Patent ID: 6554812
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An absorbent article selected from the group consisting of a sanitary napkin, a panty liner and an incontinence protector for women, comprising an absorbent body that is sandwiched between a liquid-permeable outer sheet and a liquid-impermeable outer sheet; said article having a front part intended to face forwards when the article is worn, and a rear part; said absorbent body having a front end edge, a rear end edge, and two side edges continuously tapering rearwardly from a widest part situated in the front part off the article between said side edges to a narrowest part situated at an end of the rear part of the article between said side edges; the ratio between the distance between the side edges in the widest part of the absorbent body and the distance between the side edges in its narrowest part being greater than 2; said article including outwardly projecting flexible flaps which extend outwardly of the absorbent body and have outer longitudinal edges, which in an unfolded state of the flaps are inclined relative to a longitudinal symmetry axis of the article at a first angle such that the distance between the outer longitudinal edges of said flaps and the longitudinal symmetry axis will decrease in a direction towards the rear end of the article; said first angle being larger than a second angle at which a first imaginary line is inclined to the longitudinal symmetry axis, said first imaginary line passing through an outer limitation point of the absorbent body at its widest part and an outer limitation point transversely of the rear end of the absorbent body at its narrowest part on the same side of the longitudinal symmetry axis as a corresponding longitudinal outer edge; and said first angle being smaller than three times the second angle.