Child safety seat with entertainment system

• US 5,624,156 A
• Filed: 03/25/1996
• Issued: 04/29/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: TLC Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: TLC Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Kaganas, Israel, Leal, Horacio, Leal, Teresita
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Application Number:
  US08/618,070
• Time in Patent Office: 400 Days
• Field of Search: 297/217.4, 297/217.3, 297/217.1, 297/250.1, 297/256.15, 297/219.12, 297/188.06, 297/188.18
• US Class Current: 297/217.4
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/72 Adaptations for incorporating lamps, radio sets, bars, telephones, ventilation, heating or cooling arrangements or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/723 with display screens
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/727 with speakers
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2839 having a front guard or barrier
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/286 forward facing B60N2/2866 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2872 provided with side rests
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2881 Upholstery, padded or cushioned members therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0217 for loud-speakers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0017 Head-rests
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 5/904 with sound emitting means

Abstract

An entertainment system includes a child'"'"'s seat such as a car seat, high chair, or stroller, an audio source supported on the seat, speakers positioned and disposed at preferred audible locations on the seat and conductors extending between and interconnecting the audio source to the speakers. A video device, interconnecting to the audio source, may further be provided for presenting a video picture at a preferred viewing orientation relative to a child in the seat.

Claims

1. An entertainment assembly comprising:

a seat including a base having an upper support surface, and a vertical portion including a backrest and opposite sides,

a safety bar hingedly attached at opposite ends to said seat, said safety bar being movable between a raised position and a lowered, secured position and including a mid-section extending across a front of said seat and generally disposed in front of a user'"'"'s lower torso and above a user'"'"'s waist when seated in said seat with said safety bar in said lowered position,

speaker means removably supported on the opposite sides of said vertical portion of said seat and structured to project sound therefrom in a direction which is audible to a user seated in said seat,

an audio source, remote from said speaker means, for generating sound signals to be delivered to said speaker means,

means for removably carrying said audio source on said seat, and

conductor means for electrically interconnecting said audio source to said speaker means.

2. An assembly as recited in claim 1 wherein said means for removably carrying said audio source on said seat includes a seat cover structured to be removably fitted to said seat in at least partially covering relation to said base and said vertical portion and including a pocket means for removable receipt of said audio source therein.

3. An assembly as recited in claim 2 wherein said speaker means are removably attachable to said seat cover.

4. An assembly as recited in claim 1 further including video means for presenting a video picture viewable to a user seated in said seat.

5. An assembly as recited in claim 4 wherein said video means is housed and positioned in an independent unit separate from said seat.

6. An assembly as recited in claim 4 wherein said video means is housed within said seat.

7. An entertainment assembly comprising:

a seat including a base having an upper support surface, and a vertical portion including a backrest and opposite sides,

speaker means removably supported on the opposite sides of said vertical portion of said seat and structured to project sound therefrom in a direction which is audible to a user seated in said seat,

an audio source, remote from said speaker means, for generating sound signals to be delivered to said speaker means,

means for removably carrying said audio source on said seat,

video means for presenting a video picture viewable to a user seated in said seat, and

conductor means for electrically interconnecting said audio source to said video means and said speaker means.

8. An assembly as recited in claim 7 wherein said video means is housed and positioned in an independent unit separate from said seat.

9. An assembly as recited in claim 8 wherein said video means is housed and contained within said seat.

10. An entertainment assembly comprising:

a seat including a base having an upper support surface and oppositely disposed arm rest panels, and a vertical portion including a backrest and upper side panels on opposite sides of said vertical portion, said opposite side panels extending along the opposite sides of the backrest from a top edge of the backrest to corresponding ones of the oppositely disposed arm rest panels,

a safety bar hingedly attached at opposite ends to said seat, said safety bar being movable between a raised position and a lowered, secured position and including a mid-section extending across a front of said seat and generally disposed in front of a user'"'"'s lower torso and above a user'"'"'s waist when seated in said seat with said safety bar in said lowered position,

speaker means removably supported on said seat and structured to project sound therefrom in a direction which is audible to a user seated in said seat,

an audio source, remote from said speaker means, for generating sound signals to be delivered to said speaker means,

means for removably carrying said audio source on said seat,

video means housed and contained within said safety bar for presenting a video picture viewable to a user seated in said seat, and

conductor means for electrically connecting said audio source to said video means and said speaker means.