Akihide Ninomiya, Kagawa, Japan; and Masaharu Tomioka, Kagawa, Japan.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.

Filed: 8/21/19
Issued: 6/7/22

An absorbent article comprising: a first sheet; a second sheet; an elastic member that is inserted along a lateral direction between a pair of mutually-opposing facing surfaces of the first sheet; joining portions that join the pair of mutually-opposing facing surfaces and that are spaced apart in the lateral direction, wherein the joining portions are disposed on two sides of the elastic member in a vertical direction, which intersects the lateral direction and a front-rear direction, so that the elastic member is sandwiched and pressed between the joining portions; and side-seal sections that are disposed at each lateral end portion of the absorbent article, wherein a portion of at least one of the joining portions is disposed laterally outward of the side-seal sections in a thickness of the first sheet, the first sheet and the second sheet are overlaid in the front-rear direction and welded in the side-seal section, and a longitudinal direction of at least one of the joining portions that is located between the side-seal section and a side edge in the lateral direction intersects a direction in which the side edge extends.