US 12,419,793 B2
Absorbent article comprising a multi-layer cushion layer
Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Kelkheim (DE); Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Oberursel (DE); and Walter Pieter Hendrik Laurentius Van Der Klugt, Mechernich (DE)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,072.
Claims priority of application No. 21196063 (EP), filed on Sep. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0081148 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/515 (2006.01); A61F 13/534 (2006.01); A61F 13/58 (2006.01); A61F 13/53 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/534 (2013.01) [A61F 13/515 (2013.01); A61F 13/58 (2013.01); A61F 2013/15373 (2013.01); A61F 2013/15406 (2013.01); A61F 2013/5307 (2013.01); A61F 2013/53445 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An absorbent article for personal hygiene, having a longitudinal centerline and a transversal centerline, the absorbent article comprising:
a liquid-permeable topsheet;
a liquid-impermeable backsheet;
an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the absorbent core comprises an absorbent material disposed between an upper substrate layer and a lower substrate layer forming a core wrap;
wherein the absorbent material comprises at least 50% superabsorbent polymers by weight of the absorbent material; and
a cushion layer disposed between the absorbent core and the backsheet;
wherein the cushion layer comprises at least two sub-layers, and wherein the sub-layers are arranged so that the cushion layer has a higher basis weight in a longitudinally-extending central area relative to lateral areas disposed transversally outwardly of the central area.