Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Roxanne Marie Zuleger

Kuo-Shu Edward Chang

Daniel Hoo

Lorry F Sallee

Mark John Beitz

Sandra M Yarbrough

Barbara Ann Gossen

Richard Francis Keller

David Andrae Justmann

Cynthia Helen Nordness

Eric Scott Kepner

Nickolas Paul Barnes

Steven Scott Friderich

Chris Lee Heikkinen

David James VanEperen

KyungSik Jang

Raymond Gerard St Louis

Douglas Paul Rammer

Cynthia Louise Wyngaard

Monica Lynn Bontrager

An absorbent article can include a chassis including an absorbent body. The chassis can include a body facing surface. The absorbent article can also include a waist containment member. The waist containment member can include a proximal portion coupled to the body facing surface of the chassis and a distal portion that includes a distal edge. The proximal portion includes proximal portion elastic members and the distal portion can include distal portion elastic members. The distal portion can be free to move with respect to the chassis when the absorbent article is in a relaxed configuration.

Absorbent article with selectively positioned waist containment member having an improved waist seal

An absorbent article (,) which includes a backsheet layer (,) having a pair of laterally opposed and longitudinally extending side margins (,). Each side margin has an outwardly concave, terminal side edge contour,located at appointed leg opening regions (,) in an intermediate portion (,) of the side margin. Each concave side edge contour (,) has a selected longitudinal extent along a length dimension (,) of the article (,). A liquid permeable topsheet layer (,) is connected in a superposed facing relation to the backsheet layer (,), and an absorbent body (,) is sandwiched between the topsheet layer (,) and the backsheet layer (,). A separately provided gusset-flap composite member (,) is connected to at least one of the backsheet and topsheet layers along each of the leg opening regions (,). The gusset-flap member (,) provides a leg gusset section (,) and a containment flap section (,), and is distinctively configured to provide improved leakage resistance, fit and comfort.

Absorbent article with more conformable elastics

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Roxanne Marie Zuleger