Patent ID: 7189220

Claim:
A disposable absorbent diaper, comprising: in a longitudinal direction, front and rear waist regions and a crotch region extending between said front and rear waist regions; and a pair of tape fasteners used to connect said front and rear waist regions with each other, said tape fasteners being attached to a pair of side flaps in said rear waist region, respectively, and respectively having fixed portions permanently attached to the side flaps in said rear waist region and free portions extending outward from said fixed portions in a transverse direction and adapted to be releasably anchored on an outer side of said front waist region by means of fastening means formed on inner surfaces of said free portions; each of said tape fasteners comprising; a first fibrous nonwoven fabric made of a plurality of thermoplastic synthetic resin fibers entangled one with another, and a first thermoplastic synthetic resin coating on a generally whole area of an outer surface of said first fibrous nonwoven fabric so as to form a substantially smooth first synthetic resin layer on an outer surface of said tape fastener, wherein the synthetic resin fibers which form the first fibrous nonwoven fabric and the first snthetic resin layer comprise at least one of the following materials selected from a group consisting of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamide, polyester, polyvinyl chloride, and polystyrene-based synthetic resins; and a second fibrous nonwoven fabric, and a second synthetic resin layer coating on an outer surface of said second fibrous nonwoven fabric and positioned in an underlying relationship with an adhesive that bonds said first fibrous nonwoven fabric to said second fibrous nonwoven fabric.