Patent ID: 7521109

Claim:
An absorber comprising: a laminated absorbent member comprised of laminated two or more super-absorbent sheets, a first upper super-absorbent sheet of the super-absorbent sheets has an uppermost surface, each of said super-absorbent sheets containing a super-absorbent polymer capable of absorbing aqueous liquid, and a by-pass channel member which has a channel for moving aqueous liquid, fed to the uppermost surface of said first super-absorbent sheet, from the uppermost surface of the first super-absorbent sheet to another super-absorbentsheet of the super-absorbent sheets; and wherein the by-pass channel member transports a portion of liquid disposed at the uppermost surface of the first super-absorbent sheet to said another super-absorbent sheet so that the portion of the liquid transported by the by-pass channel member to said another super-absorbent sheet is not absorbed by the first super-absorbent sheet, and the first super-absorbent sheet is closer to a skin of a user than the another super-absorbent sheet when the absorber is worn by the user, at least a part of the by-pass channel member is composed of a non-woven sheet member, air gaps inside thereof function as the channel for moving the aqueous liquid; a part of the non-woven sheet member is positioned above the first super-absorbent sheet; and another part of the non-woven sheet member is positioned either above the another super-absorbent sheet or under the laminated absorbent member or both.