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US 2020/0269733 A1Published application
Child restraint
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsNathan W. HEISEY, Jason H. JOHNSON
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Abstract
A child restraint includes an infant carrier having a carry handle. The infant carrier may be mounted on a stroller frame or on a vehicle seat or may be carried by a caregiver after separation from the stroller frame or vehicle seat.
Claims16
A child restraint comprising
- a carrier-mount base including a foundation adapted to set on a passenger seat in a vehicle and a carrier retainer coupled to the foundation,
- an infant excursion seat includes a seating bucket formed to include an interior child-carrying space, a bucket carrier coupled to the seating bucket and adapted to be gripped by a caregiver to facilitate transport of the seating bucket relative to the carrier-mount base, and a seat retainer coupled to the seating bucket and arranged to face away from the interior child-carrying space, and
- an excursion-seat carrier including a bucket-support shell formed to include a bucket-receiving space sized to receive a portion of the seating bucket when the seating bucket is mounted on the bucket-support shell, a shell carry handle coupled to the bucket-support shell, a hook support coupled to the bucket-support shell, a releasable seat-anchor system associated with the infant excursion seat and coupled to the bucket-support shell, and a releasable base-anchor system associated with the carrier-mount base and coupled to the bucket-support shell,
- wherein the releasable base-anchor system includes an outboard first retainer hook mounted on the hook support for rotation about the hook support, an outer first hook-rotator spring arranged to act between the bucket-support shell and the outboard first retainer hook to urge the outboard first retainer hook to rotate in a first direction about the hook support to extend downwardly to engage the carrier retainer of the carrier-mount base to block separation of the excursion-seat carrier from the carrier-mount base when the excursion-seat carrier is mounted on a topside of the carrier-mount base, and an outboard-hook release arranged to rotate the outboard first retainer hook about the hook support in an opposite second direction to overcome a biasing torque applied by the outer first hook-rotator spring to disengage the outboard first retainer hook from the carrier retainer of the carrier-mount base to free the excursion-seat carrier to be separated from the carrier-mount base by a caregiver, and
- wherein the releasable seat-anchor system includes an inboard first retainer hook mounted on the hook support for rotation about the hook support, an inner hook-rotator spring arranged to act between the bucket-support shell and the inboard first retainer hook to urge the inboard first retainer hook to rotate in the first direction about the hook support to extend upwardly to engage the seat retainer of the infant excursion seat to block separation of the infant excursion seat from the excursion-seat carrier when the infant excursion seat is mounted on a topside of the excursion-seat carrier, and an inboard-hook release arranged to rotate the inboard first retainer hook about the hook support in the opposite second direction to overcome a biasing torque applied by the inner hook-rotator spring to disengage the inboard first retainer hook from the seat retainer of the infant excursion seat to free to infant excursion seat to be separated from the excursion-seat carrier by a caregiver.
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A child restraint comprising
- a carrier-mount base including a foundation adapted to set on a passenger seat in a vehicle and a carrier retainer coupled to the foundation,
- an infant transporter including an excursion-seat carrier and an infant excursion seat configured to hold an infant, the excursion-seat carrier including a bucket-support shell and a shell carry handle mounted for pivotable movement on the bucket-support shell, the infant excursion seat including a seating bucket and a carry handle coupled to the seating bucket,
- base anchor means for releasably anchoring the excursion-seat carrier of the infant transporter to the carrier retainer of the carrier-mount base to allow a caregiver to unanchor the excursion-seat carrier from the carrier retainer of the carrier-mount base to separate the infant transporter while the foundation of the carrier-mount base remains on the passenger seat of the vehicle so that an infant restrained in the seating bucket of the infant excursion seat may be transported while the infant excursion seat remains anchored to the excursion-seat carrier using the shell carry handle of the excursion-seat carrier, and
- seat anchor means for releasably anchoring the infant excursion seat to the excursion-seat carrier to allow a caregiver to separate the infant excursion seat from the excursion-seat carrier while the excursion seat carrier remains anchored to the carrier-mount base so that an infant restrained in the seating bucket of the infant excursion seat may be transported using the carry handle coupled to the seating bucket.
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