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US 10,300,826 B2Granted
Juvenile vehicle seat with cupholder
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsSean R. Denbo, Kyle M. Franke, Devin J. Coakley
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a child restraint including a seat shell and an armrest coupled to the seat shell. The child restraint also includes a cupholder coupled to the armrest.
Claims7
A child restraint comprising
- a juvenile seat including a juvenile holder formed to include a child-seating surface adapted to support a seated child and a first armrest coupled to the juvenile holder and configured to have a free end,
- a cupholder support coupled to the free end of the first armrest and formed to include a single lock-receiver opening at the free end of the first armrest, and
- a cupholder including a cup receiver adapted to receive a cup therein and a cantilevered push lock cantilevered to a side wall of the cup receiver and configured to extend into the single lock-receiver opening provided in the cupholder support at the free end of the first armrest to mate with the cupholder support to retain the cup receiver in a stationary mounted position at the free end of the first armrest,
- wherein the cupholder support includes an upright panel mounted in a forward facing position on the free end of the first armrest to face toward the cup receiver and formed to include the single lock-receiver opening,
- wherein the cantilevered push lock includes a first retainer clip and a second retainer clip arranged to lie in laterally spaced-apart relation to one another during movement of the first and second retainer clips through the single lock-receiver opening formed in the upright panel of the cupholder support to cause the first and second retainer clips to mate with the cupholder support,
- wherein each of the first and second retainer clips is arranged to lie wholly in an interior region formed in the first armrest when the cup receiver is retained in the stationary mounted position,
- wherein the cantilevered push lock further includes a post cantilevered to the side wall of the cup receiver and arranged to extend through the single lock-receiver opening formed in the upright panel of the cupholder support when the cup receiver is retained in the stationary mounted position at the free end of the first armrest and wherein each of the first and second retainer clips are cantilevered to a free end of the post to lie in rearwardly spaced-apart relation to the side wall of the cup receiver, and
- wherein the cantilevered push lock further includes a lock-stabilizer tab that is arranged to lie between and in spaced-apart relation to each of the first and second retainer clips, the cupholder support further includes a multi-receiver lock mount coupled to a rearwardly facing surface of the upright panel to lie in an interior region of the first armrest and formed to include a first-side clip receiver, a second-side clip receiver, and a center tab receiver located between the first-side and second-side clip receivers, and each of the first-side clip receiver, the second side-clip receiver, and the center tab receiver is aligned with the single lock-receiver opening formed in the upright panel of the cupholder support to receive therein a portion of the cantilevered push lock during movement of the cantilevered push lock through the single lock-receiver opening and into the multi-receiver lock mount, and wherein, when the cup receiver is retained in the stationary mounted position, the first retainer clip extends through and locks onto the first-side clip receiver, the second retainer clip extends through and locks onto the second-side clip receiver, and the lock-stabilizer tab extends into the center tab receiver.
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A child restraint comprising
- a juvenile seat including a juvenile holder formed to include a child-seating surface adapted to support a seated child and a first armrest coupled to the juvenile holder and configured to have a free end,
- a cupholder support coupled to the free end of the first armrest and formed to include a single lock-receiver opening at the free end of the first armrest, and
- a cupholder including a cup receiver adapted to receive a cup therein and a cantilevered push lock cantilevered to a side wall of the cup receiver and configured to extend into the single lock-receiver opening provided in the cupholder support at the free end of the first armrest to mate with the cupholder support to retain the cup receiver in a stationary mounted position at the free end of the first armrest,
- wherein the cupholder support includes an upright panel mounted in a forward facing position on the free end of the first armrest to face toward the cup receiver and formed to include the single lock-receiver opening,
- wherein the single lock-receiver opening is T-shaped to provide a center opening portion between an upper right opening portion and a left opening portion, the cupholder support further includes a multi-receiver lock mount coupled to a rearwardly facing surface of the upright panel to align the upper left opening portion with a first-side clip receiver included in the multi-receiver lock mount, align the upper right opening portion with a second-side clip receiver included in the multi-receiver lock mount, and align the center opening portion with a center tab receiver included in the multi-receiver lock mount, and the cantilevered push lock includes a first retainer clip arranged to extend through the first-side clip receiver and mate with the multi-receiver lock mount, a second retainer clip arranged to extend through the second-side clip receiver and mate with the multi-receiver lock mount, and a lock-stabilizer tab arranged to extend through the center tab receiver when the cup receiver is retained in the stationary mounted position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.