Abstract: Provided is a photoactivating device (100) for deployment in a washing machine for activating one or more photoactive components in a laundry treatment composition, comprising: a light source (160) configured for emission of light for activation of the one or more photoactive components; a controller (180), and a switch and/or a motion sensing unit (170), wherein the controller (180) is configured to control the light source (160) responsive to the switch and/or signals received from the motion sensing unit (170).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 2, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Andre Chieffi, Linsey Sarah Fuller, Katarzyna Gorczynska-Costello, Andrew Philip Moon, Stefano Scialla, Matthew Scott Wagner
Abstract: Disclosed is a personal care composition comprising: (a) a cationic or nonionic surfactant; (b) a high melting point fatty compound having a melting point of from 25oC to 60oC (c) a solid organic compound having a water solubility of lower than 25 g per 1 liter water, and having a melting point of exceeding 60oC, and also having a specific Alog P; (d) a first liquid oily compound other than a second liquid oily compound, wherein the first liquid oily compound has a water solubility of 10 g per 1 liter water or less, wherein a mixture of all the first liquid oily compounds included in the composition has a di-electric constant of from about 5 to about 10, and wherein the weight ratio of the solid organic compound to the first liquid oily compound is from about 1:1 to about 1:10; and (e) an aqueous carrier, wherein the composition comprises 0.1% or less of a second liquid oily compound having a higher AlogP of 7.0 or higher.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 16, 2024
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Toshiyuki Iwata, Shikhar Gupta, Marco Klaehn
Abstract: A support element for a cardboard container. A lid incorporating the support element. A consumer product incorporating the support element, the lid, and the container. A cardboard blank for forming the support element. Related methods.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 19, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Clara Sophie Lea Ng Pak Leung, Joost Peter Leflere
Abstract: Active agent-containing articles, for example fibrous structures, that exhibit consumer acceptable article in-use properties, such as flexibility, article dimensions, and/or dissolvability, and product-shipping assemblies for containing the same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Paul Thomas Weisman, Frank William Denome, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Michael Sean Pratt, Gregory Charles Gordon, Mark Robert Sivik
Abstract: A laundry scent additive having polyethylene glycol repeat units and perfume. The laundry scent additive enables consumers to control the amount of scent imparted to their laundry.
Abstract: An oral care article for use in the oral cavity includes a water insoluble delivery carrier comprising solid hydrophilic particles comprising at least one bleaching agent. At least about 20 parts by weight of the solid hydrophilic particles dissolve in about 100 parts by weight of water, and/or the solid hydrophilic particles increase by volume and/or weight by at least about 50% in water. The particles are embedded in the carrier partially below the first surface and partially at or above the first surface of the solid hydrophobic delivery carrier. A concentration of the bleaching agent is from about 0.01% to about 15%, by weight of the article.
Abstract: A patterned apertured web is disclosed. The patterned apertured web includes a plurality of land areas in the patterned apertured web and a plurality of apertures defined in the patterned apertured web. At least some land areas of the plurality of land areas surround at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures. The patterned apertured web has an Effective Open Area in the range of about 3% to about 30%, according to the Aperture Test herein. The patterned apertured web has a plurality of Interaperture Distances, according to the Aperture Test herein. The Interaperture Distances have a distribution having a median and a mean. The plurality of apertures include a first set of apertures defining a first shape and a second set of apertures defining a second shape.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Timothy Ian Mullane, Kelyn Anne Arora, Jill Marlene Orr, Donald Carroll Roe, Jennifer Schutte, John Brian Strube, Ann Cecilia Tapp, Rachael Eden Walther, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Jennifer Lynn Dusold, Margaret Elizabeth Porter
Abstract: Belts and fibrous structures may include discrete cells including one or more legs and/or one or more concavities in certain patterns or Cell Groups. The cells may be discrete knuckles or pillows and the fibrous structures may further include an emboss.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 6, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Charles Allen Redd, Kathryn Christian Kien, Osman Polat, Anthony Paul Bankemper
