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US 2015/0091344 A1Published application
Energy-dissipation system
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsAlan Tanner, Kim Tat, Stephen B Oltman, Meihui Lin
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Abstract
A child restraint includes a juvenile vehicle seat and an energy-absorption apparatus coupled to the juvenile vehicle seat. The energy-absorption apparatus is configured to absorb external energy associated with an external impact force applied to the energy-absorption apparatus.
Claims42
A child restraint comprising
- a juvenile vehicle seat including a seat bottom and a seat back, the seat back including a backrest arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom, a headrest including a rear panel coupled to an upper portion of the backrest, a first side-wing panel coupled to a first side of the rear panel and arranged to extend forwardly away from the rear panel and to lie above the seat bottom, and a second side-wing panel coupled to an opposite second side of the rear panel and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first side-wing panel to extend forwardly away from the rear panel and to lie above the seat bottom,
- wherein each of the rear, first side-wing, and second side-wing panels and the backrest have an interior surface defining an occupant-receiving space and an oppositely facing exterior surface, and
- wherein an energy-dissipation system is coupled to at least a part of the exterior surface of the first and second side-wing panels.
A child restraint comprising
- a juvenile vehicle seat including a seat bottom and a seat back, the seat back including a backrest arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom, a headrest including a rear panel, a first side-wing panel coupled to the rear panel to extend forwardly away from the rear panel and to lie above the seat bottom, and a second side-wing panel coupled to the rear panel and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first side-wing panel to extend forwardly away from the rear panel and to lie above the seat bottom,
- wherein each of the rear, first side-wing, and second side-wing panels and the backrest have an interior surface defining an occupant-receiving space and an oppositely facing exterior surface, and
- wherein an energy-dissipation system is coupled to at least a part of the interior and exterior surfaces of the first and second side-wing panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.