Patent ID: 9056029
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A disposable pull-on wearing article comprising: a pant-shaped chassis including a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region each having an inner side facing a wearer's skin; and an absorbent panel extending across the crotch region into the front waist region and the rear waist region and joined to the inner side of the chassis, wherein the chassis is formed with a waist-opening and a pair of leg-openings, wherein: the chassis includes a front portion including the front waist region and a part of the crotch region and a rear portion including the rear waist region and a part of the crotch region; the front portion is provided with a plurality of front waist elastics extending in a width direction of the front waist region and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction of the front waist region; at least one front lowest elastic lying at a bottom of the front waist elastics is disposed in a stretched state along front peripheral edge portion of the pair of leg-openings and, in a front portion of the crotch region defined between the pair of leg-openings, the at least one front lowest elastic is disposed in a more relaxed state than along the front peripheral edge portions; the rear portion is provided with a plurality of rear waist elastics extending in a width direction of the rear waist region and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction of the rear waist region; at least one rear lowest elastic lying at a bottom of the rear waist elastics is disposed in a stretched state along rear peripheral edge portions of the pair of leg-openings and, in a rear portion of the crotch region defined between the pair of leg-openings, the at least one rear lowest elastic is disposed in a more relaxed state than along the rear peripheral edge portions; the absorbent panel includes a front end portion joined to an inner surface of the front waist region, rear end portion joined to an inner surface of the rear waist region and a midsection extending between the front end portion and the rear end portion and not joined to an inner surface of the crotch region, said midsection being freely movable within said chassis; and the absorbent panel is formed on lateral portions in the width direction thereof with containment flaps adapted to be spaced away from the inner surface of the absorbent panel toward a wearer under contraction of elastics extending between the front end portion and the rear end portion.