Personal wear absorbent article with tab

摘要

PERSONAL WEAR ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH TAB An absorbent article (20) for personal wear about a wearer's waist, the article (20) comprising: a central absorbent assembly (32) comprising a liquid permeable inner layer (42) for facing the wearer, an outer layer (40) for facing away from the wearer, an absorbent body (44) disposed therebetween, a front waist region (22), a back waist region (24) and a crotch region (26) extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions (22, 24); a pair of transversely spaced panels (134) extending transversely outward from the back waist region (24) of the central absorbent assembly (32) , the panels (134) being attachable to the front waist region (22) of the central absorbent assembly (32) to define a wear configuration of the absorbent article (20) having a waist opening (50) and a pair of leg openings (52) spaced from the waist opening (50); and a pair of tabs (202), each tab (202) having an attachment region (204) attached to one of the panels (134) and a tab region (206) extending transversely outward from the attachment region (204), each of the panels (134) being directly attached to the front waist region (22) of the central absorbent assembly (32) in the wear configuration of the absorbent article (20) by engagement of fastener components (82) mounted on the front waist region (22) of the central absorbent assembly (32) with the attachment region (204) of the tabs (202), the tab region (206) of each of the tabs (202) being directly attached to the front waist region (22) of the central absorbent assembly (34) in the wear configuration of the absorbent article (20) by fastener components (82) mounted on the respective tab (202).