Baby carrier

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018084923-A1
Application number	US-201715718875-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 28, 2017
Priority date	Sep 28, 2016
Publication date	Mar 29, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A baby carrier is provided. The baby carrier includes a body part, a pair of shoulder bands coupled to opposite sides of an upper portion of the body part, a waist band coupled to a lower portion of the body part, a load control unit which is coupled to the waist band and is changed to any one posture of a first posture and a second posture to switch a load-applied direction. A ratio of loads applied to the shoulder bands and the waist band is changed in response to the load control unit being changed from the one posture of the first posture and the second posture to the other posture of the first posture and the second posture.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A baby carrier comprising:
a body part; a pair of shoulder bands coupled to opposite sides of an upper portion of the body part; a waist band coupled to a lower portion of the body part; and a load control unit which is coupled to the waist band and is changed to any one posture of a first posture and a second posture to switch a load-applied direction, wherein a ratio of loads applied to the shoulder bands and the waist band is changed in response to the load control unit being changed from the one posture of the first posture and the second posture to the other posture of the first posture and the second posture.

2 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the load control unit does not receive a load applied to a coupling portion of the shoulder bands and the waist band in the first posture and disperses a portion of the load applied to the shoulder bands to the waist band in the second posture.

3 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the load control unit includes:
a base detachably coupled to the waist band, a hipseat hinge-coupled to the base and configured to rotate to the first posture that the hipseat is folded to the base and the second posture that the hipseat is unfolded to maintain a fixed angle to the base, and a posture maintaining unit configured to maintain a position of the hipseat in the one posture of the first posture and the second posture.

4 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the posture maintaining unit includes:
a locking shaft elastically movably disposed in any one of the base and the hipseat, and a locking groove which is formed in the other one of the base and the hipseat and the locking shaft is fixedly coupled thereto.

5 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 4 ,
wherein the locking groove includes a first groove and a second groove which the locking shaft is selectively inserted thereinto, and wherein the locking groove maintains the first posture in response to the locking shaft being inserted into the first groove and maintains the second posture in response to the locking shaft being inserted into the second groove.

6 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the first groove is formed in an arc shape along a rotation direction of the hipseat.

7 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the first groove includes a cam surface, which is inclined to a direction that a depth of the first groove is increased away from the second groove.

8 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 3 ,
wherein the posture maintaining unit includes:
a locking shaft elastically movably disposed in the hipseat, and
a locking groove which is formed in the base and the locking shaft is fixedly coupled thereto, and
wherein the locking shaft is disposed in an inner side or an outer side of the hipseat.

9 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 3 , wherein one end of the posture maintaining unit is hinge-coupled to the hipseat and maintains an unfolded state of the hipseat to the base in the second posture.

10 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim in 9 , wherein the other end of the posture maintaining unit is detachably fixed to the hipseat in the first posture and is held in the base in the second posture.

11 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 10 ,
wherein the posture maintaining unit includes:
a first snap coupling member disposed in any one of the base and the hipseat, and
a second snap coupling member disposed in the other one of the base and the hipseat, and
wherein the first and second snap coupling members are mutually snap-coupled in the second posture.

12 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the first and second snap coupling members are disposed in a portion in which the base and the hipseat are hinge-coupled.

13 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the posture maintaining unit includes:
a first link of which one end is hinge-coupled to the base, and a second link of which one end is hinge-coupled to the hipseat and the other end is hinge-coupled to a portion of the first link.

14 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the first link and the second link are mutually snap-coupled in the second posture.

15 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 14 , further comprising:
a protrusion formed in any one of the first link and the second link; and a groove, to which the protrusion is snap-coupled, formed in the other one of the first link and the second link.

16 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the posture maintaining unit further includes a third link of which one end is hinge-coupled to the hipseat and another end is slidably coupled to the second link.

17 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the third link is disposed in a truss structure with the second link in the second posture.

18 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the third link overlaps the second link in the first posture and the second link overlaps the first link in the first posture.

19 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the hipseat includes a hinge part hinge-coupled to the second link and the base includes a fixing groove to which the hinge part is detachably fixed in the first posture.

20 . The baby carrier as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the hipseat is formed to have a structure that opposite sides thereof are inclined.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kang Ji-Young
• Yoon Yeo-Hwan
• Lee Jung-Hun
• Kim Ju-Ho
• Park Do-Hyeong
• Baek Jae-Ho
• Lim Seong-Cheol

Classifications

• A47D13/025 Primary

  for carrying children in seated position · CPC title