Patent ID: 8235961

Claim:
A disposable pants-type diaper comprising: a diaper main body including a front portion, a back portion, and a crotch portion positioned between the front portion and the back portion, and having a waist opening and a pair of leg openings formed by joining the front portion and the back portion; an absorbent core disposed in the crotch portion; a first elastic means disposed along an upper part of an edge of each of the leg openings; a second elastic means disposed in a middle part in a front-back direction of the crotch portion, wherein an entirety of the second elastic means extends linearly in a diaper width direction to near the edge of each of the leg openings; and at least one third elastic means disposed in the middle part in the front-back direction of the crotch portion so as to be adjacent to and substantially parallel to the second elastic means, the third elastic means having side edge portions extending upward along the edge of each of the leg openings such that a non-elastic region is provided along the edge of each of the leg openings between the first elastic means and the third elastic means.