Patent ID: 7977528

Claim:
A disposable training pant for wearing about a lower torso of a wearer and having a longitudinal axis, two laterally opposed article side edges extending between a laterally extending first waist edge in a first waist region and a laterally extending second waist edge in a longitudinally opposing second waist region, and a crotch region between the waist regions, the disposable training pant comprising: a backsheet; a topsheet attached to the backsheet and having a body-facing surface; an absorbent core disposed intermediate the backsheet and the topsheet; at least one wetness sensation member including a water-permeable body-facing layer covering a portion of the absorbent core and a flow control layer disposed between the water-permeable body-facing layer and the absorbent core in a face-to-face arrangement with the water-permeable body-facing layer and having two laterally opposed flow control layer side edges, at least a portion of each of the two flow control layer side edges being disposed laterally inwardly of the article side edges; and at least one refastenable side seam at which the opposing waist regions are pre-fastened together at or adjacent to one of the article side edges to form a waist opening and a pair of leg openings, the refastenable side seam comprising at least a primary fastening component disposed in one of the waist regions and being capable of being unfastened from and refastened to the opposing waist region, wherein urine deposited by the wearer onto the wetness sensation member can penetrate through the water-permeable body-facing layer in a z-direction away from the wearer to the flow control layer and the flow control layer retards the passage of the urine through the wetness sensation member in the z-direction and supports the movement of the urine in an x-y plane such that the wearer's awareness of urination is enhanced.