Patent ID: 7901393

Claim:
A disposable pull-on garment having a waist opening and two leg openings and extending in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, the pull-on garment comprising a transverse centerline an absorbent main body and a ring-like elastic belt, wherein: the absorbent main body comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed therebetween, the absorbent main body has left and right longitudinally extending side edges, front and back transversely extending end edges, longitudinally opposing front and back waist panels, and a crotch panel between the waist panels; the ring-like elastic belt comprises a front belt portion and a back belt portion, each belt portion comprising: a belt layer; a belt elastic material joined to the belt layer; a proximal edge that is parallel to the transverse centerline; a distal edge that is parallel to the transverse centerline; the proximal edge being located closer than the distal edge relative to the crotch panel of the absorbent main body; longitudinally extending left and right side edges connecting the proximal and distal edges; a central panel; and left and right side panels contiguous with the central panel, each side panel having a longitudinal length defined by the respective side edge of the respective belt portion; the central panel of the front belt portion is joined to the front waist panel of the absorbent main body, the central panel of the back belt portion is joined to the back waist panel of the absorbent main body, and the respective left and right side panels of the front belt portion and the back belt portion are each joined together to form a seam at or adjacent to the respective left and right side edges to form the waist opening and the two leg openings; and the longitudinal lengths of each the side panels of the back belt portion are greater than the longitudinal lengths of each of the respective side panels of the front belt portion at the seams; and wherein the waist opening has a waist opening edge and the longitudinal length of the side edge of each of the side panels of the back belt portion is between about 50% and 100% of a distance from the waist opening edge to a longitudinally most distant point of the crotch panel from the waist opening edge when the garment is laid out flat.