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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2005
Applicants:

Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester Township, OH (US);

Patrick Jay Allen, Montgomery, OH (US);

Edward Paul Carlin, Maineville, OH (US);

Inventors:

Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester Township, OH (US);

Patrick Jay Allen, Montgomery, OH (US);

Edward Paul Carlin, Maineville, OH (US);

Assignee:

The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An absorbent article for wearing about the torso and including a member that supports the movement of urine in an x-y plane to enhance the wearer's awareness that urination has occurred by increasing the wetted area contacting the wearer's skin. The member has a permeable body-facing layer and an impermeable layer disposed in a face-to-face arrangement with the permeable layer and preferably is held in close contact with the wearer's skin during use.


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