simonne Mariette Soyez, Geert Andre De Leersnyder, Marina Jozefa Hermie, Deepak Ahirwal, James Robert Tinlin, Cindy Jean
Abstract: A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-component fibers may include polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene has a crystallinity of less than about 41%. The polypropylene may have a melting temperature of less than about 161° C. The highly extensible nonwoven web may define a plurality of apertures. The apertures may be patterned. The highly extensible nonwoven web may form a portion of an absorbent article.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Han Xu, Meganne Frisch, Jaroslav Kohut, Sascha Kreisel, Jiri Kummer, Fang Liu, Michael J. Roddy, Patricia Rolon, Eric R. Schurdak
Abstract: An absorbent article for personal hygiene comprising: a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core, the backsheet comprising a plastic film having a longitudinal tear strength measured in N/cm; the absorbent core being partially attached to the plastic film of the backsheet by a first glue wherein at least a continuous area of 10 mm in longitudinal direction and 25 mm in transversal direction of the bottom side of the core is unattached to the backsheet by the first glue or by any other means of attachment. In the first glue application area, the absorbent article has a core-to-backsheet peel strength measured in N/cm, such that the core-to-backsheet peel strength ranges from 10% to 40% of the longitudinal tear strength of the plastic film.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 7, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, José Mauricio Berrizbeitia
Abstract: A fabric care composition including a plurality of particles, wherein each of the particles include a fabric care agent, water, a sugar alcohol polyol, and a modified starch. The modified starch can have a dextrose equivalent from 4 to 20. The fabric care active agent, said water, and said sugar alcohol polyol are dispersed in the modified starch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 14, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kristin Rhedrick Williams, Jaden Scott Zerhusen, Amanee Daarina Salaam
Abstract: Fibrous structures containing a surface care composition, and more particularly dry fibrous structures containing a surface care composition comprising one or more bacteriophage, methods of making same, and methods for treating surfaces using same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 2022
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Paul Thomas Weisman, Duane Larry Charbonneau, Serena Rae Heyse
Abstract: Garment-like absorbent articles are disclosed. The garment-like absorbent articles may include one or more nonwoven components that having repeating patterns of apertures and/or bonds. The nonwoven components may also have certain repeat unit areas, repeat unit width, and repeat unit lengths to aid in softness and to provide improved aesthetic appearance to consumers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Alizha V. Smith, Christopher S. Cameron, Nayda Liz Ramos Medina, Vanessa M. Melendez, Brittany D. Canfield
Abstract: Oral care compositions with an anticaries or anticavity effect. Oral care compositions that have one or more hops beta acids, such as from an extract from a species in the Humulus family, and one or more amino acids. Oral care compositions having one or more amino acids and an extract from Humulus lupulus. Methods of us of the disclosed compositions to disrupt biofilm in the oral cavity of a patient in need of treatment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Yunming Shi, Samuel James St. John, Ross Strand
Abstract: A fluid management layer having an integrated, carded, nonwoven is described. The fluid management layer has a basis weight of between about 115 grams per square meter (gsm) and about 200 gsm; a plurality of absorbent fibers; a plurality of stiffening fibers; and a plurality of resilient fibers. The absorbent fibers make up from about 20 percent to about 60 percent by weight of the fluid management layer. The stiffening fibers have a dtex of between 4 and 10, and the resilient fibers have a dtex of between 3 and 12.
Abstract: Disclosed is an efficacious, low-pH skin care composition that provides good sensory properties and has a low skin irritation potential. The low-pH composition includes an effective amount of a vitamin B3 compound and, optionally, one or more additional skin care actives to provide a skin health and/or appearance benefit. The low-pH composition also includes a pH buffer comprising lactic acid and sodium lactate, a polymer thickener comprising polyacrylate crosspolymer-6, and a silicone fluid having a kinematic viscosity of 100 cSt or less at 25° C. The pH of the low-pH composition can range from 2.0 to 5.0.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 27, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Lu Zhang, Sudeep Chakravarty, Joseph Michael Zukowski