Patent ID: 6616648
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
Absorbent article such as a diaper and an incontinence guard comprising a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent body enclosed therebetween, said article having a front portion, a rear portion and a crotch portion therebetween, whereby the front and rear portion exhibit side flaps, which are intended to attach the article together to a pantlike shape around the waist of the user, characterised in, that it comprises at least one first pre-stressed elastic means attached at least to the backsheet, that said first elastic means is arranged in an essentially V-shaped pattern having the peak of the pattern located to a first point being essentially located on a imagined longitudinal centre line in said crotch portion and that the V-shaped elastic means diverge in the direction from said longitudinal centre line toward the front portion, and that a second elastic means extending from the peak of the V-shaped means and further along the longitudinal centre line at the crotch portion in direction towards the rear portion.