Absorbent Article and Method of Manufacturing Same

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article using an absorbent element, the method comprising:

• forming an absorbent body by accumulating a mixture of fibers and high absorbent polymer particles in at least one absorbent body mold while performing suction from a plurality of suction holes with
• a laterally disposed and rotationally driven fiber accumulating drum provided with on an outer peripheral surface thereof, the absorbent body mold having a concave shape, a rotation direction corresponding to a front-back direction and in a bottom face thereof, the plurality of suction holes,
• demolding the absorbent body formed in the absorbent body mold, after that, wrapping the absorbent body with a wrapping sheet, and bonding an internal surface of the wrapping sheet and an external surface of the absorbent body through a hot melt adhesive, thereby manufacturing the absorbent element obtained by wrapping the absorbent body in the wrapping sheet,
• wherein after an impregnation layer impregnated with a hot melt adhesive having melt viscosity of 1,000 to 6,000 mPa·s is formed on at least one side of an upper side and a lower side of the demolded absorbent body, a part of an internal surface of the wrapping sheet facing the impregnation layer is bonded to an external surface of the impregnation layer through an adhesive layer made of a hot melt adhesive having melt viscosity within a range of 4,000 to 9,000 mPa·s and having higher melt viscosity than melt viscosity of the hot melt adhesive impregnated into the impregnation layer.