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U.S. Patent No. 10,603,225
May 5, 2020
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Yoshimi Norimoto, Tochigi, Japan. Assigned to Daio Paper Corporation, Ehime, Japan. Filed: 9/25/15 Issued: 3/31/20 An absorbent article comprising: a permeable front sheet, a back sheet, an absorber interposed between the permeable front sheet and the back sheet, and a side nonwoven fabric provided on each of both side portions on the skin side, wherein an internal side portion of the side nonwoven fabric is folded back into double and an elastic stretchable member is disposed inside of the double sheet, and the side nonwoven fabric is partitioned into a fixed zone, a standing zone, and a non-fixed zone continuously disposed in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article without disposing a space therebetween, wherein the fixed zone is a zone in which the elastic stretchable member is not joined in a stretched state to the side nonwoven fabric at both end portions in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article and the contraction force of the elastic stretchable member does not act, and the internal side portion of the side nonwoven fabric is joined to the absorber, wherein the standing zone is a zone in which the elastic stretchable member is joined in a stretched state to the side nonwoven fabric in an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction containing at least a body fluid discharge portion, and the contraction force of the elastic stretchable member makes the internal side portion of the side nonwoven fabric rise on the skin side to form a solid gather, wherein the non-fixed zone is a zone disposed between the fixed zone and the standing zone and in which the elastic stretchable member is not joined in a stretched state to the side nonwoven fabric and the contraction force of the elastic stretchable member does not act, and the internal side portion of the side nonwoven fabric is not joined to the absorber, and wherein a front side end portion of the standing zone is disposed backward of the absorbent article than a folding line (L2) along which a front side portion of the absorbent article is folded when the absorbent article is individually packed.
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