Patent ID: 8545474

Claim:
An absorbent article for personal wear about a wearer's waist, the article having a transverse axis and comprising: a liquid permeable inner surface for facing the wearer; an outer surface for facing away from the wearer; an absorbent body disposed therebetween; a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front, and back waist regions; a front side panel attached to the front waist region and a back side panel attached to the back waist region, the front and back side panels being releasably attachable to define a wear configuration of the absorbent article having a waist opening and a leg opening spaced from the waist opening, wherein the front and back side panels each extend from the waist opening to the leg opening; an article fastening component coupled to or integral with one of the front and back side panels and an article fastener landing zone coupled to or integral with the other of the front and back side panels, wherein the article fastening component is fastened to the article fastener landing zone to form a seam when the article is in a wear configuration; and a finger to attached to an other one the front and back side panels that is not coupled with or integral with the article fastening component, the finger tab extending transversely outward from the other one of the front and back side panels, wherein the tab includes a tab fastening component, wherein the one of front or back side panel includes a tab landing zone, wherein the tab fastening component is fastened to the tab landing zone to form a tab connection when the article is in a wear configuration, and wherein the tab connection has lower peel and shear strengths per unit area than the peel and shear strengths per unit area of the seam; wherein the tab landing zone has eel and shear strengths with a given hook material different from the peel and shear strengths of the material of the article fastener landing zone with the same hook material.