CHILD SEAT

• US 20080252122A1
• Filed: 03/24/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Vallentin, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,753,444 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/256.12
• 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 2/2893 coupled to the seat sub-frame

Abstract

A child seat attached to a vehicle seat comprises a base platform which is attached on the vehicle seat and comprises a guide groove and a child seat body which comprises a bottom face and a guided member which is fixed on the bottom face. The guided member being slidably engaged with the guide groove. The guide groove comprises a curved portion. The child seat can turn to a substantially lateral direction to a moving direction of a vehicle by the guided member being guided along the curved portion.

Claims

1. A child seat attached to a vehicle seat, comprising:

a base platform which is attached on the vehicle seat and comprises a guide groove; and

a child seat body which comprises a bottom face and a guided member which is fixed on the bottom face,

the guided member being slidably engaged with the guide groove,

wherein the guide groove comprises a curved portion, the child seat body can turn to a substantially lateral direction relative to a moving direction of a vehicle by the guided member being guided along the curved portion.

2. The child seat of claim 1, wherein the guide groove further comprises a straight portion which is arranged in parallel with the moving direction of the vehicle and formed in a rear portion of the base platform relative to the moving direction of the vehicle.

3. The child seat of claim 2, wherein the base platform further comprises a locking mechanism which fixes the guided member of the child seat body, and is located in the straight portion of the guide groove.

4. The child seat of claim 3, herein the locking mechanism fixes the child seat body facing either forward or backward.

5. The child seat of claim 1, wherein the base platform has an tapered portion formed in a front portion of a top face of the base platform relative to the moving direction of the vehicle, which inclines downward to a front relative to the moving direction of the vehicle.

6. The child seat of claim 1, wherein the guide groove comprises a straight portion formed in a rear portion of the base platform, the curved portion is connected to a front end of the straight portion.

7. The child seat of claim 6, wherein the curved portion comprises a first curved portion and a second curved portion, the first and the second curved portions are connected to the front end of the straight portion to form substantially Y-shaped guide groove.

8. The child seat of claim 7, wherein the guided member comprises a front guided member and a rear guided member, both the front and the rear guided members are slidably engaged with the guide groove, the front and the rear guided members respectively slide into the first and the second curved portions so that the child seat body turns to a substantially lateral direction relative to the moving direction of the vehicle.