Patent ID: 7654993

Claim:
A disposable absorbent article, the disposable absorbent article comprising: a first waist region; a second waist region; and a pair of outermost longitudinal edges connecting the first waist region and the second waist region; a pair of elongate outer elastic portions respectively disposed inwardly of said outermost longitudinal edges in the x-direction; and a pair of elongate inner elastic laminate portions respectively disposed inwardly of said outer elastic portions in the x-direction, at least one of the inner elastic laminate portions being an elastic material attached to a supporting sheet, being elastically stretchable in a first direction and having an absolute contracted length L c , a fully stretched absolute length L s , and a maximum elongation ε of at least 0.6, said at least one of said inner elastic laminate portions also including a first zone having a first zone absolute contracted length, L czone1 , a first zone fully stretched absolute length L szone1 and a maximum first zone elongation ε zone1 , and a second zone having a second zone absolute contracted length L czone2 , a second zone fully stretched absolute length L szone2 and a second zone maximum elongation ε zone2 , wherein ε zone1 is less than or equal to about 50% of ε, ε zone2 is greater than ε, and L czone1 and L czone2 are each at least about 2 cm.