US 11,730,640 B2
Nonwoven substrate for wearable articles
Koichi Morimoto, Beijing (CN); Meng Chen, Beijing (CN); and Lili Sun, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/550,412.
Application 16/550,412 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2017/074990, filed on Feb. 27, 2017.
Application PCT/CN2017/074990 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/CN2017/089994, filed on Jun. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0374406 A1, Dec. 12, 2019
Int. Cl. A61F 13/514 (2006.01); A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/496 (2006.01); A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/64 (2006.01); D04H 1/558 (2012.01); D04H 1/541 (2012.01)
CPC A61F 13/51456 (2013.01) [A61F 13/15699 (2013.01); A61F 13/496 (2013.01); A61F 13/49009 (2013.01); A61F 13/64 (2013.01); D04H 1/5412 (2020.05); D04H 1/5414 (2020.05); D04H 1/558 (2013.01); A61F 13/15723 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49063 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pant article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, comprising:
a body-facing surface and a garment-facing surface;
wherein at least a portion of the garment-facing surface is a nonwoven substrate made of fibers having a Roughness (standard deviation of the grayscale image) of at least 16; and a fiber diameter of no more than 22 μm;
an elastic belt region, a crotch region, a waist opening, and two leg openings;
wherein the elastic belt region is a laminate comprising an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and a plurality of elastic bodies configured to stretch the elastic belt region in the transverse direction;
wherein the crotch region has an outer cover layer as the garment-facing surface; and
wherein at least one of the inner sheet, the outer sheet, and the outer cover layer is the nonwoven substrate.