04.12.21
Hiroki Goda, Kagawa, Japan; and Masashi Yamaguchi, Kagawa, Japan.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.
Filed: 7/1/16
Issued: 3/2/21
An absorbent article which has a longitudinal direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction, and comprises an absorbent body that includes at least a water absorbent fiber, wherein the absorbent body includes a deformation guiding portion which extends in a predetermined direction, and base portions which are disposed on both sides of the deformation guiding portion, the deformation guiding portion includes a compressed region which extends in the predetermined direction and in which the absorbent body is compacted in the thickness direction, and protruded portions which extend in the predetermined direction on both sides of the compressed region and protrude from the base portions toward a skin surface side, wherein a thickness of each of the base portions is greater than a thickness of the compressed region, and a fiber density of the protruded portions is lower than a fiber density of the base portions.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.
Filed: 7/1/16
Issued: 3/2/21
An absorbent article which has a longitudinal direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction, and comprises an absorbent body that includes at least a water absorbent fiber, wherein the absorbent body includes a deformation guiding portion which extends in a predetermined direction, and base portions which are disposed on both sides of the deformation guiding portion, the deformation guiding portion includes a compressed region which extends in the predetermined direction and in which the absorbent body is compacted in the thickness direction, and protruded portions which extend in the predetermined direction on both sides of the compressed region and protrude from the base portions toward a skin surface side, wherein a thickness of each of the base portions is greater than a thickness of the compressed region, and a fiber density of the protruded portions is lower than a fiber density of the base portions.