A flexible sensing panel includes a flexible substrate having first and second major surfaces, first and second separated side edges, and first and second ends, the flexible substrate being at least partly disposed between a flexible protective layer and a flexible fastening layer, and at least one sensing element being disposed on the flexible substrate. The protective layer is secured to the first major surface of the flexible substrate and is folded over the first and second side edges onto the second major surface of the flexible substrate and secured thereto to position at least part of the first and second side edges within the so formed folds, and wherein the fastening layer is at least partly disposed on the second major surface of the flexible substrate and secured thereto.

In this molded surface fastener, an engaging element includes a columnar stem portion, and micro pawl portions protruding outward from an upper end outer peripheral edge of the stem portion in a plan view of the engaging elements. A pawl width dimension of the micro pawl portions is smaller than a line segment connecting two points on the upper end outer peripheral edge of the stem portion. The micro pawl portions protrude toward a base portion. This molded surface fastener has a high peel strength and a shear strength with respect to a female surface fastener.

A sensor system for detecting a property of or within an absorbent article may comprise an absorbent article and a sensor. The absorbent article may comprise a garment-facing layer and an absorbent assembly. The sensor may be disposed in and/or on the absorbent article. The sensor may be separable from the absorbent article. The sensor may be configured to sense a change in condition within the absorbent article.

The invention relates to a laminate comprising at least one support element in the form of a non-woven fabric selected from the group consisting of an SM (Spunbond-Meltblown), an SMS (Spunbond-Meltblown-Spunbond), an SMMS (Spunbond-Meltblown-Meltblown-Spunbond), and an SSMMS (Spunbond-Spunbond-Meltblown-Meltblown-Spunbond), having a lower face and an upper face, and at least one non-woven fabric with loops made of a material comprising synthetic thermoplastic polymers, having a lower face and an upper face. The upper face of the support element is secured to the lower face of the non-woven fabric with loops. The curve representing the force required to stretch the laminate along a given axis of the laminate, as a function of elongation, includes a segment in which, starting from a zero elongation value, the force increases from zero up to a maximum force, where the maximum force corresponds to the rupture of the laminate, and the curve comprises an inflection point (Pi) on the segment.

Apparatuses and methods herein may be configured to utilize existing high speed assembly lines with dedicated packaging apparatuses to assemble various kinds of packages of absorbent articles. Absorbent articles advancing from an assembly line are diverted before reaching a dedicated packaging apparatus. The diverted absorbent articles are transported to a selectable packaging apparatus to be placed in containers containing desired quantities and/or types of absorbent articles to create select packages. Carriers are movably connected with a track, wherein a linear synchronous motor independently moves the carriers along the track. Diverted absorbent articles are transferred to a carrier in a receiving zone, and the diverted absorbent articles are moved along the track from the receiving zone to a drop off zone. The diverted absorbent articles are then transferred from the carrier in the drop off zone to a selectable packaging apparatus.

An absorber with a top sheet, covering the other surface of the absorber with a back sheet, and attaching a hook member of a mechanical fastener to each of a front side and a back side of the back sheet. The hook member is formed of a sheet-like base portion and a large number of hook portions. Each of the hook portions has a support column extending from the base portion to a side opposite to the back sheet and a protruding portion which is located at an end of the support column and in which a length of a protrusion extending toward a distal end portion side of each of the front side and the back side is longer than a length of a protrusion extending toward a crotch portion.

An absorbent article and enclosing pants and a method for wearing the combination thereof are provided. The absorbent article has a front lifting section and a rear lifting section that are provided with apertures to allow male and female parts of hook-and-loop fasteners of the enclosing pants to touch inside the apertures and to engage outside the apertures for preventing skidding. An isolating absorbent article may have an easy tear line opening for selectively tearing and tightly surrounding around a rear root portion of the scrotum to isolate the external sex organ and for installation or extension of a urine tube or a urine sack. The enclosing pants has the front pad and a rear pad having two lifting and looping sections and a central opening section, the central opening for fixing and correspond the easy tear line opening.

The problem is to provide excellent slipping-down preventive property with a simpler structure. This problem is solved by an attachable-type disposable wearing article configured so that, in the natural length state, as the unfixed area 52 contracts, a pair of side areas 60 of the end flap EF positioned lateral to the unfixed area 52 are obliquely drawn closer as they extend backward, which results in formation of transverse portion 62 extending in the width direction WD at the back edge of intermediate area 61 located between the pair of side areas 60, while obliquely backward portions 63 are formed at the back edges of the side areas 60 positioned more backward as they extend laterally, and in the spread state, the back edge of the end flap EF extends along the width direction WD over the extent including from one of the obliquely backward portions 63 to the other.

A liner for absorbing incontinently passed urine or other moisture passed at the crotch, underside, buttocks, and/or inner thigh area has a first extension, second extension, third extension each of which extend away from a liner intersection portion and each of which are connected thereto. The first extension inserts into a first pocket interior of a first pocket of a garment. The said second extension inserts into a second pocket interior of a second pocket of the garment. The third extension inserts into a third pocket interior of a third pocket of the garment. The fourth extension inserts into a fourth pocket interior of a fourth pocket of the garment. The first pocket comprises an interior anterior torso portion of the garment. The second pocket comprises an interior posterior torso portion of the garment. The third and fourth pocket comprise first and second interior inner thigh sections of the garment.

A liner for absorbing incontinently passed urine or other moisture passed at the crotch, underside, buttocks, and/or inner thigh area has a first extension, second extension, third extension each of which extend away from a liner intersection portion and each of which are connected thereto. The first extension inserts into a first pocket interior of a first pocket of a garment. The said second extension inserts into a second pocket interior of a second pocket of the garment. The third extension inserts into a third pocket interior of a third pocket of the garment. The fourth extension inserts into a fourth pocket interior of a fourth pocket of the garment. The first pocket comprises an interior anterior torso portion of the garment. The second pocket comprises an interior posterior torso portion of the garment. The third and fourth pocket comprise first and second interior inner thigh sections of the garment.