US 2004/0073184 A1 · Absorbent interlabial device

Abstract

The invention is directed to an absorbent interlabial device. The absorbent interlabial device has a body contacting surface, a garment facing surface opposing the body contacting surface, an interior region, and a periphery region which surrounds the interior region. The body contacting surface is liquid permeable. The absorbent interlabial device comprises an absorbent member disposed between the garment facing surface and the body contacting surface. The absorbent member has a body facing surface and a garment facing surface opposing the body facing surface. The absorbent interlabial device has a convex portion on the body contacting surface in the interior region, and a concave portion on the garment facing surface in the interior region. The convex portion and the concave portion are formed in a face-to-face relationship. The invention is also directed to a method for making such an absorbent interlabial device.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An interlabial device having a body contacting surface, a garment facing surface opposing the body contacting surface, an interior region, and a periphery region which surrounds the interior region, the body contacting surface being liquid permeable, the absorbent interlabial device comprising a concave portion adapted for insertion by a user's fingers.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/680,365Filed 7 Oct 2003

Priority

24 Jan 2001

Published

15 Apr 2004

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

A61F 13/47209
Specially adapted for female use: having only interlabial part, i.e. with no extralabial parts
A61F 13/15739
Mechanical treatment, e.g. notching, twisting, compressing, shaping: sealing, e.g. involving cutting
A61F
Filters implantable into blood vessels

Absorbent interlabial device

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Absorbent interlabial device

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Abstract

Claims6