ABSORBENT ARTICLE

• Main Authors: GARDARSSON, Thor Egill, LAKSO, Elisabeth
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.10.2022
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

The present invention relates to an absorbent article comprising a front panel, a rear panel, an intermediate panel joining the front and the rear panels and optionally one or more fitting components for adapting the fit of the article to the body of a user each having an inner surface facing a wearer's skin and an outer surface facing the wearer's garment. At least one of the panels and/or the fitting components is elastically contractible and comprises an elastic nonwoven material. The elastic nonwoven material in the absorbent article is pre-stretched and comprises a non-elastic polymeric material component and an elastic polymeric material component comprised in the form of fibers. The nonwoven material is bonded by means of individual bonding points arranged in a pattern, wherein the pattern comprises rows of individual bonding points extending in a machine-direction and a cross-direction of the nonwoven material, wherein each of the individual bonding points has a centre point and the centre point of each bonding point in a row of bonding points extending in the cross-direction and/or machine-direction is offset from a centre point of each bonding point in a neighbouring row of bonding points extending in the cross-direction and/or in the machine-direction, respectively, and wherein the individual bonding points have a rounded shape. Figure 6