Absorbent article with water-absorbing agent or agents
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsJuliane Kamphus, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Shigeru Sakamoto, Sayaka Machida
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Abstract
An absorbent article comprising an absorbent core, which comprises a primary water-absorbing agent that can serve as a acquisition and preferably temporarily storage material for fluids, such as urine, and that has a CRC of up to 20 g/g and that comprises a compound that includes a constitutional unit derived from polyalkyleneglycol and that is other than an unsaturated monomer and that comprises a polyvalent metal salt. The absorbent article is preferably an infant (toddler, baby) diaper, including training pant, or adult incontinent article (e.g. a pad, diaper).
Claims13
An absorbent article comprising an absorbent core, the absorbent core comprising a primary water-absorbing agent;
- wherein the primary water-absorbing agent comprises (i) water-absorbing resin particles obtained by polymerizing an acid group-containing unsaturated monomer;
- (ii) a compound that includes a constitutional unit derived from polyalkyleneglycol, that is different from the unsaturated monomer;
- and (iii) a polyvalent metal salt;
- wherein the primary water-absorbing agent exhibits a Centrifuge Retention Capacity of from about 5 to about 20 g/g;
- and
- wherein the compound is present without forming a chemical bond with the water-absorbing particles and/or the compound is separable from the water-absorbing particles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.