10.31.23
Gary Dean LaVon, Liberty Township, OH; Uwe Schneider, Cincinnati, OH; Bret Darren Seitz, West Chester, OH; Sarah Marie Wade, Springfield Township, OH; and Joseph Allen Eckstein, Sunman, IN.
Filed: 3/31/21
Issued: 8/29/23
An absorbent article, comprising: a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; a first belt; a longitudinal centerline extending from the midpoint of a front waist edge of the absorbent article to a midpoint of a back waist edge of the absorbent article; a lateral centerline extending perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline through a midpoint of the longitudinal centerline; wherein the first belt is formed at least in part by an elastomeric laminate comprising a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer and a first plurality of elastics disposed between the first and second substrate layers, wherein the first substrate layer is bonded directly with the second substrate layer in elastic regions of the elastomeric laminate; wherein the first plurality of elastics comprises greater than about 40 elastic strands disposed at an Average-Strand-Spacing of less than 4 mm, having an Average-Dtex of less than 600, and having an Average-Pre-Strain of less than 400%; and wherein the elastomeric laminate comprising the first plurality of elastics has a Pressure-Under-Strand of less than about 1.0 psi wherein a basis weight of each of the first and second substrate layers is from about 6 grams per square meter to about 30 grams per square meter.
Filed: 3/31/21
Issued: 8/29/23
An absorbent article, comprising: a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; a first belt; a longitudinal centerline extending from the midpoint of a front waist edge of the absorbent article to a midpoint of a back waist edge of the absorbent article; a lateral centerline extending perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline through a midpoint of the longitudinal centerline; wherein the first belt is formed at least in part by an elastomeric laminate comprising a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer and a first plurality of elastics disposed between the first and second substrate layers, wherein the first substrate layer is bonded directly with the second substrate layer in elastic regions of the elastomeric laminate; wherein the first plurality of elastics comprises greater than about 40 elastic strands disposed at an Average-Strand-Spacing of less than 4 mm, having an Average-Dtex of less than 600, and having an Average-Pre-Strain of less than 400%; and wherein the elastomeric laminate comprising the first plurality of elastics has a Pressure-Under-Strand of less than about 1.0 psi wherein a basis weight of each of the first and second substrate layers is from about 6 grams per square meter to about 30 grams per square meter.