Patent ID: 7663016

Claim:
A disposable absorbent article, comprising: a liquid permeable top sheet and a liquid impermeable back sheet; and an absorbent mat being disposed between said liquid permeable top sheet and said liquid impermeable back sheet, the absorbent mat including a water absorbent layer that contains water absorbent resin powders but that does not contain pulp fibers therein and a fiber assembly layer that contains the pulp fibers and the water absorbent resin powders dispersed therein, sequentially from a top sheet side, the water absorbent layer including water absorbent resin powder existing regions, in each of which the water absorbent resin powders are wrapped between a first non-woven fabric sheet and a second non-woven fabric sheet, and water absorbent resin powder non-existing regions, in each of which the first non-woven fabric sheet and the second non-woven fabric sheet are bonded to each other to partition the water absorbent resin powder existing region from an adjacent water absorbent resin powder existing region respectively, wherein, the water absorbent resin powder existing regions and the water absorbent resin powder non-existing regions are alternately disposed in a width direction, and rising flaps are respectively provided on both lateral ends of the water absorbent layer, and each of bottom ends of the rising flaps are respectively bonded to the top sheet in a position corresponding to the water absorbent resin powder non-existing regions.