Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester, OH; and Mark James Kline, Okeana, OH. Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.
Filed: 2/25/11
Issued: 1/26/16
A disposable absorbent article comprising: a) a chassis having a front region with a front edge, a rear region with a back edge, a crotch region between the front region and the rear region, and a pair of opposing longitudinal edges, said chassis comprising an absorbent core having front and back edges; b) first and second elastically elongatable ears, each of said first and second elastically elongatable ears having upper and lower edges and a transverse axis, each of said upper and lower edges having proximal and distal ends, said first and second elastically elongatable ears defining a back section of said absorbent article that is present between said back edge of said chassis and a line connecting the respective proximal ends of the lower edge of said first and second elastically elongatable ears wherein the upper and lower edges of said first and second elongatable ears are asymmetric relative to the transverse axis of the elastically elongatable ears; and c) first and second fastening tabs respectively connected to a distal portion of said first and second elastically elongatable ears, each of said first and second fastening tabs having upper and lower edges and a transverse axis, wherein said upper and lower edges of said fastening tabs are asymmetric relative to the transverse axis of the fastening tabs, wherein the first fastening tab is outboard of the first elastically elongatable ear and the second fastening tab is outboard of the second elastically elongatable ear, wherein the transverse axis of the first and second fastening tabs overlap substantially with the transverse axis of the first and second elongatable ears respectively and wherein the back section of the chassis has an Average Peak Bending Force of less than 0.08N; and wherein the transverse axis of the fastening tabs and the back edge of the absorbent core are separated by a longitudinal distance of less than 20 mm, wherein the distance between the upper and lower proximal ends of the first elastically elongatable ear is at least 50% greater than the distance between the upper and lower distal ends of the first elastically elongatable ear, and wherein the distance between the upper and lower proximal ends of the second elastically elongatable ear is at least 50% greater than the distance between the upper and lower distal ends of the second elastically elongatable ear.