Patent ID: 7300427

Claim:
A disposable wearing article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction orthogonal to each other, said article comprising: a front waist region; a rear waist region; a crotch region; each of said regions having a pair of side edges opposed to each other in said transverse direction, and opposite inner and outer surfaces, the inner surface being adapted to face a wearer's skin in use and the outer surface being adapted to face away from the wearer's skin in use; and connector sheet strips attached to one of said front and rear waist regions in a vicinity of the associated side edges; each of said connector sheet strips respectively comprising: a proximal section fixed to the inner surface of said one waist region in the vicinity of one of said associated side edges; a flap section moveable between a first position where said flap section extends in the transverse direction inward from said proximal section and a second position where said flap section extends in the transverse direction outward from said proximal section, said flap section having a surface that is opposed to said inner surface of said one waist region when the flap section is in the first position; a fastening element provided on said surface of said flap section and releasably engageable with the outer surface of the other waist region; and a folding guide between said flap section and said proximal section, said folding guide extending along said proximal section to facilitate unfolding of said flap section from the first position to the second position; wherein said folding guide is spaced in the transverse direction from bonding sites where the proximal section is bonded to the respective side edge of said one waist region.