Patent ID: 9089458
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An absorbent article for personal wear about a wearer's waist, the article comprising: a central absorbent assembly comprising a liquid permeable inner layer for facing the wearer, an outer layer for facing away from the wearer, an absorbent body disposed therebetween, a front waist region, a back waist region and a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions; a pair of transversely spaced panels extending transversely outward from the back waist region of the central absorbent assembly, the panels being attachable to the front waist region of the central absorbent assembly to define a wear configuration of the absorbent article having a waist opening and a pair of leg openings spaced from the waist opening; and a pair of tabs, each tab having an attachment region attached to one of the panels and a tab region extending transversely outward from the attachment region, each of the panels being attached to the front waist region of the central absorbent assembly in the wear configuration of the absorbent article by direct engagement of fastener components mounted on the front waist region of the central absorbent assembly with the attachment region of the tabs, the tab region of each of the tabs being directly attached to the front waist region of the central absorbent assembly in the wear configuration of the absorbent article by fastener components mounted on the respective tab, the attachment region and the tab fastener components being oriented on a common surface of a respective tab of the pair of tabs.