18815968. BEAMED ELASTIC LAMINATE PROPERTIES (The Procter & Gamble Company)

BEAMED ELASTIC LAMINATE PROPERTIES

Organization Name

The Procter & Gamble Company

Inventor(s)

Gary Dean Lavon of Liberty Township OH (US)

Uwe Schneider of Cincinnati OH (US)

Bret Darren Seitz of West Chester OH (US)

Sarah Marie Wade of Springfield Township OH (US)

Joseph Allen Eckstein of Sunman IN (US)

BEAMED ELASTIC LAMINATE PROPERTIES

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18815968 titled 'BEAMED ELASTIC LAMINATE PROPERTIES

Original Abstract Submitted

The present disclosure relates to one or a combination of an absorbent article's chassis, inner leg cuffs, outer leg cuffs, ear panels, side panels, waistbands, and belts that may comprise one or more pluralities of tightly spaced and/or low Average-Dtex and/or low Average-Pre-Strain elastics to deliver low Pressure Under Strand, while providing adequate Section-Modulus to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer, even with a loaded core, to provide for the advantages described above. Further, the elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure outperform existing laminates currently used for disposable absorbent articles as it relates to one or more key parameters (including Percent Contact Area, 2-98% Height Value, Pressure-Under-Strand, Air Permeability, Water Vapor Transmission Rate, Caliper, Caliper Retention Value, Cantilever Bending, Open Area, Section-Modulus, Rugosity Wavelength, Rugosity Frequency, Graphic Distortion Ratio).