Process for making perfume-impregnated hydrogel-forming absorbent polymers

• Main Authors: EBRAHIM REZAI, SHUJI MAENO, PEDRO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ, KESYN FUGGER HSUEH, MOTOHIRO SHIMIZU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.02.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS; WORKING-UP

The present invention is directed to a process for making a perfume-impregnated hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer wherein release of a perfume smell is triggered by dynamic swelling force of the polymer when the polymer is wetted, which comprises the steps of: (i) mixing a solid carrier and a perfume with reaction intermediates of hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer before the gelation point of polymerization of the hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer, (ii) forming the perfume-impregnated hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer, and (iii) drying the perfume-impregnated hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer. The present invention further relates to such perfume-impregnated hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer. The present invention further relates to a disposable absorbent article comprising such perfume-impregnated hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer.