Patents by Inventor Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI

Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240099912
    Abstract: An absorbent article has a front side, a back side, a longitudinal axis, a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes a first type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are bonded to another, and a second type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are not bonded or are less bonded to one another in this second type of channels than in the first type of channels. The absorbent material may also include cellulose and superabsorbent particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI
  • Patent number: 11938008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable absorbent pant comprising a central chassis and elasticized front and rear belt. The central chassis comprises an absorbent core with an absorbent layer. The absorbent layer comprises a continuous channel formed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer, Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Ling Tong, Claus Peter Stoelzel
  • Patent number: 11918445
    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
  • Publication number: 20240058182
    Abstract: A method for making an absorbent structure for use in a disposable absorbent article is provided. The method involves the steps of providing a first moving surface having an absorbent layer-forming reservoir, providing a supply of absorbent material, and depositing a portion of the supply of absorbent material into the absorbent layer-forming reservoir. The method further involves associating the portion of the supply of absorbent material with a first substrate layer and/or a second substrate layer to define an absorbent structure having a channel therein corresponding to the one or more raised strips, and bonding the first substrate layer to the second substrate layer through the channel. The channel is substantially free of the absorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Carsten Heinrich KREUZER, Rodrigo ROSATI, Blanca ARIZTI, Hans Adolf JACKELS, Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Donald Carroll ROE
  • Publication number: 20240033139
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a topsheet on the wearer-facing side, a backsheet on the garment-facing side, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer, a core wrap enclosing the absorbent material, and a first channel disposed on one side of the longitudinal axis and a second channel disposed on the other side of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Jose Mauricio BERRIZBEITIA, Thorsten NMN RINNERT, Eric Robert SCHURDAK
  • Patent number: 11813152
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a topsheet on the wearer-facing side, a backsheet on the garment-facing side, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer, a core wrap enclosing the absorbent material, and a first channel disposed on one side of the longitudinal axis and a second channel disposed on the other side of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Jose Mauricio Berrizbeitia, Thorsten Rinnert, Eric Robert Schurdak
  • Publication number: 20230099991
    Abstract: An absorbent article such as a diaper extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal axis (80?) and a transversal direction (90?) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and comprising a distribution layer (54) between a topsheet (24) and an absorbent core (28). The distribution layer comprises a fibrous material and a first and second longitudinally-extending channels (86a,b) substantially free of fibrous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Jörg ENDRES, Alexander FEDOTOV, Julien René GARCIA, Ryo MINOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230081148
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet, an absorbent core and a cushion layer between the absorbent core and the backsheet. The cushion layer comprises at least two sub-layers. The sub-layers advantageously have different widths or are bonded to each other by one or more longitudinally-extending attachment areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Abhishek Prakash SURUSHE, Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Walter Pieter Hendrik Laurentius Van Der Klugt
  • Publication number: 20230037340
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge, and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge, and the leg gasketing system further including a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the leg gasketing system pocket. The disposable absorbent article also includes at least one channel in the absorbent core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jeromy Thomas RAYCHECK, Abhishek Prakash SURUSHE, Cornelia Beate MARTYNUS, Donald Carroll ROE, Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Bruno Johannes EHRNSPERGER
  • Publication number: 20220387227
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet, an absorbent material between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer optionally mixed with cellulose fibers. The absorbent article comprises a lower acquisition and distribution layer disposed between the absorbent material and the backsheet, wherein the lower acquisition and distribution layer has a Strike-In below 10 seconds, as measured by the Strike-In test described herein, and a Median Desorption Pressure of less than 20 cmH2O, as measured by the Capillary Sorption Test Method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sascha KREISEL, Gueltekin ERDEM, Abhishek Prakash SURUSHE, Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Yi YUAN, Adrien GRENIER
