Michael R Daley

US Patent:

6348253, Feb 19, 2002

Filed:

Feb 9, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/500503

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Jaime Braverman - Atlanta GA
Rebecca Lyn Dilnik - Neenah WI
Ronald Lee Edens - Appleton WI
Yvette Lynn Hammonds - Fond du Lac WI
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
Alexander Manfred Schmidt-Foerst - Erlangen, DE
Laura Jane Walker - Appleton WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

428138, 428137, 428131, 428152, 428913, 60438501, 604378, 604358, 604383

Abstract:

There is provided a feminine hygiene pad comprising a cover adjacent a capillarity fabric having regions of high and low capillarity, which is adjacent a retention layer. In a preferred embodiment, a creped spunbond layer is used as the cover material and a co-apertured intake/distribution layer and transfer delay layer are the capillarity fabric. Combining these improvements into an integrated absorbent system allows the successful achievement of variable flow management and a successful balance between intake and cover desorption properties. The result is improved multiple intake performance and a clean and dry cover surface during use.

US Patent:

6410823, Jun 25, 2002

Filed:

Jun 30, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/108096

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Mark Bruce Majors - Cumming GA
Ali Yahiaoui - Roswell GA
Arthur Edward Garavaglia - Alpharetta GA
Michael David Powers - Canton GA
David Wayne Primm - Cumming GA
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Gregory Alan Zelazoski - Kennesaw GA
Jon Edward Tinsley - Roswell GA
Jaime Braverman - Atlanta GA

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604383, 60438501

Abstract:

A film cover for use in absorbent materials such as feminine care products, surgical drapes, fenestration reinforcement, absorbent pads and the like including a polymeric film having a top planar surface and a bottom planar surface and forming a plurality of apertures, at least a portion of which have an aperture region having a higher wettability than a portion of the top planar surface of the polymeric film.

US Patent:

6534149, Mar 18, 2003

Filed:

Feb 9, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/500498

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Yvette Lynn Hammonds - Fond du Lac WI
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 13513

US Classification:

428137, 428131, 428138, 604378, 604383

Abstract:

There is provided an intake/distribution layer for personal care products which is a co-apertured distribution layer and a transfer delay layer between them. The co-apertured distribution and transfer delay layer can serve to store liquid and release it to an absorbent core in a personal care product at a rate at which the core can absorb. This ability to accept irregular and large flow rates makes the layer of this invention particularly well suited for âgushâ management. The distribution layer is preferably an airlaid fabric and the transfer delay layer is preferably a spunbond fabric and they are co-apertured using a pin density of preferably about 2. 5 pins/cm.

US Patent:

6613028, Sep 2, 2003

Filed:

Dec 22, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/218851

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
Yvette Lynn Hammonds - Fond du Lac WI
Eugenio Go Varona - Marietta GA
Arthur Edward Garavaglia - Alpharetta GA
Laura Jane Walker - Appleton WI
Ann Marie Giencke - Menasha WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

60438501, 604358

Abstract:

A personal care absorbent article having a fluid intake/distribution layer, a fluid transfer delay layer disposed beneath said fluid intake/distribution layer, said fluid transfer delay layer enabling the transfer of fluid from the fluid intake/distribution layer(s) to a pad layer disposed beneath the fluid transfer delay layer while still allowing fluid distribution by the fluid intake/distribution layer along the machine direction of the article resulting in saturation levels of less than or equal to about 0. 86 g/g/in of fluid in the intake/distribution layer(s) and/or essentially equal to or greater than 0. 06 g/g/in. of fluid in the pad layer.

US Patent:

6723892, Apr 20, 2004

Filed:

Sep 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/653389

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Bruce Wilfuhr Achter - Alpharetta GA
Charles Wilson Colman - Marietta GA
Joseph DiPalma - Neenah WI
David Martin Jackson - Roswell GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Margaret Gwyn Latimer - Alpharetta GA
Gregory Marc Lefkowitz - Atlanta GA
Sylvia Bandy Little - Marietta GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
David Charles Potts - Dunwoody GA
Lawrence Howell Sawyer - Neenah WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604378

Abstract:

There is provided an absorbent system that not only takes in fluid, but then transfers that fluid further beneath the first composite. This is achieved in this invention through paired permeability, capillarity, and void volume of the first and second composites. The invention is an absorbent system composed of at least two absorbent composites that have complementary structural/surface energy characteristics. Such an absorbent system has a first absorbent Composite A which has a first permeability, a first capillarity, and a first void volume and at least one second absorbent Composite B which has a second capillarity and a second porosity multiplied by second thickness. The first absorbent Composite A is in liquid communication or contact with at least one second absorbent Composite B, such that the first absorbent Composite A, and the second absorbent Composite B have a fluid partitioning amount in Composite A, a third triple intake time (IT3) and a rewet value.

