Patent ID: 8444617

Claim:
A pant-type absorbent article comprising an absorbent assembly comprising an absorbent core and a chassis, said chassis comprising a front portion and a back portion, wherein the front and back portions are joined to each other along two opposite longitudinal side edges to define a waist-opening and a pair of leg-openings, substantially all of at least one of the front and back portions formed of an elastic web material that comprises an elastic layer located between first and second fibrous layers such that the elastic web material exhibits at least 30% elasticity in the transverse direction, said article further comprising a waist elastic and a leg elastic, and a crotch portion located between the front portion and the back portion in the longitudinal direction of the article, said front portion having a length (b 1 ) in the longitudinal direction, said back portion having a length (b 3 ) in the longitudinal direction, and said crotch portion having a length (b 2 ) in the longitudinal direction, said absorbent assembly lying at least in said crotch portion and overlapping a certain distance with both the front and back portions, said article having a longitudinal (y) and a transverse direction (x), wherein the absorbent assembly overlaps more than 0% and no more than 20% of the surface area of each of the front and back portions, so that the absorbent assembly overlaps more than 0% and no more than 20% of the surface area of the elastic layer, as measured in an extended state of the article.