In a disposable wearing article, a back waist region includes a back waist belt and a downward openable pocket facing the back waist belt at the middle. The pocket includes an inner wall facing the belt and an outer wall therebetween. The belt and the inner wall are contiguous at a contiguous lower edge of the belt and the inner wall. The inner and outer walls are contiguous at a contiguous upper edge of the inner and outer walls. The back waist region includes joining areas spaced from each other and joining the belt and the inner wall to each other. The joining areas include inside parts located on inner sides of any of respective imaginary lines extending upward along respective lateral edges of an absorbent and outside parts located on outer sides of the imaginary lines and the lateral edges of the absorbent.

A disposable absorbent article is disclosed that includes a first waist region, a second waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and second waist region, a waist edge in the first waist region, at least one waistband in the first waist region adjacent the waist edge, and at least one fastener in the second waist region, wherein the first waist region has a resiliency of greater than about 5 mJ and a stiffness of less than about 10 N.

Disclosed is a disposable wearing article which can effectively prevent lateral leakage of body exudates by planarly fitting an outer flap positioned laterally outside of an absorbent core included in an absorbent panel on the body of a wearer with the outer flap pulled laterally outside of the article. In the article, the absorbent panel includes the absorbent core extending to front and rear waist regions centering on a crotch region and a pair of outer flaps extending laterally outside of the absorbent core. At least the front waist region of the front and rear waist regions includes a waist elastic area which is elastically contractible in the lateral direction and a pair of elastic strips which is elastically contractible, and the elastic strips each have an outer fixing end fixed on the body facing surface of the chassis.

Elastic laminate, extending widthwise in a first direction, specifically CD, and lengthwise in a second direction, specifically MD, including at least one nonwoven layer and at least one elastic film fixed by an upper face or lower face, respectively, to a lower face or upper face, respectively, of the at least one nonwoven layer; characterized in that, when the laminate is not in the stretched state, the nonwoven layer includes, in transverse cross-section according to the first direction, specifically in the transverse cross-section CD, curved sections in an inverted U, specifically in a , separated from each other by intermediate sections.

An absorbent article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet is presented. The absorbent article includes a first waist region having a first waist edge, a second waist region having a second waist edge, a crotch region extending between the first waist region and the second waist region, and one or more lines of perforations disposed in the first waist region and configured to form an umbilical cord notch when the one or more lines of perforations are torn. The absorbent article further includes a fully removable fastening member configured to join a portion of the first waist region to a portion of the second waist region.

To prevent or suppress the occurrence of tearing of an elastic film between stretchable regions in an elastic sheet stretchable structure. An elastic sheet stretchable structure is provided, in which an elastic film is laminated between a first sheet layer having air permeability and a second sheet layer having air permeability, and the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer are bonded at a large number of sheet bonded portions arranged at intervals. At the boundary between a first stretchable region and a second stretchable region, a separation distance Px in an elastic limit elongation state between a bonded portion located on a side of the boundary of the first stretchable region in a stretchable direction and a bonded portion located on a side of the boundary of the second stretchable region in a stretchable direction is 10 mm or less.

An absorbent article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a fully removable fastening member configured to join a portion of the first waist region to the second waist region. The fastening member includes a first end region comprising a first end, a second end region comprising a second end, a first fastener on a first surface of the fastening member and in the first end region, and a second fastener on the first surface and in the second end region. The fastening member includes a grasp region either partially laterally outboard of the first fastener or laterally outboard of the first fastener in the first end region. The grasp region has a different physical property than a remainder of the fastening member.

A transversely extensible continuous elastic laminates includes a continuous elastic tape sandwiched between two continuous webs, and at least one row of tabs extending transversely outside the two webs, wherein the tabs are made of a non-woven material and have respective micro-hook pads integrally formed in the non-woven material forming the tabs and completely surrounded by a portion of a flat surface of the respective tabs.

Point bonded extrusion laminates (PEL) are provided. The PELs include at least a first nonwoven layer and an elastic film that have been laminated together via a first plurality of discrete bond sites bonding the first nonwoven layer to a first side of the elastic film. The first plurality of discrete bond sites define a first bonded area and a first bond pattern between the first nonwoven layer and the first side of the elastic film. The PELs also include first nonbonded portions of the first nonwoven layer located between the first plurality of discrete bond sites, in which the first nonbonded portions of the first nonwoven layer are not bonded to the first side of the elastic film.

An absorbent article includes: an absorbent main, an abdominal-side band member having a central portion fixed to one end part in a vertical direction of the absorbent main body while covering the one end part from a non-skin side of the absorbent main body, and a back-side band member different from the abdominal-side band member. The back-side band member has a central portion fixed to an other end part in the vertical direction of the absorbent main body, while covering the other end part from the non-skin side of the absorbent main body. The back-side band member has a length in the vertical direction longer than the abdominal-side band member. Each of the abdominal-side and back-side band members has an elastic member. The abdominal-side band member and the absorbent main body overlap at an overlap portion, the overlap portion including at least a part where the elastic member is disconnected.