Patent ID: 7722591

Claim:
Disposable hygiene pants, with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, the disposable hygiene pants comprising: a front portion, a rear portion, and an intermediate crotch portion provided with two leg openings, outer longitudinal edge portions of the front portion are connected by longitudinal weld seams to outer longitudinal edge portions of the rear portion to form a waist opening, the waist opening is delimited by outer transverse edge portions of the front portion and of the rear portion, and the two leg openings in the crotch portion are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by inner end portions of the weld seams as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants, and the hygiene pants have an outer elastic cover and an absorption unit which extends in the longitudinal direction across at least part of the crotch portion, and the cover is made of an elastic laminate comprising an elastic film applied between two nonwoven layers, wherein bonds in at least one of the nonwoven layers are completely or partially broken, said longitudinal weld seams are formed at an elastic portion of the elastic laminate and are each reinforced by at least one nonwoven strip containing thermoplastic fibers and wherein the nonwoven strips have not been stretched and thus retain all of their tensile strength, which nonwoven strip has been applied to said longitudinal edge portions of at least one of the front portion and the rear portion of the hygiene pants at least along said inner end portions, as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants, of the two edge portions and has there been welded together with said longitudinal edge portions of the cover in order to form said weld seams and the tensile strength of the weld seams, in a direction transverse to the weld seam and in said transverse direction, exceeds 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip, and the breaking strength of said cover in the transverse direction exceeds the tensile strength for the reinforced weld seams.