Pants-type disposable wearing article
AssigneeUni-Charm Corporation
InventorsShunsuke Takino, Toshifumi Otsubo
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Abstract
A pants-type disposable wearing article has a holder means and an absorbent pad means. The absorbent pad means has a crotch region extending to a front and rear waist regions of the holder means and has longitudinal front and rear ends attached to the front and the rear waist regions. The absorbent pad means has a liquid absorbent core and is provided with leak-barrier flaps rising from side edges of the core and a ribbon-like suspenders attached to the top edges of the leak-barrier flaps. The extensions of the suspenders from the front and rear ends of the absorbent pad means are connecting the top edges of the leak-barrier flaps with the inner surface of the front and rear waist regions of the holder means.
Claims8
A pants-type disposable wearing article comprising:
- a float waist region;
- a rear waist region;
- a crotch region;
- a waist-hole;
- a pair of leg-holes;
- an absorbent pad assembly;
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- a holder assembly for holding the absorbent pad assembly,
- wherein the holder assembly has front and rear waist regions which define the waist hole when the front and rear waist regions of the holder assembly are coupled together,
- the absorbent pad assembly comprises:
- a liquid-pervious topsheet;
- a liquid-impervious backsheet;
- a liquid-absorbent core interposed between the topsheet and backsheet and having opposite side edges extending in a longitudinal direction;
- a crotch region extending between the front and rear waist regions of the holder assembly so as to define the pair of leg-holes together with the holder assembly;
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- front and rear ends that are attached to the front and tear waist regions respectively, the pants-type disposable wearing article further comprising:
- a pair of leak-barrier flaps included on the absorbent pad assembly and located immediately outside of the opposite side edges of the liquid absorbent core, the pair of leak-barrier flaps extending in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent pad assembly and being configured to rise from the opposite side edges;
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- suspenders lying on top edges of leak-barrier flaps, extending outwardly of the leak-barrier flaps in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent pad assembly, and connecting the leak-barrier flaps with the front waist region and the rear waist regions, the suspenders including skin contacting surfaces which are configured to contact the skin of a wearer of the pants-type disposable wearing article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.