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U.S. Patent No. 9,283,124 B2
July 15, 2016
By: Karen McIntyre
Editor
Tatsuya Hashimoto, Kanonji, Japan; and Tetsuo Okubo, Kanonji, Japan. Assigned to Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, Japan. Filed: 9/17/13 Issued: 3/15/16 A wearing article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction being orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the wearing article comprising: a skin-facing surface; a non-skin-facing surface lying on a side opposite to the skin-facing surface; front and rear waist panels respectively defining front and rear waist regions; a crotch panel defining a crotch region lying between the front and rear waist regions; and an absorbent structure disposed on the skin-facing surface of at least the crotch panel, wherein: the crotch panel has front and rear end portions extending in the transverse direction, lateral edge portions extending in the longitudinal direction, and a pair of leg sheets extending along the lateral edge portions; each of the leg sheets includes a backing sheet and at least one leg elastic attached under tension to the backing sheet so as to extend in the longitudinal direction; each of the leg sheets is attached to the skin-facing surfaces of the front and rear waist panels through first and second joint regions, respectively. Each of the leg sheets has an elastically contractible region lying between the first and second joint regions; each of the leg sheets has elastically relaxed regions in end portions located outboard of the first and second joint regions in the longitudinal direction, and the elastically relaxed regions are formed on surfaces thereof with gathers; and the front and rear waist panels are respectively disposed with cover sheets adapted to cover the respective elastically relaxed regions which are not directly attached to the front and rear waist panels.
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