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(11) EP 1 839 633 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 A2)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
02.06.2010 Bulletin 2010/22

(43) Date of publication:
03.10.2007 Bulletin 2007/40

(21) Application number: 06025217.8

(22) Date of filing: 03.07.2000
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
A61F 13/20(2006.01)
A61F 13/22(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB NL SE

(30) Priority: 02.07.1999 JP 18919699

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
00305597.7 / 1064901

(71) Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
Shikokuchuo-shi, Ehime 799-0111 (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Wada, Mitsuhiro c/o Technical Center
    Ehime 799-0111 (JP)

(74) Representative: Eke, Philippa Dianne 
Saunders & Dolleymore LLP 9 Rickmansworth Road
Watford Hertfordshire WD18 0JU
Watford Hertfordshire WD18 0JU (GB)

 
Remarks:
This application was filed on 06 - 12 - 2006 as a divisional application to the application mentioned under INID code 62.
 


(54) Sanitary tampon


(57) There is disclosed a sanitary tampon including an absorber including: an absorbent layer made of an absorbent fibrous material; and a hydrophobic liquid-permeable layer covering the absorbent layer. The absorber is formed firstly into a flat shape and then into a column shape. The absorbent layer forming the flat absorber is formed with a plurality of small recesses which open in the surface of the absorbent layer and extend into the absorbent layer.