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US 2011/0298259 A1Published application
Child restraint system
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorNathan W. Heisey
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Abstract
A child restraint system includes an infant carrier and a base adapted to be mounted on a passenger seat in a vehicle in a vehicle mode. The infant carrier is also configured to be mounted on a stroller frame in a stroller mold. The infant carrier includes a seat shell and a carrying handle coupled to the seat shell.
Claims17
A child restraint system comprising
- an infant carrier including a seat shell and a front shell anchor coupled to the seat shell and configured to include a latch plate mounted on a rim included in the seat shell for pivotable movement about a pivot axis relative to the seat shell between a shell-retaining position and a shell-releasing position and
- a base including a foundation adapted to set on a passenger seat in a vehicle and a front anchor holder coupled to the foundation and arranged to overlie a distal portion of the latch plate to block removal of the seat shell from a mounted position on a top surface of the foundation upon pivoting movement of the latch plate to assume the shell-retaining position while the seat shell occupies the mounted position and the rim of the seat shell engages an underlying shell-support pad included in the top surface of the foundation, wherein
- the latch plate is formed to include a finger-receiving aperture,
- the front anchor holder includes a blocker support arranged to extend upwardly from the shell-support pad included in the top surface of the foundation through an opening formed in the rim of the seat shell when the seat shell occupies the mounted position on the top surface of the foundation and a latch-blocker arm cantilevered to the blocker support and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the shell-support pad of the foundation to locate the distal portion of the latch plate therebetween when the seat shell is in the mounted position and the latch plate is in the shell-retaining position, and
- the front anchor holder further includes a motion-blocking finger coupled to the latch-blocker arm and configured to extend downwardly into the finger-receiving aperture during disengagement of the rim of the seat shell from the shell-support pad in response to deformation of the seat shell when the seat shell is in the mounted position to cause the motion-blocking finger to provide lock means for engaging the latch plate to block movement of the latch plate relative to the front anchor holder from the shell-retaining position to a shell-releasing position so that the seat shell is retained in the mounted position.
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A child restraint system comprising
- an infant carrier including a seat shell having a front portion, an opposite rear portion, and a middle portion arranged to lie between the front and rear portions, the infant carrier further including a child-receiving portion arranged to extend between the front and rear portions and adapted to support a child in the infant carrier and a middle shell anchor coupled to the middle portion of the seat shell,
- a base including a foundation adapted to set on a passenger seat in a vehicle and to support the infant carrier in a mounted position on the base, wherein the foundation is formed to include a foundation hole defining a middle anchor holder associated with the middle shell anchor of the infant carrier, the middle shell anchor includes a slidable plunger mounted for back-and-forth sliding movement along a plunger-movement line through a channel formed in the middle portion of the seat shell and a spring arranged to urge the slidable plunger away from the child-receiving portion of the seat shell along the plunger-movement line through the channel into the foundation hole formed in the foundation when the infant carrier is support in the mounted position on the foundation to help retain the infant carrier in a stationary position on the base in a vehicle mode for the infant carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.