Patent ID: 7833209

Claim:
An elongated absorbent article, comprising: an absorbent article body having at least: (a) a top sheet part which is at least partially liquid permeable and arranged on a first side in a thickness direction of the absorbent article body, (b) a liquid impermeable back sheet part arranged on a second side in the thickness direction of the absorbent article body, and (c) a liquid retainable absorber part directly disposed between the top sheet part and the back sheet part; a cover member arranged on the second side in the thickness direction of the absorbent article body, wherein the backsheet part is sandwiched between the cover member and the absorber part; an extensible belt-shaped member disposed between the absorbent article body and the cover member, wherein said belt-shaped member has opposite first and second end portions, the first end portion of the belt-shaped member being connected to the absorbent article body, and the belt-shaped member includes belt-shaped base material sheets and an elastic member disposed between the belt-shaped base material sheets along a direction of elongation of the belt-shaped member; an engaging part arranged at the second end portion of the belt-shaped member and on a surface of the belt-shaped member on which the cover member is disposed; a peelable sheet releasably engageable with and arranged along a surface of the engaging part; and a fixing part fixing the peelable sheet to the cover member, the fixing part being formed so that an end portion thereof in the direction of elongation of the belt-shaped member is arranged at a first position corresponding to an end portion of the engaging part in the direction of elongation, or a second position further away from the end portion of the engaging part in the direction of elongation.