Patents Examined by Michele M. Kidwell
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Patent number: 11432972Abstract: An absorbent article may have a Product Length-to-Side Silhouette from about 1.8 to about 6. An array of absorbent articles may have an Array Average Product Length-to-Side Silhouette from about 1.8 to about 6.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz
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Patent number: 11432973Abstract: An absorbent article may have a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from 0.5 to about 1.8 and a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length. An array of absorbent articles may have an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Gary Dean LaVON, Bret Darren Seitz, Masaharu Nishikawa, Sarah M. Wade, Franz-Josef Hermes
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Patent number: 11413197Abstract: The present invention relates to acquisition layers for use in absorbent articles, preferably of the disposable personal hygiene type. It discloses absorbent articles (7) comprising a liquid permeable topsheet (8), a liquid impermeable backsheet (9), an absorbent core (1) between the topsheet (8) and the backsheet (9) and an acquisition layer (2) between the topsheet (8) and the absorbent core (1), said acquisition layer (2) having a width (w) and a length (l) along an acquisition plane and a thickness (t) extending perpendicular thereto. The absorbent core (1) comprises at least one absorbent material selected from the group consisting of fibrous absorbent materials and highly absorbent polymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: ONTEX BV, ONTEX GROUP NVInventors: Annemie Houben, Miguel Angel Rodríguez Pérez, Alberto López Gil, Josias Tirado Mediavilla, Javier García González, Lieven Dhooge, Ainas Weber
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Patent number: 11406544Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent material positioned within a core wrap. The absorbent core defines a first channel therein. A material is positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the core wrap. The material defines a second channel therein.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Aniruddha Chatterjee, Nelson Edward Greening, II, Sharon Irene Grenberg, Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Marie Brigid O'Reilly, Rodrigo Rosati, Sandra Sautter, Beate Simon, Lutz Stelzig, Rachael Eden Walther
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Patent number: 11389342Abstract: In a pull-on absorbent article, pairs of joining sections that join an absorbent main body and a pair of belt sections to each other are provided, one pair being disposed on a front side and the other pair being disposed on a rear side in a front-rear direction, the absorbent main body including an absorbent body and being provided in a vertical direction, the pair of belt sections expanding and contracting in a lateral direction; a portion between the pair of joining sections on the rear side does not expand and contract in the lateral direction; an expanding-contracting section is provided closer than the absorbent body to a non-skin side of a wearer; and, in at least the rear side, the expanding-contracting section is provided at a central portion of the absorbent main body in the lateral direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Beibei Su, Shimpei Komatsu
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Patent number: 11389343Abstract: An absorber, a liquid impervious sheet covering a back surface side of the absorber and having air permeability, and a cover nonwoven fabric covering a back surface side of the liquid impervious sheet are provided. The cover nonwoven fabric has a large number of holes penetrating the front surface and back surface at intervals in a region overlapping with the liquid impervious sheet. Edge portions of the holes bend-up toward a front surface side. In a region having the holes in the cover nonwoven fabric, rows of the holes, which are aligned in the front-back direction at intervals in the front-back direction narrower than the dimension in the front-back direction of each of the holes, are repeatedly formed at predetermined intervals in the width direction, and the interval of the adjacent two holes in the width direction is wider than the dimension in the front back-direction of the hole.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Daio Paper CorporationInventors: Shunji Seno, Hiroki Matsuoka, Akie Moritani
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Patent number: 11389336Abstract: An absorbent structure including a distribution layer and a storage layer is disclosed. The distribution layer has two or more stratums. The two or more stratums include a body facing stratum and a subsequent stratum below the body facing stratum. The density of the subsequent stratum is a fraction of the density of the body facing stratum and the porosity of the subsequent stratum is a multiple of the body facing stratum porosity.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Gerard A. Viens
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Absorbent article with graphics printed in preservative-free ink, and methods of manufacture thereof
Patent number: 11376343Abstract: Absorbent articles having components bearing graphics printed using particular inkjet ink compositions and fluid sets are disclosed. The aqueous inkjet ink compositions may include a composition consisting of one or more compounds represented by the following Structure I: HO—CH2-CH2-R?? (I) wherein R may be a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy group. Printed regions of components of the articles may bear deposits of dried ink including constituents of the disclosed compositions, that include the one or more Structure I compound(s). The presence of the Structure I compounds in the printed regions may have an effect of inhibiting bacterial growth thereon.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Clarissa Maldonado, Douglas E. Bugner, Wayne Cook, Allan Sowinski -
Patent number: 11376169Abstract: An absorbent article is disclosed. The absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core structure having one or more layers. The absorbent article has multiple zones.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Clint Adam Morrow, Callida Williams Ludher, John David Norcom
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Patent number: 11376168Abstract: An Absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core comprising an absorbent structure, wherein the absorbent structure exhibits a Cross Direction bending rigidity between 0.3 gf*cm{circumflex over (?)}2/cm and 1.6 gf*cm{circumflex over (?)}2/cm and a Machine Direction bending rigidity between 1.5 gf*cm{circumflex over (?)}2/cm and 14 gf*cm{circumflex over (?)}2/cm.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Clint Adam Morrow, Dean Larry DuVal, Wade Monroe Hubbard, Jr., Remo Bellucci
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Patent number: 11369524Abstract: An absorbent structure is disclosed. The absorbent structure includes a first fibrous layer having a first surface and a second surface and a second layer having a first surface and second surface. The first fibrous layer is substantially planar and the second absorbent layer includes voids within the layer. The absorbent structure first fibrous layer and the second layer exhibit a structural integrity substantially equal to an absorbent structure without voids.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Wade Monroe Hubbard, Jr., Gerard A Viens, Kelyn Anne Arora, Nathan Ray Whitely
