AU2008101012A4

AU2008101012A4 - An infant seat for motorcars

Info

Publication number: AU2008101012A4
Application number: AU2008101012A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Manuel Jane Santamaria
Original assignee: Jane SA
Current assignee: Jane SA
Priority date: 2007-12-21
Filing date: 2008-10-16
Publication date: 2008-11-20
Anticipated expiration: 2016-10-16
Also published as: TWI436910B; CN101462505A; ES1066969Y; JP2009149291A; TW200927531A; ES1066969U; MX2008014901A

Description

AUSTRALIA

PATENTS ACT 1990 INNOVATION PATENT APPLICATION Name of Applicant: Actual Inventor/s: Address for Service: JANE, S.A.

Manuel JANE SANTAMARIA E.F. WELLINGTON CO., Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 312 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, Southbank, Victoria, 3006.

Invention Title: "AN INFANT SEAT FOR MOTORCARS" Details of Associated Provisional Applications Nos: The following statement is a full description of this invention including the best method of performing it known to us.

-1- 2 00 O O BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A There exist several means for securedly fitting infant 0 seats to motorcars, from among them being known the mechanical connectors being made up by two anchoring elements being fitted 5 to the base of the seat and arranged in a backwardly projecting arrangement, said anchoring elements being designed to engage an C element being solid with the motorcar, from among the Saforementioned mechanical connectors there existing those being Cknown as of the "isofix" type.

00 SSUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention has as its object an infant seat for motorcars which is prepared to directly come into engagement with the safety means being provided in the motorcar by using the anchoring system of the "isofix" type, said engagement being obtained in a simple and highly safe manner.

Said seat comprises a framework being fixedly attached to the lower face of its base and in a rearward position being fitted with the anchoring means, these latter being actuated by means of a pneumatic device being fitted to said framework and actuated by means of a control being accessible through the front edge of the base of the seat.

At the front edge of said base the manual controls are also to be found which are operable for deactivating the mechanism of the anchoring means.

The body of the pneumatic device is at its actuating end solid with a transversal carrier being fitted at its ends to the anchoring means, each of these latter being guidedly slidable in a respective box being solid with the respective side of the framework.

These and other characterising features will be best made apparent by the following detailed description whose understanding will be made easier by the accompanying sheet of drawings showing a practical embodiment being cited only by way of example not limiting the scope of the present invention.

00 DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS o In the drawings: Fig. 1 illustrates in a perspective view the base of the seat as seen from below its lower face and showing the anchoring means; Fig. 2 shows in a perspective view a detail of the controls as seen from behind their rearward portion; and Fig. 3 is a front perspective view of the base of the seat.

00 CD q DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to the drawings the infant seat for motorcars comprises a framework being fixedly attached to the lower face of its base and in its rearward portion being integrally provided with respective lateral boxes (4 and slidably housing the anchoring means of the "isofix" type, these latter comprising a locking mechanism being operable to engage a metal rod being solid with the motorcar.

These anchoring means are actuated by means of a pneumatic device being fitted to the framework and preferentially made up by a lockable gas spring being actuated by a control being made up by a lever being linked in a pinjointed connection and by means of pin to the base said control being accessible through an opening (10) being provided in the front edge (11) of the base The action of the pneumatic device on the anchoring means is carried out through a transversal carrier (12) being solid with the actuating end of the body (13) of the pneumatic device, the anchoring means being fitted to the ends of said transversal carrier.

At the front edge (11) of the base the controls (14 and are also to be found which are operable for deactivating the mechanism of the anchoring means said controls being each made up by a respective sliding piece being accessible through a 00 respective opening (16 and 17) and linked to the anchoring means by means of a corresponding rope (18 and 19).

0 O The infant seat will be fitted on top of the base and IN has not been depicted because it can be any of the conventional ones, or else it can be especially created for said base.

With reference to the use of the word(s) "comprise" or

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S"comprises" or "comprising" in the foregoing description and/or in the following claims, unless the contexto requieres eterice, Stose Word are usted on the basis and clear understanding that 00 10 they are to be interpreted inclusively, rather than exclusively, and that each of those words is to be so interpreted in construing the foregoing description and/or the following claims.

Claims

2. An infant seat for motorcars according to claim 1, characterised in that at the front edge of the base of the seat and on top of the control being made up by an articulated lever and operable for actuating the pneumatic device the manual controls are also to be found which are operable for deactivating the anchoring means.
3. An infant seat for motorcars according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the body of the pneumatic device is at its actuating end solid with a transversal carrier (12) being fitted at its ends to the anchoring means.
4. An infant seat for motorcars according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the anchoring means are each guidedly slidable in a respective box being solid with the respective side of the framework. An infant seat for motorcars according to any one of claims 2 to 4, characterised in that the manual controls being operable for deactivating the anchoring means are each made up by a respective sliding piece being linked to the corresponding anchoring means by means of a respective rope.