US 12,458,545 B2
Pant-type absorbent article and manufacturing method thereof
Xu Gao, Beijing (CN); Masayuki Tsuji, Kakogawa (JP); Koichi Morimoto, Beijing (CN); Ling Tong, Beijing (CN); and Abhishek Surushe, Kelkheim (DE)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/875,476.
Application 17/875,476 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2021/077842, filed on Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2020/077152 (WO), filed on Feb. 28, 2020; and application No. PCT/CN2020/104295 (WO), filed on Jul. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0362070 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 13/49 (2006.01); A61F 13/15 (2006.01); A61F 13/494 (2006.01); A61F 13/496 (2006.01); A61F 13/53 (2006.01); A61F 13/84 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/49011 (2013.01) [A61F 13/15593 (2013.01); A61F 13/15699 (2013.01); A61F 13/49012 (2013.01); A61F 13/49014 (2013.01); A61F 13/49453 (2013.01); A61F 13/49466 (2013.01); A61F 13/496 (2013.01); A61F 13/4963 (2013.01); A61F 13/53 (2013.01); A61F 2013/15325 (2013.01); A61F 2013/15365 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49028 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49033 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49038 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49076 (2013.01); A61F 2013/49092 (2013.01); A61F 2013/8402 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An absorbent article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction comprising a front elastic belt, a back elastic belt, a crotch region, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings; the crotch region extending longitudinally between the front elastic belt and the back elastic belt; each of the front and back elastic belt is formed by an outer sheet, an inner sheet, and a second elastic member bonded directly to the outer sheet and the inner sheet, wherein the outer sheet is the garment-facing surface;
the absorbent article comprising an absorbent main body extending the entire longitudinal dimension of the crotch region and further extending partly into each of the front elastic belt and the back elastic belt, the absorbent main body comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent material region sandwiched therebetween;
wherein the inner sheet of the back elastic belt comprises a first inner waist fold and a second inner waist fold forming a waist guard portion extending towards the crotch region from a closed base line towards an open edge, wherein the first inner waist fold extends outward from a first waist fold point to a distal edge, and the second inner waist fold extends between the first waist fold point and a second waist fold point, the first waist fold point positioned inward from the second waist fold point, and wherein the first inner waist fold is sandwiched between the second inner waist fold and a non-folded region of the inner sheet, and a first elastic member bonded between the first inner waist fold and the second inner waist fold, wherein the waist guard portion is partially bonded to the remainder of the back elastic belt from which the first and second inner waist folds extend, to define a pocket; and
wherein the outer sheet of the back elastic belt extends to form an outer waist fold, wherein the outer waist fold is sandwiched between the outer sheet and the inner sheet.