The Procter Gamble Company

Kaoru Ishihara

Sarah Marie Wade

Gary Dean LaVon

Tina Marie Glahn

Diana W Juratovac

Ronald Joseph Zink, Ii

Masaharu Nishikawa

Anna Elizabeth Macura

Rachael Eden Walther

Amanda Margaret Bicking

Nicholas Paul Goyette

Gregory Nmn Ashton

Ronald Joseph Zink

Deborah Ann Vargo

Molly Kelly Grovak

Koichi Morimoto

Bret Darren Seitz

Vanessa Marie Melendez

Michael Devin Long

John Andrew Strasemeier

Monica R Tournoux

Farihah Ibrahim

Xuechun Wang

Darrell Ian Brown

Ling Tong

Jeffry Rosiak

LeAnn Nichole Phillips

Tina Brown

Ruizhi Pei

Wei Zhou

Shiqiao Li

Matthew Alexander Gittings

Gary D LaVON

Rachel Eden Walther

Nicholas Matthew Lo

Tianzhuo Zhu

Gary Dean Lavon

Diana Woehnl Juratovac

Kyzuya Ogawa

Zhiqiang Huang

Monica Renee Tournoux

The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a core disposed at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article comprises a belt portion extending from the chassis. The belt portion comprises a first substrate, a second substrate joined to the first substrate, and a plurality of elongate elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion comprises a texture zone having a texture ratio of greater than about 5.

Absorbent articles having a belt portion with a texture zone having a texture ratio

Absorbent articles that include elastics in multiple layers are disclosed herein.

Absorbent articles with elastics in multiple layers

Elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure may comprise closely spaced (e.g., Average-Strand-Spacing less than 4 mm), fine elastomeric strands (Average-Dtex less than 400), and laminates may be deformed via MD activation and/or aperturing. Further, the laminates of the present disclosure may comprise elastomeric strands having different polymer compositions. The laminates of the present disclosure may be used for disposable absorbent article components (including pant belts).

Beamed elastomeric laminate performance and zones

A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.

Pant-type wearable article

An absorbent article comprises first and second substrates and one or more elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the substrates. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate and/or to portions of the elastic elements. The absorbent article comprises an adhesive having a first and second pattern of elements disposed on first substrate, and first and second texture zones. The first texture zone comprises a first portion of the substrates, a first portion of the elastic elements, and the first pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a background pattern in the first portion of the substrates. The second texture zone comprises a second portion of the substrates, a second portion of the one or more elastic elements, and the second pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a macro pattern in the second portion of the substrates.

Absorbent articles having texture zones forming background patterns and macro patterns

Disclosed is a wearable article comprising front and back elastic belt regions and a crotch region between the front and back elastic belt regions; the front and back elastic belt regions each comprising a laminate, an elastic bonding continuously bonding an elastic member in the direction of stretch, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the elastic member to at least one of the inner and outer sheets, the vertical bonding having a transverse dimension VGand spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG, wherein the outer sheet comprises a repeating pattern of apertures, the repeating pattern of apertures spaced apart from each other with a longitudinal pitch DF, and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch DF, wherein VGis greater than DF, and wherein the repeating pattern of apertures have a Longitudinal Orientation.

Absorbent articles of the present disclosure may have Relaxed Product Waist Widths, Relaxed Product Hip Widths, and Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouettes as disclosed herein. And, arrays of the present disclosure may have Array Average Product Hip-to-Waist Silhouettes and Array Average Product Hip-to-Waist-to-Weight Ratio as disclosed herein.

Disposable absorbent article silhouettes and silhouette arrays

A method of making a laminate for an absorbent article is provided. The laminate comprises elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate two substrates. The first substrate has a primary fiber bond pattern formed therein and comprising a plurality of primary fiber bonds. The method comprises forming densified regions in the first substrate. A perimeter of each of the densified regions is larger than a perimeter of each of the primary fiber bonds. The densified regions together form a pattern of densified regions in the first substrate. The method comprises adhesively attaching the elastic elements to the first substrate, joining the second substrate to the first substrate or to some of the elastic elements, and forming a plurality of rugosities in the first substrate by allowing the elastic elements to at least partially contract. The frequency and amplitude ranges of the rugosities result from the pattern of the densified regions.

Methods of making laminates for absorbent articles

An array of disposable absorbent articles comprising a sequence of graphic designs corresponding to a wearer's stage of development.

Array of disposable absorbent articles having a sequence of graphics corresponding to a wearer's stages of development

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Kaoru Ishihara