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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Unicharm Corporation, Shikokuchuo, JP;
Hirotomo Mukai, Kagawa, JP;
UNICHARM CORPORATION, Ehime, JP;
Abstract
An absorbent article includes an absorbent core, a top sheet provided on a skin-side of a thickness direction of the absorbent core, and a second sheet arranged between the absorbent core and the top sheet in the thickness direction and to be placed in a wearer's inseam. The top sheet has a plurality of protrusions formed along a longitudinal direction and spaced apart in a horizontal direction. The second sheet is smaller than the top sheet in the horizontal direction. The top sheet has an overlapping region overlapping with the second sheet in the thickness direction and both end regions separated by a predetermined distance outward from the overlapping region in the horizontal direction and provided to overlap with the overlapping region in the longitudinal direction. A horizontal pitch of the protrusions in the overlapping region is larger than a horizontal pitch of the protrusions in the two end regions.