Patent ID: 7717896
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A disposable pull-on wearing article having a vertical direction, a back-and-forth direction and a transverse direction being orthogonal one to another, said article comprising: an annular waist region having a front section and a rear section; a crotch region extending between said front and rear sections of said annular waist region; a waist hole; a pair of leg-holes; a first elastic member extending along a peripheral edge of said waist hole; second elastic members extending along peripheral edges of said leg holes; and a pair of connector sheets connecting transversely opposite lateral zones of said front and rear sections, each of said connector sheets extending in said vertical direction from said waist hole to one of said leg holes and having each of said front and rear sections of said waist region further comprising ear portions which are contiguous to the lateral zones of said section and extend in the transverse direction away from the waist hole; each of said ear portions being located outside said non-joint zone of the respective one of said each pair of said ear portions facing each other having respective inner surfaces releasably, directly and adhesively joined to each other; and said non-joint zone of each of said connector sheets being free of said first and second elastic members.