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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2013
Unicharm Corporation, Shikokuchuo-shi, Ehime, JP;
Tatsuya Hashimoto, Kanonji, JP;
Tetsuo Okubo, Kanonji, JP;
UNICHARM CORPORATION, Ehime, JP;
Abstract
In a wearing article including front and rear waist panels and a crotch panel, a pair of leg sheets including backing sheets and leg elastics attached under tension between two layers of the respectively doubled up backing sheets extends along lateral edge portions of the crotch panel, and distal end portions of the leg sheets are attached to respective skin-facing surfaces of the front and rear waist panels through first and second joint regions. In this way, the pair of leg sheets has an elastically contractible region between the first and second joint regions and elastically relaxed regions in end portions located outboard of the first and second joint regions in a longitudinal direction, and the elastically relaxed regions are formed on surfaces thereof with gathers.