KueYoung You, Yongin-Si, Korea; Sarah A O’Brien, Neenah, WI; MinJae Lee, Yongin-Si, Korea; Seul Lee, Seongnam-si, Korea; Jiyoung Haley Jung, Seongnam-si, Korea; DaeGun Kim, Yongin-si, Korea; and Catherine M. Hancock-Cooke, Neenah, WI.
Assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI

Filed: 12/31/14
Issued: 9/14/21

A three-piece absorbent article for encircling a users lower abdominal region, said three-piece absorbent article having a longitudinal direction, a central longitudinal direction, a transverse direction ending in opposing lateral-most side edges, and a depth direction, said three-piece absorbent article including an absorbent article front surface and an absorbent article back surface, two leg openings having opening edges, and a waist opening defined by a waist edge with a minimum transverse direction width when said absorbent article is in a relaxed and flattened state, said three-piece absorbent article comprising:

an absorbent core insert including a liquid permeable topsheet layer, a liquid impermeable backsheet layer, and at least one absorbent core layer sandwiched between said liquid permeable topsheet layer and said liquid impermeable backsheet layer; said absorbent core insert including two opposing longitudinal direction ends and opposing lateral direction side edges extending between said opposing longitudinal direction ends, said absorbent core insert forming the crotch portion of said absorbent article; asymmetrically shaped front and back panels which together form said waist edge of said absorbent article waist opening, said front panel having a front panel upper edge, a front panel lower edge, a first front panel side edge and a second front panel side edge, the first front panel side edge and the second front panel side edge extending between the front panel upper edge and the front panel lower edge, said front panel being elastic along said absorbent article transverse direction, said back panel having a back panel upper edge, a back panel lower edge, a first back panel side edge and a second back panel side edge, the first back panel side edge and the second back panel side edge extending between the back panel upper edge and the back panel lower edge, and said back panel being at least extensible along said absorbent article transverse direction; said front and back panels being respectively bonded to opposing longitudinal direction ends of said absorbent core insert, and further bonded to each other along a first bond seam formed by bonding the first front panel side edge to the first back panel side edge and a second bond seam formed by bonding the second front panel side edge to the second back panel side edge, wherein each of the first bond seam and the second bond seam are bond seams situated inwardly from said absorbent article opposing lateral-most side edges and along said absorbent article front surface; such that the distance between a bond seam and the closest lateral-most side edge being between about 2.5% and 25% of the minimum transverse direction width of the waist edge of said absorbent article.