Shunsuke Takino, Kanonji, Japan; and Hideaki Maki, Kanonji, Japan.
Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan.

Filed: 12/15/16
Issued: 10/2/18

A disposable diaper, comprising: in a state that the diaper is put on a wearer’s body, an upward direction, a downward direction, a transverse direction, and a front-back direction, and a skin-facing surface, a non-skin-facing surface, a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region extending between the front and back waist regions, wherein the back waist region includes a belt region extending in the transverse direction on the skin-facing surface and having a central region in the transverse direction, and a downwardly openable pocket facing the central region of the belt region in the front-back direction; the pocket is defined by (i) a pocket outside wall extending upward from the crotch region and including a lateral portion; (ii) a pocket inside wall facing the pocket outside wall and the belt region in the front-back direction and including a lateral portion, the pocket inside wall being continuous with the pocket outside wall through a folded portion extending in the transverse direction, and the pocket inside wall extending downward from the folded portion to become to be continuous with the belt region; and (iii) the lateral portions of the pocket inside and outside walls, the pocket has a pair of folding lines facing each other in the transverse direction, each of the folding lines extending in the upward and downward directions, and each of the lateral portions of the pocket inside and outside walls is tucked inward in the transverse direction by being folded along the pair of folding lines.