Child seat

• US 7,237,840 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Issued: 07/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Combi Corporation (Matsuura Family)
• Original Assignee: Combi Corporation (Matsuura Family)
• Inventors: Furui, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn; David R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM
• Application Number:
  US10/878,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20040262967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 297/250.1, 297/256.1, 297/256.11, 297/256.13
• US Class Current: 297/256.1
• 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 2/2821 having a seat and a base part
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2851 provided with head-rests
• 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 2/2875 inclinable, as a whole or partially
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2878 the back-rest being inclinable

Abstract

In a child seat comprising a base unit fixed onto a seat of a vehicle by using a seat belt of the vehicle and a seat unit provided with a seat cushion portion and a seat back portion and fixable onto the base unit in a forward attitude with respect to the seat, a waist belt portion of the seat belt can be inserted between the base unit and the seat cushion portion in a lateral direction of the seat, and further, a waist belt guide for inhibiting the movement of the base unit forward of the seat by hooking the waist belt portion is provided in the base unit so as to hold the waist belt portion at a position nearer a fore end of the base unit.

Claims

1. A child seat comprising:

a base unit fixed onto a seat of a vehicle by using a seat belt of the vehicle; and

a seat unit including a seat cushion portion and a seat back portion and fixable onto the base unit in a forward attitude with respect to the seat of the vehicle, the forward attitude being defined as a manner that the seat cushion portion is located in front of the seat back portion, wherein

a waist belt portion of the seat belt can be inserted in a lateral direction of the seat of the vehicle between the base unit and the seat cushion portion placed on the base unit, and a waist belt guide for inhibiting the movement of the base unit forward of the seat of the vehicle by hooking the waist belt portion inserted between the base unit and the seat cushion portion is provided in the base unit so as to hold the waist belt portion at a position nearer a fore end than the center in a longitudinal direction of the base unit, and

the base unit is provided with a base body fixed to the seat of the vehicle and a slider disposed in a positionally adjustable manner in the longitudinal direction with respect to the base body, the seat cushion portion is fixed to the slider and the waist belt guide is fixed to the base body.

2. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein the waist belt guide is provided such that the waist belt portion is hooked in a state oriented substantially vertically in a width direction.

3. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein the base unit is provided with a restraining belt device which comprises a pair of shoulder belts for restraining a child sitting on the seat cushion portion and a crotch belt connected to the shoulder belts, one end of each of the shoulder belts and the crotch belt is fixed to a belt fixing portion of the slider, and the waist belt guide is provided such that the waist belt portion passes between the seat cushion portion and the base unit forward of a position of the belt fixing portion with respect to the crotch belt when the slider is positioned at a fore end within a movable range of the slider.

4. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein a recess, through which the waist belt portion passes, is formed on the lower side of the seat cushion portion so as to prevent any interference of the seat cushion portion with the waist belt portion over the entire region within the movable range of the slider.

5. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat cushion portion is movably disposed with respect to the base unit so as to allow the waist belt guide to be exposed.

6. The child seat according to claim 5, wherein the waist belt guide is exposed by lifting up the seat cushion portion around a cushion rotary shaft extending in the lateral direction of the seat of the vehicle disposed at an end in the longitudinal direction of the seat cushion portion.

7. The child seat according to claim 1, wherein a back supporter abutting against a seat back of the seat of the vehicle so as to support the seat back portion from a back side thereof is disposed in the base unit, and the back supporter is provided with a lock-off device for restraining a shoulder belt portion of the seat belt of the vehicle.