Patent ID: 8486039

Claim:
A disposable diaper comprising: a chassis having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a side configured to face a wearer's skin and a side configured to face away from a wearer's skin and configurationally comprising a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending between said front and rear waist regions, a waist-opening and a pair of leg-openings, a liquid-absorbent structure provided on said side facing the wearer's skin of said chassis and extending across said crotch region further into said front and rear waist regions, said liquid-absorbent structure containing therein a liquid-absorbent core, and, a plurality of waist elastic members extending under tension in said transverse direction, said waist elastic members comprise first waist elastic members extending in a transverse direction in a vicinity of said waist-opening periphery and second waist elastic members provided between said leg-openings peripheries and said first waist elastic members and extending in said transverse direction across opposite lateral regions so as not to be present in central zones of said front and rear waist regions, and said second waist elastic members in said front waist region extend from each of transversely opposite side edges of said front waist region in said transverse direction beyond transversely opposite side edges of said liquid-absorbent core so as to cross said opposite side edges of said liquid-absorbent core without extending across said central zone of said front waist region while said second waist elastic members in said rear waist region extend from each of said transversely opposite side edges of said rear waist region in said transverse direction and terminate short of said side edges of said liquid-absorbent core.