Disposable absorbent article
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorPietro Cecchetto
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Abstract
A material web having a film layer and a nonwoven layer, along with methods of making the material web, are described. The material web has a plurality of micro-deformations and a plurality of macro-deformations, each of the macro-deformations having a distal end, wherein a first portion of macro-deformations has an open or partially open distal end and wherein a second portion of macro-deformations has distal ends which are configured differently than the distal ends of the first portion, and wherein the material web forms a portion of the topsheet.
Claims17
An absorbent article having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis which is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the absorbent article further comprising:
- a topsheet;
- a backsheet;
- and
- an absorbent system disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet,
- wherein the topsheet comprises a material web comprising a film layer and a nonwoven layer, the material web comprising a surface, a plurality of vacuum-formed micro-apertures having an average open area, and a plurality of macro-deformations formed via mechanical deformation, wherein each of the plurality of macro-deformations comprises a sidewall extending in a Z-direction away from the surface and a distal end, wherein the sidewall comprises a first subplurality of micro apertures and the distal end comprises a second subplurality of the micro-apertures that have been expanded but not ruptured via stretching, and wherein a portion of the second subplurality of micro-apertures is larger than the first subplurality of micro-apertures.
An absorbent article having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis which is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the absorbent article further comprising:
- a topsheet;
- a backsheet;
- and
- an absorbent system disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet,
- wherein the topsheet comprises a material web comprising a film layer and a nonwoven layer, the material web comprising a surface, wherein the topsheet comprise a first zone and a second zone, wherein each of the first zone and the second zone comprise a plurality of micro-apertures and wherein the second zone comprises a plurality of macro-deformations comprising a sidewall extending in a Z-direction away from the surface and a distal end, wherein the sidewall comprises a first subplurality of micro-apertures and the distal end comprises a second subplurality of the micro-apertures that have been expanded by stretching, and wherein a portion of the second subplurality of micro-apertures has a larger average open area than the first subplurality of micro-apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.