Patent ID: 7198836

Claim:
An absorbent article having a stroking direction, a body facing surface, and an opposite clothing facing surface, the article comprising: a topsheet on the body facing surface; a backsheet on the clothing facing surface; and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet; wherein the topsheet is a three-dimensional vacuum formed film having a plurality of apertures extending from the body facing surface towards the absorbent core, the apertures defining stroking direction lands aligned with the stroking direction and transverse lands on the body facing surface aligned transverse to the stroking direction, the stroking direction lands being raised from the transverse lands by a distance of about 15 μm to about 145 μm, wherein the stroking direction lands include a microtexture on the body facing surface, wherein the microtexture is a plurality of microridges having a center to center spacing of about 50 μm to about 150 μm and a height of about 5 μm to about 75 μm and having a length and width, and the length is greater than the width.