Vehicle child safety seat and harness cover

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9610866-B2
Application number	US-201314648118-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2013
Priority date	Nov 29, 2012
Publication date	Apr 4, 2017
Grant date	Apr 4, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle child safety seat includes: a seat main body on which an occupant sits; a seat belt for restraining the occupant to the seat main body, the seat belt including a shoulder harness having a long belt shape and facing a shoulder of the occupant; a shoulder pad placed between the shoulder of the occupant and the shoulder harness; and a harness cover formed in a pouch shape, having paired insertion holes through which the shoulder harness is passed so that the harness cover is attached to the shoulder harness, accommodating the shoulder pad therein, and having an opening so that the shoulder pad is put in and out via the opening in a state where the harness cover is attached to the shoulder harness.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle child safety seat comprising:
a seat main body on which an occupant sits;
a seat belt for restraining the occupant to the seat main body, the seat belt including a shoulder harness having a long belt shape and facing a shoulder of the occupant;
a shoulder pad placed between the shoulder of the occupant and the shoulder harness; and
a harness cover formed in a pouch shape, having paired insertion holes through which the shoulder harness is passed so that the harness cover is attached to the shoulder harness, accommodating the shoulder pad therein, and having an opening so that the shoulder pad is put in and out via the opening in a state where the harness cover is attached to the shoulder harness,
wherein a body portion of the harness cover includes a cutout portion.

2. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein the opening is opened in a width direction of the shoulder harness.

3. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the harness cover includes: the body portion formed in a pouch shape so as to accommodate the shoulder pad therein and having the paired insertion holes and the opening; a door portion extended from an edge portion of the opening in the body portion and folded toward the body portion so as to cover the opening; and a door latch portion for latching, to the body portion, the door portion thus folded toward the body portion.

4. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the harness cover includes: the body portion formed in a pouch shape so as to accommodate the shoulder pad therein and having the paired insertion holes and the opening; and a nonslip portion attached to that surface of the body portion which faces the shoulder of the occupant and having that coefficient of surface friction which is set to be higher than that of the body portion.

5. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 3 , wherein
the harness cover includes a nonslip portion attached to that surface of the body portion which faces the shoulder of the occupant and having that coefficient of surface friction which is set to be higher than that of the body portion.

6. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein the opening of the harness cover has a linear dimension that is shorter than a length of the shoulder pad, such that when the shoulder pad is put in and out from the harness cover, the shoulder pad is bent.

7. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 3 , wherein
the cutout portion is formed in the edge portion of the opening toward a side opposite to a side where the door portion is extended.

8. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein the shoulder pad includes: a hold member formed of a material having a flexibility, and including an elongated tabular portion placed along the shoulder harness; and a plurality of hard members each formed of a material that is harder than the hold member, the plurality of hard members being attached to that surface of the tabular portion which faces the shoulder harness, with intervals therebetween in a longitudinal direction of the tabular portion.

9. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the shoulder pad is formed in an elongated shape along a longitudinal direction of the shoulder harness, and paired guide claws facing respective end portions of the shoulder harness in its width direction from a side opposite to the shoulder of the occupant are provided on either end portion of the shoulder pad in its longitudinal direction.

10. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 1 , wherein two harness covers are provided so as to make contact with right and left shoulders of the occupant;
the two harness covers are connected to each other via a strap; and
the strap is connected to the seat main body.

11. The vehicle child safety seat according to claim 3 , wherein
the door portion covers the opening and the insertion holes.

12. A harness cover comprising:
a body portion formed in a pouch shape, having paired insertion holes through which a shoulder harness provided in a seat belt for restraining an occupant sitting on a vehicle child safety seat is passed so that the body portion is attached to the shoulder harness, accommodating a shoulder pad therein, and having an opening so that the shoulder pad is put in and out via the opening in a state where the body portion is attached to the shoulder harness, wherein the body portion includes a cutout portion;
a door portion extended from an edge portion of the opening in the body portion and folded toward the body portion so as to cover the opening; and
a door latch portion for latching, to the body portion, the door portion folded toward the body portion.

13. The harness cover according to claim 12 , further comprising:
a strap attached to the body portion and connecting the harness cover to another harness cover.

14. The harness cover according to claim 12 , wherein the door portion covers the opening and the insertion holes.

Assignees

• Mitsuo Tetsu
• Yukita Yukihiro
• Nakagawa Osamu
• Sakumoto Masayuki
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mitsuo Tetsu
• Yukita Yukihiro
• Nakagawa Osamu
• Sakumoto Masayuki

Classifications

• B60R22/105

  for children (adaptation of children's seats for seat belts B60N2/265, B60N2/2803) · CPC title

• B60R22/14

  incorporating enlarged restraint areas, e.g. vests, nets {, crash pads, optionally for children (crash pads for occupants' safety on vehicles in general B60R21/02)} · CPC title

• B60R2022/006

  Sleeve or tubular members enveloping the seat belt for enhancing comfort or protection · CPC title

• B60N2/265 Primary

  Adaptations for seat belts · CPC title

• B60N2002/2818

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic