Patent ID: 6402729
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An absorbent article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and having a front portion, a rear portion and an intermediate crotch portion, and moreover having two side edges extending in the longitudinal direction and two end edges extending in the transverse direction, and comprising a liquid-permeable cover layer, a liquid-impermeable cover layer and an absorption body enclosed between the two cover layers, and moreover comprising a barrier layer, with at least one absorption body elastic member being arranged with prestressing anchored to the absorption body, and extending in an arched curve across the absorption body from one of the side edges to another of the side edges of the article, and moreover that the barrier layer is arranged outside the liquid-permeable cover layer, the barrier layer partly covering the liquid-permeable cover layer and being anchored in the liquid-permeable cover layer only within areas of the barrier layer which are situated along the edges of the article, and that at least one barrier layer elastic member is arranged in direct connection with the barrier layer, as a result of which the barrier layer elastic member cooperates with the absorption body elastic member arranged in contact with the absorption body so as to form a constantly basin-shaped space between the barrier layer and the liquid-permeable cover layer.