Patent ID: 7335810

Claim:
An absorbent article comprising: a liquid-permeable topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent storage layer between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a cushion layer between the topsheet and the absorbent storage layer, wherein the absorbent storage layer is compressed forming a compressed groove surrounding a raised region, the raised region is elongated in a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, the cushion layer is confined within a rear region of the raised region, and the topsheet is corrugated within the rear region to have hills and valleys extending in the longitudinal direction and alternating with each other in a transverse direction of the absorbent article, when a tensile force of 490 mN per 25 mm width is applied to the topsheet in a transverse direction crossing the cushion layer, an extension is at least 30%, and when the absorbent article is pressed from above in the rear region having the cushion layer with a pressure varying from 49 Pa to 4,900 Pa, an initial thickness T 0 of the pressed region of the absorbent article for a pressure of 49 Pa is at least 10 mm, a compressive hardness (LC value) is 0.5 to 0.65, and a compressive recovery (RC value) is at least 35%.