The Procter Gamble Company

The Proctor 'Gamble Company

Faricerca Spa

Societa Consortile Ricerche Angelini S.p.a.

Centro Ricerche Fater P & G S.p.a.

Gianfranco Palumbo

Remo Di Girolamo

Giovanni Carlucci

Achille Di Cintio

Maurizio Tamburro

Antonella Pesce

Alessandro Gagliardini

Marco Digiacomantonio

Evelina Sara Toro

Paul Thomas Weisman

Peter Charles Mason, Jr

Ronald Bosman Visscher

Jeanne Marie Hughes

Folke Schlueter

Remo Bellucci

Carlo Toro

Emma Somma

Ivano Gagliardi

Paolo A Veglio

Roberto D'Addario

Andrea Peri

Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag

Carmine Cimini

Luigi Marinelli

Adelia Alessandra Tordone

Tana Marie Kirkbride

Mario Guarracino

Nicola D'Alessio

Daniela Meo

Amedeo Franco D'Incecco

Mattias Schmidt

Brian Francis Gray

Pancrazio Veronese

Enzo Pompei

Gennaro Giorgini

Marco DiGiacomantonio

Stefano Scialla

Matthias Weismantel

Rodrigo Rosati

Gerald A Young

Jonathan Paul Brennan

Giangiacomo Torri

Bernd Siegel

Guido Bonelli

Stefan Bruhns

Edward Joseph Urankar

Francisco Javier Lopez Villanueva

Matthias Konrad Hippe

Antje Ziemer

James Albert Cleary

Maria Cristina Tanzi

Vincenzo Partenza

Anna Kowalski

Mariangela Caputi

Nicola D'Alesio

Fiorello Salone

Markus Linsenbuehler

Ernst Juergen Bauer

Giancarlo Sierri

Giancarlo Fornasari

Silvia Steffan

Paolo Vegliò

Archille Di Cintio

Donatella Talone

Rosa Cavuto

Roberto d'Addario

Olivier Corticchiato

Antonio d'Ambrosio

Antonio D'Ambrosio

Steffan Fors

Birgitta Johansson

Michael Divo

Aldo Amicone

An absorbent article includes a topsheet, an absorbent core, and a backsheet. The absorbent article has a visually perceptible functional enhancement indicator and a functionally-distinguishable portion of the article with one or more channels. The visually perceptible functional enhancement indicator corresponds to the one or more channels, and the functional enhancement indicator is visually perceptible from a body-facing side of the absorbent article but the one or more channels are not visually perceptible.

Absorbent article having a functional enhancement indicator

A process for manufacturing a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The method includes providing a first layer having a first surface and an opposing second surface; color printing the first layer on at least one of the first or second surface; providing a second layer having a first and an opposing second surface; providing a topsheet, an absorbent core, and a backsheet; and placing the first layer and second layer between a topsheet and an absorbent core such that the color printing is visible through a wearer-facing surface of the disposable absorbent article.

Color printed laminated structure, absorbent article comprising the same and process for manufacturing the same

An absorbent core structure for disposable absorbent articles. The absorbent core having improved fluid handling properties. The absorbent core includes a first layer, a layer of absorbent polymer material, a layer of adhesive, and a second layer. The first layer has a first surface, a second surface, and a thickness of 0.4 mm to 1.5 mm.

Absorbent core

An absorbent article with a body-facing surface, a first end region a second end region, a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet is described. The absorbent article can be asymmetric about the transverse centerline, and can have a first functional enhancement indicator visible from the body-facing surface and a second functional enhancement indicator visible from the body-facing surface. The first functional enhancement indicator can provide visually-perceptible indication of the first end region, and the second functional enhancement indicator can provide visually-perceptible indication of a region of fluid entry in the absorbent article.

Absorbent article having functional enhancement indicators

An folded absorbent sanitary pad having a higher basis weight of superabsorbent polymer in correspondence with the folding lines which helps reducing the risk of side leakage.

Absorbent pads comprising zones of differential absorbent capacity

A process for manufacturing a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The method includes providing a first nonwoven layer with bi-component fibers and having a first surface and an opposing second surface; color printing the first nonwoven layer on at least one of the first or second surface; providing a second nonwoven layer with bi-component fibers and a first and an opposing second surface; joining the first and the second nonwoven layers together to form a laminate structure, wherein the color printing faces the second nonwoven layer; providing a topsheet, an absorbent core, and a backsheet; and placing the laminate between a topsheet and an absorbent core such that the color printing is visible through the topsheet.

An absorbent core structure for disposable absorbent articles, having improved fluid handling properties.

An absorbent sanitary pad with side flaps having a higher basis weight of superabsorbent polymer in correspondence with the wings end points which helps reducing side leakage.

An folded absorbent sanitary pad having a lower basis weight of superabsorbent polymer in correspondence with the folding lines which helps reducing the stiffness of the article caused by the folding lines.

Absorbent core for disposable absorbent articles, particularly for the absorption of menses or blood. The absorbent core has at least two layers. A first layer having cellulose fibers that is substantially free of absorbent gelling materials; and a second layer having fibers and an absorbent gelling material and is substantially free of cellulose fibers.

Absorbent core having improved structure

A feminine hygiene article having a body-facing surface, a first end region and a second end region. The feminine hygiene article is for placement in an undergarment having a crotch portion bounded on opposite sides by portions of curved leg openings, the feminine hygiene article comprising at least one functional enhancement indicator visible from said body-facing surface. The feminine hygiene article can be a sanitary napkin, a pantiliner, or an incontinence pad.

This invention relates to a feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising superabsorbent foams obtainable by foaming an aqueous mixture comprising at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, at least one blowing agent, at least one crosslinker and at least one surfactant, polymerizing the foamed mixture and drying the polymerized mixture, to the foams and also to their use for absorbing aqueous fluids.

Feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising a superabsorbent foam of high swell rate

The present invention relates to a color printed liquid permeable laminated structure comprising a first liquid permeable layer and a second liquid permeable layer, the first layer is color printed on at least one of its surfaces prior to being laminated to the second layer and stabilizing the laminated structure with a bonding means. These color printed laminated structures are particularly suitable for use in disposable absorbent articles for feminine protection, typically as so called 'secondary' topsheet in face to face relation with so called 'primary' topsheet, through which they are visible.

An absorbent article for menses absorption comprising an iron complexing agent, which is able to change the menses color.

Absorbent articles comprising an iron complexing agent

A feminine hygiene absorbent article comprising water-absorbing polymer particles, obtainable by polymerization of a foamed monomer solution or suspension, drying, grinding and classification.

Feminine hygiene absorbent articles comprising water-absorbing polymer particles

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Chieti, Italy

Giovanni Carlucci