US Patent:

6838154, Jan 4, 2005

Filed:

Dec 9, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/209044

Inventors:

Eugenio Go Varona - Marietta GA, US
Monica Lynn Bontrager - Appleton WI, US
Jaime Braverman - Atlanta GA, US
Kuo-Shu Edward Chang - Roswell GA, US
Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA, US
Karen Lynn English - Alpharetta GA, US
Arthur Edward Garavaglia - Alpharetta GA, US
Hristo Angelov Hristov - Roswell GA, US
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA, US
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA, US
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA, US
Sharon Rymer - Neenah WI, US
Reginald Smith - Roswell GA, US
Michael Donald Sperl - Greenville WI, US

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

D06N 704
D04H 100
D04H 1300
D04H 300
D04H 500
D04H 316
A61F 1315
A61F 1320

US Classification:

428152, 442340, 442401, 604358, 604367, 604368, 604372

Abstract:

There is provided a resilient, three dimensional material having fibrous texture and appearance and capable of fluid handling. It consists of a top surface and a bottom surface wherein fiber-like elements typically extend from one surface to the other forming flat to undulating surfaces characterized by a multiplicity of interconnected fluid passageways. Deformed, discontinuous film-like or encapsulated regions connect fiber-like elements and stabilize the material. The material of this invention is unique based on the three principle characteristics which are communicated in this application: 1) f(ψ)

US Patent:

6855424, Feb 15, 2005

Filed:

Dec 28, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/474043

Inventors:

Oomman Painumoottil Thomas - Alpharetta GA, US
Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA, US
Steven D. Flack - Marletta GA, US
Jason Asher Bernstein - Roswell GA, US

Assignee:

Kinberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

B32B005/24
D02G003/32

US Classification:

428376, 428131, 4283044, 4283159, 4283155, 428392, 428394, 428375, 424443, 424445, 424447, 264 51, 442328, 442370, 442394

Abstract:

A material and method for providing a laminate of at least two layers to provide breathability and moisture barrier properties without appreciably reducing elastic properties. A first material comprises a woven or nonwoven web and a second material comprises a cellular elastomer film or fiber. Such materials may be integrated into a laminate by forming said first material onto said second material, or by joining the two materials through chemical or physical means such as the use of adhesives. The second material can be prepared by mixing a cell opening agent with the elastomeric polymer resin and extruding the mixture at appropriate conditions whereby the cell opening agent decomposes or reacts to release a gas that forms cells in the elastomer film. The material is useful in personal care products such as diapers, feminine care products, child care products, incontinence products and health care products where such properties are desirable for attributes such as comfort, body shaping, conformance, dryness and the like.

US Patent:

20020004350, Jan 10, 2002

Filed:

Dec 28, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/751414

Inventors:

Michael Morman - Alpharetta GA, US
Patricia Hwang - Alpharetta GA, US
Audrie Ono - Atlanta GA, US
Howard Welch - Woodstock GA, US
Charles Morell - Roswell GA, US
Faris Ohan - Knoxville TN, US
Prasad Potnis - Duluth GA, US
Michael Daley - Alpharetta GA, US

International Classification:

B32B005/26
B32B005/16
B32B027/12
B32B027/32
D04H001/56
D04H001/00
D04H003/16
D04H003/00

US Classification:

442/381000, 442/394000, 442/398000, 442/417000, 442/400000, 442/401000, 442/393000, 428/910000

Abstract:

A breathable, substantially liquid impermeable film and laminate are provided for use in a wide variety of personal care garments and protective garments. The film, and laminate containing the film, are extendible in a cross-direction to a stretched width which is at least 25% greater than an original, unstretched width. The film and laminate have a first water vapor transmission rate of at least about 500 grams/m-24 hours coinciding with the unstretched width. The film and laminate have a much higher second water vapor transmission rate which is at least about 225% of the first water vapor transmission rate, and not less than about 4000 grams/m-24 hours, coinciding with a stretched width that is only 25% greater than the stretched width.