CA2028211A1 - Child restraint seat for vehicles - Google Patents

Child restraint seat for vehicles

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CA2028211A1
CA2028211A1 CA 2028211 CA2028211A CA2028211A1 CA 2028211 A1 CA2028211 A1 CA 2028211A1 CA 2028211 CA2028211 CA 2028211 CA 2028211 A CA2028211 A CA 2028211A CA 2028211 A1 CA2028211 A1 CA 2028211A1
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seat
members
fasteners
child restraint
sun visor
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Akiko Takada
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Takata Corp
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47CCHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C1/00Chairs adapted for special purposes
    • A47C1/14Beach chairs ; Chairs for outdoor use, e.g. chairs for relaxation or sun-tanning
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60NSEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60N2/00Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles
    • B60N2/24Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles
    • B60N2/26Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles for children
    • B60N2/28Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle
    • B60N2/2839Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle having a front guard or barrier
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60NSEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60N2/00Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles
    • B60N2/24Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles
    • B60N2/26Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles for particular purposes or particular vehicles for children
    • B60N2/28Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle
    • B60N2/2857Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle characterised by the peculiar orientation of the child
    • B60N2/286Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle characterised by the peculiar orientation of the child forward facing

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Child & Adolescent Psychology (AREA)
  • Aviation & Aerospace Engineering (AREA)
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Abstract

Child Restraint Seat for Vehicles Abstract A child restraint seat for a vehicle includes a seat adapted to be placed on a seat of a vehicle and held in position by a seat belt with which the vehicle is equipped and a sun visor which can be removably mounted on a back seat of the seat at different angles.
The seat has engaged members of releasable fasteners mounted on the external surface of the back seat located over an area ranging from an upper portion of the seat back to two side shoulder restraint portions on each side of the seat back. The sun visor has engaging members of the releasable fasteners mounted thereon. The engaging members and the engaged members form mating pairs.

Description

Description Child Restraint Seat for Vehicles Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a child res~raint seat for vehicles and, more particularly, to a child restraint seat with a sun visor detachably mounted on a seat back thereof.

Backqround of the Invention Seat belt devices provided on a vehicle such as an automobile are not suitable for use with small children because they are designed only to restrain adult seat occupants. Hence, special child restraint seats for restraining a child who is a passenger in the vehicle have been developed and are used widely. For use, such a seat is placed on the seat of the vehicle and is held in place by a seat belt for an adult with which the vehicle is equipped.
Child restraint seats with a sun visor mounted thereon to block strong sunlight on sunny days have been proposed in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Nos. 103636/1987, 103637/1987 and ~03638/1987.
In such conventional child restraint seats, the sun visor is mounted on a seat back of the child seat by means of a fixture in such a manner that the angle between the seat back and the sun visor can be changed.
The fixture protrudes toward the seat occupant who sits next to the child, and the seat occupant may thus collide with the ixture when the vehicle is subjected to acceleration in the lateral direction.

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Summary of the Invention In view of the aforementioned drawback of the previously known child seat wi.th a sun visor, an object of the present invention is to provide a child restraint seat on which a sun visor can be mounted at different angles without the use of a complicated, projecting fixture.
According to the invention a child restraint seat for a vehicle is provided, the seat having a seat body arranged to receive and restrain a child and adapted to be placed on a seat of a vehicle and held in position thereon by a seat belt with which the vehicle is equipped and a sun visor removably attached to the seat body for positioning at different angles. The invention is characterized in that the seat body has a plurality of engaged members of releasable fasteners mounted on external surfaces of a seat back thereof over an area including an upper back portion of said surfaces and two side portions of said surfaces, said engaged members being disposed at predetermined intervals, and in that the sun visor has engaging members of the releasable fasteners mounted thereon, said engaging members and said engaged members of the releasable fasteners forming mating pairs and said engaging members being disposed at intervals such as to mate with different ones of said engaged members with the visor at different angles.
The invention is further characterized, in one embodiment, in that said engaged members and said engaging members of said fasteners comprise eye members and hook members of snap fasteners. In another embodiment, said engaged members and said engaging members of said fasteners comprise loop members and hook members of hook and loop cloth fasteners. In 3S still another embodiment, the engaged members are parts of loop members of hook and loop cloth fasteners that are mounted throughout the extent of said area of said f~J ~,3 f~ , ,?, 5 external surfaces of the seat back, such as in the form of panels of a cover over the seat back, and the engaging members are hook members of the hook and loop cloth fasteners.
S The invention is further characterized, preferably, in that the seat back of said seat body has shoulder restraint portions at each side thereof, and a plurality of fasteners are mounted on each of said shoulder restraint portions. Also, the engaged members of said fasteners are aligned in a horizontal direction on the upper back portion of the seat back and in a vertical direction on the slde portions. The sun visor is composed of a frame of a polymeric material having a rigidity great enough to maintain the shape of said sun visor, a fabric backing made of a thin fabric, and a fabric with a urethane resin laminated to it. The engaging members provided on the sun visor are disposed along a lower portion thereof on the fabric backing.
In the present invention, the angle at which the sun visor is mounted on the seat can be changed in several stages by engaging different ones of the engaging members of the fasteners provided on the sun visor selectively with different ones of the engaged members of the fasteners mounted on the external surfaces of the sides of the seat back.
In the seat in which the engaged surfaces having the loop members of the "Velcro" fasteners are provided on the seat back of the seat in place of the engaged members of the snap fasteners, the sun visor can be mounted on the seat at different angles with each angle shifted slightly with the same fastener members engaged.
Furthermore, in a seat in which panels of the outer cover of the seat orm the engaged loop members which can be engaged with the hook members on the 4- ~ ç~

