Patent ID: 7361802

Claim:
A disposable pull-on wearing article, comprising: a front waist region, a rear waist region, and a crotch region extending in a longitudinal direction of the article to connect the front and rear waist regions; said front and rear waist regions respectively having transversely opposite side margins bonded together so that said front and rear waist regions and crotch region cooperately define a pants-shaped configuration; said front and rear waist regions including a first sheet which is elastically stretchable in a waist-surrounding direction of said article and wherein said first sheet in at least one of said front and rear waist regions is provided on an inner surface thereof with a display element adapted to be visually recognizable from an outside of said article; said display element being formed on a sheet strip bonded to the inner surface of said first sheet by means of a first bonding arrangement; said sheet strip being interposed between said first sheet and a second sheet; said second sheet lying on an inner side of said wearing article behind said sheet strip and being elastically stretchable in said waist-surrounding direction; said first sheet being bonded to said second sheet by means of a second bonding arrangement in bonding zones extending outwardly in said waist-surrounding direction from side edges of said sheet strip towards spots at which said transversely opposite side margins of said front and rear waist regions are bonded together; and said second bonding arrangement comprising a plurality of bonding spots at which said first sheet and said second sheet are directly bonded to each other and which are arranged intermittently in said waist-surrounding direction as well as in the longitudinal direction of said wearing article orthogonal to said waist-surrounding direction; wherein said bonding spots are located immediately adjacent the side edges of said sheet strip.