Dimensionally optimized menstrual fluid management device
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsRemo Bellucci, Giovanni Carlucci, Rosa Cavuto, Carlo Toro
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a menstrual fluid management device that is attached directly to the wearer by use of an adhesive. The device allows for direct and immediate containment of menstrual and other vaginal discharges. In particular, the device improves the prevention of soiling over devices already known in the art by using an attachment flange around an orifice which has a shape of the generally oblong dimensions, where the width in the rear end of the orifice is wider than at the front end, thereby improving the circumscription of the female genitalia and the sealing along the flange to the skin of the wearer.
Claims11
A disposable menstrual fluid management device comprising a bag, said bag having an aperture, said aperture being surrounded by an adhesive for releasable attachment to the uro-genital area of a wearer, said device having a longitudinal axis L and a transverse axis T, said axis T being perpendicular to said axis L and going through the center of said aperture, said axis T dividing said device into a first portion and a second portion, said second portion being positioned during use of said article towards the back of a wearer and the width of said aperture is wider in said second portion of said device than in said first portion of said device.
The disposable menstrual fluid management device of claim 7 wherein said release liner has a slit aligned with said longitudinal center line L, said slit extends from a peripheral point of said release liner to a point of said release liner which overlays said aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.