~isor, the position or angle at which the sun visor is mounted on the seat can be freely changed over a continuous range of angles.

Description of the Drawinas Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of a child restraint seat according to the present invention;
Figs. 2A and 2R are, respectively, rear and side views of the seat of Fig. l;
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of the present invention; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a third embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the Embodiment Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a first embo~iment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the structure of the seat is similar to the seat described and shown in DE-OS 38 09 968 (October 13, 1988) and will thus be described below only briefly. The seat includes a base 1 and a seat body 2 which can be adjusted to various inclinations relative to the base 1. An abdominal pad 3a and a belt 3b are provided on the seat body 2 to restrain the body of a child. A
shoulder restraint portion 2b extends forwardly on each of the two sides of a seat back 2a of the seat body 2 to support the shoulders of the child who is seated on the seat and thereby support him or her on the seat against lateral movement.
In this embodiment, the seat bottom, seat back, arm rests and shoulder restraint portions are covered - by an outer cover S, and eye members 4 of snap 3~ fasteners are mounted on the outer cover S in an area - 5 ~ 7, ~

ranging from the upper portiorl of the rear surface of the seat back 2a to the ~xternal side surfaces of the shoulder restraint portions 2b.
Figs. 2A and 2B are, respectively, rear and side views of the seat of Fig. 1. As shown in Fig. 2A, three eye members 4 are disposed at predetermined intervals and aligned in a horizontal direction on the upper portion of the back surface of the seat back 2a.
Two eye members 4 are disposed separately from each other and in aliqnment in a vertical direction on the external side of each shoulder restraint portion 2b, as shown in Fig. 2B.
As shown in Fig. 1, a sun visor 5 is composed of a fabric overlaid on a urethane resin or a non-laminated fabric on the outside, a thin fabric backing on the inside, and three frames 5a of a polymeric material located between the fabric and the fabric backing. The frames 5a should have a rigidity high enough to maintain the shape of the sun visor in the transverse direction. The outside fabric is sufficiently stiff to make the visor self-supporting in the front-to-back direction, given its U-shaped configuration in the lateral direction as established by the frames 5a, but also deformable from front to back for adjustment to different angles ~see Fig. 3). The periphery of the sun visor 5 is sewed together. Seven hook members 6 of the snap fasteners are mounted on the lower portion of the fabric backing, three at the back portion and two along each side portion.
In the thus-arranged child restraint seat, the sun visor can be mounted on the seat body at different angles; i.e., it can be located at a position indicated by A where direct sunlight is blocked by attaching only the three fasteners at the upper back of the seat and the back portion of the visor, at an intermediate position indicated by B, and at a positîon indic~ted by C wher~ the sun visor can provide an adequate darkness for a child who is taking a nap, by selectively interlocking the seven members, as shown in Fig. 2B.
Fi~. 3 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of the preser.t inve~tion. In this embodiment, the basic structure of the seat is the same as that of the first embodiment. Accordingly, the same reference numerals are used to denote parts that are the same, and a description thereof is omitted. In the second embodiment, hook and loop cloth ("Velcro") fasteners are used in place of the snap fasteners employed in the first embodiment. Engaged surfaces 7 having loop mem~ers of the "Velcro" fasteners are provided on the outer cover S of the seat back 2a of the seat.
The sun visor of this embodiment has the same structure as that of the first embodiment except for the structure of the fasteners. The sun visor 5 has engaging surfaces 8 that are hook members of the "Velcro" fasteners.
In the second embodiment, the sun visor S can be mounted on the seat at several angles, as in the first embodiment. In addition to this, the second embodiment is characterized in that the angle at which the sun visor 6 i~ mounted on the seat body in each position can be shifted within a small range, because the areas of the "Velcro" fastener members 7 and 8 afford small ranges of adjustment.
