Patent ID: 6676648
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A disposable absorbent garment having an initial expanded shape, a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis, a front region, and a back region, said front region and said back region being oppositely positioned on said longitudinal axis, and a central region positioned between said front region and said back region, wherein said front region, said back region, and said central region each have a length along said longitudinal axis of one third of the length of said absorbent garment, comprising:an aqueous liquid-impervious backing member; an aqueous liquid pervious body-side liner joined to said backing member to form a joined body-side liner and backing member connected along a periphery of said joined body-side liner and backing member; a rectangular absorbent pad, having a front end edge and a back end edge, positioned between said bodyside liner and said backing member inboard of said periphery of said joined liner and said backing member; and elastic gathers aligned along longitudinally extending margins of said periphery, rendering said garment elastically contractible and body-conforming adjacent the crotch of the wearer, wherein said absorbent pad is positioned within said regions such that the length of said absorbent pad in the back region divided by the length of said absorbent pad in said front region and said central region is less than 0.10 and said length of said absorbent pad in said front region is greater than said length of absorbent pad in said back region.