MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617090390 A) filed by Unicharm Corporation on July 24, 2026, for Underwear-Type Sanitary Pad.

Inventors include Shi, Yi; Takahashi, Yuji; and Cai, Wenrui.

The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.

Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide an underwear-type sanitary pad that has excellent absorbency of menstrual blood and is not prone to leakage of menstrual blood. The present invention is an underwear-type sanitary pad (1) provided with: an absorbent main body (3) that has a longitudinal direction (L) and a width direction (W); and an outer body (5). The underwear-type sanitary pad is characterized in that: the absorbent main body (3) is provided with a top sheet (21), an absorbing core (27a), and a liquid-impermeable sheet (29); the absorbent main body (3), in the top sheet (21), has an oily constituent disposition region (41) where an oily constituent is disposed; the underwear-type sanitary pad (1) is provided with an elastic member disposition region (33) which is disposed outside the absorbing core (27a) and in which an elastic member (31) is arranged in the longitudinal direction (L) from an abdominal-side region (7) to a back-side region (9); and in an unfolded state, the oily constituent disposition region (41) and the elastic member disposition region (33) overlap in a thickness direction (T).

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