Child car seat

• US 7,163,265 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2003
• Issued: 01/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Combi Corporation (Matsuura Family)
• Original Assignee: Combi Corporation (Matsuura Family)
• Inventors: Adachi, Kinji
• Primary Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu; Stephen
• Application Number:
  US10/671,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20040070246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• Field of Search: 297/250.1, 297/256.12, 297/256.16, 297/344.21, 297/256.13, 297/253, 248/131, 248/415, 248/416, 248/425
• US Class Current: 297/256.12
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2806 for securing the child seat to the vehicle
• 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 2/2863 backward facing
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2869 rotatable about a vertical axis
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2875 inclinable, as a whole or partially

Abstract

A child car seat comprises a base, and a seat main body supported by the base, in which the base is provided with a lower base portion mounted on a seat of a vehicle, and an upper base portion mounted so as to freely turn with respect to the lower base portion in such a manner as to reverse a direction with regard to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and having an upper surface to which the seat main body is mounted.

Claims

1. A child car seat comprising:

a base provided with a lower base portion to be mounted on a seat vehicle, and with an upper base portion mounted, via a connection, to the lower base portion so that the upper base portion rotates with respect to the lower base portion, the connection connecting the upper and lower base portions so that the upper base portion is repositionable with respect to the lower base portion from a first position where the upper base is facing a first direction to a second position where the upper base is facing a second direction 180 degrees opposite the first direction such a manner that repositioning the upper base portion from the first position to the second position reverses an orientation of the upper base portion with respect to the lower base portion and, when the base is mounted on the seat of the vehicle, a longitudinal direction of the vehicle; and

a seat main body supported by the base,

the upper base portion of the base having an upper surface, and

the seat main body being mounted on the upper surface of the upper base portion via a reclining mechanism, wherein,

the seat main body has a shell which is connected to the upper base portion via the reclining mechanism,

the base is provided with a bridge which covers at least a portion of the shell and is astride the shell in a lateral direction while allowing a reclining motion of the shell respect to the upper base portion and which the bridge has both ends fixed to the upper base portion, and which the bridge includes a belt fixing apparatus for fixing a seat belt of the vehicle to the base is mounted to the bridge.

2. A child car seat comprising:

a base; and

a seat main body supported by the base,

the base provided with a lower base portion to be mounted on a seat of a vehicle, the lower base portion connected to an upper base portion so that the upper base portion rotates with respect to the lower base portion, the upper base portion repositionable with respect to the lower base portion from a first position where the upper base is facing a first direction to a second position where the upper base is facing an opposite second direction in such a manner repositioning the upper base portion from the first position to the second position reverses an orientation of the upper base portion with respect to the lower base portion and, when the base is mounted on the seat of the vehicle, a longitudinal direction of the vehicle,

the base having an upper surface to which the seat main body is mounted, and

wherein the upper base portion is provided with a belt mounting portion for fixing the upper base portion to the seat of the vehicle by the seat belt of the vehicle.

3. The child car seat according to claim 2, wherein the belt mounting portion is provided with a belt fixing apparatus for fixing the seat belt to the base.

4. A child car seat comprising:

seat supporting portion to be clamped on a seat of a vehicle by a seat belt of the vehicle; and

a belt fixing apparatus mounted to the seat supporting portion, allowing the seat belt inserted to an inner portion thereof to move in one direction and inhibiting seat belt from moving to an opposite direction to the one direction,

wherein the belt fixing apparatus is rotatably mounted to the seat supporting portion from a first position where the belt fixing apparatus is facing a first direction to a second position where the belt fixing apparatus is facing an opposite second direction.

5. The child car seat according to claim 4, comprising a base provided as the seat supporting portion, and a shell provided so as to cover the base and mounted to the base in a state in which a reclining motion with respect to the base is possible,

wherein a bridge arranged so as to be astride the shell in a lateral direction from a front surface side while allowing a reclining motion of the shell and having both ends fixed to the base through the shell is provided on the base, and

the belt fixing apparatus is mounted on the bridge.

6. The child car seat according to claim 5, wherein a recess portion is provided in the front surface side of the shell, and the bridge and the belt fixing apparatus are received in the recess portion.

7. The child car seat according to claim 4, wherein the child car seat is provided a base provided as the seat supporting portion, and a seat main body provided as to be detachable with respect to the base, and the belt fixing apparatus is mounted to the portion of the base covered by the seat main body.

8. The child car seat according to claim 4, wherein the belt fixing apparatus is arranged in a center with respect to the lateral direction.