Patent ID: 6569140
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An absorbent article comprising:a body portion including a liquid permeable front surface sheet for facing the wearer, a back surface sheet, and an absorbent layer sandwiched between the front surface sheet and the back surface sheet; and leakage preventing walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the body portion and arranged at two sides thereof lying opposite one another in a crossward direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the leakage preventing wall including a side wall part having a lower end thereof fixed on the surface of the body portion and rising from the surface of the body portion and a skin contacting part bent from an upper end of the side wall part outwardly of the body portion in the crossward direction substantially parallel to the surface of the body portion, the side wall part being folded at a fold inducing part to have a lower part outwardly slanted to extend from the lower end of the side wall part to the fold inducing part and an upper part inwardly slanted to extend from the fold inducing part to the upper end of the side wall part, the fold inducing part being positioned at a middle between the upper and lower ends of the side wall part to extend in the longitudinal direction of the body portion, wherein both ends in the longitudinal direction of the leakage preventing wall are fixed on the surface of the body portion in such a state that the upper part of the side wall part is superposed on the lower part of the side wall part and the skin contacting part is superposed on the upper part of the side wall part.