Child safety seat

• US 10,576,849 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2017
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
• Original Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
• Inventors: Lehman, David Andrew, Mason, Kyle S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Islam, Syed A
• Application Number:
  US15/790,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20180236904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 2972501
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2806 for securing the child seat to the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/286 forward facing B60N2/2866 takes precedence

Abstract

A child safety seat is for use on a vehicle seat. The vehicle seat has two anchors. The child safety seat includes a seat back, a seat bottom, and a latch belt. The seat bottom is connected to the seat back for cooperatively providing a seating space with the seat back. The latch belt has a connection strap, first and second branch straps extending from the connection strap, and two latches respectively connected to the first and second branch straps. The connection strap is connected to the seat back and is routed around the seat back together with the first and second branch straps, so as to make the two latches located at two lateral sides of the seat back respectively to be detachably engaged with the two anchors for fixing the child safety seat on the vehicle seat.

Claims

1. A child safety seat for use on a vehicle seat, the vehicle seat having two anchors, the child safety seat comprising:

a seat back having a storage space formed at a rear side of the seat back, the storage space having a strap storage region and two latch storage regions;

a seat bottom connected to the seat back for cooperatively providing a seating space with the seat back;

a cover openably pivoted to the seat back for covering the storage space; and

a latch belt having a connection strap, first and second branch straps extending from the connection strap, and two latches respectively connected to the first and second branch straps, the strap storage region storing the connection strap and the first and second branch straps, the two latch storage regions being located at two side of the strap storage region for respectively storing the two latches, the cover covering the strap storage region and partially covering the two latch storage regions for partially exposing the two latches, the connection strap being connected to the rear side of the seat back and being routed around the seat back together with the first and second branch straps, so as to make the two latches located at two lateral sides of the seat back respectively to be detachably engaged with the two anchors for fixing the child safety seat on the vehicle seat.

2. The child safety seat of claim 1, wherein when the connection strap is pulled out of the storage space, the connection strap is routed from the rear side toward a front side of the seat back for routing the first branch strap across the front side toward one lateral side of the seat back and routing the second branch strap along the other lateral side of the seat back.

3. The child safety seat of claim 1, wherein the first and second branch straps are connected as one continuous strap, and the connection strap forms a loop sliding along the continuous strap.

4. The child safety seat of claim 1, wherein a limiting rib protrudes from a side wall of the latch storage region and laterally abuts against the corresponding latch for holding the corresponding latch stored in the latch storage region.

5. The child safety seat of claim 1, wherein a positioning hole is formed at a top wall of the latch storage region, the latch has a positioning rib or a hook corresponding to the positioning hole, and the positioning rib is inserted into the positioning hole or the hook hooks the positioning hole for positioning the latch in the latch storage region.