Patent ID: 11896466
Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  D | IPC A  D

Claim 0:
1. An absorbent article comprising:
a topsheet;
a backsheet film;
an absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet;
an outer cover nonwoven material in a facing relationship with at least a portion of the backsheet film, the outer cover nonwoven material comprising a nonwoven fabric comprising a garment-facing surface;
wherein the outer cover nonwoven material is hydrophobic;
the nonwoven fabric comprising a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on the garment-facing surface, each of the three-dimensional features defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property, wherein the intensive property is one or more of: thickness, basis weight, and volumetric density;
wherein the nonwoven fabric comprises bond skinning, wherein the bond skinning comprises thermally bonding fibers to form a film skin, and wherein an amount of thermal bonding in the first region differs from an amount of thermal bonding in the second region;
wherein the first region has a Time to Wick value in the range of about 10 second to about 60 seconds, according to the Time to Wick Test Method;
wherein the second region has a Time to Wick value in the range of about 0.5 seconds to about 10 seconds, according to the Time to Wick Test Method;
wherein a portion of the garment-facing surface has a total region one, lower basis weight area of about 5% to about 25% of a total area of the portion of the garment-facing surface, with a remainder of the portion of the garment-facing surface being a total region two, higher basis weight area, the portion having a TS7 value in the range of about 1 dB V2 rms to about 4.5 dB V2 rms, according to the Emtec Test; and
wherein the portion of the garment-facing surface has a TS750 value in the range of about 6 dB V2 rms to about 30 dB V2 rms, according to the Emtec Test.