Patent ID: 6916969

Claim:
A material laminate for use as a covering sheet for an absorbent article with a length direction, a width direction and a thickness direction and exhibiting a central axis extending in the length direction and two opposing side edges extending in the length direction and comprising, in the thickness direction, a first fluid pervious material layer and a second fluid pervious porous material layer wherein at least one of the material layers comprises a thermoplastic material and wherein the two material layers are mutually connected by bond sites in the material laminate, within which bond sites the thermoplastic material has been caused to at least partially soften or melt and thereby bond the two material layers together, and wherein the material laminate includes two side portions extending in the length direction and each extending a distance in the width direction from a respective one of the side edges towards the longitudinal central axis of the material laminate and a central portion positioned between the side portions in the width extension of the material laminate wherein the first material layer and the second material layer in the central portion of the material laminate are intermittently bonded together in a first bond pattern and the first material layer and the second material layer in the two side portions of the material laminate are intermittently bonded together in a second bond pattern wherein the first fluid pervious material layer is a fibrous layer arranged so that an outside surface of the material laminate is fibrous and the percentage of bonded area in relation to the total area in the two side portions is greater than the percentage of bonded area in relation to the total area of the central portion; wherein the proportion of bonded area in relation to the total area in the central portion is at least 0.5% less than the proportion of bonded area in relation to the total area in the side portions.