MUMBAI, India, March 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517134504 A) filed by Unicharm Corporation, Shikokuchuo, Japan, on Dec. 31, 2025, for 'absorbent article storage body and absorbent article.'

Inventor(s) include Kawakami, Yusuke; Wang, Yinhua; Tang, Wenjuan; and Chen, Jiaying.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In an absorbent article storage body according to the present invention, a plurality of absorbent articles are stored as a layered absorbent article group. The absorbent articles have an absorbent core and a skin-side core wrap part adjacent to the skin-side surface of the absorbent core. The skin-side core wrap part is composed of a base material layer and a fiber layer. The fiber layer is provided with 18 gsm or greater of thermoplastic resin fibers. The length of the absorbent article group in a prescribed direction in the absorbent article storage body that is unopened is 70% or less of the length of the absorbent article group in the prescribed direction after the elapse of 96 hours since the absorbent article storage body is opened and the absorbent article group is taken out. Moreover, the absorption speed in an absorption speed test for the absorbent articles after the elapse of 5 minutes since the absorbent article storage body is opened and the absorbent articles are taken out is 85% or greater of the absorption speed in the absorption speed test after the elapse of 96 hours since the absorbent article storage body is opened and the absorbent articles are taken out."

The patent application was internationally filed on Aug. 21, 2024, under International application No.PCT/JP2024/029643.

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