Patent ID: 8052665

Claim:
A pant 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 direction 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, said elastic laminate being arranged in at least a substantial part of the front region of the chassis, which is adapted to be applied over the stomach of the wearer, said elastic laminate is composed of first and second layers of fibrous material and an elastic film layer located between said first and second fibrous layers, wherein the elastic laminate is obtained by: (i) bonding a first layer of fibrous material to the film layer by applying the first layer to the film layer without adhesive while the first layer is in an unstretched state and the film layer is in a tacky state, and (ii) adhesively laminating a second layer of fibrous material to the film layer, wherein said elastic laminate has a softness according to Kawabata of at least 20.