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U.S. Patent No. 11,730,637
October 4, 2023
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Arika Tsunoda, Tochigi, Japan. Assigned to Daio Paper Corporation, Ehime, Japan. Filed: 12/13/22 Issued: 8/22/23 A disposable wearable article comprising an elastic film stretchable structure in which a plurality of elastic films comprising a first elastic film and a second elastic film are laminated between a first sheet layer and a second sheet layer, and the first sheet layer and the second sheet layer are bonded to each other through holes passing through the plurality of elastic films or via the plurality of elastic films with many bonded portions arranged at intervals, wherein: a region having the elastic film stretchable structure includes a stretchable region that elastically stretches and contracts together with the plurality of elastic films, the stretchable region includes the plurality of elastic films disposed so as to have an overlapping portion, a number of laminated layers of the plurality of elastic films in a first region of the stretchable region in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a stretchable direction is more than that in each of second regions adjacent to both sides of the first region, the first elastic film extends from one of the second regions to the first region, the second elastic film extends from the other second region to the first region as the elastic film, wherein the one of the second regions includes only the first elastic film as the elastic film, the other second region includes only the second elastic film as the elastic film, and the first region includes the first elastic film and the second elastic film as the elastic film, each of the first region and the second regions has the many bonded portions arranged at intervals, and the many bonded portions are disposed in a same two-dimensional planar arrangement from the first region to the second regions.
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