WO2017003390A1 - Indicateur tactile pour articles absorbants - Google Patents

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WO2017003390A1
WO2017003390A1 PCT/TR2015/000276 TR2015000276W WO2017003390A1 WO 2017003390 A1 WO2017003390 A1 WO 2017003390A1 TR 2015000276 W TR2015000276 W TR 2015000276W WO 2017003390 A1 WO2017003390 A1 WO 2017003390A1
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absorbent article
touch sensitive
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Fikret Koc
Serdar Soylemez
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Hayat Kimya Sanayi Anonim Sirketi
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/84—Accessories, not otherwise provided for, for absorbent pads
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/84—Accessories, not otherwise provided for, for absorbent pads
    • A61F2013/8497—Accessories, not otherwise provided for, for absorbent pads having decorations or indicia means

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  • the present invention relates to disposable absorbent articles and disposable absorbent article products and methods for touch sensitive positioning, gender, size, type indicator having disposable absorbent products and methods which is primarily intended for perceiving by touch feeling and designed especially for sight disabled people.
  • Disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, pull up products, sanitary napkins receive and contain bodily exudates. Proper fit of an absorbent article is difficult without an indicating member on an absorbent article. Visible fit indicators having absorbent articles exist in the art for placing sanitary napkin in an undergarment for women or fastening diapers on a baby for caregivers.
  • EP1755518 describes a visible indicator for positioning of a sanitary napkin in an undergarment.
  • EP1229881 , W09922688 is related to a disposable absorbent article that includes indicium on side panels or fastener tabs to facilitate proper positioning of the article on the body of the wearer of the diaper.
  • EP1901689 describes a digital indicator having absorbent article which gives signal when an absorbent article is unfastened or removed from the body of the wearer and it may be helpful for the caregivers.
  • the invention provides an absorbent article product such as diapers, panties, sanitary napkin products which have touch sensitive positioning indicia for sight disabled people.
  • An absorbent article according to the present invention has dots or special designs to sense by touch which provides perceiving the correct position of absorbent article to the wearer's body during wearing.
  • the first embodiment of the present invention is a diaper which has dots or special designs on some specific region of it to sense by touch facilitating the proper application and fastening to a baby for sight disabled mothers/fathers or caregivers.
  • the second embodiment of the invention is a sanitary napkin which has dots or special designs on some specific region of it to sense by touch for positioning and placement in an undergarment for a sight disabled user.
  • the third embodiment of the invention is an incontinence absorbent product which has dots or special designs on some specific region of it to sense by touch for positioning and placement in an undergarment for sight disabled user.
  • the fourth embodiment of the present invention as providing an absorbent article having touch sensitive indicia which is guiding the user about gender, size or type of said absorbent article.
  • Said absorbent article has dots or special designs preferably on specific regions for especially sight disabled people.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a disposable absorbent article comprising fastening system with size indicating Braille letter according to the present invention
  • Fig.2 is a top view of a sanitary napkin with position indicating Braille letter according to the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a top view of a wrapper and a sanitary napkin with position indicating Braille letter according to the present invention.
  • absorbent article refers to devices which absorb and contain body exudates, and more specifically, refers to devices which are placed against or in proximity to the body of the wearer to absorb and contain body exudates discharged from the body.
  • Said absorbent articles include diapers, training pants, adult incontinence undergarments, feminine hygiene products and the like.
  • body fluids or “body exudates” includes, but is not limited to, urine, blood, vaginal discharges, breast milk, sweat and fecal matter.
  • Front portion and back portion is used herein to refer to the front and back waist regions of the absorbent article.
  • the length of both the front portion and the back portion is about one third of the overall length of the article starting at the respective front and back waist edges.
  • the front and/or back waist edge is/are not configured as a straight line extending in parallel to the transverse centerline of the absorbent article
  • the length of the absorbent article is determined on or parallel to the longitudinal centerline by starting from the point of the front waist edge which is closest to the transverse centerline and terminating at the point of back waist edge which is closest to the transverse centerline.
  • Crotch point is used herein to refer to the point of the article which is positioned in the center of the absorbent article at the intersection of the longitudinal centerline and the transverse centerline of the article. It should be understood for the purpose of the invention that the crotch point of the article is not necessarily positioned in the center of the absorbent core, namely at the intersection of the longitudinal centerline and the transverse centerline of the absorbent core, especially in case the absorbent core is not centered on the transverse centerline of the article, i.e. in case the absorbent core is shifted to the front and/or the back of the article.
  • Center of the front portion is used herein to refer to the point of the absorbent article which is positioned at the intersection of the longitudinal centerline of the article and the line which is parallel to the transverse centerline of the article and positioned at a distance from the transverse centerline of one third of the overall length of the absorbent article.
  • the front and/or back waist edge is/are not configured as a straight line extending in parallel to the transverse centerline of the absorbent article
  • the length of the absorbent article is determined on or parallel to the longitudinal centerline by starting from the point of the front waist edge which is closest to the transverse centerline and terminating at the point of back waist edge which is closest to the transverse centerline.
