Patents Examined by Jacqueline F. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10888471
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property, wherein the intensive property is one or more of thickness, basis weight, or volumetric density, and wherein the first surface has a TS7 value of less than about 15 dB V2 rms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 10864121
    Abstract: A method of making an absorbent composite that includes a first fabric, a second fabric, and particles positioned between the two fabrics and absorbent articles made from the absorbent composite. The particles are secured between the two fabric using adhesive, thermal plastic or combinations thereof. The fabrics are bonded together in a manner that limits particle movement between the fabrics. The bond pattern may define pockets or other shapes. In applications in which the bond pattern forms pockets, the particles may be positioned in the pockets. The particles may be SAP particles or other particles with advantageous properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: DSG Technology Holdings Ltd.
    Inventors: Patrick King Yu Tsang, Kuo-Shu Edward Chang, Andrew C. Wright
  • Patent number: 10857255
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes an absorbent core having an absorbent material enclosed in a core wrap having a top layer and a bottom layer. The bottom layer of the core wrap comprises a nonwoven comprising synthetic fibers, which has a basis weight from about 6 g/m2 to about 10 g/m2 and the nonwoven has a static coefficient of friction as measured in cross-machine direction of no more than 0.40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefan Flöter, Geeske Gratzel, Torsten Lindner
  • Patent number: 10857043
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising an exterior sheet formed of a nonwoven fabric laminate (1) in which a first nonwoven fabric layer (2), a second nonwoven fabric layer (3) and a third nonwoven fabric layer (4) are laminated from the outer side, wherein the first nonwoven fabric layer (2), the second nonwoven fabric layer (3) and the third nonwoven fabric layer (4) are joined to each other at a first joining part (6) by heat-embossing, and the second nonwoven fabric layer (3) and the third nonwoven fabric layer (4) are further joined to each other at a second joining part (7) by heat-embossing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LIVEDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Kenji Nakaoka
  • Patent number: 10828208
    Abstract: A low bulk, high capacity disposable absorbent pant is disclosed. The pant may have a variety of combinations of features that contribute to imparting the pant with a more close-fitting, discreet appearance, particularly under outer clothing, more resembling that of an ordinary undergarment. The features may include an arrangement of relatively closely-spaced elastomeric strands in a belt structure; elastomeric strands in the belt structure having active portions that traverse forward and rearward portions of an absorbent pad assembly; an arrangement of elastomeric strands in the belt structure below the side seams; an arrangement of longitudinal elastic strands in the absorbent pad assembly that are closer to the longitudinal axis of the pant than to the side seams; and/or an absorbent core structure having portions that are tapered and/or channeled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Procte & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ryo Minoguchi, Fred Naval Desai, Alexander Fedotov
  • Patent number: 10828206
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising an absorbent core having a longitudinally extending channel-forming area and a wetness indicator. The core wrap comprises a top side and a bottom side, which are attached to each other through areas substantially free of absorbent material, so that when the absorbent material swells upon absorption of a liquid a channel is formed along the area substantially free of absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Laveeta Joseph
  • Patent number: 10813795
    Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable absorbent wearing article with a given part curved to protrude outward. At least one waist region, which is at least one of front and rear waist regions in a disposable absorbent wearing article such as a pull-on diaper includes an elastic band that form a part of a skin-facing surface and extends in a lateral direction. The elastic band has a middle part in the lateral direction elastically contracting, with an elastic contraction amount of the middle part being larger than a component part of article facing the middle part without being joined to the middle part, in a thickness direction of the middle part in the lateral direction. An absorbent core material in the at least one waist region has a deformation guide extending in a direction crossing the elastic band, formed to facilitate forming of a bulging part in the wearing article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takino, Hideaki Maki, Katsufumi Aoki, Takuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10806637
    Abstract: An absorbent article in which an absorbent body is provided between a liquid permeable topsheet and a backsheet, includes a concave groove-like or a slit-like absorbent body concave portion provided at a liquid permeable topsheet side of the absorbent body along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article at an area including a urine expelling site, both end portions of the absorbent body concave portion in the longitudinal direction respectively being zones of a gradually decreasing width, each having a tapered shape whose width is gradually decreased toward an end portion side, each of the zones of a gradually decreasing width being formed to have a length that is greater than or equal to 20% of the total length of the absorbent body concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junta Tagomori
  • Patent number: 10806639
    Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable wearing article in which a front waist region has an appropriate retaining force and free from a possibility that the lower abdominal region may be tightened. On a body facing surface, an elastic strip extending in a lateral direction between both lateral edges is located along a lower edge area of a front waist region of the disposable wearing article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Maki, Shunsuke Takino, Takuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10799402
