Patent ID: 9439812
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A01K,A61F

Claim Text:
1. An absorbent article for a pet animal, said absorbent article comprising: a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction being orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, an absorbent panel having a body-contact surface for facing a body of the pet animal, a non-body-contact surface opposite to the body-contact surface, a ventral region, a dorsal region and an intermediate region extending between the ventral region and the dorsal region wherein the absorbent panel includes a liquid-permeable interior sheet, a liquid-impermeable exterior sheet and an absorbent core interleaved between the interior and exterior sheets, and a ventral side elastic element extending in the transverse direction in the ventral region, wherein the absorbent core is located in an area extending from an opening provided in the intermediate region for insertion of a tail of the pet animal toward of the ventral region, the absorbent core has a first end portion located toward the ventral region, the first end portion of the absorbent core overlaps the ventral side elastic element in a planar view, and the ventral side elastic element is contractibly secured under tension between the absorbent core and the exterior sheet so that the first end portion of the absorbent core is convexly curved in a direction from the non-body-contact surface toward the body-contact surface under contraction of the ventral side elastic element.