Children's safety seat with guide and tension device

• US 7,837,264 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2005
• Issued: 11/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HTS Hans Torgersen & Sonn AS
• Original Assignee: HTS Hans Torgersen & Sonn AS
• Inventors: Heinemeijer, Rob, van Mourik, Okke, Weernink, Sander, Rikhof, Johannes Hendrikus, van der Bijl, Willem Mees, Vertegaal, Henk
• Primary Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alex; James
• Application Number:
  US11/246,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20060244292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,869 Days
• Field of Search: 297/250.1, 297/216.11, 297/468, 297/473, 297/256.16
• US Class Current: 297/256.16
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2806 for securing the child seat to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2845 having handles
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2863 backward facing

Abstract

Children'"'"'s safety seat comprises—a seat body comprising a sitting section and a back section, wherein the back section and the sitting section has an inner surface for the support of a child and an outer surface whereto a seat belt, is to be arranged, a base onto which the seat body is arranged, a carrying handle pivotally connected to the safety seat wherein the outer surface of the back section is provided with a guide for the seat belt, wherein the guide comprises at least a first guide portion providing for the seat belt to essentially follow the curvature of the outer surface of the back section, at least a second guide portion providing for the seat belt to be arranged angular to the outer surface of the back section. The carrying handle is provided with at least one tension device preferably for the first portion of a seat belt wherein the carrying handle in a first position places the tension device in a position wherein access is provided for the seat belt to be attached to or released from the tension device, and wherein the carrying handle in a second position places the tension device in a position wherein the seat belt is tensioned by the tension devices a belt receiving structure for a seat belt which belt receiving structure is arranged between the base and the seat body and comprises a belt twisting portion, which seat belt is twisted by the belt twisting portion and arranged to be passing between the belt receiving structure and the seat body and between the belt receiving structure and the base.

Claims

1. Children safety seat for a vehicle having a seat belt, comprising a seat body arranged onto a base, and having a belt receiving structure for the seat belt arranged between the seat body and the base, the belt receiving structure comprising a seat belt folding portion being arranged horizontally or inclined in the width direction of the child safety seat, said seat belt folding portion comprising a first upper surface, a second lower surface and a common edge intermediate the two surfaces, wherein the upper and lower surfaces are arranged as contact surfaces for the seat belt, such that when in use a portion of the seat belt is arranged to be passing between the belt receiving structure and the seat body in contact with the first, upper surface of the seat belt folding portion, is folded over the common edge, and passes back in substantially the opposite direction between the belt receiving structure and the base in contact with the second, lower surface of the seat belt folding member, and thereafter buckled in the seat belt buckle of the vehicle.

2. A child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the upper and lower surfaces of the seat belt folding portion are parallel with each other.

3. A child safety seat according to claim 2, wherein the seat belt folding is in the form of a plate arranged horizontally, wherein the first upper surface is the upper surface of the plate and the second lower surface is the lower surface of the plate.

4. A child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat belt folding portion is arranged at an incline, with a first end of the seat folding portion connected to the base and a second end of the seat belt folding portion connected to the base.

5. A child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat belt folding portion is connected to a column that bears the weight of the seat body.

6. A child safety seat according to claim 5, wherein the seat belt folding portion is connected to the base by a first elongated guide member, connected at one end to the seat belt folding portion, and connected at a second end to a forward side of the base, when seen in the direction of travel, and wherein the seat belt folding portion is connected to the seat body by a second elongated guide member, connected at one end to the seat belt folding portion, and connected at a second end to the forward side of the seat body, when seen in the direction of travel.

7. A child safety seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat belt folding portion is connected to the base by a first elongated guide member, connected at one end to the seat belt folding portion, and connected at a second end to a forward, side of the base, when seen in the direction of travel, and wherein the seat belt folding portion is connected to the seat body by a second elongated guide member, connected at one end to the seat belt folding portion, and connected at a second end to the forward side of the seat body, when seen in the direction of travel.

8. A child safety seat as in any of the preceding claims, further comprising a seat belt tensioning device integrated into a rotatable carrying handle, said tensioning device being arranged to receive a portion of the seat belt when the handle is in a first position, and to tension the seat belt upon rotation of the handle to a second position.