Nursery equipment
AssigneeGraco Children's Products Inc.
InventorsYuji Shibata, Tadashi Nishikawa
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Abstract
Nursery equipment includes: a body (car seat body); an extended portion (ISOFIX) extended from the car seat body; and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the position or shape of the ISOFIX. The adjustment mechanism includes a string having one end connected to the car seat body and the other end held by the ISOFIX, a reel that is rotatable in both forward and reverse directions and that changes the position or shape of the ISOFIX by winding up and feeding out the string, and a rotation lock mechanism that prohibits rotation of the reel.
Claims20
A nursery equipment, comprising:
- a body;
- an extended portion extended from the body, wherein the extended portion includes at least one strap that is adjustable relative to the body;
- and
- an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a position or shape of the at least one strap, wherein the adjustment mechanism includes a string having one end connected to the body and the other end connected to the at least one strap,
- a reel that is rotatable in both forward and reverse directions and that changes the position or shape of the at least one strap by winding up and feeding out the string, and
- a rotation lock mechanism that prohibits rotation of the reel.
A nursery equipment, comprising:
- a body;
- an extended portion extended from the body, wherein the extended portion comprises at least one strap that is adjustable relative to the body;
- and
- an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position or shape of the at least one strap, the adjustment mechanism comprising:
- a string having one end connected to the body and the other end connected to the at least one strap;
- a reel configured to be rotatable in both forward and reverse directions and to change the position or shape of the at least one strap by winding up and feeding out the string;
- and
- a rotation lock mechanism configured to prohibit rotation of the reel.
A method for using a nursery equipment, the method comprising:
- rotating a reel of an adjustment mechanism of the nursery equipment in a forward direction or a reverse direction to change a position or shape of at least one strap of an extended portion extending from a body of the nursery equipment by winding up and feeding out a string, the string having one end connected to the body and the other end connected to the at least one strap;
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- prohibiting rotation of the reel via a rotation lock mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.