Sca Hygiene Products Ab

Sca Molnlycke Ab

Molnlycke Ab

Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag

Sca Hygiene Products Gmbh

Sca Hygiene Products Aktiebolag

Anders Gustafsson

Urban Widlund

Ted Guidotti

Eva Simmons

Solgun Drevik

Ann Samuelsson

Camilla Bj&ouml;rklund

Anna Svernlov

Peter R&ouml;nnberg

Eva-Li Saarväli

Anette Buschka

Urban Gabrielsson

Robert Kling

Mikael Strandqvist

Erik Hjort

Bo Runeman

Per Moller

Peter Ronnberg

Lars Fingal

Jan Wästlund-Karlsson

Margareta Wennerbäck

Emmanuelle Morin

Mattias Bosaeus

Allan Elfström

Kaveh Tondkar

Hakon Lundberg

Anna Karin Jonbrink

Christer Olofsson Ranta

Tomas Karlson

Fredrik Karlsson

Eva Fransson

Benedicte Durant

Peter R{overscore (o)}nnberg

Urband Widlund

Kyrre Aalerud

Anna Svernl&ouml;v

Allan ELFSTRÖM

Per MÖLLER

Tomas Karlsson

Margaretha WENNERBÄCK

A process for collecting and storing data related to a condition of an absorbent product is disclosed. The process includes the steps of: receiving, in a server unit, measurement data related to said condition; storing said measurement data in a first database; adapting said measurement data to a format in which it can be utilized by at least one application program configured for analyzing said condition; storing the adapted measurement data in a second database; and providing access to said second database from at least one application program arranged for analyzing said measurement data. Also disclosed is an arrangement for collecting and storing incontinence-related data.

Process and arrangement for collecting and storing data related to a condition of an absorbent product

A method and apparatus for determining presence of an object to be tidied in a washroom. A beam is supplied to a surface of the washroom at a first location. A reflected beam received from the surface of the washroom or received from an object in the path of the beam to the surface is detected. The presence of the object is determined from feedback from the beam based on a comparison of the feedback with a detection result when the beam reflects from the surface at the first location. An object to be tidied output signal is issued indicating that an object to be tidied is present based on the determination on the presence of an object.

Means and method for detecting the presence of at least one object to be tidied in a washroom

An absorbent article for absorbing liquid discharge of a wearer when worn in the crotch region includes an absorbent core for doing the absorbing of the liquid discharge. A conductive layer is in electrical contact with the absorbent core. The article includes at least one set of first and second electrical contacts secured in intimate physical and electrical contact with the conductive layer such that when an electric potential is applied between the first and second electrical contacts, an electric current travels between them and through the conductive layer in such a way so as to follow a first relatively high impedance path along the conductive layer when the absorbent core is dry and a relatively low impedance path when the absorbent core is wet. This system allows a system verification check, even in the dry state, and the determination of the extent of the wet portion of the absorbent core.

Absorbent article comprising a liquid discharge detection sensor

A pant type absorbent article such as a pant diaper, a sanitary pant or incontinence pant, said article having a core region () comprising an absorbent core () and a chassis region () surrounding the core region. The chassis comprises front, back and waist regions (and). The article in at least a part of the chassis region () comprises an outer coversheet () in the form of an elastic web material () constituting the sole component of the chassis () in at least 20% of the total surface area of the article (), said elastic laminate having an opacity of at least 40% and a basis weight of no more than 100 g/m.

Absorbent article comprising an elastic web material

A hydroentangled nonwoven material (), includes a mixture of randomized continuous filaments () and natural fibers (), wherein at least part of the staple fibers and/or the continuous filaments includes thermoplastic material. The nonwoven material is bonded in a non-random bonding pattern including a plurality of bonding sites () in which thermoplastic material included in the nonwoven material has been caused to at least partly soften or melt to create thermal bonds between the continuous filaments. The nonwoven material includes no other thermal bonds between the filaments than provided by the non-random bonding pattern. The nonwoven material may also contain synthetic staple fibers ().

Hydroentangled nonwoven material

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article in the form of a pants-type diaper or a sanitary panty starts from a flat blank which includes an elongated absorbent body () enclosed between two casing sheets () which at opposing front and rear end parts of the absorbent body have side parts which extend laterally beyond the body on opposite sides thereof. The method includes the step of folding the blank about a transverse axis so that the end edges of the side parts lie edge-to-edge. The front and rear side parts of the blank which oppose one another in the folded state of the blank are joined together by a releasable and refastenable fastener ().

Method for manufacturing a pants-type diaper or sanitary panty, and such an article

A dispenser for rolls of flexible sheet material, each of the rolls having spindle elements extending axially outwardly beyond the ends thereof, wherein a first roll is located in a dispensing position. Alternatively, a second roll may be located in a reserve position. The dispenser further includes a stub roll position arranged to receive a first roll exhausted to a predetermined extent. Retaining elements are arranged on both sides of the stub roll position to support the spindle elements inserted into each end of a roll, wherein the retaining elements arranged for simultaneous release of the spindle elements when the dispenser is opened.

