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U.S. Patent No. 11,730,635
October 4, 2023
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Shih-Huey Kuo, New Taipei, Taiwan. Assigned to Kangcheng International Co., Ltd., New Taipei, Taiwan. Filed: 3/11/20 Issued: 8/22/23 An absorbent article, which is adapted to wear in combination with enclosing pants, the absorbent article comprising: a liquid permeable top layer, a liquid impermeable bottom layer, an absorbent core disposed between the liquid permeable top layer and the liquid impermeable bottom layer, and a leaking protection barrier extending in a longitudinal direction along left and right sides of the liquid permeable top layer; wherein the absorbent core at least comprises a rear hip section and a crotch section, the absorbent core having a front-side film extended to form a front lifting section, the absorbent article having a rear waist side film extended to form a rear lifting film; wherein the at least one aperture is provided in left and right sides, the at least one aperture allows for the male and female parts of a hook-and-loop fastener to engage for fastening and lifting; wherein at lease one aperture is provided in left and right sides, the at least one aperture that allows male and female parts of a hook-and-loop fastener to engage for fastening and lifting; wherein the aperture has a plan-view configuration that is one of a heart shape, a star shape, and geometric shapes of circle, ellipse, oval, rectangle, triangle, trapezoid, pentagon, and hexagon; and wherein the absorbent core comprises the rear hip section and the crotch section, wherein the absorbent core has a front end that is formed with two projecting portions adapted to respectively extend on left and right sides of an external sex organ of a male wearer, and a recessed portion that is formed between the two projecting portions and is provided, at a location corresponding to a root portion of a scrotum of the wearer, with an easy tear line that selectively defines an opening extending in a direction toward a belly of the wearer to form an isolating absorbent article. An absorbent article, wearable in combination with enclosing pants, the absorbent article comprising a liquid permeable top layer, a liquid impermeable bottom layer, an absorbent core disposed between the liquid permeable top layer and the liquid impermeable bottom layer, and a leaking protection barrier extending in a longitudinal direction along left and right sides of the liquid permeable top layer, wherein the absorbent core comprises a rear hip section and a crotch section, the absorbent core having a front-side film extended to form a front lifting section, wherein the absorbent core has a front end that is formed with two projecting portions adapted to respectively extend on left and right sides of an external sex organ of a male wearer, and a recessed portion that is formed between the two projecting portions and is provided, at a location corresponding to a root portion of a scrotum of the wearer, with an easy tear line that selectively defines an opening extending in a direction toward a belly of the wearer to form an isolating absorbent article. A method for wearing a combination of an absorbent article and enclosing pants, wherein the absorbent article comprises: a liquid permeable top layer, a liquid impermeable bottom layer, an absorbent core disposed between the liquid permeable top layer and the liquid impermeable bottom layer, and a leaking protection barrier extending in a longitudinal direction along left and right sides of the liquid permeable top layer, wherein the absorbent core comprises a rear hip section and a crotch section, the absorbent core having a front-side film extended to form a front lifting section, wherein the absorbent core has a front end that is formed with two projecting portions adapted to respectively extend on left and right sides of an external sex organ of a male wearer, and a recessed portion that is formed between the two projecting portions and is provided, at a location corresponding to a root portion of a scrotum of the wearer, with an easy tear line that selectively defines an opening extending in a direction toward a belly of the wearer to form an isolating absorbent article, the bottom layer being further combined with a nonwoven-fabric surface layer of fibers or a high-loft material; the enclosing pants comprising: a rear pad, which comprises a rear waist section, a rear hip section, a crotch section extending from a lower end of the rear hip section, elastic extension/contraction sections arranged on the rear waist section at locations adjacent to left and right sides, respectively, rear wing sections connected to the left and right sides of the rear waist section respectively and each having an extension section, two lifting and looping sections respectively arranged leftward and rightward and connected to a front end of the crotch section for respectively corresponding to the extension sections, a central opening section defined by the two lifting and looping sections collectively, and thigh circumference extension / contraction edges respectively arranged at edges of left and right sides of the rear hip section and the crotch section, wherein an inside surface of the rear hip section and the lifting and looping sections is provided with a hook-and-loop fastener male part to receive a nonwoven-fabric surface layer of the absorbent article to attach thereto and engage therewith; and a front pad, which comprises a front waist section, a front belly section, a down-extension section that is adapted to cover a male external sex organ, and front wing sections arranged at left and right sides of the front waist section and respectively corresponding to the rear wing sections; and one positioning fastener group, which is arranged on one of the rear wing sections and a corresponding one of the front wing sections for selectively engaging with and fastening to each other, in a detachable manner, for positioning; wherein the extension sections and the lifting and looping sections are engageable with and attached to each other by means of a first fastener, in a detachable manner, on left and right belly portions of the wearer; the rear wing sections and the front wing sections are engageable with and attached to each other by means of second fasteners, in a detachable manner; and the lifting and looping sections and the front pad are engageable with and attached to each other by means of third fasteners, in a detachable manner, on the left and right belly portions of the wearer, wherein the rear pad and the front pad are combinable to form a pair of enclosing pants and an opening section is formed to correspond to an opening of the absorbent article to expose the male external sex organ; the method for wearing the combination of the absorbent article and the enclosing pants being applicable in a condition where the enclosing pants are positioned and fastened, comprising the following steps: (A’) expanding the enclosing pants and placing the absorbent article therein such that the easy tear line is higher than the crotch section by at least 1 cm, and having the nonwoven-fabric surface layer attached to and engaging with the hook-and-loop fastener male part arranged on the inside surface of the enclosing pants; (B’) placing the rear pad including the absorbent article on a rear side of the hips of a wearer, tearing open the easy tear line and having a bottom of the opening abutting the rear root portion of the scrotum; (C’) pulling together and overlapping the extension section and the lifting and looping section under the crotch and fastening the first fastener, and repeating the above operation for the other side to have the opening set tightly around the rear root portion of the scrotum; (D’) fastening the second fastener on the non-positioning side to have the front pad covering the belly of the wearer; (E’) lifting open the front pad, installing a urine sack on the penis and placing the urine sack at a target position on the female part of the third fastener of one side, or placing the urine sack between the two female parts, and covering the front pad back and fastening the third fastener.
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