WO2022231565A1 - Harnais de sécurité pour enfant - Google Patents

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WO2022231565A1
WO2022231565A1 PCT/US2021/029062 US2021029062W WO2022231565A1 WO 2022231565 A1 WO2022231565 A1 WO 2022231565A1 US 2021029062 W US2021029062 W US 2021029062W WO 2022231565 A1 WO2022231565 A1 WO 2022231565A1
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Harvest Morgan
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R22/00—Safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles
    • B60R22/10—Safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles specially adapted for children or animals
    • B60R22/105—Safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles specially adapted for children or animals for children

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  • the present invention generally relates to safety devices. More specifically, the present invention relates to a child safety harness that is mounted to an existing seat belt, the child safety harness used for securing children to a seat in a vehicle.
  • the vehicle may include, but not limited to, a car, truck, bus, aircraft and other vehicles including ships.
  • the seat belts include a shoulder belt and/or a lap belt.
  • the seat belts help passengers in the vehicle to strap themselves to the seat.
  • the seat belts protect the passengers from falling off the seat at the time of sudden deceleration or impact of the vehicle.
  • the seat belts help the passengers to protect themselves, they are not suitable for strapping children. This is because; the existing seat belts are not suitable for the children due to their size and configuration and as a result cause the child to be thrown away from the seat upon rapid deceleration or impact of the vehicle.
  • infant/child safety seats and harnesses are used in the vehicles for strapping young children to the seat.
  • Several designs of the child safety seats and harnesses used for strapping young children to the seat are disclosed in the past.
  • the midsection is curved, such that opposing side sections of the strap extend in substantial parallelism from the midsection.
  • Each of a pair of second straps is coupled to and extends between the opposing side sections.
  • the second straps are substantially evenly spaced between the midsection and opposing ends of the first strap.
  • a third strap has a first endpoint that is coupled to the midsection equally distant from the opposing ends of the first strap.
  • I three couplers is coupled singly to the opposing ends and the third strap.
  • the second straps and the third strap are length adjustable.
  • the couplers are configured to couple to anchors of the vehicle to couple the child to the vehicle.
  • a child safety restraint for a vehicle seat having a safety belt includes a stress plate having at least one safety belt slot for receiving the safety belt to secure the restraint to the seat. Additionally, at least one harness slot and a harness for releasably securing a wearer's back to the stress plate, the harness including a pair of shoulder straps and a crotch strap secured at one end to the shoulder straps is disclosed. The shoulder straps are configured to each pass through a respective harness slot in the plate so that the harness is slidably engaged on the plate.
  • a safety harness having a chest strap received over a user's shoulders, a crotch strap received between a user's legs and selectively attachable to the chest strap. Additionally, a back panel received against a user's back, the back panel being interposed between the crotch strap and chest strap is disclosed.
  • the back panel is substantially the width of the user's shoulders and the height of the user's torso to evenly disperse and dissipate forces from sudden movements acted upon a user when the harness is secured to a vehicular seatbelt.
  • US5063879A it is disclosed that an apparatus for holding a child on the lap of an adult while traveling in a moving vehicle.
  • the apparatus generally comprises a body-surrounding means, such as a harness, strap, vest, torso band, woven member, fabric belt, or other structure positionable about the body of a child and attachable to some stationarily anchored member or portion of the vehicle.
  • the body surrounding means is attachable to a standard lap seat belt, such as those provided to adult passengers on commercial airliners.