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Patent number: 11369527Abstract: A topsheet for an absorbent article is provided and has at least a first layer. The first layer comprises at least 15% by weight of natural fibers by total weight of the first layer. The first layer has a plurality of apertures. The first layer comprises land areas between a majority of the apertures. The contact angle on the land areas of the first layer between the majority of the apertures is more than 70° according to the contact angle test method. The topsheet has a run-off of less than 40% according to the run-off test method.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Rodrigo Rosati, Gueltekin Erdem, Cornelia Sprengard-Eichel, Luigi Di Girolamo-Galasso, Andrea Lieselotte Benner
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Patent number: 11364158Abstract: An absorbent article can have a top sheet layer, a back sheet layer, and an absorbent system positioned between the top sheet layer and the back sheet layer. The absorbent system can have at least a fluid intake layer, an absorbent core, and a distribution layer. The fluid intake layer can define a fluid intake layer opening and the absorbent core can define an absorbent core opening. A void space is present between the top sheet layer and the distribution layer and the top sheet layer is maintained in a spaced apart relationship from the distribution layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: JuHyung Lee, HyungWoo Park, SungSu Kim
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Patent number: 11357671Abstract: In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise two or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or greater than a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 2.2 to about 6.0.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Gary Dean LaVon, Jill Trygier, Vanessa Melendez
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Patent number: 11357670Abstract: An absorbent article including an absorbent main body including an absorbent core; and a pair of leak-proof walls. The pair of leak-proof walls are on respective widthwise side portions of the absorbent main body. Each of the leak-proof walls is capable of standing on a skin side in the thickness direction. The absorbent core includes a low-basis-weight portion in a widthwise central portion. The low-basis-weight portion has a basis weight of the absorbent core smaller than the basis weight in a surrounding portion. A joined part is formed by joining a surface of the skin-side portion and a surface of the non-skin-side portion, the surfaces facing to each other. The joined part is provided inside a distal end of the leak-proof wall and outside the low-basis-weight portion in the width direction. A part of the joined part and a part of the low-basis-weight portion overlap in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotomo Mukai, Takahito Nagai
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Individually packaged absorbent article, absorbent article, and method for folding absorbent article
Patent number: 11357672Abstract: An individually-packaged absorbent article or an absorbent article. The absorbent article (1) includes a hip-hold portion (H) that includes a side area (10) protruding from a rear side-edge of a body (8). The side area (10) includes a first protruding portion (21) that includes a portion having a largest width from a longitudinal centerline (CL) of the body (8), a first recessed portion (31) adjacent to the rear end of the first protruding portion (21), and a second recessed portion (32) adjacent to the front end of the first protruding portion (21).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATIONInventor: Susumu Yonaha -
Patent number: 11344456Abstract: An absorbent article has a front side, a back side, a longitudinal axis and includes a liquid permeable topsheet on the wearer-facing side, a liquid impermeable backsheet on the garment-facing side, and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes a core wrap having a top side and a bottom side, an absorbent material having a deposition area between the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap, and at least two channels substantially free of absorbent material within the deposition area. In a first type of channels, the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are bonded to each other. In a second type of channels, the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are not bonded or are less bonded to each other than in the first type of channels.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: The Procte & Gamble CompanyInventor: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi
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Patent number: 11337868Abstract: A pull-on absorbent article includes: an absorbent main body including an absorbent body along a vertical direction; and waist-circumference sections in a pair respectively located on one end side and another end side of the absorbent main body, the waist-circumference sections each including an elastic member stretchable in a lateral direction, the absorbent main body including extension sections in a pair respectively extending outward on two lateral sides of the absorbent body, the extension sections each having an elastic member stretchable in the vertical direction placed therein, the extension sections each forming a leg opening and including an overlap portion that overlaps in the vertical direction with at least one of the waist-circumference sections in a pair, the overlap portion having at least a part joined to the waist-circumference section, the overlap portion of the extension section having a welded region having a predetermined lateral length placed therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Fukasawa, Toshiyasu Yoshioka, Kunihiko Katsuragawa
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Patent number: 11331229Abstract: An absorbent garment that includes a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis. The absorbent garment also includes a front region, a back region and a crotch region, with the crotch region being disposed between the front region and the back region. The crotch region includes an absorbent assembly. The absorbent garment further includes a front panel in the front region, wherein the front panel includes an inner layer, an outer layer and a front longitudinal end; a back panel in the back region, wherein the back panel includes an inner layer, an outer layer and a back longitudinal end. The front panel and the back panel each include a stranded elastic area between their inner and outer layers. The front panel also includes a stretch banded area disposed between the inner and outer layers. The stretch banded area is disposed adjacent the front longitudinal end.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Sang Hyun Lee, DongSoo Choi, Allyssa Marie Herrmann
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Patent number: 11309080Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for treating a tissue site are described. In some embodiments, the system may include a dressing, a negative-pressure source, and a communication device. The communication device may be coupled to the negative-pressure source and configured to transmit operational data of the negative pressure source to a remote location for monitoring usage of the system.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Phillips, Brian Robey