Takuya Inoue, Kagawa, Japan.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.

Filed: 2/14/13
Issued: 1/16/18

A disposable wearing article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, including: a skin-facing surface; a non-skin-facing surface opposite to the skin-facing surface; front and rear waist panels defining front and rear waist regions, respectively, and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; and a crotch panel extending in the longitudinal direction between the front and rear waist panels and defining a crotch region, wherein: the crotch panel includes an absorbent structure, front and rear end flaps lying outboard of the absorbent structure in the longitudinal direction, a first region having part of the absorbent structure and the front end flap and overlapping with the skin-facing surface of the front waist panel and a second region having part of the absorbent structure and the rear end flap and overlapping with the skin-facing surface of the rear waist panel; the first and second regions are joined to the front and rear waist panels by means of first and second joining zones, respectively, wherein the first joining zone has a plurality of sub-zones spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction, which plurality of sub-zones to not do extend outwardly beyond transverse edges of the crotch panel; the front waist panel has an elastic region at least overlapping with the first region and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; the rear waist panel has an inelastic region lying in the second region and overlapping with the absorbent structure and an elastic region lying outboard of the inelastic region as viewed in the transverse direction and elastically contractible in the transverse direction; and the first region is formed with a plurality of convexities extending in the longitudinal direction and spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction.