Patent ID: 7444722

Claim:
An elongated absorbent pad having two ends, two side edges, an absorbent surface for contacting the body of a user and a backsheet with a back surface for contacting the clothing of the user, said back surface having one or more protrusion islands positioned within each end of the pad and one or more protrusion islands centrally positioned inside each of the side edges of the pad for attaching the absorbent pad to the clothing of the user, wherein each protrusion island has a size of from about 5 to about 100 square millimeters and contains a plurality of outwardly extending first protrusions and a plurality of outwardly extending second protrusions, said first and second protrusions within each protrusion island being oriented differently from each other and pointing in opposite directions, said protrusions having a height from about 0.003 centimeters to about 0.9 centimeters and a Flexural Modulus from about 331 MPa to about 2,758 MPa, wherein the first protrusions extend at an angle from about 5 degrees to about 85 degrees relative to the back surface and the second protrusions extend at an angle from about 95 degrees to about 175 degrees relative to the back surface.