Prelo M. Hood, Philadelphia, PA; Paul Coomes, Philadelphia, PA; Mariela Biber, Newark, DE; and Peter Kacenak, Hôrka, Slovakia.
Assigned to Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Filed: 10/20/15
Issued: 3/29/22

An absorbent article having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a thickness direction, and comprising a fluid permeable topsheet, a fluid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core enclosed between the topsheet and the backsheet having, in the longitudinal direction, a front section, a rear section and a crotch section between the front section and the rear section, wherein the absorbent core has two longitudinally extending side regions and a longitudinally extending central region between said side regions, the central region and the side regions being spaced apart in the transversal direction by longitudinally extending channel regions, wherein the width of the central region in the transversal direction is less than the width of each of the side regions in the transversal direction, at least in the front section and the rear section, wherein the channel regions are of less basis weight than the side regions and the central region, wherein the channel regions and the side regions are of substantially the same thickness, and wherein the ratio between the basis weight of the channel regions and the basis weight of the side regions and the central region of the absorbent core is between 1:3 and 2:3.