<；P>；PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absorbent article, which is highly cushioned and resilient and also has gathers superior in a side leakage preventing effect. <；P>；SOLUTION: A sanitary napkin 1 includes a three-dimensional gather BS protruding toward a surface along a longitudinal direction on both sides of the surface. The three-dimensional gather BS includes a turn-back part 10, 11 on both sides, where mountain fold tip parts 10a, ... are bonded to each other at a bonding part 12, ... on one of the turn-back parts 10 that is alternately and repeatedly folded back thereon so as to be concertinas, and a bonding part 12A of the turn-back part 10 of a nonwoven sheet 7 that is bonded at a bonding part 13, ... of a predetermined length from a valley fold tip part 11b toward the mountain fold tip part 11a on the other turn-back part 11 and its both side surfaces 7A, 7B are each bonded on both sides of the surface of the sanitary napkin 1 so that plural alluvial cells 14, 14, ... whose center is the bonding part 12A of the turn-back part 10 when extended are radially articulated. <；P>；COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
