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Absorbent articles having wetness indicating graphics providing training zone

An absorbent product and graphic technology, applied in absorbent pads, medical science, bandages, etc., can solve the problems of underestimating the difficulty of teaching children and toilet training methods, and difficult to determine children's desire to start the toilet training process.

Inactive Publication Date: 2002-09-18
KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE INC
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[0003] Many caregivers have difficulty determining a child's desire to begin the toilet training process and underestimate the difficulty of teaching young children toilet training methods

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[0067] The principles of the present invention can be incorporated into various absorbent articles, particularly disposable absorbent articles. The term "disposable" refers to an article that can be designed to be discarded after a limited use, rather than laundered or stored for reuse. For ease of explanation, the following description is based on a child's training pants.

[0068] Training Pants 20 in figure 1 in a fully assembled state, and in figure 2 in a partially disassembled, stretched and flat state. The training pant 20 defines a first or front waist portion 22, a second or rear waist portion 24, a crotch portion 26 interposed and interconnected between the front and rear waist portions, an inner surface 28 ( figure 1 ), the inner surface 28 is configured to contact the wearer, and an outer surface 30 opposite the inner surface, the outer surface 30 is configured to contact the wearer's clothing. The training pant 20 is shown to include an absorbent chassis 32 a...

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Abstract

A disposable absorbent article, such as training pants, includes a wetness indicator graphic that provides an interactive teaching aid. The interactive graphics may include a character graphic and one or more active object graphics that visually "show" or "not show" in response to exposure to urine or the environment. Different mechanisms are employed to conceptually and / or visually separate the permanent character graphic from the interactive wetness indicator graphic so that the character graphic remains separate in the child's mind from the toilet training process.

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technical background [0001] The present invention relates to absorbent articles, and more particularly to absorbent articles having wetness indicating graphics to provide interactive educational aids. [0002] The toilet training process can include many different aspects, including a number of training techniques and aids that can be used by parents and caregivers, hereinafter simply referred to as caregivers. One aspect of the overall toilet training process is changing from diapers to training pants to help the child understand that he or she should now use the toilet like an adult. Another aspect of the overall toilet training approach involves the caregiver providing positive encouragement and reinforcement to the child to instruct him or her that he or she should now use the toilet instead of diapers. Although the use of training pants and positive encouragement by caregivers during potty training has been helpful, there is still much room for improvement. In particula...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61F13/15A61F13/42A61F13/49A61F13/496
CPCA61F13/42A61F2013/425A61F2013/8497
Inventor M·T·卡马罗塔M·P·乔丹M·W·李G·A·麦唐纳德K·I·拉特利夫
Owner KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE INC