  • Publication number: 20220378625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a layer of absorbent material disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the layer of absorbent material comprises superabsorbent polymer, and an intermediate layer comprising a nonwoven web. The intermediate layer is disposed between the layer of absorbent material and the backsheet, wherein the intermediate layer has a MD tensile/basis weight no greater than about 0.75 N/5 cm/g/m2 as measured according to Tensile Strength Test, and a thickness/basis weight no less than about 0.078 mm/g/m2, as measured FTT Test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gueltekin ERDEM, Yi Yuan, Jinyu Li, Hui Liu, Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Sascha Kreisel
  • Patent number: 11510829
    Abstract: A substantially planar absorbent core (28) extending in a transversal direction (x) and a longitudinal direction (y), and comprising a core wrap (16, 16?) enclosing an absorbent material (60) substantially free of cellulose fibers, the absorbent material forming a pattern of discrete absorbent material areas. The pattern comprises transversally-orientated areas (752) and longitudinally-orientated areas (754). The absorbent core may further comprise at least two longitudinally-orientated channel-forming areas (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Hans Adolf Jackels
  • Patent number: 11504282
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge, and the leg gasketing system further including a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the leg gasketing system pocket. The disposable absorbent article also includes at least one channel in the absorbent core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Donald Carroll Roe, Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger
  • Publication number: 20220273503
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a topsheet on the wearer-facing side, a backsheet on the garment-facing side, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer, a core wrap enclosing the absorbent material, and a first channel disposed on one side of the longitudinal axis and a second channel disposed on the other side of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Jose Mauricio BERRIZBEITIA, Thorsten RINNERT, Eric Robert SCHURDAK
  • Publication number: 20220192900
    Abstract: An absorbent article has a front side, a back side, a longitudinal axis, a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes a first type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are bonded to another, and a second type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are not bonded or are less bonded to one another in this second type of channels than in the first type of channels. The absorbent material may also include cellulose and superabsorbent particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI
  • Patent number: 11364159
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a topsheet on the wearer-facing side, a backsheet on the garment-facing side, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent material comprising a superabsorbent polymer, a core wrap enclosing the absorbent material, and a first channel disposed on one side of the longitudinal axis and a second channel disposed on the other side of the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Jose Mauricio Berrizbeitia, Thorsten Rinnert, Eric Robert Schurdak
  • Patent number: 11344456
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: The Procte & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi
  • Patent number: 11304858
    Abstract: An absorbent article has a front side, a back side, a longitudinal axis, a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes a first type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are bonded to another, and a second type of channels, wherein the top side and the bottom side of the core wrap are not bonded or are less bonded to one another in this second type of channels than in the first type of channels. The absorbent material may also include cellulose and superabsorbent particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi
  • Patent number: 11273086
    Abstract: An absorbent article for personal hygiene comprising a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, an absorbent core and a fibrous layer. The absorbent core comprises a core wrap and an absorbent material with superabsorbent polymers. The core wrap comprises a top side and a bottom side bonded to one other through one or more areas substantially free of absorbent material. The fibrous layer is at least partially bonded to one of the sides of the core wrap in the area substantially free of absorbent material. When the absorbent material swells, the core wrap forms one or more channels along the area substantially free of absorbent material. The formation of the channel in the absorbent core causes the formation of one or more corresponding ditches in the fibrous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Doris Hollenberg, Thorsten Rinnert
  • Publication number: 20220031527
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a liquid permeable topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core comprising an absorbent material and a core wrap is provided. The core comprises at least one channel-forming area that is substantially free of absorbent material. The absorbent article comprises a masking layer between the bottom side of the core wrap and the backsheet. The masking layer and the bottom side of the core wrap are only partially bonded to each other at their interface, the interface thus comprising a bonded portion and an unbonded portion, wherein the channel-forming area at least partially corresponds to the unbonded portion of the interface, so that when the absorbent material swells, the masking layer can decouple from the three-dimensional channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ernesto Gabriel BIANCHI, Matthias Konrad HIPPE, Aniruddha CHATTERJEE, Adrien GRENIER, Andrea PERI, Udo Friedel SCHOENBORN, Abhishek Prakash SURUSHE