Patent ID: 7806884

Claim:
A pant type absorbent article, said article having a core region comprising an absorbent core and a chassis region surrounding the core region, said chassis region comprising front, back and waist regions, while the core region is located at least in a crotch portion of the article, a liquid impermeable backsheet is arranged at least in the core region on the garment-facing side of the absorbent core and a liquid permeable topsheet is arranged at least in the core region on the wearer-facing side of the absorbent core, said article having a longitudinal and a transverse direction, wherein said article, at least in part of the chassis region, comprises an outer coversheet in the form of an elastic laminate having a puncture resistance of at least 15N, wherein the laminate is composed of first and second layers of fibrous material and an elastic film layer located between said first and second fibrous layers and in which at least one of the layers of fibrous material has an elongation at maximum load greater than the elasticity of the elastic laminate.