Abstract: Embodiments within the scope of the present disclosure are directed to external sensor kits that may be included in new injection molds or retrofitted into existing injection molds in order to approximate conditions within a mold, such as pressure or the location of a melt flow front. Such kits are designed to amplify meaningful measurements obtained by the external sensor kit so that noise measurements do not prevent the approximation of conditions within a mold. In some embodiments within the scope of the present disclosure, an external sensor kit includes a strain gauge sensor, a coupon, a support bracket, and a hammer. The strain gauge sensor is placed on a surface of the coupon and measures the strain in the coupon.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 22, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
Inventors:
Chow-Chi Huang, Rick Alan Pollard, Gene Michael Altonen
Abstract: A fluid management layer having an integrated, carded, nonwoven is described. The fluid management layer has a basis weight of between about 40 grams per square meter (gsm) and about 75 gsm; a plurality of absorbent fibers, a plurality of stiffening fibers and a plurality of resilient fibers; wherein the fluid management layer exhibits a total compression of greater than 0.40 mm and has a total recovery of at least 0.35 mm, and wherein the fluid management layer has a density of less than or equal to 0.08 g/cc.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 27, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Gerard A. Viens, Carlos Domingo Naranjo Martin, Paul Dominic Mellor
Abstract: A process for packaging a product in which a hood is fitted to a tray. The hood is erected by a process that includes a step of providing a flat blank. The flat blank includes a leading panel and a trailing panel. A flat insert is provided and adhered to a panel selected from the group of the leading panel, the trailing panel of the hood, and combinations thereof. The die used to erect the hood includes a die recess. When the die is positioned within the mold, the central portion of the flat insert becomes spaced apart from the hood top. The die recess provides for space to accommodate the central portion of the flat insert becoming spaced apart from the hood top.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 10, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Henri Theo Leonie Ruers, Andrea Ziantoni Liberatori
Abstract: Described herein is an absorbent article. The absorbent article includes an assembly of components and an adhesive composition joining at least two of the assembly of components together. The adhesive composition includes from about 50 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of one or more copolymers and a blend of one or more heterophase copolymers. The one or more copolymers include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of monomer units selected from ethylene. 1-butene, and mixtures thereof. The one or more copolymers also include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of propene monomer units. The adhesive composition is free of polyisobutylene and has a viscosity of from about 2,000 mPa·s to about 11,500 mPa·s at 150° C.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 2, 2022
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Robert Haines Turner, Torsten Lindner, Matthias Morand, Benjamin John Kutay, Holger Beruda, Ekaterina Ponomarenko, William L. Bunnelle, Jon Fagerness, Nick Fowler, Bill Turner, Andres Sustic, Enrico Buenacosa, Steve Oetting, Steve McHaney, J. J. DeCair
Abstract: A consumer product having a detergent product and a container, particularly containers that include corrugated fiberboard, where the container includes a box and a lid having a top panel and flanks, the flanks having at least a first flank that has a first major flap, the first major flap having a first flank corrugated fiberboard layer. Methods of manufacturing and using such products and containers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 2022
Date of Patent:
November 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Paulus Antonius Augustinus Hoefte, Clara Sophie Lea Ng Pak Leung, Joost Peter Leflere, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers
Abstract: An array of toilet tissue products comprising first and second packages, where first package conveys one of strength and softness, and where the second package conveys something different than the first package. The first package may use a character to convey one of strength and softness. Lint, basis weight, total dry tensile, absorbency, and softness are common intensive properties of the first and second toilet tissue products and one or more of these common intensive properties can be different between the first and second toilet tissue products.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 26, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 5, 2024
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Thorsten Knobloch, Michael Ricardo Burns, Jennifer Lori Steeves-Kiss, Illya Torrance Thomas, John Paul Brase, Dennis Xavier Legault, Dean Larry Duval
Inventors:
Julian Richard John Gruzelier, Gillian Meredith Anne Haro, Brett Tom, Wei Gu, Reid Andersen Schlegel, Danvu Nam Nguyen, Calvin Shenghuai Lin, Longfei Zhang