Patent ID: 6791005
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An absorbent article intended to be carried in the crotch part of the wearer within the wearer's underclothes, said article having an essentially elongated shape and including two long sides (14), two short sides (15), two end-portions (11, 13), a centre part (12) located between said end-portions, a liquid-permeable casing sheet (2) which is intended to lie proximal to the wearer's body in use, a liquid-impermeable casing sheet (3) which is intended to lie distal from the wearer's body in use, and further includes between said sheets (2; 3) and as seen in a direction away from the liquid-permeable casing sheet (2) towards the liquid-impermeable casing sheet (3), a drainage layer (50) and a hump-forming element (70) which forms a hump (80) on that side of the article which is intended to lie proximal to the wearer's body in use, characterised by an absorption layer (60) disposed between the drainage layer (50) and the hump-forming element (70), said absorption layer (60) having smaller capillaries than the drainage layer (50) and the hump-forming element (70).