~ig. 4 is a perspective view of a third embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the basic structure of the seat is the same as that of the second embodiment. Accordingly, the same reference numerals are used to denote parts which are the same as those of the second embodiment, and a description thereof is omitted. In the third embodiment, panels of loop cloth material are incorporated in the outer cover S for the seat back of the seat and form an engaged surface, parts of which can engage with the hook members of the "Velcro" fasteners.
The sun visor employed in the third embodiment is S the same as that used in the second embodiment.
Thus, in this embodiment, the an~le at which the sun visor 5 is mounted on the seat can be changed freely through a continuous range of angles.
Although the invention has been described in its preferred forms, it is understood that the present disclosure of the preferred forms can be changed in the details of construction without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims. For ex~mple, the hook members, which are provided on the sun visor in the above-described first embodiment, may be provided on the seat back with the eye members provided on the sun visor.
As will be understood from the foregoinq description, it is possible according to the present invention to shield a child who is seated on the child restraint seat from direct sunlight and thereby maintain a comfortable travelling environment for the child. The sun visor is mounted on the seat using simple fasteners. Consequently, no protrusions are present around the seat, and the design of the seat is not adversely affected.

Claims (9)

1. A child restraint seat for a vehicle having a seat body adapted to be placed on a seat of a vehicle and held in position thereon by a seat belt with which the vehicle is equipped and a sun visor removably attached to the seat body for positioning at different angles, characterized in that the seat body has a plurality of engaged members of releasable fasteners mounted on external surfaces of a seat back thereof over an area including an upper back portion of said surfaces and two side portions of said surfaces, said engaged members being disposed at predetermined intervals and in that the sun visor has engaging members of the releasable fasteners mounted thereon, said engaging members and said engaged members of the releasable fasteners forming mating pairs and said engaging members being disposed at intervals such as to mate with different ones of said engaged members with the visor at different angles.
2. A child restraint seat according to claim 1, and further characterized in that said engaged members and said engaging members of said fasteners comprise eye members and hook members of snap fasteners.
3. A child restraint seat according to claim 1, and further characterized in that said engaged members and said engaging members of said fasteners comprise loop members and hook members of hook and loop cloth fasteners.
4. A child restraint seat according to claim 1 and further characterized in that the engaged members are parts of loop members of hook and loop cloth fasteners that are mounted throughout the extent of said area of said external surfaces of the seat back and in that the engaging members are hook members of the hook and loop cloth fasteners.
5. A child restraint seat according to any of claims 1 to 4, and further characterized in that the seat back of said seat body has shoulder restraint portions at each side thereof, and in that a plurality of fasteners is mounted on each of said shoulder restraint portions.
6. A child restraint seat according to any of claims 1 to 4, and further characterized in that the engaged members of said fasteners are aligned in a horizontal direction on the upper back portion of the seat back and in a vertical direction on the side portions.
7. A child restraint seat according to any of claims 1 to 4, and further characterized in that said sun visor is composed of a frame of a polymeric material having a rigidity great enough to maintain the shape of said sun visor, a fabric backing made of a thin fabric, and a fabric with a urethane resin laminated to the fabric backing.
8. A child restraint seat according to any of claims 1 to 4, and further characterized in that said engaging members provided on said sun visor are disposed along a lower portion thereof on said fabric backing.
9. A child restraint seat according to claim 4 and further characterized in that the loop members in said area are portions of a cover over the seat back.
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