01.06.16
Nobuyuki Kato, Kanonji, Japan; Tatsuya Tamura, Kanonji, Japan; and Toshihisa Hayashi, Kanonji, Japan. Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.
Filed: 9/27/11
Issued: 11/24/15
An absorbent article, comprising: a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet opposing the top sheet, an absorbent provided between the top sheet and the back sheet, and a side sheet provided on each side of the top sheet in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article, and having an area that overlaps the top sheet and the absorbent; wherein the absorbent contains an airlaid layer, formed by joining fibers with a binder, and a crushed pulp layer, the crushed pulp layer is provided on a top sheet side of the absorbent, the airlaid layer is provided on a back sheet side of the absorbent, and the absorbent article has a plurality of compressed pin-shaped indentations extending through the side sheet and the top sheet and into the absorbent in a thickness direction of the absorbent article, and a plurality of compressed pin-shaped indentations extending through the top sheet and into the absorbent in the thickness direction.
Filed: 9/27/11
Issued: 11/24/15
An absorbent article, comprising: a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet opposing the top sheet, an absorbent provided between the top sheet and the back sheet, and a side sheet provided on each side of the top sheet in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article, and having an area that overlaps the top sheet and the absorbent; wherein the absorbent contains an airlaid layer, formed by joining fibers with a binder, and a crushed pulp layer, the crushed pulp layer is provided on a top sheet side of the absorbent, the airlaid layer is provided on a back sheet side of the absorbent, and the absorbent article has a plurality of compressed pin-shaped indentations extending through the side sheet and the top sheet and into the absorbent in a thickness direction of the absorbent article, and a plurality of compressed pin-shaped indentations extending through the top sheet and into the absorbent in the thickness direction.