Child seat intended to be fastened to a vehicle seat by means of a safety belt

• US 5,810,435 A
• Filed: 06/27/1997
• Issued: 09/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ampafrance SA
• Original Assignee: Ampafrance SA
• Inventors: Surot, Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Cranmer, Laurie K.
• Application Number:
  US08/883,765
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• Field of Search: 297/250.1, 297/476, 297/254, 297/464, 297/216.11
• US Class Current: 297/250.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2806 for securing the child seat to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2812 for securing the child to the child seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2816 with additional belt accessories, e.g. belt tension detectors
• 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 2/2887 Fixation to a transversal anchorage bar, e.g. isofix

Abstract

Child seat intended to be fastened to a vehicle seat by means of a safety belt

Child seat comprising a sitting part 5 and a back part 6 and intended to be placed on and fastened to an automobile seat 4 equipped with a three-point rewinding safety belt 26 comprising a lap portion 26b and a chest portion 26a, the back part comprising, on its rear face, a means 25a for guiding the chest portion 26a of the safety belt, characterized in that said seat comprises a rotary element 33 equipped with an open loop 32 allowing the passage of the chest portion 26a of the safety belt and a means 35 for driving the rotary element 33 in rotation in a single direction, so as to tension the safety belt counter to the inertia system of the rewinder 28.

Claims

1. A child seat comprising a sitting part and a back part with a front and rear face, adapted to be placed on a vehicle seat of an automobile and fastened to said vehicle seat by way of a three-point rewinding safety belt with which said vehicle seat is equipped said three-point rewinding safety belt comprising a lap portion and a chest portion and being attached to the automobile through a rewinder means, wherein the rear face of the back part of the child seat has means for guiding said chest portion of the three-point rewinding safety belt and the child seat further comprises:

a rotary element with a retaining means allowing passage of the chest portion of said three-point rewinding safety belt and

a means for rotating said rotary element in a single direction so as to tension the safety belt counter to said rewinder means.

2. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein the rotary element comprises a transverse bar mounted, for the purpose of its rotation, behind the back part.

3. The child seat according to claim 1, characterized in that the means for driving in rotation comprise a reciprocating operating lever equipped with a pawl cooperating with a ratchet wheel.

4. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein means are provided for the passage of the lap portion of the safety belt, so as to participate in retaining the child seat on the vehicle seat.

5. A child seat according to claim 1, wherein the child seat comprises a bucket, defining the sitting part and the back part, and a reinforcement (3), supporting the bucket and wherein the child seat is placed on and fastened to the vehicle seat.

6. A child seat according to claim 5, wherein the rotary element comprises a transverse bar is mounted on bearings fixed to a rear framework of the reinforcement.

7. A child seat according to claim 6, wherein a U-shaped transverse spacing bar coming to bear on a back of the vehicle seat is fastened to a rear part of the reinforcement, so as to make it possible for the lap portion of the belt to pass between said rear part of the reinforcement and the U-shaped transverse spacing bar.