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U.S. Patent No. 10,085,899
December 7, 2018
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Daisuke Komatsubara, Kanonji, Japan. Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan. Filed: 11/21/13 Issued: 10/2/18 A disposable diaper for pets, said disposable diaper comprising: a back-side waist area, an abdomen-side waist area, and a crotch area between the back-side waist area and the abdomen-side waist area, a diaper longitudinal direction in which the back-side waist area, the crotch area and the abdomen-side waist area contiguously extend when the disposable diaper is not worn on a pet, and a diaper transverse direction crossing the diaper longitudinal direction, a back-side waist area end and an abdomen-side waist area end opposing each other in the diaper longitudinal direction, two transverse ends opposing each other in the diaper transverse direction, a back-side flap formed in the back-side waist area, an abdomen-side flap formed in the abdomen-side waist area, a tail insertion opening formed in a prescribed region in the diaper longitudinal direction, an absorbent core formed on one side of the tail insertion opening in the diaper longitudinal direction and extending over the crotch area and the abdomen-side waist area, a fastening part having a prescribed length and provided in the abdomen-side flap, and a fastening region provided in the back-side waist area and configured to receive the fastening part, wherein at least one of the back-side flap and the abdomen-side flap has an identification region; when the disposable diaper is worn on the pet, the crotch area and the abdomen-side waist area are adapted to cover a crotch and an abdomen of the pet, respectively, the back-side waist area is adapted to be fitted to a back of the pet, and the fastening part is fastened to the fastening region, the weight of the absorbent core after excretion is received in a fastening part longitudinal direction of the fastening part, and the identification region is configured to cause an abnormality of the back-side flap to be visually identifiable based on visual information of the identification region from outside the disposable diaper, and a width of the back-side flap in the diaper transverse direction is increased and decreased to form an arc curved shape of the back-side flap, and then further increased to form the identification region in the back-side flap.
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