Patent ID: 7276054

Claim:
A disposable wearing article, comprising: a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending between said waist regions, each of said regions having an upper surface adapted to face a wearer's body and an lower surface adapted to face away from said wearer's body; and a tubular protrusion extending upwardly from the upper surface of said crotch region, and being sized and positioned in a transversely middle zone of said crotch region for surrounding at least one of an anus and a urethral orifice of the wearer; wherein said protrusion comprises a flexible and elastic foamed plastic material; said protrusion defines an opening adapted to come into contact with the wearer's body, said opening being enlarged upon compression of said protrusion in a height direction of said protrusion; said protrusion comprises a front end segment adjacent said front waist region, a rear end segment adjacent said rear waist region and transversely opposite lateral segments connecting and extending between said front and rear end segments; and a height of said protrusion gradually increases toward at least one of said front and rear end segments and is maximal at an apex on a longitudinal center line of said wearing article.