Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Mary Alice Berceau

Joseph Daniel Coenen

Marcille Faye Ruman

Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt

Adrienne Rae Loyd

David Fleger Bishop

Richard Norris Dodge, Ii

Angela Ann Johnston

Connie May McMorrow

Stephen Carl Baumgartner

Jun Zhang

Candace Dyan Krautkramer

Troy Michael Runge

Palani Raj Ramaswami Wallajapet

David Glen Biggs

Jennifer Elizabeth Pozniak

Joseph Kenneth Baker

Katherine Carol Wheeler

Wendy L Hamilton

Alice Y Romans-Hess

Brooke Ashley Berg

Patsy Ann Krautkramer

Richmond R Cohen

Gil Bernard Didier Garnier

Katherine Carol Shaw

Jason Matthew English

April Montoya Vaverka

Stuart James Burgan

Jennifer L Misek

Brooke Ashley Zimmer

Udaykumar Raval

Danielle G Finger

Jamie L Gloede

Peter S Gebhardt

Amanda J Carlson

Elizabeth Ann Allison

Richard Norris Dodge Ii

Jason M English

The foam and fiber composite can provide an absorbent article with improved dryness and an improved liquid distribution capability. The foam and fiber composite can be formed from at least two materials. The first material is an open cell foam material and the second material is a fibrous material. A plurality of the fibers forming the fibrous material can be fluid inserted into the open cell foam material thereby forming the foam and fiber composite. In various embodiments, the foam and fiber composite can be incorporated into an absorbent article as a component of an absorbent system located between a topsheet layer and a backsheet layer of the absorbent article.

Method of manufacturing a foam and fiber composite

An absorbent article having improved leakage protection when the wearer of the absorbent article is lying on their side. The absorbent article has a surge layer in liquid communication with a portion of the garment facing region and a portion of a side edge of the absorbent core.

Disposable absorbent article with side lying leakage improvement

An absorbent feminine care article () having a longitudinal direction (), a lateral direction (), first and second longitudinally opposed end portions (), and an intermediate portion () located between the end portions. The article () comprises an absorbent body structure () sandwiched between a cover () and a baffle (). In a particular aspect, the absorbent structure () can include an intake layer () and a shaping layer (). In other aspects, the intake layer () and shaping layer () can have differently configured absorbent capacities, differently configured densities, differently configured basis weights and/or differently configured sizes which are selectively arranged to provide desired combinations of liquid intake rate, absorbent retention capacity, shape maintenance, and aesthetics.

Multilayer absorbent article

An absorbent core comprising fluff pulp fiber treated with polysiloxane, wherein the absorbent core has a density of about 0.15 g/cmor greater and a Young's modulus of about 75 psi or less. The polysiloxane may comprise an amino-functional moiety, The absorbent core may comprise superabsorbent, and may be employed in a disposable absorbent product.

Highly wettable&#x2014;highly flexible fluff fibers and disposable absorbent products made of those

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DePere, WI, United States of America

Mary Alice Berceau