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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
May. 15, 2013
Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, JP;
Yusuke Kawakami, Kagawa, JP;
Kazuya Fujimoto, Kagawa, JP;
Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, JP;
Abstract
A wearing article making it possible to prevent a dimension in the transverse direction of respective recesses formed on an absorbent structure from being notably reduced even when the front and rear waist regions are disposed with waist elastic members directly or indirectly overlapping with the absorbent structure. The wearing article has a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal center line, a transverse direction parallel to a transverse center line, a skin-facing surface and a non-skin-facing surface opposite to the skin-facing surface, and includes a chassis having a first waist region defined by one of front and rear waist regions and being elastically contractible in the transverse direction, a second waist region defined by another of the front and rear waist regions and a crotch region lying between the front and rear waist regions, an absorbent structure disposed on the skin-facing surface of the chassis and extending in the longitudinal direction across the crotch region into at least the first waist region and recesses disposed on the absorbent structure, the absorbent structure includes a first region defined in the first waist region and the recesses at least partially lying in the first region and extending in the longitudinal direction; and a shape retention panel is disposed on the non-skin-facing surface of the first waist region so that the shape retention panel may indirectly or directly overlap the first region and the recesses as viewed in a thickness direction of the article.