Patent ID: 8038662

Claim:
An incontinence article in the form of pants for receiving body excrements, the article comprising: a front belly section; a rear back section connected to said front belly section during manufacture of the article at side seam areas on both sides to form a belly and back band which is continuous in a transverse or peripheral hip direction and which defines a hip opening which is closed in said peripheral hip direction; a crotch section having an absorbent body and a liquid impermeable back sheet material, said crotch section extending in a longitudinal direction between said belly section and said back section and being permanently attached during manufacture to said belly section and said back section, wherein said crotch section, said belly section and said back section define leg openings of the incontinence article, wherein said crotch section overlaps at least 12% of a surface of said belly section and at least 20% of a surface of said back section and, at least in transition areas between said crotch section and said belly section and between said crotch section and said back section, said liquid impermeable back sheet material has a reinforcing coating which extends over an entire said crotch section in said transverse direction and terminates in said longitudinal direction at least 30 mm upstream of a longitudinal end of said crotch section on a belly side and at least 90 mm upstream of a longitudinal end of said crotch section on a back side, said reinforcing coating being disposed, structured and dimensioned to strengthen said transition areas, thereby distributing and introducing tensile forces and force peaks into a chassis material to increase a stability and a loading capacity of said transition areas; and first elastification means disposed in said belly section and said back section, said first elastification means extending at a separation from and parallel to each other in said transverse or peripheral hip direction to thereby extensively elasticise said belly section and said back section.