Patent ID: 7976524

Claim:
An absorbent article comprising: a front sheet; a rear sheet; an absorbent body disposed between the front and rear sheets, the absorbent article having, when worn, a longitudinal direction lying in the front-back direction of a wearer, and a short direction lying in the left-right direction of the wearer; and a pair of masking members disposed between the front sheet and the absorbent body in the vicinity of the two ends of the short direction of the absorbent body, along the longitudinal direction, wherein no masking member is present in the vicinity of longitudinal ends of the absorbent body wherein each of the pair of masking members comprises a stack comprising an upper porous film and a lower porous film, the upper porous film having a plurality of pores and being placed on a side of the absorbent article that is closer to the wearer when worn and the lower porous film having a plurality of pores and being placed on a side of the absorbent article opposite the side of the absorbent article that is closer to the wearer when worn, wherein circumferential ribs are formed on each of the upper and lower porous films that extend from edges of the plurality of pores on one face of each of the upper and lower porous films to another face of each of the upper and lower porous films, wherein the circumferential ribs each have a tapered shape with a diameter that decreases toward an extremity of each rib, and wherein the upper porous film is arranged to put extremities of the upper porous film on a side of the masking member closer to the wearer when worn and the lower porous film is arranged to put extremities of the lower porous film on a side of the masking member closer to the absorbent body.