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Hip-to-Side Silhouettes for Boxer Brief Type Disposable Absorbent Articles and Arrays:

U.S. Patent No. 11,432,973

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By: Tara Olivo

Associate Editor at Nonwovens Industry

Gary Dean LaVon, Liberty Township, OH; Bret Darren Seitz, West Chester, OH; Masaharu Nishikawa, Cincinnati, OH; Sarah M. Wade, Springfield Township, OH; and Franz-Josef Hermes, Cincinnati, OH.
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

Filed: 6/29/18
Issued: 9/6/22

An absorbent article having a central chassis, the central chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core, the absorbent article comprising: a front waist region and a front waist edge;
a back waist region and a back waist edge; a front belt disposed in the front waist region; a back belt disposed in the back waist region; wherein each of the front and back belts comprise at least one elastic element; wherein the front and back belts are joined at seams to form a waist opening and leg openings; wherein the article has a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 0.5 to about 1.8; and wherein the article has a Relaxed Product Side Length that is greater than about 65% of the Relaxed Product Length and wherein the Relaxed Product Side Length is less than 150% of the Relaxed Product Length; and wherein the article has a side seam length that is greater than about 70% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article and wherein the side seam length is less than about 100% of the Relaxed Product Length of the absorbent article.

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