Disposable diaper

• US 6,464,678 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2001
• Issued: 10/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Inventors: Sasaki, Toru, Kumasaka, Yoshinori, Shimoe, Nariaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lindsey, Rodney M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grayson, Angela J
• Application Number:
  US09/754,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20010007936A1
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 604/385.04, 604/385.18, 604/385.27, 604/385.28, 604/386
• US Class Current: 604/385.27
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/49019 the elastic means being placed longitudinally, transversely or diagonally over the article
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/49413 the edge leakage prevention means being an upstanding barrier

Abstract

A disposable diaper that includes a topsheet, a backsheet and a core disposed therebetween to define a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending therebetween. A first elastic member extends longitudinally of the diaper across a middle zone of the core between the front and rear waist regions and is disposed between the backsheet and the core and secured to the backsheet. Second elastic members extend longitudinally of the diaper across the transversely opposite side zones of the core between the front and rear waist regions and are disposed between the backsheet and the core and bonded to the backsheet.

Claims

1. A disposable diaper comprising:

a liquid-pervious topsheet;

a liquid-impervious backsheet;

a liquid-absorbent core disposed between said liquid-pervious topsheet and said liquid-impervious backsheet;

a front waist region;

a rear waist region;

a crotch region extending between said front and rear waist regions;

a first elastically stretchable member lying in a middle zone of said liquid-absorbent core and extending longitudinally of said diaper between said front and rear waist regions and being disposed between said liquid-impervious backsheet and said liquid-absorbent core and secured under tension to said liquid-impervious backsheet at portions of the first elastically stretchable member that are located between said liquid-impervious backsheet and said liquid-absorbent core; and

a pair of second elastically stretchable members which lie in transversely opposite side zones of said liquid-absorbent core and extend longitudinally of said diaper between said front and rear waist regions and being disposed between said liquid-impervious backsheet and said liquid-absorbent core and secured under tension to said liquid-impervious backsheet at portions of the second elastically stretchable members that are located between said liquid-impervious backsheet and said liquid-absorbent core.

2. The diaper according to claim 1, wherein said first elastically stretchable member and each of said second elastically stretchable members are secured to said liquid-impervious backsheet at front end portions of said first elastically stretchable member and each of said second elastically stretchable members in said front waist region and at rear end portions of said first elastically stretchable member and each of said second elastically stretchable members in said rear waist region but not secured to said liquid-impervious backsheet at intermediate portions of said first elastically stretchable member and each of said second elastically stretchable members defined between said front and rear end portions of said first elastically stretchable member and each of said second elastically stretchable members.

3. The diaper according to claim 1, further including a pair of barrier cuffs extending longitudinally of said diaper in a vicinity of said side zones of said liquid-absorbent core which are normally biased so as to rise on an inner side of said diaper, each of said barrier cuffs having a fixed side edge portion bonded to the inner side of said diaper in a vicinity of the respective side zones of said liquid-absorbent core and extending longitudinally of said diaper, a free side edge portion extending from said fixed side edge portion inward laterally of said diaper, and longitudinally opposite fixed end portions lying in said front and rear waist regions and collapsed laterally of said diaper and bonded to said inner side of said diaper in a collapsed posture.

4. The diaper according to claim 1, wherein said liquid-absorbent core is thinner in said middle zone and said transversely opposite side zones than in remaining zones thereof.