Patent ID: 7654992
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An interlabial pad comprising: an oblong and liquid-permeable top sheet which faces toward a wearer's body side, having a center line as a folding axis in a longitudinal direction of the interlabial pad, the top sheet has a sufficient tensile capability along the center line extending in the longitudinal direction to prevent deformation of the interlabial pad; an oblong and liquid-impermeable backing sheet which faces away from the wearer's body side, of which the perimeter is bonded to the perimeter of said top sheet; an absorber provided between said top sheet and said baiting sheet; and a highly-compressed rigid region in said absorber is provided at a central region in said center line and in a width direction of the interlabial pad, and occupies substantially an entire upper half close to said top sheet in of the interlabial pad and has a size of 5 mm to 45 mm along the longitudinal direction of the interlabial pad, wherein, in a state that the interlabial pad is folded into two with said center line as a folding axis, said highly-compressed rigid region has a size of 1 mm to 8 mm formed from the center line in a direction towards the periphery of the interlabial pad and the highly-compressed rigid region has a greater thickness than that of other regions in said absorber and has higher resistance to being compressed than that of other regions in said absorber, thereby providing a protrusion corresponding to the thickness of said highly-compressed rigid region.