Patent ID: 6921392

Claim:
An absorbent product such as a sanitary towel, incontinence protection or protection for briefs, which product ( 1 ; 18 ) has an elongate shape with a longitudinal direction ( 8 ) and a transverse direction ( 9 ), an upper side ( 10 ) and a lower side ( 11 ), and has a first end portion ( 6 ) intended to face forwards on the wearer and a second end portion ( 7 ) intended to face backwards on the wearer, and wherein the first end portion ( 6 ) has greater width than the second end portion ( 7 ) and the width of the second end portion ( 7 ) of the product is 40 mm maximum, wherein the long sides ( 2 , 3 ) of this end portion ( 7 ) are essentially arcuate and curved inwards towards the longitudinal centre line ( 8 ) of the product; the curvature of said long sides ( 2 , 3 ) changes from concave to convex at a second point (Q) or with unchanged curvature direction intersects said end edge ( 5 ), and the angle (v) between an end line (X), which runs in the transverse direction of the product and tangent to the edge ( 5 ) of its second end portion ( 7 ), and a side line (N), drawn between a first point (P), which forms the intersection between one long side ( 2 ) of the product and a straight line (B) running in the transverse direction of the product at a distance of 80 mm from said end line (X), and said second point (Q) lies between 95° and 110°.