Donald Carroll Roe, West Chester, OH; Barry Robert Feist, Maderia, OH; Krista Beth Comstock, Mason, OH; and Lisa Jane Goodlander, Okeana, OH.
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

Filed: 2/24/14
Issued: 5/30/17

A disposable pant style absorbent article to be worn about the lower torso of a wearer, the disposable pant style absorbent article including an inner body facing surface, an outer garment facing surface, a first waist region, a second waist region, and a crotch region interposed between the first waist region and the second waist region, a waist opening and a pair of leg openings, the disposable article comprising: a chassis having first and second side edges and first and second transverse end edges, the chassis comprising: a topsheet; a backsheet; and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; an elasticized panel joined to the chassis and extending outboard of the first and/or second side edges, the elasticized panel disposed in both the first waist region and the second waist region, the elasticized panel further comprising at least a first hip region, a second hip region, a first leg region, and a second leg region, the elasticized panel comprising a stretch laminate in at least the first waist region and the second waist region, wherein the stretch laminate comprises first elastic strands joined to at least one layer of a nonwoven material; wherein at least one of the first leg region or second leg region comprise second elastic strands at least in part outboard of at least one of the first and second side edges of the chassis such that the second elastic strands overlap with at least a portion of the stretch laminate of the elasticized panel and wherein said at least one of the first leg region or the second leg region extends between a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge, wherein the first longitudinal edge is coterminous with at least one of the first and second side edges of the chassis and the second longitudinal edge is substantially opposite of the first longitudinal edge and disposed outboard of the at least of the first and second side edges of the chassis; and wherein the second elastic strands extend from the first longitudinal edge to the second longitudinal edge, such that the second elastic strands extend throughout the at least one of the first leg region or second leg region; and wherein the first hip region differs from the first leg region by: at least one of the group comprising stiffness, bending modulus, elastic modulus, extensibility, force relaxation, set, recovery rate, torsional modulus, compression modulus, compressibility, coefficient of friction, surface energy and combinations thereof; and at least one of the group comprising colors, textures, patterns, thickness, opacity, reflectivity, sheen, rugosity size, rugosity spacing, rugosity frequency and combinations thereof.