Absorbent article
AssigneeUnicharm Corporation
InventorsSatoru SAKAGUCHI, Maika TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
An absorbent article has front and back surface sheets, and an absorbent body disposed within the front surface sheet and back surface sheet laminate. The absorbent article is further provided with a stretchable waist member disposed within the laminate in a manner enabling stretching in the width direction. The stretchable waist member is disposed between the absorbent body and the front surface sheet in the thickness direction and is joined to the front surface sheet. A portion of the stretchable waist member overlaps with and touches the absorbent body in the thickness direction but is not joined thereto, and the portion of the stretchable waist member that does not overlap with the absorbent body in the thickness direction is joined to the back surface sheet.
Claims8
An absorbent article comprising a front sheet, a back sheet and an absorbent body disposed in a laminate of the front sheet and the back sheet, and having a lengthwise direction, a widthwise direction and a thickness direction,
- the absorbent article comprising:
- a waist expandable-and-shrinkable member that is expandable and shrinkable in an expansion-and-shrink direction and is disposed in the laminate so that the expansion-and-shrink direction is along the widthwise direction;
- wherein the waist expandable-and-shrinkable member is disposed between the absorbent body and the front sheet in the thickness direction, and is bonded to the front sheet,
- a portion of the waist expandable-and-shrinkable member overlaps with the absorbent body in the thickness direction and is in contact but non-bonded to it, and
- a portion of the waist expandable-and-shrinkable member that is not overlapping with the absorbent body in the thickness direction is bonded to the back sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.