Patent ID: 7955311

Claim:
A disposable diaper comprising: a pants member formed from two sheet members that are superimposed on one another, said pants member having an hourglass shape with front and rear waist regions that contain a plurality of elastic members positioned and extending between the two sheet members in a circumferential direction, transversely opposite side edge portions and a crotch region, wherein said transversely opposite side edge portions of said waist regions are overlaid and joined together so as to define a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes; a body fluid absorbent pad lying inside said pants member and extending from said crotch region into said front and rear waist regions; a first elastically stretchable suspender member positioned between the pants member and the body fluid absorbent pad and connecting said pants member to the body fluid absorbent pad, said first suspender member extending in said front waist in a circumferential direction of the diaper between and to opposite side edge portions of the front waist region; and a second elastically stretchable suspender member positioned between the pants member and the body fluid absorbent pad and connecting said pants member to the body fluid absorbent pad, said second suspender member extending in said rear waist in a circumferential direction of the diaper between and to opposite side edge portions of the rear waist region, each of said first and second suspender members formed from two sheet members that are superposed on one another and being joined under extension in said circumferential direction of the diaper to said pants member, said pad having front and rear ends which extend across middle zones of said front and rear waist regions in a circumferential direction of said pants member and transversely opposite side edges which extend between said front and rear ends, said first and second suspender members respectively have lower edges which extend in said circumferential direction of the diaper bordering on said crotch region, upper edges which extend in said circumferential direction of the diaper in vicinity of said waist-hole and transversely opposite side edges which extend in said longitudinal direction between said lower and upper edges said front and rear ends of said pad being joined to said first and second suspender members in middle zones thereof as viewed in said circumferential direction of the diaper, said side edges of said first and second suspender members being joined to said front and rear waist regions along the side edges thereof as viewed in said circumferential direction of the diaper and said upper edges of said first and second suspender members being joined to said front and rear waist regions of said pants member along joining zones arranged intermittently in said circumferential direction of the diaper with at least one of said joining zones being immediately outside points at which the front and rear ends and the transversely side edges of the body fluid absorbent pad intersect each other.