Patent ID: 7833207

Claim:
A pants-type wearing article, comprising: a first waist region corresponding to one of front and rear waist regions; a second waist region corresponding to the other of said front and rear waist regions; fastener members fastening said first and second waist regions together in a detachable and refastenable manner along transversely opposite edges of the waist regions so that, in a state where said first and second waist regions are put flat together, said fastener members respectively have, as viewed in a circumferential direction of the wearing article, a Z-shape and an inverted Z-shape being symmetrical to each other about a center line bisecting a width of said first and second waist regions; wherein each said fastener member includes a supporting element folded in said Z-shape or said inverted Z-shape, and a fastener element attached to said supporting element, wherein said supporting element in the circumferential direction has a top section, a bottom section extending in parallel to the top section, and an intermediate section extending between said top section and said bottom section, wherein said top section has a top section's joint end being contiguous to said intermediate section and a top section's openable end opposed to said joint end, said bottom section has a bottom section's joint end being contiguous to said intermediate section and a bottom section's openable end opposed to said joint end, and said top section is permanently attached to an inner surface of said first waist region while said bottom section is attached to said second waist region by said fastener member in a detachable and refastenable manner; said supporting element further has a liner section extending from a vicinity of said bottom section's openable end along said bottom section and said intermediate section toward said top section's joint end and covering said bottom section and said intermediate section; said liner section is directly bonded to said bottom section and said intermediate section in a first bonding zone extending between said bottom section's openable end and said top section's joint end; said top section is bonded to one of (i) said intermediate section and (ii) said liner section in said intermediate section in a second bonding zone; and in a height direction of said Z-shape and said inverted Z-shape, said first bonding zone and said second bonding zone overlap each other.