VEHICULAR INFANT OCCUPANCY INDICATOR SYSTEM

• US 20160016520A1
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meyer, Richard W.
• Original Assignee: Meyer, Richard W.
• Inventors: Meyer, Richard W.
• Application Number:
  US14/801,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20160016520A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/002 Seats provided with an occupancy detection means mounted therein or thereon detection means responsive to presence or absence of children B60N2/266
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/28 Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/00 Elements for body-finishing, identifying, or decorating; Arrangements or adaptations for advertising purposes

Abstract

A baby-on-board indictor system including a placard reminder disposed on or integrated into a fabric seat back or seat bottom of a child car seat, and a placard removably affixed to the placard reminder. When the placard is removed from the car seat for temporary placement, it may be displayed in a vehicle window to alert outsiders that an infant is an occupant in the vehicle. When the infant is removed from the car seat, the placard reminder is readily seen and prompts a user to remove the placard from the vehicle window and replace it over the placard reminder. First responders are usefully informed of the actual presence of a child in a vehicle and not misled as to the presence of a child in the vehicle when a child is not, in fact, an occupant.

Claims

1. A vehicular infant occupancy indicator system for a child car seat in a vehicle, comprising:

a placard for display in the vehicle window, said placard bearing verbiage indicating that a child is an occupant in the vehicle;

seat mounting structure for removably affixing said placard to a child car seat;

a placard reminder for display on a surface of the car seat, said placard reminder including a visual indication that said placard ought to be removed from display and replaced over the placard reminder; and

window mounting structure for removably displaying said placard in a vehicle window.

2. The infant occupancy system of claim 1, wherein said placard is geometrically shaped in the form of a warning traffic sign.

3. The infant occupancy system of claim 2, wherein said placard is pentagonal.

4. The infant occupancy system of claim 1, wherein the child car seat includes a seat back cushion and said seat placard reminder comprises a fabric patch disposed on the seat back cushion.

5. The infant occupancy system of claim 4, wherein said fabric patch comprises a portion of the seat back fabric.

6. The infant occupancy system of claim 4, wherein said fabric patch is a separate article of fabric disposed on the seat back cushion.

7. The infant occupancy system of claim 1, wherein the child car seat includes a seat bottom cushion and said seat placard reminder comprises a fabric patch disposed on the seat bottom cushion.

8. The infant occupancy system of claim 7, wherein said fabric patch comprises a portion of the seat bottom fabric.

9. The infant occupancy system of claim 4, wherein said fabric patch is a separate article of fabric disposed on the seat bottom cushion.

10. The infant occupancy system of claim 1, wherein said window mounting structure comprises hook and loop fastener material.

11. The infant occupancy system of claim 1, wherein said window mounting structure comprises a hook.

12. The infant occupancy system of claim 1, wherein and placard includes a reflective perimeter stripe.

13. The infant occupant system of claim 1, wherein said placard includes reflective lettering.

14. A baby-on-board indicator, comprising:

a placard bearing an indication that an infant is an occupant of a vehicle, said placard bearing structure for removable affixation to an infant car seat;

a placard reminder disposed on a surface of the infant car seat, said placard reminder sized and shaped similarly to said placard, such that when said placard is removed from the car seat said placard reminder is exposed and visualizable.

15. The baby-on-board indicator of claim 14, wherein said placard reminder bears indicia to remind a user that said placard should be replaced to cover said placard reminder when an infant is removed from the car seat.

16. The baby-on-board indicator of claim 15, wherein said indicia comprises a symbol or words or a combination thereof.

17. The baby-on-board indictor of claim 15, further including seat mounting structure for affixing said placard to the car seat.

18. The baby-on-board indicator of claim 15, further including window mounting structure for removably placing and displaying said placard in a vehicle window.

19. The baby-on-board indictor of claim 18, wherein said window mounting structure comprises hook and loop material.

20. The baby-on-board indicator of claim 15, further including seat mounting structure for removably affixing said placard to a surface of the car seat.