09.09.16
Yuki Noda, Kanonji, Japan; Tatsuya Tamura, Kanonji, Japan; and Akira Hashino, Kanonji, Japan.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.
Filed: 3/26/13
Issued: 4/19/16
An absorbent article comprising: a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body between the liquid-permeable top sheet and liquid-impermeable back sheet, wherein the absorbent article has in an excretory opening contact region a domed section that protrudes in a thickness direction of the absorbent article, the domed section includes (i) a part of the top sheet and (ii) a cushion section disposed between the top sheet and the absorbent body, the cushion section has a maximum thickness of 3 to 30 mm, the absorbent body has one or more embossed sections formed by embossing the absorbent body either continuously or intermittently in a lengthwise direction of the absorbent article, the one or more embossed sections form a folding axis for folding the absorbent article in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article so that a skin contact surface of the top sheet protrudes outward, the absorbent body has a furrow along the folding axis on a back sheet side of the absorbent body, and the back sheet is indented along the furrow, and the cushion section has a compressive force of 0.1-3.6N in the widthwise direction of the absorbent article.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.
Filed: 3/26/13
Issued: 4/19/16
An absorbent article comprising: a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorbent body between the liquid-permeable top sheet and liquid-impermeable back sheet, wherein the absorbent article has in an excretory opening contact region a domed section that protrudes in a thickness direction of the absorbent article, the domed section includes (i) a part of the top sheet and (ii) a cushion section disposed between the top sheet and the absorbent body, the cushion section has a maximum thickness of 3 to 30 mm, the absorbent body has one or more embossed sections formed by embossing the absorbent body either continuously or intermittently in a lengthwise direction of the absorbent article, the one or more embossed sections form a folding axis for folding the absorbent article in a widthwise direction of the absorbent article so that a skin contact surface of the top sheet protrudes outward, the absorbent body has a furrow along the folding axis on a back sheet side of the absorbent body, and the back sheet is indented along the furrow, and the cushion section has a compressive force of 0.1-3.6N in the widthwise direction of the absorbent article.