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US 6,206,866 B1Granted
Absorbent article having cushion layer comprising a plurality of protrusions
AssigneeUni-Charm Corporation
InventorsYoshihisa Fujioka, Ichiro Wada, Noriyuki Kurita
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Abstract
An absorbent article comprising a liquid-permeable top sheet, a back sheet, and an absorbent core interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, wherein the top sheet rises upwardly from the absorbent core to have a plurality of protrusions, which extend parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, and a hydrophilic material is provided within the protrusions so as to form a cushion layer.
Claims14
An absorbent article comprising:
- a liquid permeable top sheet;
- a back sheet;
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- an absorbent core interposed between the top sheet and the back sheet,
- wherein the top sheet rises upwardly from the absorbent core to have a plurality of protrusions which extent parallel with one another in a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, and a hydrophilic material is provided within the protrusions so as to form a cushion layer, and
- wherein a liquid-permeable intermediate sheet is provided between the top sheet and the absorbent core, and the top sheet and the intermediate sheet are joined at valley portions between the protrusions to hold the hydrophilic material within the protrusions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.