PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorbent article configured to inhibit a wearer from having a feeling of uneasiness about an occurrence of lateral leakage or the like in the absorbent article including side sheets.SOLUTION: A sanitary napkin 10 including an absorber 30, and a liquid-permeable surface sheet 40 provided on a skin surface side of the absorber 30, includes: a pair of side sheets 50 provided on both outer sides in the width direction W of the surface sheet 40 compression parts 52 that compressingly join inner ends in the width direction W of the respective side sheets 50, to the surface sheet 40 in the skin surface side of the surface sheet 40 at positions overlapped with side areas in the width direction W of the absorber 30 cover sheets 60 that cover the compression parts 52 from the skin surface side and make the compression parts 52 invisible from the skin surface side of the surface sheet 40.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】サイドシートを設けた吸収性部品において、着用者に与える横漏れ等が生じているかのような不安感を抑える。【解決手段】吸収体30と、吸収体30の肌面側に設けられた透液性の表面シート40とを含む生理用ナプキン10は、表面シート40の幅方向Wの両外側に設けられた一対のサイドシート50と、各サイドシート50の幅方向Wの内側端部を、吸収体30の幅方向Wの側域と重なる位置で、表面シート40の肌面側において表面シート40に圧縮して接合する圧縮部52と、圧縮部52を肌面側から覆い、圧縮部52を表面シート40の肌面側から見えにくくするカバーシート60と、を含む。【選択図】図3
