Child safety seat
AssigneeBritax Child Safety, Inc.
InventorsThomas Baloga, Adrian Simms
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Abstract
A child safety seat, including a seat body having a seat bottom and a seat back. A vehicle seat attachment assembly is carried by the safety seat for securing the safety seat to rigid anchorage units carried by a vehicle proximate to a vehicle seat. The attachment assembly has a transversely-extending coupling assembly carried by the safety seat. First and second connectors are mounted on the coupling assembly for transverse adjustable alignment relative to respective first and second transversely spaced-apart rigid anchorage units. The safety seat may be attached to first and second rigid anchorage units that have differing degrees of spacing between them.
Claims20
A child safety seat, comprising:
- (a) a seat body having a seat bottom and a seat back;
- (b) a vehicle seat attachment assembly carried by the safety seat for securing the safety seat to rigid anchorage units carried by a vehicle proximate to a vehicle seat, the attachment assembly comprising:
- (i) a transversely-extending coupling assembly carried by the safety seat;
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- (ii) first and second connectors mounted on the coupling assembly for transverse adjustable alignment relative to respective first and second transversely spaced-apart rigid anchorage units, whereby the safety seat may be attached to first and second rigid anchorage units having differing degrees of spacing between them.
A vehicle seat attachment assembly for securing a child safety seat to rigid anchorage units carried by a vehicle proximate to a vehicle seat, the attachment assembly comprising:
- (i) a transversely-extending coupling assembly for being attached to and carried by the safety seat;
- (ii) first and second connectors mounted on the coupling assembly for transverse adjustable alignment relative to respective first and second transversely spaced-apart rigid anchorage units, whereby the safety seat may be attached to first and second rigid anchorage units having differing degrees of spacing between them.
A method of releasably securing a child safety seat to at least two variably spaced-apart rigid anchorage units carried by a vehicle proximate to a vehicle seat, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing:
- (i) a transversely-extending coupling assembly for being attached to and carried by the safety seat;
- (ii) first and second connectors mounted on the coupling assembly and positioned for transverse adjustable alignment relative to respective first and second transversely spaced-apart rigid anchorage units;
- (b) placing the safety seat on a vehicle seat;
- (c) adjusting the spacing and transverse position of the first and second connectors relative to and into alignment with at least first and second ones of the rigid anchorage units;
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- (d) attaching the first and second connectors to respective ones of the first and second rigid anchorages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.