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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
Applicant:
Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29B 17/02 (2006.01); B09B 3/00 (2006.01); B32B 43/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29B 17/02 (2013.01); B09B 3/0008 (2013.01); B32B 43/006 (2013.01); B29B 2017/0293 (2013.01); Y10T 156/1111 (2015.01); Y10T 156/1116 (2015.01); Y10T 156/1147 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method of recovering structural members from a used absorbent article comprising a front sheet, a back sheet and an absorbent body between the front sheet and the back sheet, wherein at least one of the front sheet and the back sheet includes a film, and wherein the absorbent body includes an absorbent body material, may include swelling the used absorbent article with water, applying a physical shock to and disintegrating the swelled used absorbent article into at least the film and the absorbent body material, and separating the film and the absorbent body material.