  • Longitudinal means a direction running substantially perpendicular from a waist edge to a longitudinally opposing waist edge of an absorbent article when the article is in a flat out, uncontracted state, or from a waist edge to the bottom of the crotch, i.e. the fold line, in a bi-folded article.
  • Directions within 45 degrees of the longitudinal direction are considered to be “longitudinal.”
  • “Lateral” refers to a direction running from a longitudinally extending side edge to a laterally opposing longitudinally extending side edge of an article and generally at a right angle to the longitudinal direction.
  • Directions within 45 degrees of the lateral direction are considered to be "lateral".
  • an absorbent article of the invention is a diaper 20 having a longitudinal axis y and includes a front portion 33 having a front edge 28, a rear portion 31 having a rear edge 23 and a crotch portion 32 between front portion 33 and rear portion 31.
  • Longitudinal axis y extends through the center of the front waistline portion 14, crotch portion 32, landing zone 29 and rear portion 31.
  • the diaper 20 preferably comprise a liquid pervious topsheet 25; a liquid impervious backsheet 36, an absorbent core 26, which is preferably positioned between at least a portion of the topsheet 25, and the backsheet 36, barrier leg cuffs 24 and a fastening system including front side panels 35.
  • Leg elastic members 30 are located generally at the longitudinal edges of the diaper 20.
  • the rear side panels 10 are generally elastic materials and attached at the rear side of the diaper 20 by sandwiching the outer cover 36 and topsheet 25.
  • the absorbent core 26 has a pair of opposing longitudinal edges.
  • the backsheet 36 prevents the exudates absorbed and contained in the absorbent core 26 from wetting articles which contact the diaper 20 such as bed sheets and undergarments.
  • the diaper preferably further comprises front side (ear) panels 35; rear side (ear) panels 10; barrier leg cuffs 24; and a fastening system preferably comprising at least one pair of fastening members 13 and a landing member 29.
  • a typical fastening system for use with absorbent articles may have a fastening tape 13 and a landing member (also known as a landing zone) 29.
  • the fastening tape 13 may be disposed directly or indirectly upon the longitudinal edge of the body portion in either the front or back of the absorbent article waist regions. In use, the fastening tape 13 may be secured to the landing member 29, which is disposed upon the correspondingly opposite body portion of the front or back of the absorbent article.
  • Engravings 5 are applied by embossing dot patterns which represents number "3" in Braille alphabet to indicate the size of the diaper 20.
  • a refastenable system may be provided with, e.g., hooks on the fastening tape 13 that releasably engage loops disposed on the landing member 29, or vice versa.
  • the end of the fastening tape 13 that does not engage the loops in the landing member area may be attached to one end of an elastic/stretch member (ear), and the other end of the elastic/stretch member may be secured to the longitudinal edge of the body portion of the absorbent article.
  • a fastening tape 13 for an absorbent article has a base sheet configured by a non oven fabric material and a hook sheet in which a plurality of engagement hooks is provided.
  • hook material refers to male fastening elements that include stems with or without loop-engaging heads that have an overhang.
  • a sanitary napkin 35 which can be a pantiliner or the like.
  • the invention can also be an adult incontinence device, an anal discharge pad, an interlabial pad, or any other absorbent article for which proper placement and positioning in the crotch portion of an underganment is desirable.
  • the sanitary napkin 35 (see Fig.2) has two end regions and a middle region.
  • the sanitary napkin 35 has a body facing side 36 that is in contact with the user's body and a garment facing side 39 that is in contact with the inner surface of the undergarment of the user.
  • the sanitary napkin preferably comprise a liquid pervious topsheet 38, a liquid impervious backsheet 41, an absorbent core 40 which is preferably positioned between at least a portion of the topsheet 38 and the back sheet 41, side panels 42.
  • Engravings 44 are embossing dot patterns which represent letter "F" in Braille alphabet indicates the front portion of the sanitary napkin 35.
  • Engraving 43 are embossing dot patterns which represent letter "B" in Braille alphabet indicates the back portion of the sanitary napkin 35.
  • the sanitary napkin 35 of the present invention is individually packaged with individual wrappers (see Fig. 3).
  • the wrapper 45 has a first end 47 and a second end 48, a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side, and a first major surface 50 and a second major surface 51.
  • the first 47 and second ends 48, respectively, are spaced apart from one another as are the first and second longitudinal sides, respectively.
  • the first major surface 50 of the wrapper 45 is releasable affixed to the garment attachment adhesive such that the first and second ends, 47 and 48, respectively, of the wrapper 45 and the first and second sides, 52 and 53, respectively, of the wrapper 45 extend beyond the outer periphery of the absorbent article.
  • Engravings 58 on wrapper 45 are embossing dot patterns which represent letter "F” in Braille alphabet indicates the front portion of the sanitary napkin.
  • Engravings 59 on wrapper 45 are embossing dot patterns which represent letter "B” in Braille alphabet indicates the back portion of the sanitary napkin.
  • the present invention defines an absorbent article having touch sensitive indicator which is provided by embossing taking place on at least a portion of an absorbent article.
