US 12,127,606 B2
Pant-type wearable article
Kaoru Ishihara, West Chester, OH (US); Shiqiao Li, Beijing (CN); Xuechun Wang, Beijing (CN); Koichi Morimoto, Beijing (CN); John Andrew Strasemeier, Aurora, IN (US); Vanessa Marie Melendez, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Monica Renee Tournoux, Columbus, OH (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Feb. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/787,437.
Prior Publication US 2020/0260799 A1, Aug. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 13/496 (2006.01); A41B 9/00 (2006.01); A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/514 (2006.01)
CPC A41B 9/001 (2013.01) [A61F 13/49011 (2013.01); A61F 13/49014 (2013.01); A61F 13/49019 (2013.01); A61F 13/4963 (2013.01); A61F 13/5146 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wearable article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction comprising a front elastic belt region, a back elastic belt region, a crotch region, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings; the crotch region extending longitudinally between the front elastic belt region and the back elastic belt region;
the front and back elastic belt regions each comprising a laminate, the laminate comprising an inner sheet, an outer sheet, an elastic member running in the transverse direction, an elastic bonding which continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent side edges of the front and back elastic belt regions, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet with intervals in the transverse direction to intermittently bond the inner sheet and the outer sheet, the vertical bonding having a transverse dimension VG2 and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG1;
wherein the elastic member is a plurality of elastic strands running parallel to each other in the transverse direction with a longitudinal pitch of from about 2 mm to about 20 mm;
wherein at least the outer sheet comprises a first repeating pattern of apertures wherein each aperture has an aspect ratio of no more than about 2 and a minor radius of at least about 0.1 mm, the first repeating pattern of apertures spaced apart from each other with a longitudinal pitch DF2 of no more than about 5 mm, and spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch DF1, wherein VG1 is greater than DF1, and wherein the first repeating pattern of apertures have a Longitudinal Orientation, according to the measurements herein; and
wherein the first repeating pattern of apertures comprise a longitudinal repeating unit, wherein a transverse dimension DFT of the longitudinal repeating unit is less than VG1; and
wherein VG1 is from 9 mm to about 15 mm; and
wherein the vertical bonding is discontinuous and aligned in the longitudinal direction, and wherein the vertical bonding is an array of discrete bondings aligned in the longitudinal direction wherein each discrete bonding has a longitudinal dimension of from about 0.5 mm to about 10 mm and a longitudinal pitch of from about 0.8 mm to about 5 mm, wherein there is at least one discrete bonding between each elastic strand.