Patent ID: 8672912
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An absorbent article comprising a chassis extending about a longitudinal axis, said chassis including a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent structure disposed between said topsheet and said backsheet, said chassis having a first transverse axis dividing the absorbent structure into a front body panel terminating in a front waist region and a rear body panel terminating in a rear waist region, a pair of opposed front side panels attached to said front body panel, said rear waist region having a first elastic, said chassis being delimited by opposed longitudinal edges and opposed front and back transverse edges; a pair of opposed rear side panels attached to said chassis at said rear waist region of said rear body panel, each rear side panel extending outwardly from the respective longitudinal edge of the chassis, at least one of said rear side panels having a second elastic, and a fastening system for fastening the absorbent article around the waist of a user, the fastening system comprising a first fastener arranged on said pair of opposed rear side panels and a complementary second fastener arranged on said front body panel, wherein in said rear waist region, said absorbent structure terminates at a first distance from said back transverse edge and said first elastic extends substantially parallel to said back transverse edge and spaced therefrom by a second distance and spaced from said absorbent structure by a third distance, said first elastic terminating short of a first longitudinal edge by a fourth distance, wherein said third distance is greater than said second distance or substantially equal thereto; said fastening system comprises the first fastener on each opposed rear side panel, said first fasteners being positioned on a second transverse axis extending substantially parallel to said first transverse axis, with said second transverse axis being a transverse centerline of the first fasteners passing between said absorbent structure and said first elastic; wherein the front side panels have a surface roughness where a height between 5% of a surface of the material constituting the front side panel and 95% of the surface of the material constituting the front side panel is 46 to 48 μm; and wherein said first distance is between 40-140 mm; said second distance is between 5-40 mm; said third distance is between 10-60 mm; said fourth distance is between 30-120 mm; the ratio of said second distance to said first distance is between 1:2 and 1:9; and the ratio of said third distance to said first distance is between 1:3 and 1:9.