Patent ID: 6673418
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
An absorbent article comprising a body-facing cover layer, a garment facing barrier layer and an absorbent element between the cover layer and the barrier layer, wherein said body-facing cover layer is a non-woven fabric formed from an interconnected network thermoplastic polymer fibers having a bonding pattern made up of a series of discrete dots in a plurality of linear arrays including a first linear array and an adjacent second linear array wherein the dots within the first linear array are closer to adjacent dots within the first linear array than they are to dots in the adjacent second linear array, at least a portion of the non-woven fabric having a three-dimensional thickness profile including a plurality of raised regions, semi-raised regions and compressed regions, the raised regions having a lower fiber density relative to the semi-raised regions, the semi-raised regions having a lower fiber density relative to the compressed regions, wherein said non-woven fabric is formed from a homogeneous blend of high denier fibers and low denier fibers having a denier in a range of from 1.5 denier to 15 denier, wherein the high denier fibers and the low denier fibers differ by at least one denier and wherein the high denier fibers are present in the blend in an amount of from 10 to 90% and the low denier fibers are present in the blend in an amount of from 90 to 10%.