Patent ID: 6508796
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An absorbent article comprising:a main body including a support sheet, a liquid absorbent layer laid on said support sheet, and a liquid-permeable sheet covering said liquid absorbent layer; and leakage preventing side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of said main body and lying opposite one another in a latitudinal direction of said main body, each leakage preventing side wall having a raised portion which is joined at a root end onto a liquid-receiving side surface of said main body and raised therefrom to have a free end positioned apart from the liquid-receiving side surface, wherein each leakage preventing side wall is provided with first elastically shrinking means for applying an elastic shrinking force along a curved shrinking action line that approaches said free end from said root end when extending from two longitudinal end positions of said raised portion of said leakage preventing side wall toward a longitudinally midway position of said leakage preventing side wall.