Patent ID: 7087044

Claim:
An absorbent article, comprising: a top sheet pervious to body fluids; a back sheet joined to said top sheet and impervious to the body fluids; an absorbent body interposed between said top sheet and said back sheet; said absorbent body including an intermediate sheet, a first absorbent body group provided on a top sheet side of said intermediate sheet, a second absorbent body group provided on a back sheet side of said intermediate sheet, and a stretchable member attached to said intermediate sheet to shrink said intermediate sheet, said first absorbent body group, and said second absorbent body group in a transverse direction of said article; wherein each of said first and second absorbent body groups has a plurality of strip-shaped absorbent bodies extending in a longitudinal direction of said article, the strip-shaped absorbent bodies in each of said first and second absorbent body groups being disposed at predetermined intervals in said transverse direction and spaced from each other by absorbent-free regions that are free of absorbent materials of said strip-shaped absorbent bodies; and wherein the strip-shaped absorbent bodies of said first absorbent body group are alternated with the strip-shaped absorbent bodies of said second absorbent body group with the strip-shaped absorbent bodies of said second absorbent body group being located corresponding to the absorbent-free regions between the strip-shaped absorbent bodies of said fast absorbent body group.