Patent ID: 8864731

Claim:
An individually packaged absorbent article, the absorbent article comprising wing-shaped flaps formed on respective sides of a body having a front end and a back end and including an absorbing body between a permeable front-surface sheet and an impermeable back-surface sheet, the wing-shaped flaps being fixed so as to wrap laterally around a crotch of an undergarment upon attachment, the absorbent article further comprising: body-fixing adhesive layers formed on a surface of the impermeable back-surface sheet side of the body; and wing-fixing adhesive layers formed on surfaces of the impermeable back-surface sheet side of the wing-shaped flaps, wherein in a packaged state, the body-fixing adhesive layers are covered with a body release material, and the fixing adhesive layers formed on the wing-shaped flaps are covered with a wing release material extended in a width direction, the wing-shaped flaps are folded to the permeable front-surface sheet side with the wing release material, a packaging material is fixed at least to the wing release material, the ends of the wing-shaped flaps overlap on the permeable front-surface sheet side, the overlapping ends of the wing-shaped flaps are directly joined to each other with a wing-temporarily-fixing adhesive layer or indirectly joined through the wing release material so as to be peeled off, and the wing release material and the packaging material are fixed by a first fixing region that includes portions around folding lines of the wing-shaped flaps and is formed over forward end positions of the folding lines of the wing-shaped flaps in a longitudinal direction.