Patent ID: 8016806

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 at side seam areas on both sides during production 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 permanently attached to and extending in a longitudinal direction between said belly section and said back section, said crotch section, said belly section, and said back section defining leg openings of the incontinence article, wherein said belly section and said back section have an edge contour which extends towards a transverse center axis of said crotch section and which differs from a transverse or peripheral hip direction for defining said leg openings, said crotch section further comprising a liquid-impermeable back sheet material, a top sheet material of non-woven material, and an absorbent body disposed between said top sheet and said back sheet, said back sheet material and/or said top sheet material projecting past said absorbent body in said transverse direction, wherein a maximum width of said crotch section in said transverse direction is at least 200 mm and a projection of said back sheet material and/or said top sheet material past a left-hand plus a right-hand side of said absorbent body in said transverse direction is at least 25% of a maximum width of said crotch section, wherein a surface portion of said crotch section is 25 to 55% of an overall surface 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; 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 elasticize said belly section and said back section; and second elastification means disposed in an area of said belly section and said back section on a crotch side facing said leg openings, said second elastification means extending from said two side seam areas towards a longitudinal center axis of the incontinence article in a curved shape, thereby fanning out with increasing separation from each other.