Patent ID: 8728050
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. An absorbent article comprising: a chassis having a front-to-rear direction and a transverse direction, a longitudinal center line bisecting a dimension of said chassis in the transverse direction, a wearer's skin facing side and a wearer's skin non-facing side, a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending between said front and rear waist regions, a liquid-absorbent structure disposed on said crotch region, and a barrier sheet provided in said crotch region on the wearer's skin facing side and being able to be spaced from said chassis; wherein said barrier sheet has said front and rear ends are permanently bonded to the wearer's skin facing side of said chassis and said liquid-absorbent structure is adapted to be bowed in a direction from said crotch region toward said front and rear waist regions and thereby to form a pocket between said barrier sheet and said liquid-absorbent structure, said pair of lateral zones and said middle zone define through-holes so that body waste can pass said through-holes into said pocket, said pair of lateral zones lying outside said middle zones as viewed in said transverse direction includes portions being thermally processed under pressure to form folds along which said barrier sheet is convex toward said chassis, and said folds have a pair of slits in the barrier sheet extending in the transverse direction and each of said slits has a length dimension in the transverse direction substantially corresponding to ½ of a length dimension from said convex segment of said elastic member to a side edge of said barrier sheet.