Child seat having a seat belt guide assembly
AssigneeBritax Römer Kindersicherheit GmbH
InventorsMichael Wirth, Fabian Lissek
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Abstract
A child seat having a seat assembly, a back assembly connected to the seat assembly, and a seat belt guide assembly attached to the back assembly, the guide assembly including an openable ring having a closed condition defining an aperture and an open condition, the ring including a flexible gate portion terminating at a connector; and a receiver support portion terminating at a receiver for receiving the connector; wherein the connector and the receiver are separable through elastic bending of the gate portion to open the ring sufficiently to allow installation of a vehicle seat belt there-through, and wherein the connector and the receiver are mutually shaped to form a latch, the latch releasably holding the gate portion and the receiver support portion together.
Claims13
A child seat having:
- a seat assembly, a back assembly connected to the seat assembly, and a seat belt guide assembly attached to the back assembly, the guide assembly including:
- an openable ring having a closed condition defining an aperture and an open condition, the ring including:
- a flexible gate portion terminating at a connector;
- and
- a receiver support portion terminating at a receiver for receiving the connector;
- wherein the connector and the receiver are separable through elastic bending of the gate portion to open the ring sufficiently to allow installation of a vehicle seat belt there-through,
- wherein the connector and the receiver are mutually shaped to form a latch, the latch releasably holding the gate portion and the receiver support portion together,
- wherein the gate portion includes an outer arm and an inner arm, the inner arm disposed radially inwards from the outer arm and having an inner surface for guiding a seat belt, and
- wherein a plurality of ribs are disposed between the inner arm and the outer arm, the ribs having a fixed end and free end, the fixed end fixed with respect to one or other of the inner arm and the outer arm,
- whereby the ribs limit the relative displacement of the inner arm towards the outer arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.