Patent ID: 7727213

Claim:
An absorbent article, comprising: a liquid-permeable surface sheet; a liquid-impermeable back sheet; and an absorbent body disposed between the surface sheet and the back sheet, wherein the absorbent body comprises: an absorbent body center portion, and an absorbent body posterior portion continuously formed on a posterior side, in a longitudinal direction of an absorbent body center portion; and an intermediate sheet portion being disposed between the surface sheet and the absorbent body, wherein the intermediate sheet portion comprises: a first intermediate sheet is disposed between the surface sheet and the absorbent body center portion, and a second intermediate sheet disposed between the surface sheet and at least the absorbent body posterior portion, a liquid-transport property of the second intermediate sheet being different from a liquid-transport property of the first intermediate sheet; and a folding part, predetermined to be folded substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, wherein the first intermediate sheet is disposed only on one side of the folding part in the longitudinal direction.