Patent ID: 7674949
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An absorbent article comprising a liquid pervious bodyside liner adapted to be positioned adjacent to a wearer's body, a liquid impervious backsheet and an absorbent core positioned between the bodyside liner and the backsheet, said article further comprising a porous liquid transfer layer between the bodyside liner and the absorbent core, both of said liner and said transfer layer containing thermoplastic material and are bonded together in a plurality of bonding sites within which the thermoplastic material has been caused to at least partially soften or melt and thereby bond together the liner and the transfer layer, said liner comprising a plurality of perforations, said article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, wherein in at least a central part of the article, corresponding to a wetting area, said bonding sites cover an area of between 0.2% and 5% of the total area of said part of the liner that is circumscribed by said bonding sites and that each bonding site has an area of no more than 13 mm 2 , that said liner has a three-dimensional structure of alternating raised and depressed regions and that the perforations are present in the bottoms of the depressions of said liner as seen from the body facing side of the liner, wherein the perforations and the bonding sites are independent from each other and are located at different positions.