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US 12,552,301 B2Granted
Child restraint
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorSaid S. Nakhla
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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.
Claims17
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 being formed to include a seat receiving space and including a shell bottom, a shell back arranged to extend upwardly away from the shell bottom, and a pair of side rails arranged along opposite lateral sides of the outer seat-support shell and extending between and interconnecting the shell bottom and the shell back, wherein the outer seat-support shell is formed to include a first seatbelt path at a first junction between the shell back and the pair of side rails, a second seatbelt path at a second junction between the shell bottom and the shell back, and a third seatbelt path at a third junction between the shell bottom and the pair of side rails,
- 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 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 from a first recline orientation when the juvenile seat is arranged in a forward-facing arrangement and a second recline orientation when the juvenile seat is arranged in a rearward-facing arrangement, and
- a belt-path barrier spaced apart from the first seatbelt path when the inner juvenile seat is in the forward-facing arrangement and configured to block access to the first seatbelt path when the inner juvenile seat is in the rearward-facing arrangement.
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 is formed to include a first seatbelt path,
- an inner juvenile seat coupled to the outer seat-support shell and configured to provide a child-receiving space sized to receive a child therein, the inner juvenile seat 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 from a first recline orientation when the juvenile seat is arranged in a forward-facing arrangement and a second recline orientation when the juvenile seat is arranged in a rearward-facing arrangement, and
- a belt-path barrier spaced apart from the first seatbelt path when the inner juvenile seat is in the forward-facing arrangement and configured to block access to the first seatbelt path when the inner juvenile seat is in the rearward-facing arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.