Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Peter Robert Elliker

Dmitry Yavich

Cynthia Marie Phillips

Michael John Faulks

Sheng-Hsin Hu

Cathleen Mae Uttecht

Palani Raj Ramaswami Wallajapet

David Louis Zenker

Susan Carol Paul

Pamela Jean Mayberry

Debra Jean McDowall

Shannon Kathleen Melius

Audra Stefanik Wright

Frank Jerrel Akin

Ronald Lee Edens

Margaret Gwyn Latimer

Cheryl Ann Mocadlo

Charles Paul Keuhn, Jr

James Hongxue Wang

Ali Yahiaoui

David Martin Jackson

Lawrence Howell Sawyer

Fred R Radwanski

Oomman Painummoottil Thomas

Sylvia Bandy Little

Stacy Averic Mundschau

Tamara Lee Mace

David Charles Potts

Mark G Reichmann

Theodore T Tower

Michael William Veith

Michael Allen Daley

James Martin Kaun

David Michael Matela

Renette E Richard

Thomas William VanDenBogart

Nancy Donaldson Kollin

Jeffrey Jennings Krueger

Amy Michele Achter

Barbara Jean Burns

Gregory Marc Lefkowitz

Bruce Wilfuhr Achter

Kevin Wilson Wood

James M Kaun

An absorbent article includes a stretchable substrate layer and an absorbent core formed directly on the substrate layer, and adhesively attached to the substrate layer. The absorbent core includes about 40-99% by weight superabsorbent particles and about 1-60% by weight adhesive fibers. The absorbent core does not prevent the substrate layer or absorbent article from stretching. The absorbent article can be a personal care absorbent article or a medical absorbent article, and is suitably stretchable or elastic in at least one direction.

Absorbent article having shaped absorbent core formed on a substrate

A soft, flexible, low-density, open-cell, thermoplastic, absorbent foam formed from a foam polymer formula including a balanced amount of a plasticizing agent and a surfactant in combination with a base resin. Thermoplastic elastomers can be added to the foam polymer formula to improve softness, flexibility, elasticity, and resiliency of the resulting foam. The surfactant may be either a single surfactant or a multi-surfactant system. The foam possesses a number of qualities, such as softness and strength, which render the foam particularly suitable for use in a variety of personal care products, medical products, and the like.

Low-density, open-cell, soft, flexible, thermoplastic, absorbent foam and method of making foam

There is provided an intake/retention/transfer material for personal care products like feminine hygiene products, which is a heterogeneous composite containing between 5 and 25 weight percent of a superabsorbent or gelling material and having a density less than 0.17 g/cc. A more particular embodiment contains less than 20 weight percent and a still more particular embodiment contains 15 weight percent or less of a superabsorbent or gelling material. Also provided are absorbent articles which contain the class of intake/transfer materials mentioned above along with additional absorbent layers such that the absorption of a menses simulant provides fluid partitioning of less than 72% of fluid in the intake/transfer/retention composite. Additionally said composite should have retention capacity values greater than 2.7 g/g.

Personal care product with fluid partitioning

An absorbent article includes a vapor permeable backsheet, a liquid permeable topsheet positioned in facing relation with the backsheet; and an absorbent body located between the backsheet and the topsheet. The absorbent body may include multiple zones of high air permeability or may include materials which provide improved air exchange after being wetted. The absorbent article may also include a ventilation layer between the absorbent body and the backsheet and a surge management layer between the absorbent body and the topsheet. The article exhibits improved air exchange within the article during use. As a result, the article exhibits substantially reduced levels of hydration of the wearer's skin when in use which renders the skin less susceptible to the viability of microorganisms.

Absorbent article with increased wet breathability

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Peter Robert Elliker