Patent ID: 8377025
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An absorbent article, comprising: a chassis having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, a skin-facing side for facing a wearer's skin and a garment-facing side for facing the wearer's garment, a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region being contiguous one to another in said longitudinal direction, a liquid-absorbent structure provided at least in said crotch region, and a separator sheet provided on said skin-facing side of said chassis and adapted to be spaced from said chassis in said crotch region, wherein said front and rear waist regions of said chassis cooperate to form a waist-opening and said crotch region forms a pair of leg-openings, said separator sheet comprises said separator sheet further has ends opposed to each other in said longitudinal direction and extending in said transverse direction, wherein said ends are permanently bonded to said skin-facing side of said chassis, a void space is formed between said separator sheet and said crotch region when said liquid-absorbent structure bows about said crotch region toward said front and rear waist regions in use, said front and rear through-holes are defined by said lateral zones and said middle zone and adapted for passage of body waste into said void space, said chassis includes leg elastic members attached to respective peripheral edges of said leg-openings, said leg elastic members comprising a front leg elastic member laid on the side of said front waist region and a rear leg elastic member laid on the side of said rear waist region, at least said rear leg elastic member includes a rear transverse segment which is placed toward the front waist region and beyond a transverse center line bisecting a dimension of the chassis in the longitudinal direction, said liquid-absorbent structure comprises said folding guide is formed between said rear transverse segment of said rear leg elastic member and said rear waist region.