Disposable training pants

• US 5,885,264 A
• Filed: 07/02/1997
• Issued: 03/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Inventors: Matsushita, Michiyo
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss, John G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US08/887,050
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 604/385.1, 604/361, 604/364, 604/367, 604/378
• US Class Current: 604/361
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/42 with wetness indicator or alarm

Abstract

A disposable training pant 1 includes a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core disposed therebetween. The liquid-permeable tophseet includes an upper layer sheet and a lower layer sheet. The upper layer sheet is formed with a wetness telling area and the lower layer sheet intermittently bonded to the absorbent core 13 and containing fibrous material adapted to shrink by 10% or more longitudinally of the training pant as it is wetted and intermittently bonded to the absorbent core and thereby intensify a feeling of wetness given to the infant.

Claims

1. A disposable training pant comprising a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and a liquid-absorbent core extending therebetween which form a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending therebetween said topsheet being intermittently bonded to said absorbent core and bonded to said backsheet at portions of said topsheet and said backsheet extending outward beyond a peripheral edge of said absorbent core, wherein:

said topsheet contains a fibrous material causing at least a longitudinal dimension of said crotch region to shrink by at least 10% as said topsheet is wetted so that said topsheet can shrink at least longitudinally of said crotch region and at least a shrinkable area of said topsheet can peel off upward from said absorbent core and wherein a predetermined area of said topsheet has a hydrophilicity higher than that in the area extending around said predetermined area and thereby defines a wetness telling area.

2. The disposable training pant according to claim 1, wherein said topsheet contains also a fibrous material adapted to shrink transversely of said crotch region as said topsheet is wetted.

3. The disposable training pant according to claim 1, wherein said fibrous material comprises a nonwoven fabric forming at least a part of lower side of said topsheet.

4. The disposable training pant according to claim 2, wherein said fibrous material comprises threads extending at least longitudinally of said crotch region and bonded to the lower side of said topsheet.

5. The disposable training pant according to claim 1, wherein said absorbent core comprises a liquid-absorbent panel containing fluffy pulp of 50-100% by weight and a liquid-absorbent sheet covering said absorbent panel and wherein said topsheet is bonded to said liquid-absorbent sheet by an adhesive agent.

6. The disposable training pant according to claim 1, wherein said topsheet is bonded to said absorbent core by a water-soluble adhesive agent and said adhesive agent is solved in urine as said topsheet is wetted whereupon said topsheet can peel off from said absorbent core.

7. The disposable training pant according to claim 1, wherein said topsheet comprises a liquid-permeable upper layer sheet and a hydrophilic lower layer sheet bonded at least to a part of lower side of said upper layer sheet.

8. The disposable training pant according to claim 7, wherein said lower layer sheet is bonded to said absorbent core by a water-soluble agent.

9. The disposable training pant according to claim 7, wherein said lower layer sheet comprises wood pulp fibers which are swelled in contact with urine, and said lower layer sheet is bonded to said absorbent core by a water-insoluble agent.