Patent ID: 7749213

Claim:
A disposable diaper, comprising: a diaper main body including a top sheet, a back sheet and an absorbent body disposed between said top sheet and back sheet; a pair of side flaps respectively extending outwardly in a lateral direction of said diaper main body from respective side edge portions of said diaper main body, the side flaps being disposed between said top sheet and back sheet, each of said side flaps comprising an elastic sheet sandwiched between upper and lower non-woven fabric layers; and a pair of fixing tapes each of which has a hook member, and an attaching portion that is directly attached to a surface of one of said side flaps in a vicinity of an outermost lateral edge of said side flap, and wherein each of the fixing tapes is folded along the outermost lateral edge of said side flap with said hook member facing said surface of said side flap and being releasably, temporarily fixed to an engaging region on the surface of said side flap, said fixing tape is provided with a rectangular slit in said attaching portion; and a portion of said surface of said side flap, as the engaging region for temporarily, releasably fixing the surface of said flap to the fixing tape, is exposed through said rectangular slit and is directly mechanically, non-adhesively engaged with said hook member of the fixing tape being folded along the outermost lateral edge of the respective side flap.