Patent ID: 9375359
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A pants-type absorbent wearing article having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a front-back direction, comprising: a front panel adapted to cover a front waist region of a wearer and having a dimension in the longitudinal direction extending between inner and outer ends of the front panel; a rear panel adapted to cover a rear waist region of the wearer; and a crotch panel including an absorbent structure and being connected to the front panel and the rear panel so as to cover a crotch region of the wearer, wherein the rear panel is formed with a rear waist covering portion and a buttocks covering portion contiguously extending downward from the rear waist covering portion and adapted to cover at least partially a wearer's buttocks, wherein: the rear waist covering portion has a dimension in the longitudinal direction that extends from the rear outer end of the rear panel to a transverse boundary line between the rear waist covering portion and the buttocks covering portion and the buttocks covering portion has a dimension in the longitudinal direction that extends from the transverse boundary line to the rear inner end of the rear panel; the dimension of the rear waist covering portion in the longitudinal direction is substantially the same as the dimension of the front panel; the absorbent structure includes an absorbent core extending in the longitudinal direction and gasket cuffs extending in the longitudinal direction along lateral portions of the absorbent structure and provided with gasket elastics adapted to be elastically contractible in the longitudinal direction; and the buttocks covering portion is provided with buttock elastics extending in the transverse direction, wherein the rear waist covering portion and the buttocks covering portion of the rear panel overlap with the absorbent core and the gasket cuffs of the absorbent structure, the rear waist covering portion is joined to the absorbent core and the gasket cuffs, the buttocks covering portion is joined to the absorbent core, and the buttocks covering portion is not joined to the gasket cuffs at a region where the buttocks covering portion and the gasket cuffs overlap with each other.