US 11,980,532 B2
Disposable absorbent article with profiled absorbent core
Patrick King Yu Tsang, Tuen Mun (HK); Anne Smid, Wolvega (NL); Andrew C. Wright, Rotherham (GB); and Eugenio G. Varona, Marietta, GA (US)
Assigned to DSG Technology Holdings Ltd., Kwai Chung (HK)
Filed by DSG Technology Holdings Ltd., Kwai Chung (HK)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/404,019.
Application 17/404,019 is a continuation of application No. 15/435,991, filed on Feb. 17, 2017, granted, now 11,110,012.
Application 15/435,991 is a continuation of application No. 14/163,763, filed on Jan. 24, 2014, granted, now 9,603,754, issued on Mar. 28, 2017.
Application 14/163,763 is a continuation of application No. 12/925,765, filed on Oct. 28, 2010, granted, now 8,702,671, issued on Apr. 22, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/279,923, filed on Oct. 28, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2022/0031525 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/494 (2006.01); A61F 13/53 (2006.01); A61F 13/532 (2006.01); A61F 13/533 (2006.01); A61F 13/535 (2006.01); A61F 13/539 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/49017 (2013.01) [A61F 13/49019 (2013.01); A61F 13/49058 (2013.01); A61F 13/49426 (2013.01); A61F 13/5323 (2013.01); A61F 13/533 (2013.01); A61F 13/535 (2013.01); A61F 13/539 (2013.01); A61F 2013/530861 (2013.01); A61F 2013/5355 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disposable absorbent article comprising:
a central body defining a first waist end region including a first end edge, a second waist end region spaced longitudinally from the first waist end region and including a second end edge, and a crotch region positioned therebetween; and
an absorbent core situated between the end edges, the core including a plurality of elastics incorporated therewith such that the core is substantially laterally contracted in a narrowed region about the elastics; and
wherein the core includes a plurality of laterally aligned slits penetrating through a surface in the narrowed region and the slits provide voids in said narrowed region when contracted by the plurality of elastics; and the slits provide voids in said narrowed region; and
wherein said plurality of slits are arranged in longitudinally spaced apart rows, including a pair of rows longitudinally spaced apart from another and having a different number of said slits.