Child safety seat

• US 10,688,892 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2018
• Issued: 06/23/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
• Original Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
• Inventors: Anderson, Robert Scott, Hutchinson, James M. F., Harmes, Clyde V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Abraham, Tania
• Application Number:
  US15/921,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20180264977A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2806 for securing the child seat to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2821 having a seat and a base part
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/286 forward facing B60N2/2866 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2863 backward facing
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2869 rotatable about a vertical axis
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2875 inclinable, as a whole or partially
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2878 the back-rest being inclinable

Abstract

A child safety seat includes a support base having a stop, a sliding carriage, a rotary platform having a follower part, and a child seat. The sliding carriage is slidable relative to the support base between a retracted and an extended position, and the child seat and the rotary platform are rotatable together relative to the sliding carriage and the support base between a forward and a rearward facing position. While the sliding carriage is in a position other than the retracted position, a rotational movement of the child seat and the rotary platform is limited by a contact between the follower part and the stop that keeps the child seat and the rotary platform apart from the forward facing position, and the stop is located outside a travel path of the follower part when the sliding carriage is in the retracted position for rotation of the rotary platform to the forward facing position.

Claims

1. A child safety seat comprising:

a support base suitable for placement on a vehicle seat, the support base having a stop;

a sliding carriage connected with the support base, the sliding carriage being slidable relative to the support base between a retracted position and an extended position;

a rotary platform, and a child seat disposed on the rotary platform, the rotary platform being pivotally connected with the sliding carriage, wherein the child seat and the rotary platform are rotatable together relative to the sliding carriage and the support base between a forward facing position and a rearward facing position, and the child seat, the rotary platform and the sliding carriage are slidable together relative to the support base; and

a follower part coupled to the rotary platform so that the follower part is movable along with the rotary platform, wherein a rotational movement of the child seat and the rotary platform occurring while the sliding carriage is located in a position other than the retracted position is limited by a contact between the follower part and the stop that keeps the child seat and the rotary platform apart from the forward facing position, and the stop is located outside a travel path of the follower part when the sliding carriage is in the retracted position to allow rotation of the child seat and the rotary platform to the forward facing position.

2. The child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the follower part is located adjacently behind the stop when the sliding carriage is in the retracted position and the child seat and the rotary platform are in the forward facing position.

3. The child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the support base includes an anchoring portion and a bearing portion connected with each other, the anchoring portion having a belt path for passage of a fastening belt to attach the child safety seat on a vehicle seat, the sliding carriage being connected with the bearing portion;

and wherein the child seat, the rotary platform and the sliding carriage being slidable together toward and away from the anchoring portion.

4. The child safety seat according to claim 3, wherein the follower part is fixedly connected with the rotary platform and protrudes at an underside of the rotary platform, and the stop is fixedly connected with the bearing portion.

5. The child safety seat according to claim 3, wherein the child seat and the rotary platform are rotatable together as a seat unit relative to the sliding carriage and the support base between the forward facing position and the rearward facing position, and the anchoring portion projects above the bearing portion and has a flange portion, the flange portion being located adjacent to a shoulder support region of the child seat and engaged with the seat unit when the sliding carriage is in the retracted position and the child seat and the rotary platform in the forward facing position, and the seat unit being disengaged from the flange portion in the rearward facing position.

6. The child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the sliding carriage carries a first latch for rotationally locking the rotary platform and the child seat with respect to the sliding carriage, and a second latch for slidably locking the sliding carriage with respect to the support base.

7. The child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the sliding carriage includes a latch operable to engage with and disengage from the rotary platform, the latch being engaged with the rotary platform for rotationally locking the rotary platform and the child seat in the forward facing position and the rearward facing position, the latch being disengaged from the rotary platform for rotation of the rotary platform and the child seat relative to the sliding carriage and the support base.

8. The child safety seat according to claim 7, wherein the sliding carriage further includes a release actuation mechanism that is coupled to the latch and includes a cable and a release actuator, the release actuator being operable to pull the cable and cause the latch to disengage from the rotary platform.

9. The child safety seat according to claim 8, wherein the latch is slidably assembled with a housing of the sliding carriage, and the release actuation mechanism further includes a driving member pivotally connected with the housing of the sliding carriage, the driving member being attached to an end of the cable and connected with the latch, whereby the release actuator is operable to pull on the cable and draw the driving member in rotation which in turn urges the latch to disengage from the rotary platform.

10. The child safety seat according to claim 9, wherein the rotary platform is rotatable relative to the sliding carriage and the support base about a pivot axis and has two locking holes disposed diametrically opposite relative to the pivot axis, and the latch is slidable substantially vertically relative to the housing of the sliding carriage to engage with and disengage from any of the two locking holes.

11. The child safety seat according to claim 8, wherein the latch is further connected with a spring, the spring biasing the latch for engagement with the rotary platform.

12. The child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the sliding carriage includes a latch operable to engage with and disengage from the support base, and a release actuator operatively connected with the latch, the latch being engaged with the support base for slidably locking the sliding carriage with respect to the support base, and the release actuator being operable to cause the latch to disengage from the support base for sliding of the sliding carriage relative to the support base.

13. The child safety seat according to claim 12, wherein the latch is pivotally assembled with a housing of the sliding carriage, and is rotatable to engage with and disengage from any of a plurality of locking openings provided on the support base.

14. The child safety seat according to claim 13, wherein the release actuator is connected with the latch via a linking part and is exposed at a front of the sliding carriage for operation.

15. The child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the child seat is slidably connected with the rotary platform, the child seat being slidable relative to the rotary platform and the support base for recline adjustment.

16. The child safety seat according to claim 15, wherein the child seat includes a recline lock movable between a locking and an unlocking state, the recline lock being engaged with the rotary platform in the locking state for locking the child seat in position with respect to the rotary platform, and the recline lock being disengaged from the rotary platform in the unlocking state for recline adjustment of the child seat relative to the rotary platform.

17. The child safety seat according to claim 16, wherein the recline lock is pivotally connected with a shell body of the child seat.

18. The child safety seat according to claim 17, wherein the child seat further including a release mechanism operable to urge the recline lock to move from the locking state to the unlocking state, the release mechanism including a first and a second release actuator respectively exposed at a front and a rear of the child seat and operatively connected with the recline lock, each of the first and second release actuator being independently operable to cause the recline lock to rotate from the locking state to the unlocking state.

19. The child safety seat according to claim 18, wherein the first release actuator is connected with the recline lock via a first linking part, the first linking part having a first end pivotally connected with the first release actuator and a second end slidably connected with the recline lock.

20. The child safety seat according to claim 18, wherein the second release actuator is connected with the recline lock via a second linking part, the second linking part having a first end connected with the second release actuator and a second end having a ramp disposed adjacent to the recline lock, the second release actuator being operable to draw the second linking part in movement, which urges the recline lock to rotate to the unlocking state via a sliding contact between the recline lock and the ramp.