Laminate with indicia for an absorbent article

• US 8,632,514 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2011
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Snauwaert, Sofie Gilberte, Borbach, Markus Hermann, Van Pappelendam, Robert Ren
• Primary Examiner(s): SU, SUSAN SHAN
• Application Number:
  US13/103,486
• Publication Number:
  US 20110213323A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• Field of Search: 604/385.01, 604/358
• US Class Current: 604/385.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/15772 Control
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/514 Backsheet, i.e. the impermeable cover or layer furthest from the skin A61F13/15211, A61F13/15252 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/51478 being a laminate, e.g. multi-layered or with several layers
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/5622 specially adapted for diapers or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/8497 having decorations or indicia means

Abstract

The present invention relates to an absorbent article comprising a liquid impervious backsheet formed from a laminate. The liquid impervious backsheet may include at least three layers, a first layer forming the wearer facing side of the backsheet, a second layer forming the garment facing side of the backsheet, and a third layer partially but not fully covering the garment facing surface of the second layer. The first layer may include at least one first indicium on a garment-facing surface thereof and only present on a front half of the backsheet, the at least one first indicium being visible through said second and third layers when looking at the absorbent article from the garment facing side of backsheet.

Claims

1. An absorbent article comprising an absorbent core which is covered by a liquid pervious topsheet on the wearer facing side of the core and a liquid impervious backsheet on the garment facing side of the core, the absorbent article having front and rear waist regions and a re-closable fastening system comprising fastening members connected to said rear waist region and a landing zone connected to said front waist region, the liquid impervious backsheet having a longitudinal centerline and a transverse centerline, the transverse centerline defining a front half of the liquid impervious backsheet and a rear half of the liquid impervious backsheet, the front half having a lateral width and a longitudinal length, the liquid impervious backsheet also having a garment-facing side and a wearer-facing side,

the liquid impervious backsheet comprising at least three layers, a first layer being comprised by the wearer facing side of the liquid impervious backsheet and a second layer being comprised by the garment facing side of the liquid impervious backsheet, the first layer comprising a wearer-facing surface and a garment facing surface,

the garment facing surface of the first layer of the liquid impervious backsheet comprising at least a first indicium, said first indicium being printed on the garment facing surface of the first layer in the front half of the liquid impervious backsheet,

the second layer of the liquid impervious backsheet being provided from a woven, non-woven, knitted, or film material,

the liquid impervious backsheet comprising a third layer which is provided from a woven fabric, non-woven fabric, knitted fabric, or film, and

the third layer being comprised by the front half of the backsheet thereby partially but not fully covering the garment facing surface of the second layer, and being of a third layer shape bounded by edges and having a longitudinal dimension and a lateral dimension, wherein the longitudinal dimension is less than the longitudinal length of the front half and the lateral dimension is less than the lateral width of the front half,

wherein the second layer and the third layer together are translucent as to allow that said first indicium comprised by said first layer to be visible through said second layer and said third layer when looking at the absorbent article from the garment facing side of liquid impervious backsheet,

and wherein

said third layer forms said landing zone, and

the third layer overlies the first indicium, or the first indicium at least partially circumscribes the edges of the third layer.

2. An absorbent article according to claim 1 wherein the garment facing surface of the first layer of the liquid impervious backsheet further comprises a second indicium.

3. An absorbent article according to claim 1 wherein said first layer comprises a polyolefin film.

4. An absorbent article according to claim 1 wherein said second layer comprises a nonwoven material and said third layer comprises a knitted material.

5. An absorbent article according to claim 1 wherein said first layer, said second layer and said third layer are joined to form a laminate by an adhesive.

6. An absorbent article according to claim 1 wherein a film layer is comprised between said second layer and said third layer.

7. An absorbent article according to claim 1, wherein said third layer does not early indicia on any of its surfaces.

8. An absorbent article according to claim 1 wherein said fastening member comprises hook elements and said third layer is one of a nonwoven fabric and a knitted fabric.