Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
604385280 | Upstanding side flap | 18 |
20090240229 | Pant-Type Disposable Absorbent Hygiene Product - The invention relates to a pant-type disposable absorbent hygiene article ( | 09-24-2009 |
20090264851 | Disposable absorbent articles having gender-specific containment flaps - In one aspect, the present invention relates to an array of gender-specific disposable absorbent articles having gender-specific containment flaps. In one embodiment, the array of articles comprises a first disposable absorbent article adapted to be worn by males, and a second absorbent article adapted to be worn by females. The first disposable absorbent article comprises a first pair of containment flaps, and the second disposable absorbent article comprises a second pair of containment flaps. The first pair of containment flaps differs from the second pair of containment flaps in at least one structural feature. In particular embodiments, the structural feature that differs is selected from the group consisting of flap active length, flap active-portion longitudinal position, flap tension, flap height, distal-to-distal spacing, and proximal-to-proximal spacing. In another aspect, the present invention pertains to a method of marketing gender-specific absorbent articles having gender-specific containment flaps. | 10-22-2009 |
20090275910 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A THREE DIMENSIONALLY SHAPED ARTICLE COMPRISING HIP/THIGH PANELS AND A HOOP FROM A PLUS-SHAPED BLANK, AND SUCH AN ARTICLE - The present invention relates to a method for the high production speed manufacturing of articles comprising a closed or hoop structure, such as garments like pants, or absorbent articles like diapers, having a waist- and leg hoops. | 11-05-2009 |
20090275911 | PANTS-TYPE DISPOSABLE SANITARY ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED FIT - The disclosure relates to a disposable absorbent hygiene item in the form of a pair of knickers, said item comprising a central absorption part, an outer envelope forming a base structure comprising a waist edge which is closed all the way round in the peripheral direction and forms an opening for the waist, a rear part and a front part comprising longitudinal lateral edge sections, and a connecting region arranged between the front part and the rear part and forming the leg openings. | 11-05-2009 |
20090312738 | DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE COMPRISING BELT EARS - A disposable absorbent article may comprise a web that may be folded over at a first fold line forming a first hem, folded over at a second fold line forming a second hem, and folded over at a third fold line and attached in the front and back waist regions to form a first side flap. The web may be folded over at a fourth fold line and attached in the front and back waist regions to form a second side flap. The absorbent article may also comprise a second elastic gathering member attached at or adjacent the side edge of the absorbent article. Also, the absorbent article may comprise laterally opposing deployable belt ears attached to the web in at least one of the waist regions. Each belt ear may be disposed laterally inward until being deployed laterally outward so as to project laterally outward beyond the respective distal edges of the side flaps. | 12-17-2009 |
20100228219 | Absorbent Article with Leak Barriers - An absorbent article having a front region, a back region and a crotch region there between, said article has substantially longitudinally extending leak barriers, each of said leak barriers having a free laterally inward elasticized side and a laterally outward side, the elasticized side of the leak barrier being raised from the inner cover of the absorbent article. The crotch region along a length of at least 2 cm, preferably at least 5 cm and more preferably at least 10 cm, in longitudinal direction is free from raised leak barriers, while raised leak barriers are present in the front and/or back regions of the article. | 09-09-2010 |
20100280480 | Absorbent Article Comprising Side Sheets - A disposable article may comprise an absorbent assembly comprising an absorbent core. The article may also comprise a chassis comprising a longitudinal axis, a lateral axis, a front waist region comprising a front waist edge, a back waist region comprising a back waist edge, a crotch region between the waist regions, laterally opposing side edges extending between the front waist edge and the back waist edge, an exterior surface, and an interior surface. The chassis may form a waist opening and two laterally opposing leg openings when the front waist region and the back waist region are attached together. The chassis may also comprise a water-impermeable center sheet comprising laterally opposing side edges, an interior surface, and an exterior surface. The chassis may further comprise laterally opposing side sheets, each of the side sheets comprising first and second longitudinally extending edges. One of the first and second longitudinally extending edges of the side sheets may be disposed laterally inward of the side edges of the chassis and at least one of the layers of the side sheet may be attached to the center sheet adjacent to the side edges of the center sheet. Each of the side sheets may also comprise a longitudinally extending laterally proximal edge and a longitudinally extending first elastic gathering member attached adjacent to the proximal edge. | 11-04-2010 |
