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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2006
Mel Allende-blanco, Loveland, OH (US);
Brian Bert Anderson, Liberty Township, OH (US);
William Handy Hartt, Iv, Mason, OH (US);
Paul Martin Lipic, West Chester, OH (US);
Mattias Schmidt, Idstein, DE;
Douglas Gregory Stevens, Blue Ash, OH (US);
Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Evendale, OH (US);
Mel Allende-Blanco, Loveland, OH (US);
Brian Bert Anderson, Liberty Township, OH (US);
William Handy Hartt, IV, Mason, OH (US);
Paul Martin Lipic, West Chester, OH (US);
Mattias Schmidt, Idstein, DE;
Douglas Gregory Stevens, Blue Ash, OH (US);
Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Evendale, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.