Patent ID: 7959619

Claim:
A disposable hygiene pants having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, the hygiene pants comprising in the longitudinal direction, a front portion, an intermediate crotch portion provided with two leg cut outs, and a rear portion, the outer longitudinal edge portions of the front portion being connected by longitudinal weld seams to the outer longitudinal edge portions of the rear portion thereby forming a waist opening that is delimited by the outer transverse edge portions of the front portion and of the rear portion, and forming two leg openings that are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by inner end portions of the weld seams, wherein the hygiene pants further comprise an outer cover comprising an elastic laminate comprising an elastic film applied between two nonwoven layers and the hygiene pants further comprise an absorption unit that extends in the longitudinal direction across at least part of the crotch portion, wherein said weld seams each comprise at least one piece of reinforcing bonded nonwoven material containing thermoplastic fibers wherein the at least one piece of reinforcing bonded nonwoven material is adhesively affixed to said longitudinal edge portions of the front portion or rear portion of the hygiene pants at an adhesive location proximate to the weld seam, wherein the tensile strength of the weld seams, in the transverse direction, exceeds 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said reinforcing bonded nonwoven material and wherein the breaking strength of said cover in the transverse direction exceeds the tensile strength for the reinforced weld seams, and wherein the elastic laminate is activated by stretching, and the reinforcing bonded nonwoven material is attached to the elastic laminate after the activation so that the reinforcing bonded nonwoven material has not been broken open or weakened, or stretched during the activation of the elastic laminate.