  • Embossing is a process for producing raised or sunken designs or relief on a sheet with three dimensional effects. It can be achieved with standard
  • touch sensitive indicator having disposable diaper is manufactured by applying embossing on at least a portion of the fastening system of the diaper.
  • One method of forming embossing patterns on a fastening material is compressing material between embossing rollers.
  • the embossing roller is engraved with the visual pattern or dots and the anvil roller may be flat or patterned.
  • One or both of the rollers are warmed to suitable temperature based on melting point of the component(s).
  • an embossed indicator sheet or web material may be bonded on a desired portion of the diaper.
  • touch sensitive indicator being a pull-up product is obtained by applying embossing on at least one portion of the pull-up type absorbent article for example in the middle of the waist region.
  • an embossed indicator sheet or web material may be bonded on a desired portion of the pull-up product.
  • touch sensitive positioning indicator is applied on a sanitary napkin and/or an absorbent article which incorporates flaps or wings for folding on the crotch portion of the undergarment. Said indicator provides an indication of the placing and positioning of the sanitary napkin.
  • the sanitary napkin has two end regions and a middle region, a body facing surface which is in contact with the user's body and a garment facing surface which is in contact with the inner surface of the user's undergarment.
  • all component layers of a sanitary napkin can have a body facing surface and a garment facing surface.
  • Sanitary napkin has a longitudinal centerline L and a transverse centerline T, that are perpendicular to each other in the plane of the sanitary napkin.
  • the sanitary napkin generally "hourglass" shaped, tapering inwardly from a relatively greater transverse width in a portion of one of the end regions to a relatively smaller transverse width at the middle region. Transverse width is generally defined as the dimension across the article, measured parallel to the transverse centerline T.
  • the sanitary napkins can also be provided with lateral side panels known commonly in the art as “flaps” or “wings” to fold over and cover the crotch region of the user's undergarment from its lateral sides.
  • lateral side panels known commonly in the art as "flaps” or “wings” to fold over and cover the crotch region of the user's undergarment from its lateral sides.
  • an embossed indicator sheet or web material may be bonded on a desired portion of the sanitary napkin.
  • Another alternative is wrapping sanitary napkin with an touch sensitive embossed indicator bearing single wrap material.
  • embossed web or sheet material is bonded on desired area of an absorbent article for guiding the user about size, type, gender or positioning of the product.
  • a package insert card may be added in the package of the product which is written in Braille alphabet to guide sight disabled users about the meaning of the indicia on the product. In addition to that required information about the meaning of the indicia on the product may be explained on the package of the product.
  • the method of embossing application is provided by passing a sheet or web material between embossing rollers wherein at least one of the embossing roll is hot and engraved with dots, preferably the dots are representing Braille letters.
  • the embossing roll should be capable of high definition embossing.
  • the definition of the embossing is provided with the height value of the engravings on the embossing roll.
  • the height of the engraving on the embossing roll may be between 0.2 mm to 5.0 mm, preferably 0.4 mm-3.0 mm.
  • An anvil roll is aligned parallel to the first roller which may or may not have engravings on it.
  • embossed surface is obtained with a certain depth according to height of engraving on the roll.
  • the depth of embossed dots that are formed on the sheet or web may be between 0.2 mm to 5.0 mm, preferably 0.4 mm-3.0 mm.
  • the embossing process can be carried out at temperatures around melting point of the sheet or web material.
  • the temperature of the engravings of embossing roll has to be same or higher than the melting point of the sheet or web material passing between embossing and anvil roller.
  • the process of the present invention can be carried out at a
  • the embossing roller temperature is adjusted to a closer value of the sheet or web material melting point. In this way, when the sheet or web material passes between these hot embossing rollers, engraved dot portion of the roller contacts with the material and embossing is provided on that surface.
  • embossing can be carried out at the speed of at least 20
  • a polypropylene based fastening tape of a disposable diaper passed between an embossing and anvil roller at the temperature about 130 °C with a speed of 60 meters/minutes in an embossing roller equipment. Thereby a Braille letter "3" representing maxi size baby diaper is applied on the hook portion of the fastening tape.
  • the depth of the embossing on the fastening tape is about 0.8 mm.
  • the obtained fastening tapes are joined to the rear panel of a diaper.

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un produit qui se rapporte à un article absorbant comprenant un indicateur tactile pour le guidage. Ledit indicateur tactile peut consister en des points, ou des formes spéciales, destinés à être détectés au toucher qui permettent de percevoir la position correcte de l'article absorbant par rapport au corps de l'utilisateur pendant qu'il le porte. Ledit indicateur tactile de la présente invention est fourni par l'application d'un gaufrage sur au moins une partie d'un article absorbant. Dans un mode de réalisation de la présente invention, ledit indicateur tactile peut être un motif de points en relief qui peut représenter au moins une lettre en Braille conçue en particulier pour des utilisateurs mal-voyants. De plus, ledit indicateur tactile assure le guidage de l'utilisateur concernant des propriétés caractéristiques notamment la taille, le sexe, le type dudit matériau absorbant.
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