Patent ID: 9492331
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. An elongated absorbent article, comprising: a liquid permeable top sheet that is disposed on a wearer's skin side and has a skin contacting surface; a liquid impermeable back sheet that is disposed on an underwear side; and a liquid absorptive absorbent core that is disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, wherein a compressed groove is formed in the absorbent core and on the skin contacting surface, the skin contacting surface has the compressed groove has in each of the front region and the rear region, the first grooves and the second grooves are smaller in width than the first central grooves, the outer grooves, and the second central grooves, the compressed groove includes an area of each of the high compression regions in the first grooves and the second grooves is smaller than an area of each of the high compression regions in the first central grooves, the outer grooves and the second central grooves.