Patent ID: 6656170
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An absorbent article intended to be carried in the crotch region of a wearer inside the wearer's underclothes, wherein the article has a generally elongate form and comprising:two long sides; two short sides; two end-portions; a central part between said end-portions; liquid-permeable casing sheet intended to be turned towards the wearer's body; a liquid-impermeable casing sheet intended to be turned away from the wearer's body; a drainage layer and a hump-forming element that provides a preformed hump on that side of the article which is proximal to the wearer's body in use between said sheets in a direction from the liquid-permeable casing sheet towards the liquid-impermeable casing sheet; an absorption layer disposed between the drainage layer and the hump-forming element; and a cut in the absorption layer and the drainage layer, the cut extending along the longitudinal center line of the article and via which a part of the underlaying hump-forming element is projected through the absorption layer and the drainage layer.