Dispenser for products in sheet form

An absorbent product has a fluid permeable top sheet, a fluid impermeable backing sheet, and an absorbent core having an upper side, a bottom side, two longitudinally running sides and two laterally running sides. The product further has two longitudinally running barrier flaps at the longitudinally running sides of the absorbent core. The top sheet covers the upper side of the absorbent core. The top sheet, with the upper side of the absorbent core, also covers the longitudinally running sides of the absorbent core and part of the bottom side of the absorbent core, the top sheet extending between at least a portion of the bottom side of the absorbent core and the backing sheet. The top sheet is connected to the backing sheet at the bottom side of the absorbent core. The barrier flaps are connected to the backing sheet at the longitudinally running sides of the absorbent core.

Absorbent article

Absorbent pants having a waist opening, two leg openings, and a waterproof outer barrier layer, which is arranged outside the pants layer. The pants layer has a surface area which is greater than that of the outer barrier layer and is joined in parts with itself or includes a device for enabling it to be joined in parts with itself, so that during use of the pants it alone constitutes the waist opening and the leg openings of the pants, and that the load-bearing parts of the pants and all of the parts lying against the body of the user are formed only from the pants layer. The pants are also elastic, where the outer barrier layer is essentially inelastic.

Absorbent pants

A multi-ply tissue product has several plies () The multi-ply configuration is made by at least one folding (a; b; c) of at least one ply sheet (P) of tissue material in order to reduce the possibilities of delamination and to make the product flexible simultaneously.

Multi-product

An oblong absorbent article that includes a liquid-impermeable bottom sheet, and upper liquid-permeable sheet and an absorbent body disposed between these sheets, and on each side of the longitudinal center line of the upper sheet at least one longitudinal elastic liquid barrier having at least the free edge treated with a non-adhesive sealing medium which partly fills out the pores formed between the free edge and the abutment surface on the wearer, and/or which, when the article is donned, increases around said abutment surface, the wetting angle of the liquid to the skin. An absorbent article that includes an essentially liquid-impermeable top sheet above an absorbent body enclosed between an upper liquid-permeable sheet and a liquid-impermeable sheet, the top sheet being provided with elastic for shaping the article to the wearer's body and incorporating apertures intended to register with the anus and the urethra orifice of the wearer in use, around which apertures elastically puckered sealing edges are disposed, at least one sealing edge being coated with the sealing medium.

Absorbent article incorporating liquid barriers with sealing coating

An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable upper sheet, a liquid impermeable bottom sheet, and an absorbent body between the bottom sheet and the upper sheet, and at least one longitudinally extending liquid barrier comprising an elongated elastic element and an elongated, essentially liquid-impermeable and inelastic material on each side of a longitudinal center line. A liquid impermeable top sheet with an aperture intended to lie in register with a wearer's anus and urethral orifice may also be included. A prestretched elastic band is attached to either an edge of an inelastic material of the liquid impermeable barrier or to the aperture-defining edge of the liquid permeable top sheet. When the article is donned, the elastic device will lie against a wearer, with a free part facing toward the longitudinal center line and a stretchable, puckered sealing edge facing outward from the longitudinal center line.

Longitudinal puckered-edge liquid barriers for absorbent articles

An absorbent structure for use in an absorbent article such as a diaper, an incontinence guard, a sanitary napkin, or the like wherein the absorbent structure has two different material types, which are in direct or indirect contact with each other so that liquid can be transferred between the material types. The first material type is constituted by material which swells when absorbing body fluid and the second material type is constituted by material which collapses when absorbing body fluid, wherein the volume increase in the first material type is essentially equal to the volume reduction in the second material type when the absorbent structure is saturated with liquid, whereby the absorbent structure has substantially the same volume both in a wet and in a dry state.

Absorbent structure for use in an absorbent article

The invention relates to an absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin, an incontinence guard, or a panty-liner, which article has a substantially elongated shape with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and also exhibits two side edges ( ), a front edge ( ) and a rear edge ( ), a front portion ( ) and a rear portion ( ), and a crotch portion ( ) situated between the front portion ( ) and the rear portion ( ), which article furthermore exhibits a liquid-impervious surface ( ) and a liquid-impervious surface ( ). At least within the front portion ( ) and the crotch portion ( ), the article exhibits high bending stiffness against bending along transversely extending bending lines, whereby the front portion ( ) and the crotch portion ( ) of the article exhibit high shape permanence during use of the article. Furthermore, the front portion ( ) of the article is angled in relation to the crotch portion ( ), in a direction towards the liquid-pervious surface ( ), whereby the front portion ( ) forms and angle &agr; towards the crotch portion ( ) which is substantially permanent during use.

Absorbent article such as a sanitary napkin, an incontinence guard, a panty-liner or the like

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Billdal, Sweden

Anders Gustafsson