Child safety seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018236904-A1
Application number	US-201715790059-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 23, 2017
Priority date	Feb 22, 2017
Publication date	Aug 23, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A child safety seat is for use on a vehicle seat. The vehicle seat has two anchors. The child safety seat includes a seat back, a seat bottom, and a latch belt. The seat bottom is connected to the seat back for cooperatively providing a seating space with the seat back. The latch belt has a connection strap, first and second branch straps extending from the connection strap, and two latches respectively connected to the first and second branch straps. The connection strap is connected to the seat back and is routed around the seat back together with the first and second branch straps, so as to make the two latches located at two lateral sides of the seat back respectively to be detachably engaged with the two anchors for fixing the child safety seat on the vehicle seat.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A child safety seat for use on a vehicle seat, the vehicle seat having two anchors, the child safety seat comprising:
a seat back; a seat bottom connected to the seat back for cooperatively providing a seating space with the seat back; and a latch belt having a connection strap, first and second branch straps extending from the connection strap, and two latches respectively connected to the first and second branch straps, the connection strap being connected to the seat back and being routed around the seat back together with the first and second branch straps, so as to make the two latches located at two lateral sides of the seat back respectively to be detachably engaged with the two anchors for fixing the child safety seat on the vehicle seat.

2 . The child safety seat of claim 1 , wherein the seat back has a storage space formed at a rear side of the seat back for storing the latch belt, and one end of the connection strap is attached to the rear side of the seat back.

3 . The child safety seat of claim 2 , wherein when the connection strap is pulled out of the storage space, the connection strap is routed from the rear side toward a front side of the seat back for routing the first branch strap across the front side toward one lateral side of the seat back and routing the second branch strap along the other lateral side of the seat back.

4 . The child safety seat of claim 2 further comprising:
a cover openably pivoted to the seat back for covering the storage space.

5 . The child safety seat of claim 4 , wherein the storage space has a strap storage region for storing the connection strap and the first and second branch straps and two latch storage regions located at two side of the strap storage region for respectively storing the two latches, and the cover covers the strap storage region and partially covers the two latch storage regions for partially exposing the two latches.

6 . The child safety seat of claim 1 , wherein the first and second branch straps are connected as one continuous strap, and the connection strap forms a loop sliding along the continuous strap.

7 . The child safety seat of claim 5 , wherein a limiting rib protrudes from a side wall of the latch storage region and laterally abuts against the corresponding latch for holding the corresponding latch stored in the latch storage region.

8 . The child safety seat of claim 5 , wherein a positioning hole is formed at a top wall of the latch storage region, the latch has a positioning rib or a hook corresponding to the positioning hole, and the positioning rib is inserted into the positioning hole or the hook hooks the positioning hole for positioning the latch in the latch storage region.

9 . The child safety seat of claim 1 , wherein the seat back has a storage space formed at a front side of the seat back for storing the latch belt, and the connection strap is pulled out of the storage space for routing the first branch strap from the front side toward one lateral side of the seat back and routing the second branch strap from the front side toward the other lateral side of the seat back.

10 . The child safety seat of claim 9 , wherein the seat back has at least one engaging groove and a cover, the at least one engaging groove is formed at a side of the storage space, the cover is openably hinged to an opposite side of the storage space and has an engaging structure corresponding to the at least one engaging groove, and when the cover pivots to cover the storage space, the engaging structure is detachably engaged with the at least one engaging groove to fix the cover to the front side of the seat back.

11 . The child safety seat of claim 10 , wherein the engaging structure has a hook and a bending arm, the bending arm is connected to the hook and the cover for providing an elastic force to drive the hook to be engaged with the at least one engaging groove when the cover pivots to cover the storage space.

Assignees

• Wonderland Switzerland Ag

Inventors

• Lehman David Andrew
• Mason Kyle S

Classifications

• B60N2/286

  forward facing (B60N2/2866 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60N2/2806 Primary

  for securing the child seat to the vehicle · CPC title

• B60N2/2803 Primary

  Adaptations for seat belts · CPC title

• B60N2/2816

  with additional belt accessories, e.g. belt tension detectors · CPC title