Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Absorbent article
An absorbent article includes a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable antileakage sheet, a liquid-retentive absorbent core, having a substantially elongate shape, and having upstanding guards formed on longitudinal left and right opposing side portions of the absorbent article, the upstanding guards are provided with a plurality of upstanding guard elastic members so as to form a gather over the entire region in the widthwise direction of the upstanding guard, the upstanding guard is sectioned into a free end region, a central region and a basal end region so as to trisect it in its widthwise direction, and the stress of the free end region is larger than that of the other regions.
Kao Corporation
A A A
A61F A61F A61F
inventional inventional inventional
Yasuyuki Hidekazu Takao Hisanori
Okuda Ito Koyama Watanabe