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a first and second plurality of elastics. The first plurality of elastics may be disposed in a front and a crotch region. The second plurality of elastics may be disposed in a back region and the crotch region. The first and second plurality of elastics may be linear and parallel with a transverse axis of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Margaret Henderson Hasse, Luke Robinson Magee
  • Patent number: 10786401
    Abstract: A diaper includes a liquid permeable topsheet including a patterned apertured nonwoven material. The patterned apertured nonwoven material includes a plurality of land areas in the patterned apertured nonwoven material and a plurality of apertures defined in the patterned apertured nonwoven material. At least some land areas of the plurality of land areas surround at least some apertures of the plurality of apertures. The plurality of apertures are non-homogeneous in a repeat unit such that at least two apertures of the plurality of apertures have a different size or a different shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    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
  • Patent number: 10786400
    Abstract: An absorbent article for minimizing detachment between a top sheet and absorbent body, for stably maintaining an absorption performance, while maintaining a satisfactory feel on a skin of the top sheet. The top sheet has a plurality of raised sections extended in a lengthwise direction at predetermined intervals in a widthwise direction, and a plurality of furrow sections extended in the lengthwise direction between the raised sections. The furrow section has a first recess section including a first bottom section, and a plurality of second recess sections inside the first recess section. The second recess section includes a second bottom section having a highest fiber density of the top sheet. A portion at a second surface of a top section of the raised section is not joined to an absorbent body. The second bottom section of the second recess section of the furrow section is joined to the absorbent body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashino, Masashi Uda
  • Patent number: 10786399
    Abstract: A disposable pant-type absorbent article adapted for a male user. The disposable pant-type absorbent article includes a chassis having a front section and a back section, an absorbent core, a front region configured for receiving the genitals of a male user, in which the front section at least partly is made of an elastic material comprising at least one elastic element. The absorbent core within a front region, under the influence of side elastic elements and elastic web material is adapted to bulge outwardly during use of the article to form a bowl shaped portion for receiving the genitals of a male user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Lucas Bäck
  • Patent number: 10780002
    Abstract: A pant-type absorbent article has a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, an inner surface facing the user during use, an outer surface facing away from the user during use. The article includes: a first body portion, a second body portion and an intermediate crotch portion provided with two leg openings. Outer longitudinal edge portions of the first body portion are adapted to be interconnected to outer longitudinal edge portions of the second body portion by first and second longitudinal refastenable side seam configurations. Each one of the refastenable side seam configurations includes a fastening component bonded to an outer longitudinal edge portion of the first body portion and a mating fastening component bonded to a corresponding outer longitudinal edge portion of the second body portion. Moreover, each one of the fastening components and the mating fastening components includes a first mechanical connector structure and a second mechanical connector structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Maria Swedberg, Anders Silfverstrand
  • Patent number: 10736789
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided with microencapsulated phase change material (microPCM) particles that are embedded in and/or coated onto a layer of the absorbent article that includes a resilient sheet of an open-cell foam. The foam layer is disposed such that it is in contact with or is in proximity to the user. The microPCM particles absorb heat generated during use of the absorbent article to reduce the contact temperature on the inside of the absorbent article and improve the comfort of the user. To maximize comfort, the phase change temperature of the microPCM particles may be an average normal body temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: First Quality Retail Services, LLC
    Inventor: James William Cree
  • Patent number: 10736793
    Abstract: Closure elements that include elastic and non-elastic regions are disclosed as well as absorbent articles that include closure elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Herbert Bader, Horst Kurrer, Marcel Grossmann, Olga Fezert
  • Patent number: 10736795
    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: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, José Mauricio Berrizbeitia
  • Patent number: 10729592
    Abstract: An absorbent structure comprising a single stratum exhibiting a Capillarity Work Potential greater than the Capillarity Work Potential trade-off Boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Vito Carla, Wade Monroe Hubbard, Jr., John Lee Hammons
  • Patent number: 10729600
    Abstract: An absorbent structure comprising one or more absorbent layers wherein the absorbent structure exhibits a first cycle Peak Force compression between about 30 grams and about 150 grams. The absorbent structure further exhibits a fifth cycle dry recovery energy between 0.1 mJ and 2.8 mJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Clint Adam Morrow, Wade Monroe Hubbard, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10722405
    Abstract: A diaper sensor for detecting and differentiating feces and urine in a diaper is described. The diaper sensor may include at least one pair of conductive elements positioned within an absorbent region of the diaper. The diaper sensor may also include a transmitter and a control circuit operatively connected to the at least one pair of conductive elements and the transmitter. The diaper sensor may further include a power source operatively connected to the control circuit. The control circuit may measure the conductivity between the at least one pair of conductive elements. The control circuit may also determine whether there is poop or pee present in the diaper using the conductivity. The control circuit may also transmit via the transmitter a signal indicative of whether there is excrement or pee present in the diaper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Brian Pepin, Huanfen Yao