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    Patents

    Absorbent Article with Topsheet, Top-Layer Sheet and Compressing Portions:

    U.S. Patent No. 9,622,921

    07.31.17
    Jun Kudo, Kagawa, Japan; Yuji Takahashi, Kagawa, Japan; and Mari Yasui, Kagawa, Japan.
    Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.

    Filed: 5/15/12
    Issued: 4/18/17

    An absorbent article, comprising: a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet, and an absorber arranged between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein a liquid-permeable top-layer sheet is provided at the skin contact surface side of the topsheet, and the top-layer sheet is arranged along a lengthwise direction of the absorbent article at a widthwise central portion of the absorbent article, and has a central region including an excretion-portion contact region configured to be arranged opposite an excretion portion of a wearer in use, and a top-layer compressing portion within the central region in which only the topsheet and the top-layer sheet are compressed thickness-wise, and an absorber compressing portion outboard of the central region in which at least the topsheet and the absorber are compressed thickness-wise are formed in the absorbent article, the absorber compressing portion has a lengthwise compressing portion along the lengthwise direction of the absorbent article outboard of the top-layer sheet in the widthwise direction, wherein the absorber compressing portion has a plurality of punctate compressing portions in the shape of dots that are formed intermittently outboard of the central region in the lengthwise direction, and in the punctate compressing portions, the top-layer sheet, the topsheet, and the absorber are compressed thickness-wise.
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