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US 12,472,853 B2Granted
Child restraint
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsSaid S. Nakhla, Paul Powers
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Abstract
A child restraint comprising an outer seat-support shell adapted to rest on a vehicle seat and to be secured to the vehicle seat for transportation in a vehicle and an inner juvenile seat coupled to the outer seat-support shell. The inner juvenile seat is configured to provide a child-receiving space sized to receive a child therein. The child restraint further includes a child restraint harness configured to secure the child within a child-receiving space of the inner juvenile seat.
Claims18
A child restraint comprising
- an outer seat-support shell adapted to rest on a vehicle seat and to be secured to the vehicle seat for transportation in a vehicle, the outer seat-support shell providing a seat receiving space,
- an inner juvenile seat at least partially received in the seat receiving space and configured to provide a child-receiving space sized to receive a child therein, the inner juvenile seat is coupled to the outer seat-support shell so as to be supported in spaced apart relation to the vehicle seat and configured to move relative to the outer seat-support shell to change a recline orientation of the inner juvenile seat relative to the outer seat-support shell, and
- an occupant-seat anchor system including a child restraint harness configured to secure the child within the child-receiving space of the inner juvenile seat and a plurality of harness anchors that are connected to both the child restraint harness and the seat-support shell to transfer loads imparted on the child restraint harness by the child directly into the seat-support shell during impact events,
- wherein the seat-support shell includes a shell bottom and a shell back arranged to extend upwardly away from the shell bottom, and the inner juvenile seat includes a seat bottom coupled to the shell bottom and a seat back coupled to the shell back, and
- wherein the plurality of harness anchors includes a first strap anchor extending between and interconnecting the shell back and the seat back, a second strap anchor extending between and interconnecting the shell bottom and the seat bottom, and a third strap anchor located between the first and second strap anchors and extending between and interconnecting the seat-support shell and the inner juvenile seat.
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A child restraint comprising
- an outer seat-support shell adapted to rest on a vehicle seat and to be secured to the vehicle seat for transportation in a vehicle, the outer seat-support shell providing a seat receiving space,
- an inner juvenile seat at least partially received in the seat receiving space and configured to provide a child-receiving space sized to receive a child therein, the inner juvenile seat is coupled to the outer seat-support shell so as to be supported in spaced apart relation to the vehicle seat and configured to move relative to the outer seat-support shell to change a recline orientation of the inner juvenile seat relative to the outer seat-support shell, and
- an occupant-seat anchor system including a child restraint harness configured to secure the child within the child-receiving space of the inner juvenile seat and a plurality of harness anchors that are connected to both the child restraint harness and the seat-support shell to transfer loads imparted on the child restraint harness by the child directly into the seat-support shell during impact events,
- wherein the juvenile seat includes:
- a seat chassis including seat-bottom base, a seat-back base coupled to the seat-bottom base and arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat-bottom base, and body frame coupled to both the seat-bottom base and the seat-back base, and
- an occupant-support pad including a seat bottom web coupled to the body frame and at least partially spaced apart from the seat-bottom base to support a child above and spaced apart from the seat-bottom base and a seat back web coupled to the body frame and at least partially spaced apart from the seat-back base to support the child in front of and spaced apart from the seat-back base.
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