Wolfgang Ostertag, Gerstetten, Germany; Anselm Ebert, Hoechberg, Germany; Ruediger Kesselmeier, Burlafingen, Germany; and Albena Drumeva-Eberius, Langenau, Germany.
Assigned to Paul Hartmann AG, Heidenheim, Germany.

Filed: 2/13/17
Issued: 8/17/21

A disposable incontinence diaper (2), having a main part (4), having an absorbent element (6), and a longitudinal direction (8) and a transverse direction (10), comprising a front region (12) having forward lateral longitudinal peripheries (14), a back region (16) having rearward lateral longitudinal peripheries (18), and disposed therebetween a crotch region (20) that comes to lie between a user’s legs, and having rearward side portions (22) which are joined to the back region (16) on both sides and which in the transverse direction (10) of the disposable incontinence diaper (2) extend beyond the rearward lateral longitudinal peripheries (18) of the main part (4) and in a region of a free end (26) of said rearward side portions (22) in the transverse direction (10) carry in each case at least one closure means (28), whereas no rearward side portions (22) are joined to the front region (12), but rather the forward lateral longitudinal peripheries (14) of the main part (4) form a free-ending longitudinal periphery of the diaper, wherein the rearward side portions (22) for placing and closing the disposable incontinence diaper (2) on a user are in each case capable of being placed in a circumferential direction around the body of the user and are capable of being brought to an arrangement that overlaps with an external side of the front region (12) on which said rearward side portions (22) by way of the respective closure means (28) are in each case capable of adhering in a releasable manner, wherein the rearward side portions (22) in a planar spread-out, but not elongated state, have an extent Q in the transverse direction (10) beyond the respective rearward lateral longitudinal periphery (18), wherein a longitudinal central axis (LM) of the rearward side portions (22) bisects the extent Q, and wherein the rearward side portions (22) within this extent Q are elastically elongatable in the transverse direction (10) and to this end have an elastic or elasticized region (42) that extends in the transverse direction (10) and in the longitudinal direction (8), and wherein the extent Q in the transverse direction (10) of the rearward side portions (22) beyond the respective rearward lateral longitudinal periphery (18), and a maximum extent B in the longitudinal direction (8) of the rearward side portions (22), are dimensioned such that a mutual ratio of the extents (Q/B) is 1.0<Q/B<2.0 and, wherein this extent Q of the rearward side portions (22) in the transverse direction (10) comprises a proximal portion (38) that adjoins the rearward lateral longitudinal periphery (18), and a free-ending distal portion (40) that adjoins the proximal portion (38), and wherein the proximal portion (38), proceeding from the rearward longitudinal periphery (18), in the transverse direction (10) extends across a length which is 65% of the extent Q of a rearward side portion (22), wherein the respective elastic or elasticized region (42) of the rearward side portions (22) is disposed completely within the proximal portion (38) and reaches up to the rearward lateral longitudinal periphery (18), or in the transverse direction (10) has a spacing of at most 30 mm from the rearward lateral longitudinal periphery (18), and in that the respective rearward side portions (22) in the entire distal portion (40) are configured so as to be substantially non-elongatable.