Patent ID: 7855314

Claim:
An absorbent article comprising a body fluid permeable top sheet, a body fluid impermeable sheet, an absorber provided between the body fluid permeable top sheet and the body fluid impermeable sheet, and an exterior sheet of a nonwoven fabric provided on a back surface side of the body fluid impermeable sheet, wherein the absorber includes an absorbent core having a fiber aggregate formed by opening a tow and super absorbent polymer particle held in the fiber aggregate, and a covering sheet covering at least a backside and sides of the absorbent core; the absorbent core has a thickness of 1-5 mm; the fiber aggregate is made of crimped fibers having a fineness of 1 to 16 deniers and a degree of crimp of 15 to 50 pieces per one inch and has a fiber density of 0.0075 g/cm 3 or less, a compression energy WC based on KES test of 4.0 to 7.0 gf·cm/cm 2 and a compression resilience RX based on KES test of 45 to 60%; a particle diameter of the super absorbent polymer particle is 20-850 μm; the covering sheet is 8 to 20 g/m 2 in basis weight; a basis weight of the super absorbent polymer particle in the absorbent core is 400 g/m 2 or less, and a weight ratio of super absorbent polymer particle/filament in a plane area of 5 cm×5 cm in a region directly receiving body fluid in the absorbent core is 3 to 9; a holding sheet is provided between the absorbent core and the covering sheet on the back surface side of the absorbent core, the holding sheet being composed of non-woven cloth which has a compression energy WC based on KES test of 0.01 to 10.00 gf·cm/cm 2 and a compression resilience RC based on KES test of 10 to 100%, and the holding sheet being applied with hot melt adhesives so that the super absorbent polymer particle is held on the holding sheet via the hot melt adhesives with super absorbent polymer particle slipped out of the fiber aggregate being prevented from moving; and the holding sheet is a non-woven fabric having a rough, face or a carded face on an upper surface thereof.