An absorbent article includes a front waist portion, a back waist portion and a crotch portion between the front waist portion and the back waist portion. A one-side end portion of the back waist portion on a one side in a lateral direction is joined to a one-side end portion of the front waist portion on the one side in the lateral direction. The back waist portion includes a fastening portion on another side in the lateral direction. The back waist portion includes an elastic region in at least an upper end portion. A lateral distance between a one-side end of the elastic region on the one-side and the center of the crotch portion is smaller than a lateral distance between an other-side end of the elastic region on the other side and the center of the crotch portion.

An absorbent article includes a chassis and an absorbent assembly. The absorbent assembly is formed separately from the chassis, and attached to the chassis by an attachment area. The attachment area includes a front attachment zone, a rear attachment zone, and a central attachment zone extending between the front and rear attachment zones. The front and rear attachment zones have a first width and a second width, respectively, and the central attachment zone has a third width less than the first and second widths.

A disposable absorbent article that includes a frangible bonding agent for maintaining the absorbent article in a predetermined configuration. The frangible bonding agent may be disposed on a fastening system in order to maintain one or more portions of the fastening system in a particular position during manufacturing but still provide an easy-to-open fastener when used by a consumer.

Absorbent articles of the disclosure may comprise first and second belt webs, a folded fastening tab member comprising first and second fastening elements, first and second landing zones, and laterally opposing permanent side seams directly or refastenably joining the first and second belt webs. The fastening tab member may be joined to the first and second fastening elements. And, the absorbent article may be packaged in refastenably closed form.

Disposable absorbent articles assembled from a collection of components using an adhesive comprising an amorphous polyolefin composition and a heterophase polyolefin composition comprising amorphous character and crystalline blocks.

Various fastening tape closure assemblies are described. The closure tapes are useful in the manufacture of disposable articles, and particularly disposable diapers. The closure tapes generally include a fastening component, an extension component, and a bonding component. The tape systems provide a new folding configuration and reduced adhesive along a face of the extension component. Also described are disposable articles utilizing the tape closure assemblies.

An absorbent article is provided. The absorbent article includes a nonwoven, liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The topsheet includes a layer of fibers and has a plurality of apertures defined in the layer of fibers. At least some of the apertures have a side wall having a portion disposed an angle in the range of about 55 degrees to about 90 degrees, in the range of about 60 degrees to about 80 degrees, or in the range of about 63 degrees to about 75 degrees, according to the 2D X-Ray CT Scan Test herein.

Absorbent articles designed and configured to leverage a greater amount of plant-derived materials and/or to minimize the inclusion of unwanted materials towards providing a more pure end product to consumers desiring the same are described. The absorbent articles may include plant-based materials in both a wearer-facing layer and the opposing garment-facing layer.

In one embodiment, taped and pant articles of the present disclosure may comprise first and second chassis that are at least substantially identical.

An incontinence product for a baby or a child or an adult. The product comprises a disposable pad that is shaped to fit around a crotch region of a person wearing the product. The product also comprises a reusable out pull-on pant having hook fasteners on the inside body of the pant to engage an outer cover stock of the disposable pad and thereby retain the pad in an operative position.