US 11,850,131 B2
Personal hygiene product with a digital element
Livea Barbosa, São José dos Campos (BR); Jose Francisco Cau, São José dos Campos (BR); Rafael Carniato, Caçapava (BR); Mariana Goulart, Herrsching am Ammersee (DE); William Chester Neeley, Melbourne, FL (US); and Renato Pereira, São José dos Campos (BR)
Assigned to Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., Skillman, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 16/954,623
Filed by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., Skillman, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 21, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/067004
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 17, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/126606, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/608,836, filed on Dec. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0306102 A1, Oct. 1, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 13/42 (2006.01); A61F 13/472 (2006.01); A61F 13/511 (2006.01); A61F 13/84 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/42 (2013.01) [A61F 13/472 (2013.01); A61F 13/511 (2013.01); A61F 13/84 (2013.01); A61F 2013/424 (2013.01); A61F 2013/429 (2013.01); A61F 2013/8479 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A personal hygiene product with a digital element comprising:
a) an external personal hygiene product to absorb bodily fluids having a perimeter; and
b) a conductive sensor assembly disposed within the personal hygiene product, including a pair of conductive elements disposed in parallel in a mirrored image about the perimeter of the personal hygiene product wherein one of the pair of conductive elements extends from a connection point in a clockwise direction and terminates adjacent the connection point while the other one of the pair of conductive elements extends from the connection point in a counter-clockwise direction and terminates adjacent the connection point, and at least one connector directly contacting the pair of conductive elements, said conductive sensor assembly generating a signal indicative of fluid leakage of said personal hygiene product when fluid reaches the area between the pair of conductive elements;
wherein said conductive sensor assembly is arranged and configured to communicate with a smart hand held electronic device and wherein said pair of conductive elements are disposed in a single layer on the inner surface of the barrier layer.