Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Rebecca Willey Griffin

Ali Yahiaoui

Herb F Velazquez

Eugenio Go Varona

Bryan David Haynes

Charles John Morell

Tamara Lee Mace

Arthur Edward Garavaglia

Ty Jackson Stokes

Jaime Braverman

Jeffrey Lawrence McManus

Lei Huang

Darryl Franklin Clark

Michael Allen Daley

Varunesh Sharma

Hue Scott Snowden

Thomas Gregory Triebes

Dean M Wydeven

Simon K Poruthoor

Patricia A Stern

James Richard Neely

Chad Michael Freese

Balaji Kovil Kandadai

Jason Matthew English

David Wayne Primm

Suzanne Murray

Teresa De Jesus Petryk

An absorbent article has a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a first major surface which forms a body-facing surface of the absorbent article, and a second major surface disposed distally from the first major surface which forms a garment-facing surface of the absorbent article. The article includes an absorbent core positioned between the first major surface and the second major surface. The article also includes at least one heat-activatable expandable structure. The at least one heat-activatable expandable structure is disposed on or below the first major surface. Application of heat to the heat-activatable expandable structure causes the heat-activatable expandable barrier structure to form distinctive designs, barriers and/or channels.

Article with heat-activatable expandable structures

An absorbent article, such as a feminine care product, includes a liquid permeable liner layer, a generally liquid impermeable outer cover layer, and an absorbent layer disposed between the liner layer and outer cover layer. Spaced apart solidified deposits of a phase-change liquid are defined on either the liner layer top surface, bottom surface or both surfaces, and/or other layers along the other layers' upper or lower surfaces. The deposits are defined such that areas of the liner layer top surface are exposed thereby being permeable to bodily exudates insulting the article between the deposits while acting as a barrier against liquid that may flow back to the liner layer or other treated layers from the absorbent layer or other layers contained in the absorbent article.

Absorbent products with enhanced rewet, intake, and stain masking performance

The present invention provides continuously crimped propylene polymer nonwoven fabrics as well as processes for forming crimped multicomponent propylene polymer fibers by melt-attenuating extruded multicomponent fibers with heated or unheated air wherein the fibers spontaneously crimp without the need for additional heating and/or stretching steps.

Process of making a crimped multicomponent fiber web

A multilayer material suitable for use as a cover or topsheet for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, sanitary pads, adult incontinence garments, training pants and the like having a top layer and a bottom, where the top layer forms a plurality of apertures and contacts the bottom layer in land areas disposed between the apertures. The bottom layer has a permeability substantially equivalent to, or higher than, the top layer.

Multilayer cover system and method for producing same

There is provided a fabric which has been produced in a pneumatic chamber which has tiny grooves over an effective amount of its fluid contacting surface. Also provided is a method of producing a web having greater uniformity by producing it with pneumatic chambers having surface grooves. Fabrics produced in such a manner have greater uniformity when measured by permeability, basis weight or CD and MD strength properties.

Pneumatic chamber having grooved walls for producing uniform nonwoven

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Woodstock, GA, United States of America

Rebecca Willey Griffin