Patent ID: 6159191
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A disposable diaper having inner and outer surfaces, front and rear waist regions, and a crotch region extending between the front and rear waist regions, said disposable diaper comprising:a liquid-permeable topsheet;a liquid-impermeable backsheet;a liquid-absorbent core disposed between the liquid-permeable topsheet and the liquid-impermeable backsheet;a pair of cushion pads coupled to the inner surface of the diaper by a pair of leakage preventing walls that are configured to rise up on the inner surface of the diaper when the diaper is worn, each cushion pad being connected along a lower transversely intermediate portion thereof to a top of a respective one of the pair of leakage preventing walls, each cushion pad having an elastic stretchability along a longitudinal direction of the diaper and an elastic contractility along a thickness direction of the diaper, transversely opposed side edges of each of the pair of cushion pads being spaced apart from each other by a distance of 20 mm to 100 mm; anda pair of rear wings extending outward from transversely opposite side edges of the rear waist region, the pair of rear wings having an elastic stretchability in a transverse direction of the diaper and each comprising first and second elastic wings, that have distal and proximal ends, lying on inner and outer surfaces of the diaper respectively, the distal ends of each pair of the first and second elastic wings being bonded together and the proximal each pair of the first elastic wings being bonded to an adjacent cushion pad, and the proximal end of the each of the second elastic wings being bonded to an outer surface of the rear waist region along an adjacent one of said side edges thereof.