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US 9,789,792 B2Granted
Belt-positioning booster seat for vehicles
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsDavid M Amirault, Kelley L Clayburn, Meihui Lin
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Abstract
A belt-positioning booster seat is adapted to be positioned on a passenger seat included in a vehicle and to support a child seated on the passenger seat. The belt-positioning booster seat includes a seat pad to elevate a child above a seat bottom of the passenger seat along with left and right belt guides adapted to receive a lap belt that extends over a child seated on the seat pad.
Claims11
A booster seat adapted to be removably positioned on a vehicle passenger seat comprising
- a compliant contoured seat pad including a body adapted to support a child seated on the booster seat, a left ear thinner than the body and arranged to extend from a left side of the body, and a right ear thinner than the body arranged to extend from a right side of the body,
- a left lap belt-positioning tether coupled to the left ear and arranged to extend from the left ear, the left lap belt-positioning tether configured to receive a lap belt, and
- a right lap belt-positioning tether coupled to the right ear and arranged to extend from the right ear, the right lap belt-positioning tether configured to receive a lap belt,
- wherein the left lap belt-positioning tether is coupled to the left ear by stitches of thread that extend through the left lap belt-positioning tether and the left ear to secure the left lap belt-positioning tether to the compliant contoured seat pad so that a lap belt received in the left lap belt-positioning tether is retained in a selected position relative to the compliant contoured seat pad and the right lap belt-positioning tether is coupled to the right ear by stitches of thread that extend through the right lap belt-positioning tether and the right ear to secure the right lap belt-positioning tether to the compliant contoured seat pad so that a lap belt received in the right lap belt-positioning tether is retained in a selected position relative to the compliant contoured seat pad,
- whereby the seat pad is adapted to be removed from the vehicle passenger seat by only removal of the lap belt from the left lap belt-positioning tether and right lap belt-positioning tether.
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A booster seat adapted to be removably positioned on a vehicle passenger seat comprising
- a compliant contoured seat pad adapted to support a child seated on the booster seat,
- a left lap belt-positioning tether coupled to the compliant contoured seat pad and arranged to extend outwardly from a left side of the compliant contoured seat pad, the left lap belt-positioning tether configured to receive a lap belt, and
- a right lap belt-positioning tether coupled to the compliant contoured seat pad and arranged to extend outwardly from a right side of the compliant contoured seat pad, the right lap belt-positioning tether configured to receive the lap belt,
- wherein each of the left lap belt-positioning tether and the right lap belt-positioning tether includes a lap belt guide configured to receive and retain the lap belt and a lap belt strap that extends outwardly from the compliant contoured seat pad and the lap belt guides of the left lap belt-positioning tether and of the right lap belt-positioning tether coupled to a corresponding lap belt strap to move along the corresponding lap belt strap toward and away from the compliant contoured seat pad,
- whereby the seat pad is adapted to be removed from the vehicle passenger seat by only removal of the lap belt from the left lap belt-positioning tether and right lap belt-positioning tether.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.