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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Shinobu Takei, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Kazuhiro Tagawa, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Kao Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A shorts type absorbent article comprising a liquid-permeable topsheet , a liquid-impermeable antileakage sheet and a liquid-retentive absorbent core , opposing left and right side edge portions of a stomach-side zone A and opposing left and right side edge portions of a back-side zone B being joined together to thereby form one pair of joined-sections , wherein the joined sections include securely joined sections which are joined by being pressed substantially from both a surface on the side of the stomach-side zone A and a surface on the side of the back-side zone B, moderately joined sections which are joined by being pressed substantially from either the surface on the side of the stomach-side zone A or the surface on the side of the back-side zone B and non-joined sections which are not substantially pressed from either the surface on the side of the stomach-side zone A or the surface on the side of the back-side zone B, the joined sections having three or more stages of thickness in section.