Safety belt assembling device capable of assembling a child restraint system with a vehicle seat

• US 10,189,381 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2017
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
• Original Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
• Inventors: Williams, Bruce, Sellers, Gregory, Lehman, David Andrew, Mason, Kyle, Anderson, R. Scott, Hartenstine, Curtis
• Primary Examiner(s): White, Rodney B
• Application Number:
  US15/697,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20180079330A1
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 29725616
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/265 Adaptations for seat belts
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2806 for securing the child seat to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/025 Adaptations for use with children seats or luggages

Abstract

A safety belt assembling device is designed to assemble a child restraint system with a vehicle seat. The safety belt assembling device includes a child restraint having a sunken structure, a panel and a fastener mechanism. The child restraint is connected with the child restraint system. The panel is rotatably disposed on the child restraint and adapted to press a safety belt of the vehicle seat inside the sunken structure. The fastener mechanism includes a locking rod, at least one latching hook and a releasing actuator. The locking rod is disposed inside the sunken structure. The latching hook is rotatably disposed on the panel and utilized to detachably catch on the locking rod. The releasing actuator is rotatably disposed on the panel and connected with the latching hook. The releasing actuator is rotated from a flush position to a protruding position to disengage the latching hook from the locking rod.

Claims

1. A safety belt assembling device capable of assembling a child restraint system with a vehicle seat, the safety belt assembling device comprising:

a child restraint connected with the child restraint system, the child restraint having a sunken structure;

a panel rotatably disposed on the child restraint and adapted to press a safety belt of the vehicle seat inside the sunken structure; and

a fastener mechanism, comprising;

a locking rod disposed inside the sunken structure;

at least one latching hook rotatably disposed on the panel and utilized to detachably catch on the locking rod; and

a releasing actuator rotatably disposed on the panel and connected with the latching hook, the releasing actuator being rotated from a flush position to a protruding position to disengage the latching hook from the locking rod.

2. The safety belt assembling device of claim 1, wherein the fastener mechanism further comprises a first recovering component disposed between the latching hook and the panel, and utilized to engage the latching hook with the locking rod.

3. The safety belt assembling device of claim 1, wherein the fastener mechanism further comprises a second recovering component disposed between the releasing actuator and the panel, and utilized to press the releasing actuator from the protruding position to the flush position.

4. The safety belt assembling device of claim 1, wherein the latching hook comprises:

a pivot portion pivotally connected with the panel;

a first contact portion connected with the pivot portion; and

a hook portion connected with the pivot portion and opposite to the first contact portion, the hook portion being engaged with and disengaged from the locking rod in accordance with motion of the first contact portion.

5. The safety belt assembling device of claim 4, wherein the releasing actuator comprises a handle portion and a second contact portion connected with each other, the second contact portion contacts against the first contact portion, and motion of the first contact portion and the second contact portion are actuated by pull of the handle portion.

6. The safety belt assembling device of claim 5, wherein the panel comprises a concave structure whereinside the latching hook and the releasing actuator are disposed, and the handle portion align with an edge of the concave structure while the releasing actuator is located at the flush position.

7. The safety belt assembling device of claim 6, wherein a dimension of the concave structure is greater than a dimension of the handle portion.

8. The safety belt assembling device of claim 1, wherein the fastener mechanism further comprises a resilient component disposed between the latching hook and the panel.

9. The safety belt assembling device of claim 8, wherein the resilient component moves the latching hook to engage with the locking rod and simultaneously drives rotation of the releasing actuator.

10. The safety belt assembling device of claim 1, wherein the latching hook comprises:

a pivot portion pivotally connected with the panel; and

a hook portion connected with the pivot portion and engaged with the locking rod in a detachable manner.

11. The safety belt assembling device of claim 10, wherein the releasing actuator comprises a first handle portion and a second handle portion rotatably connected with each other, and an edge of the first handle portion detachably contacts against the second handle portion.

12. The safety belt assembling device of claim 11, wherein the panel comprises a concave structure whereinside the latching hook and the releasing actuator are disposed, the second handle portion is pushed into the concave structure to move the first handle portion from a first stage to a second stage to be exposed out of the concave structure, and the latching hook is still engaged with the locking rod.

13. The safety belt assembling device of claim 12, wherein the first handle portion and the second handle portion align with edges of the concave structure while the releasing actuator is set at the flush position.

14. The safety belt assembling device of claim 12, wherein when the second handle portion is static, the first handle portion is pulled outward from the second stage to a third stage to contact and disengage the latching hook from the locking rod.

15. The safety belt assembling device of claim 14, wherein the latching hook is synchronously rotated with rotation of the first handle portion while the first handle portion is moved from the second stage to the third stage.

16. The safety belt assembling device of claim 10, wherein the releasing actuator comprises a handle portion with a pull end and a push end opposite to each other, and a middle of the handle portion is rotatably disposed on the panel.

17. The safety belt assembling device of claim 16, wherein the panel comprises a concave structure whereinside the latching hook and the releasing actuator are disposed, the push end is pressed into the concave structure to move the pull end out of the concave structure.

18. The safety belt assembling device of claim 16, wherein the releasing actuator further comprises a contacting portion connected to the handle portion and abutting against the pivot portion, the latching hook is synchronously rotated with rotation of the releasing actuator via the contacting portion.

19. The safety belt assembling device of claim 10, wherein the latching hook further comprises a bridge portion located between the pivot portion and the hook portion, the releasing actuator presses the bridge portion to rotate and engage the latching hook with the locking rod.