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    Patents

    Gender-Differentiated Absorbent Articles:

    U.S. Patent No. 10,413,454

    11.08.19
    Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt, Appleton, WI; Georgia Lynn Zehner, Larsen, WI; and Nancy Ellen Dawson, Winnebago, WI.
    Assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI.

    Filed: 8/27/14
    Issued: 9/17/19

    A method for manufacturing an absorbent article having a body facing liner, a backsheet coupled to the body facing liner, an absorbent body positioned between the body facing liner and the backsheet, and a fluid acquisition layer having a body facing surface and a garment facing surface, the fluid acquisition layer being positioned between the body facing liner and the backsheet, the method comprising: providing a web of body facing liner material in face-to-face relation to a web of fluid acquisition layer material; bonding the body facing liner material to the fluid acquisition layer material using an embossing roller, wherein the embossing roller has an axis and a circumferential surface having a circumferential lane, the circumferential lane having alternating target zone and channel zone embossing patterns; embossing the body facing liner material and fluid acquisition layer material together to produce a web of bonded body facing liner material and fluid acquisition layer material having alternating target zone and channel zone embossing patterns; and separating the web of bonded body facing liner material and fluid acquisition layer material to form individual absorbent article body facing liner/fluid acquisition layer combinations, each combination having a front waist region and a crotch region, wherein a first portion of the combinations has the target zone closer to the front waist region than the target zone of a second portion of the combinations, the first portion of the combinations being for use in absorbent articles for male end users and the second portion of the combinations being for use in absorbent articles for female end users.
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