20100324524 | DISPOSABLE PANTS-TYPE WEARING ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - The present invention provides a disposable pants-type wearing article improved so as to eliminate a possibility that elastic members attached to peripheral edges of respective leg-openings might irritate the wearer's skin. The disposable pants-type wearing article has a band-like elastic member having a width dimension in a range of 5 to 60 mm and extending along peripheral edges of leg-openings so as to go half around each of the leg-openings. The elastic member comprises opposite end segments each lying in the uppermost zone of the leg-opening, a middle segment lying in the lowermost zone of the leg-opening and extending across a crotch region and intermediate segments each extending between the associated end segment and the middle segment wherein the intermediate segments are not bonded to sheet material constituting the wearing article. | 12-23-2010 |
20100331805 | ABSORBENT ARTICLE - It is intended to provide an absorbent article which has a barrier sheet for insulating the wearer's skin from excretory substances and in which the opening area in the connecting section formed in the barrier sheet is prevented from narrowing. An absorbent article which comprises a barrier sheet ( | 12-30-2010 |
20140221955 | DIAPER WITH SEPARATOR SHEET - Diapers, including infant diapers, training pants, and adult incontinence articles, and the like having a specific elastically stretchable transverse separator sheet for excrement separation and/or isolation away from the skin, and process for making the same. | 08-07-2014 |
20140221956 | DIAPER WITH SEPARATOR SHEET - Diapers, including infant diapers, training pants, and adult incontinence articles, and the like having a transverse separator sheet for excrement separation and/or isolation away from the skin with a specific design of attachment of the transverse separator sheet to the topsheet and to the elastic cuffs of the diapers. | 08-07-2014 |
20140221957 | DIAPER WITH SEPARATOR SHEET - Diapers, including infant diapers, training pants, and adult incontinence articles, and the like having a transverse separator sheet for excrement separation and/or isolation away from the skin with a specific design which has a reduced impact on the absorbency, comfort and fit properties of the diapers. | 08-07-2014 |
20140364827 | DISPOSABLE DIAPER - A disposable diaper includes a front waistline region, a rear waistline region and a fastening tape, as the waistline retaining unit extending along the product widthwise direction and holding the disposable diaper onto a body of a wearer. Furthermore, the disposable diaper includes a crotch stretch unit that is formed in the crotch region and can expand and contract in the product longitudinal direction, and leg gathers. The leg gathers are longer than the crotch stretch unit in the product longitudinal direction L, and are provided at an outer side from the crotch stretch unit in the product widthwise direction. A low stretch region having a lower ratio of expansion and contraction than the crotch stretch unit is formed between the leg gathers and the crotch stretch unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20150045759 | Diaper With Cuff Connector - The invention relates to an infant or adult diaper. More particularly, the invention relates to an infant or adult diaper having a first longitudinally extending elastic cuff and a second longitudinally extending elastic cuff each have a distal edge, at least the crotch region of which is not attached to the diaper and forms a free flap. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045760 | Cuff Connector Material - The invention relates to an infant or adult diaper. More particularly, the invention relates to an infant or adult diaper having a first longitudinally extending elastic cuff and a second longitudinally extending elastic cuff each have a distal edge, at least the crotch region of which is not attached to the diaper and forms a free flap. | 02-12-2015 |
20150045761 | Cuff Connector Material - The invention relates to an infant or adult diaper. More particularly, the invention relates to an infant or adult diaper having a first longitudinally extending elastic cuff and a second longitudinally extending elastic cuff each have a distal edge, at least the crotch region of which is not attached to the diaper and forms a free flap. | 02-12-2015 |
20150080836 | DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT ARTICLE DESIGNED TO FACILITATE AN EASY CHANGE - A disposable absorbent article to be worn about the lower torso of a wearer that facilitates an easy, intuitive change is provided. The disposable absorbent article includes at least one serviceable indicium that facilitates an easy change by providing alignment of the article relative to an anatomical feature of the wearer or by externally highlighting one or more components of the article thereby indicating alignment and fit about the wearer's lower torso. | 03-19-2015 |
20160038350 | STRETCHABLE CUFF CONNECTOR MATERIAL - The invention relates to an infant or adult diaper. More particularly, the invention relates to an infant or adult diaper, wherein the diaper comprises a topsheet and a backsheet and positioned therein between an absorbent core, and a first longitudinally extending elastic cuff and second longitudinally extending elastic cuff, the first and the second elastic cuff being positioned on either longitudinal side of the topsheet and opposing each other. | 02-11-2016 |