Patent ID: 9523164
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: D04H,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A nonwoven fabric comprising: a multiplicity of fibers; a plurality of bonded portions, the bonded portions being spaced apart from one another, each bonded portion comprising portions of the fibers that are bonded together, and each bonded portion having a thickness extending perpendicularly between opposite faces of the nonwoven fabric; a plurality of unbonded portions, each unbonded portion comprising portions of the fibers that are not bonded together, and each unbonded portion having a thickness extending perpendicularly between the opposite faces of the nonwoven fabric; the thicknesses of the unbonded portions being greater than the thicknesses of the bonded portions; and the bonded portions being sized and arranged in a pattern configured so that the unbonded portions occupy more than 5.55 times as much space as the bonded portions in a plan view of an area of a face of the opposite faces of the nonwoven fabric, wherein the area contains more than one hundred of the bonded portions.