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U.S. Patent No. 9,480,610 B2
December 1, 2016
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Ikuo Akiyama, Mima-gun, Japan. Assigned to Livedo Corporation, Ehime, Japan. Filed: 5/8/15 Issued: 11/1/16 An absorbent product for receiving excrement from a wearer, comprising: a liquid-pervious top sheet; a water-repellent or liquid-impervious back sheet; and an absorbent part located between said top sheet and said back sheet, wherein said absorbent part comprises: an upper absorbent layer having a fiber assembly layer in which an opening is formed at a position facing a crotch region of a wearer; an absorbent sheet which is located between said upper absorbent layer and said back sheet and which covers said opening at the lower side of said opening; and a lower absorbent layer having a fiber assembly layer which is located between said absorbent sheet and said back sheet, said lower absorbent layer being positioned under said opening and containing super absorbent materials mixed with said fiber assembly layer, said absorbent sheet comprises: two sheets; and super absorbent materials which are located between said two sheets and which are fixed to at least one of said two sheets, and a low density area lies between said two sheets and spreads continuously from positions under said opening along a longitudinal direction of said absorbent part in the form of lines or mesh, and a density of said super absorbent materials in said low density area is lower than that in the other area of said absorbent sheet or said super absorbent materials do not exist in said low density area.
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