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US 11,529,895 B2Granted
Extensible child restraint carry handle
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsDevin J. Coakley, Kurt Nygren
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Abstract
A child restraint includes an infant seat and a carry handle coupled to the infant seat. The carry handle includes a shoulder pad arranged to rest on the shoulder of a caregiver wearing the carry handle in a shoulder-mounted position to support the infant seat alongside the caregiver.
Claims20
A child restraint comprising:
- an infant excursion seat including a seating bucket formed to include an interior child-carrying space, a first anchor post coupled to a foot end of the seating bucket and arranged to extend away from the interior child-carrying space, and a second anchor post coupled to an opposite head end of the seating bucket and arranged to extend away from the first anchor post and the interior child-carrying space, and
- an extensible carry handle including a foot-end anchor adapted to be mated with the first anchor post, a strap support formed to include a semi-rigid bendable strap-support beam cantilevered to the foot-end anchor to extend toward the head-end anchor and a first strip receiver coupled to a free end of the semi-rigid bendable strap-support beam, a head-end anchor adapted to be mated with the second anchor post, a bungee support including a semi-rigid bendable bungee-support beam cantilevered to the head-end anchor to extend toward the strap support and a second strip receiver coupled to a free end of the semi-rigid bendable bungee-support beam, and a variable-length anchor-connector strip including a head-end anchor mount coupled to the head-end anchor, a foot-end anchor mount coupled to the foot-end anchor, and a pliable segment arranged to interconnect the head-end and foot-end anchor mounts and lie above the semi-rigid bendable strap-support and bungee-support beams and pass through the first and second strip receivers to allow movement of the variable-length anchor-connector strip relative to each of the strap and bungee supports,
- wherein the pliable segment of the variable-length anchor-connector strip includes an elastic bungee section coupled to the head-end anchor mount and arranged to overlie and engage an upwardly facing surface of the semi-rigid bendable bungee-support beam, and an adjustable-length strap section arranged to interconnect the elastic bungee section and the foot-end anchor mount and to overlie and engage an upwardly facing surface of the semi-rigid bendable strap-support beam.
A child restraint comprising:
- an infant excursion seat including a seating bucket formed to include an interior child-carrying space, a first anchor post coupled to a first end of the seating bucket and arranged to extend away from the interior child-carrying space, and a second anchor post coupled to an opposite second end of the seating bucket and arranged to extend away from the first anchor post and the interior child-carrying space, and
- an extensible carry handle including a first-end anchor adapted to be mated with the first anchor post, a strap support formed to include a semi-rigid bendable strap-support beam cantilevered to the first-end anchor to extend toward the second-end anchor and a first strip receiver coupled to a free end of the semi-rigid bendable strap-support beam, a second-end anchor adapted to be mated with the second anchor post, a bungee support including a semi-rigid bendable bungee-support beam cantilevered to the second-end anchor to extend toward the strap support and a second strip receiver coupled to a free end of the semi-rigid bendable bungee-support beam, and a variable-length anchor-connector strip including a second-end anchor mount coupled to the second-end anchor, a first-end anchor mount coupled to the first-end anchor, and a pliable segment arranged to interconnect the second-end and first-end anchor mounts and lie above the semi-rigid bendable strap-support and bungee-support beams and pass through the first and second strip receivers to allow movement of the variable-length anchor-connector strip relative to each of the strap and bungee supports,
- wherein the pliable segment of the variable-length anchor-connector strip includes an elastic bungee section coupled to the second-end anchor mount and arranged to overlie and engage an upwardly facing surface of the semi-rigid bendable bungee-support beam, and an adjustable-length strap section arranged to interconnect the elastic bungee section and the first-end anchor mount and to overlie and engage an upwardly facing surface of the semi-rigid bendable strap-support beam.
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