Migaku Suzuki, Chigasaki, Japan; and Yoshio Hirai, Tokyo, Japan.
Assigned to Daio Paper Corporation, Shikokuchuo-Shi, Japan.

Filed: 8/20/12
Issued: 10/10/17

An absorbent article including: a leak preventer in sheet form; an absorber capable of absorbing a bodily fluid, wherein at least one layer thereof is arranged above the leak preventer; and a pair of right and left floating leg gathers, in which the right floating leg gather is disposed on a right side of the absorbent article and the left floating leg gather is disposed on a left side of the absorbent article, the pair of right and left floating leg gathers are arranged, above the absorber, from a front end part to a rear end part in a length direction of a body of the absorbent article via a front body, a crotch part and a rear body; wherein the floating leg gather has a head part and a hanging part that connects to the head part, wherein a front end part and a rear end part of the floating leg gather respectively couple to the vicinity of the front end part and the rear end part of the body of the absorbent article, the hanging part being configured to hang down from the head part toward the absorber, wherein the hanging part is not connected to a surface of the absorber or the hanging part has a part that is not connected to a surface of the absorber and a part that is connected to the surface of the absorber, wherein at least parts of the hanging parts of the pair of right and left floating leg gathers are connected to each other above the absorber in the vicinity of lower end parts thereof such that an inner surface side of each of the hanging parts face each other to form a transferring passage for bodily fluids, and wherein the hanging part is liquid-impermeable.