Patent ID: 9107779
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A bodily fluid absorbent article, comprising: a bodily fluid absorbent core having a predetermined thickness and including therein liquid-absorbent fibers and superabsorbent polymer particles; a liquid-pervious sheet covering a skin-facing surface of the core; a liquid-impervious sheet covering a non-skin-facing surface of the core; and elastic members secured under tension to the liquid-impervious sheet, wherein the non-skin-facing surface is opposite to the skin-facing surface, the core has one or more elongated depressions sinking from the skin-facing surface toward the non-skin-facing surface, the core comprises said one or more elongated depressions are through-holes extending from the skin-facing surface to the non-skin-facing surface, the core has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction being orthogonal to each other, the core includes the one or more elongated depressions in a middle of the core as viewed in the transverse direction, and the elastic members extend across the one or more elongated depressions in the longitudinal direction.