The Procter Gamble Company

The Procter & Gamble Company

Gueltekin Erdem

Rodrigo Rosati

Uwe Schneider

Hans Adolf Jackels

Jan Michael Trinkaus

Farihah Ibrahim

Torsten Lindner

Holger Beruda

Han Xu

Yi Yuan

Cornelia Sprengard-Eichel

Paul Thomas Weisman

Koichi Morimoto

Olaf Erik Alexander Isele

Joseph Hung Lam

Olaf Erik Isele

Jan Claussen

Mattias Schmidt

Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger

Kelyn Anne Arora

Zhe Liu

Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi

Wei Wu

Zheng Bao

Meng Chen

Hui Liu

Theodore Cory Fites

Ekaterina Anatolyevna Ponomarenko

Nathan Ray Whitely

Misael Omar Aviles

Morten Rise Hansen

Alizha Victoria Smith

Xu Gao

Kyle James Raabe

Jihua Xie

Sascha Kreisel

Jixiang Cai

Sudhanshu Gupta

Luigi Di Girolamo-Galasso

Walter Pieter Hendrik Laurentius Van Der Klugt

Mike P Purdon

Jörg Endres

Sharon Ann Young

Dirk Wolfram Schubert

Andrea Lieselotte Benner

Franz Josef Lanyi

Nadezhda Kurbatova

Brian Udengaard

Thomas Broch

Silke Kramkowski

Songmei Zhou

Fukuan Shi

Fengchun Ye

Tong Jia

Barbara Harling Hede

Jon Brennan

Weidong Wu

Heping Fang

Lu Ye

Yufei Shan

Yibo Fan

Paul Thomas Pineda Contreras

Nancy Melenda Messer Myers

Nancy Myers

Lieselotte Andrea Benner

Jan Michael Trinkhaus

Wearable article comprising an elastic laminate with excellent sweat management properties. The elastic laminate comprises a first web and a second web. The second web is formed of a first fibrous layer and a second fibrous layer, which are integrally combined with each other. The second fibrous layer may be more hydrophilic than the first fibrous layer, and/or the second fibrous layer may have higher average surface area per volume than the first fibrous layer.

Wearable article comprising an elastic laminate

A method of creating a soft and lofty continuous fiber nonwoven web is provided. The method includes providing molten polymer to a spinneret defining a plurality of orifices, and flowing a fluid intermediate the spinneret and a moving porous member. The moving porous member is positioned below the spinneret. The method includes using the fluid to draw or push the molten polymer, in a direction that is toward the moving porous member, through at least some of the plurality of orifices to form a plurality of individual continuous fiber strands. The method includes depositing the continuous fiber strands on the moving porous member at a first location to create an intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web, and removing and/or diverting some of the fluid proximate to the first location to maintain loft and softness in the deposited intermediate continuous fiber nonwoven web.

Methods of creating soft and lofty nonwoven webs

A wearable article comprising an elastic laminate with an inner web and an outer web being in a face to face relationship, and a skin-facing outer surface and a garment-facing outer surface. The elastic laminate has a total caliper when subjected to the NMR MOUSE method as defined herein, the total caliper having a first 200 μm sub-caliper corresponding to 200 μm of the total caliper starting from the skin-facing outer surface and extending towards the garment-facing outer surface, and a last 200 μm sub-caliper corresponding to 200 μm of the total caliper starting from the garment-facing outer surface and extending towards the skin-facing outer surface. The elastic laminate has a % Liquid Ratio in the first 200 micron sub-caliper to total caliper of less than 20% after 1 minute according to the NMR MOUSE method.

Wearable article comprising an elastic belt laminate

Disclosed is an absorbent body for an absorbent article, comprising: 1) a first topsheet facing the wearer, the first topsheet being a water permeable nonwoven layer comprising eccentric bicomponent fibers, and having a basis weight of at least about 20 gsm, 2) a second topsheet disposed on the garment facing side of the first topsheet, the second topsheet being a nonwoven layer comprising spunbond fibers and having a positive, at least about 100%, Accumulative One-way Transport Capacity according to the National Standards of the People's Republic of China GB/T 21655.2-2009, wherein the basis weight of the second topsheet is the same or smaller than the basis weight of the first topsheet; 3) an absorbent core disposed on the garment facing side of the second topsheet, and 4) a water impermeable backsheet disposed on the garment facing side of the absorbent core.

Absorbent body with topsheet composite

An apertured nonwoven web is provided. The apertured nonwoven web comprises carded fibers, a first side, and a second side. The apertured nonwoven web defines a plurality of apertures therein. The apertures may each have a first side aperture size and a second side aperture size, and a ratio of the first side aperture size to the second side aperture size may be between about 1.15:1 to about 1:1.15. The plurality of apertures may have an aperture size regularity of about 1% to about 15%. The plurality of apertures may have an aperture shape regularity between about 1% to about 12%.

Apertured nonwoven webs

An absorbent article such as a baby diaper comprising a three-dimensional laminatehaving a first layerintermittently bonded to a second layerby a heterophase polymer. The topsheet comprises three-dimensional protrusionsin the first layerwhich are not bonded to the second layer. The heterophase polymer has an enthalpy of fusion of at least 10 J/g. The laminate may be used on the wearer-facing side of the article as topsheetand/or on the garment-facing side as part of the backsheet. The first layer may comprise natural fibers.

Absorbent article with three-dimensional hot-melt bonded laminate

A nonwoven web for an absorbent article is provided. The absorbent article comprises the nonwoven web as a core wrap. A method for producing the absorbent article is also provided. The nonwoven web comprises a first nonwoven layer comprising filament fibers, a second nonwoven layer comprising filaments fibers, a third nonwoven layer comprising staple fibers disposed between the first and second nonwoven layers. A total basis weight of the first and second nonwoven layers is not less than about 10 gsm. The third nonwoven layer has a basis weight no greater than about 4 gsm. The nonwoven web comprises pores, wherein greater than about 80% of the pores have a pore size equal to or smaller than about 40 μm, and wherein less than about 10% of the pores have a pore size equal to or greater than about 45 μm.

Absorbent articles comprising wetness indicators

An absorbent article having a topsheet with natural fibers and a semi-hydrophilic composition is provided. The semi-hydrophilic composition may have a wax ester and a polyglyceryl emulsifier in a ratio of between about 0.5:1 and 1.5:1. The topsheet may have a Contact Angle of between about 35° and about 100°. The topsheet may have a Fluid Strike-Through time of between about 0.5 seconds to about 18 seconds and a wicking height of between about 0 mm and about 10 mm.

Absorbent articles comprising semi-hydrophilic compositions

Three-dimensional laminates and methods for making the same are provided. The three-dimensional laminates may be apertured and may have welds between various substrates. The three-dimensional laminates may be used in absorbent articles, such as diapers and pants, for example, as topsheets, as topsheets and acquisition layers, or as outer cover materials, for example. The three-dimensional laminates may be produced on an absorbent article manufacturing line.

Methods of making laminates for absorbent articles

Nonwoven material

An absorbent article comprising a liquid permeable nonwoven topsheet, a nonwoven second material that is a separate material from the topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned intermediate the second material and the backsheet. The second material is positioned intermediate the topsheet and absorbent core and is generally planar. The topsheet comprises a plurality of recesses and raised areas, and voids are defined in the raised areas under the topsheet. A first aperture is formed in a substantially central location of the raised areas. The recesses each form a base positioned most distal from the substantially central locations of the raised areas. A second aperture is formed in the bases of the recesses. The first aperture extends through the topsheet, and the second aperture extends through the topsheet and at least partially through the second material.

Three-dimensional materials having apertures and voids

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