Absorbent article

Patent Number: 9387135

Patent Date: 2016-07-12

Patent type: utility

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel absorbent article that prevents excessive compression of an absorbent body caused by deformation of the absorbent article, and rewetting associated with said compression. In order to solve such a problem, a sanitary napkin (1) is provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet (2), a liquid-impermeable back sheet (3), and an absorbent body (4) disposed between the top sheet (2) and the back sheet (3), wherein: an extensible area (21) having an extensible bellows-like section (210), and a flexible area (22) surrounding the extensible area (21) are formed in a waste supply area (20) of the top sheet (2).

Inventors

First Name Last Name City State Country
Tatsuya Tamura - - -
Yuki Noda - - -
Takashi Nomoto - - -
Takashi Onozuka - - -

IPCs

Section Class Sub Class Group Sub Group
A 61 F 13 15
A 61 F 13 512
A 61 F 13 472
A 61 F 13 511
A 61 F 13 533

Assignee

Organization First Name Last Name City State Country
Unicharm Corporation - - - - -