Unicharm Corporation

Hiroyuki Harada

Kazuya Nishitani

Masahiro Kashiwagi

Yukihiro Ito

Katsuhiro Uematsu

Akiko Ota

Quing Cao

To provide an absorbent article that can further reduce leakage of body fluid from an end portion in a longitudinal direction. An elongated shaped absorbent article includes: a top sheet that has a skin contacting surface; a back sheet; and an absorbent core that is disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet, in which a compressed groove is formed on the skin contacting surface; the skin contacting surface has an excretory contact region, a front region, and a rear region; the compressed groove has a pair of first central grooves and a first circular groove that is provided in at least any one of the front region and the rear region; and the first circular groove is arranged at a position overlapping a vertical center line.

Absorbent article with compressed grooves

A sanitary napkin including a middle region and lateral regions lying adjacent the middle region, and a transversely middle region of the sanitary napkin being configured to have a rigidity lower than that of the lateral regions.

Sanitary napkin

Growing community of inventors

Kagawa, Japan

Hiroyuki Harada