Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Other

John David Amundson

Yvette Lynn Hammonds

Andrew Kuo

Frank Paul Abuto

Frederick Allan Buck

Wael Rafat Joseph

Mary Lou McDaniel

David Martin Jackson

Steven Craig Gehling

William A Hendrickson

Duane Lyle McDonald

Steven F Starcke

Douglas Howard Piltingsrud

David J Drath

Timothy P Clare

Duane Gerard Krzysik

James Aloysius Hagan

David Charles Musil

Michael Allen Daley

Paul Roy Schmidt

Brian Patrick Argo

Jenny L Day

Edward John Foley

John Michael Finney

Hal Arthur LaFleur, Iii

Eric Michael Winder

Herb F Velazquez

Dave Allen Soerens

Andrew Mark Long

Martin Christopher Bunce

Jason C Cohen

Charles Robert Tomsovic

Michael Scott Brunner

Catherine Marguerite Hancock-Cooke

Alan Edward Wright

David Craige Strack

Gerald Keith Sosalla

Tim G Dollevoet

Walter Theodore Schultz

Julie Ann Paveletzke

James Dell Milner

Peter Booth

Christopher John Rueb

Michael Joseph Nelson

Russell Joseph Brumm

Charles Allen Smith

Mark George Everson

Larry Edgerton Brown

Kambiz Bayat Makoui

Jeffrey David Shelley

Dennis Edward Fryer

Lars Nilsen Nordang

Christopher Martin Pieper

Susan Marie Trefethren

Cole William Poole

Craig Martin Saunders

Chris P Olson

Gerard Van Amerongen

Bradley A Colvin

Sandra K Walker

Lucas Karel Van Den Broek

Erin Quant Riddell

Melissa Kay Burns

Adam Suttner

John Charles Eckert

Zoe Samantha Creighton

Christopher J Rueb

A pant-like absorbent articles having handles on side panels of the article for ease of removal and donning of the absorbent garment is disclosed. The article includes a front waist region, a back waist region, and a chassis extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions attached by at least one side panel. Formed within the side panel is at least one handle. The handle includes an aperture formed through the side panel. The handle further includes a reinforcing material operatively joined to the at least one side panel adjacent distal side edges of the aperture.

Disposable article with reinforced handle

A pledget for a tampon having improved leakage prevention of bodily fluid after the tampon is inserted in the vagina. The pledget can have an absorbent structure having two layers. At least one of the layers of the absorbent structure can have one contact element at least partially separated from a second contact element.

Tampon with contact elements

A pledget for a tampon having improved leakage prevention of bodily fluid after the tampon is inserted in the vagina. The pledget can have an absorbent structure having two layers. At least one of the layers of the absorbent structure can have one contact element at least partially separated from a second contact element. A method of manufacturing the tampon can include a step of incorporating a contact element into at least one of the two layers of the absorbent structure.

Tampon method of manufacture

A method of integrating a tampon includes providing an absorbent blank having a longitudinal centerline and compressing the absorbent blank in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline to form a pledget having a compressed diameter. The method also includes penetrating the pledget in the perpendicular direction to a compressed depth of at least 20% of the compressed diameter to form a discrete indentation.

Integrated tampon and method for making

A pledget for a tampon having improved leakage prevention of bodily fluid after the tampon is inserted in the vagina. A method of manufacturing the pledget can include a step of bringing a contact member into communication with a fibrous material. The method can include a step of compressing the fibrous material into a pledget for a tampon.

Methods for stretching nonwoven substrate material to reduce the basis weight of the material while maintaining or increasing thickness is disclosed. Additionally, the stretched substrate materials provide the same or improved strength as compared to conventional nonwoven materials and provide a softer feel to the user's skin.

Methods of stretching wet wipes to increase thickness

Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. The microencapsulated delivery vehicles may be introduced into products such that, upon activation, the product provides a functional benefit to a substrate, such as a user's skin.

Microencapsulated delivery vehicle having an aqueous core

Generally stated, the present disclosure relates to wiping substrates such as wet wipes and dry wipes that include a thermal grill utilized to deliver a warming sensation. In an exemplary aspect, disposed on at least one structural layer of the wipe substrate is a thermal grill. The thermal grill includes an alternating pattern of thermally active areas and secondary areas that provide a feeling of warmth to a user of the wipe across the entire surface of the wipe. The thermally active portions of the wipe include a temperature change substance that when in liquid communication with an activation agent is adapted to provide a temperature change of at least 5&#xb0; C. from the temperature of the secondary portion. By providing a thermal grill with thermally active portions, the entire wipe gives the user of the wipe a warming sensation.

Patterned self-warming wipe substrates

Microencapsulated delivery vehicles comprising an active agent are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microencapsulated delivery vehicles are heat delivery vehicles capable of generating heat upon activation. The microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon activation, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a warm sensation on a user's skin. Any number of other active ingredients, such as cooling agents and biocides, can also be incorporated into a microencapsulated delivery vehicle.

Wipes including microencapsulated delivery vehicles and phase change materials

The present disclosure relates to wet wipe dispensing systems for dispensing wet wipes capable of changing temperature upon use. In one embodiment, the dispensing system includes a wet wipe container and a lotion container that is held in assembly with the wet wipe container that contains a lotion that is kept separate from the wet wipes until the wet wipe is dispensed from the wet wipe container. The lotion includes a microencapsulated delivery vehicle that contains a temperature change agent that is capable of generating a temperature change upon contact with an aqueous solution. Once the wet wipe is dispensed from the system, an applicating device can apply the lotion to the wet wipe to facilitate contact between the temperature change agent in the microencapsulated delivery vehicle and the aqueous solution of the wet wipe.

Wet wipes dispensing system

In a dispensing system and process for dispensing a warm wet wipe, a wet has an aqueous solution and microencapsulated delivery vehicles including a temperature change agent capable of generating a temperature change upon contact with the aqueous solution. An activating device facilitates rupturing of the microencapsulated delivery vehicles as the wet wipe is removed from a wet wipe container to allow contact between the temperature change agent and the aqueous solution of the wet wipe to thereby dispense a warm wet wipe. In another embodiment the wet wipe in the container has an aqueous solution. A lotion having the microencapsulated delivery vehicles is disposed in a lotion container free from contact with the wet wipe. An applicator in communication with the lotion is operable to apply the lotion to the wet wipe while the wet wipe is disposed at least in part within the wet wipe container.

Wet wipe dispensing system for dispensing warm wet wipes

Personal care products comprising supersaturated solutions and core compositions comprising activation means are disclosed. In one embodiment, a core composition comprising the activation means is surrounded by an encapsulation layer. The core composition comprising the activation means may be introduced into wet wipes such that, upon rupture and contact between the supersaturated solution and the activation means, the wet wipe solution is warmed resulting in a warm sensation on a user's skin. Any number of other active ingredients, such as biocides, can also be incorporated into the personal care product.

Supersaturated solutions using crystallization enthalpy to impact temperature change to wet wipes

Supersaturated solutions using crystallization enthalpy to impart temperature change to wet wipes

Wet wipe dispensing system

Microencapsulated heat delivery vehicles

Growing community of inventors

Greenville, WI, United States of America

John David Amundson