  • the child safety seats and harnesses discussed above are capable of securing a child to a seat in a vehicle, they have several disadvantages. For instance, due to their structure, active and/or bored children may find the child safety seats and harnesses discussed above to be too restrictive and the resent the idea of being forced to use the child safety seats and harnesses. Further, some of the child safety seats and harnesses are permanently mounted to the existing seats or seat belts even when the children are not riding in the car. As a result, it may cause inconvenience to l adult passengers when they sit on the seats. Furthermore, the child safety seats and harnesses discussed above take considerable time to install i.e., put on the child or extract the child in case of an emergency.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view of a child safety harness 10, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a top view of the child safety harness 10 in which a lap belt 50 and a shoulder belt 60 are mounted to a back strap 25 of the child safety harness 10, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a connector 26 used for mounting the child safety harness 10 to a lap belt 50 and a shoulder belt 60, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a perspective view and a top view of a child safety harness 100, respectively, in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 6 illustrates the child safety harness 100 used to secure children K to the lap belt 150 and a shoulder belt 160, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the present invention discloses a child safety harness for securing children to a seat of a vehicle.
  • the child safety harness comprises a pair of shoulder straps, a torso strap mounted to the pair of shoulder straps, and a back strap mounted to the pair of shoulder straps and the torso strap.
  • the child safety harness comprises a crotch strap mounted to the torso strap and the back strap.
  • the child safety harness comprises a connector provided at the back strap.
  • the pair of shoulder straps, the torso strap, the back strap and the crotch strap are positioned over a child and strapped.
  • a lap belt and shoulder belt of a vehicle is mounted to a seat.
  • the connector is used to mount the child safety harness to the lap belt and shoulder belt via the back strap for securing the child to the seat of the vehicle.
  • FIGS 1-6 Various features and embodiments of a child safety harness for securing children to a seat of a vehicle are explained in conjunction with the description of FIGS 1-6.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 a perspective view and a top view, respectively of a child safety harness 10 to be used in a vehicle for securing a child to a seat is shown, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the child safety harness 10 comprises a pair of shoulder straps 15.
  • the child safety harness 10 further comprises a torso strap 20 mounted to the pair of shoulder straps 15.
  • the child safety harness 10 comprises a back strap 25 mounted to the pair of shoulder straps 15 and the torso strap 20.
  • the child safety harness 10 comprises a connector 26 indicative of a strap such as a buckle at the back strap 25.
  • the connector 26 is shown.
  • the connector 26 may comprise a male connector 27 and a female connector 28. It should be understood that the male connector 27 and the female connector 28 are mounted to connect the connector 26 to other objects.
  • the connector 26 is provided at the back strap 25 to mount the back strap 25 to a lap belt 50 and a shoulder belt 60.
  • the child safety harness 10 comprises a crotch strap 30 mounted to the torso strap 20 and the back strap 25.
  • a seat (not shown) of a vehicle (not shown) comprises the lap belt 50.
  • the lap belt 50 comprises a free end 52 at one end and a buckle 54 at the other end.
  • the seat comprises the shoulder belt 60.
  • the shoulder belt 60 comprises a free end 62 and a buckle 64. It should be understood that the buckle 54 of the lap belt 50 and the buckle 64 of the shoulder belt 60 might indicate a respective male buckle.
  • the free end 52 of the lap belt 50 and free end 62 of the shoulder belt 60 are mounted to the seat such that buckle 54 of the lap belt 50 and the buckle 64 of the shoulder belt 60 are mounted to the seat to fasten the lap belt 50 and the shoulder belt 60 to the seat.
  • the lap belt 50 and the shoulder belt 60 are typical seat belts that come in vehicles.
  • the lap belt 50 and the shoulder belt 60 are threaded through the back strap 25 with the help of the connector 26, as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the FIGS. 1 to 3 are shown to illustrate that the child safety harness 10 is used for securing one child to the seat or the seat belt.
  • the pair of shoulder straps 15 is positioned over the shoulders of the child.
  • the torso strap 20 comes over the torso area of the child and the back strap 25 comes over back i.e., spine area of the child.
  • the crotch strap 30 is extended under the crotch and between the legs of the child.
  • the crotch strap 30 is mounted to the torso strap 20 and the back strap 25. It should be understood that each of the shoulder straps 15, the torso strap 20, the crotch strap 30 and the back straps 25 are mounted for example using a buckle to enable rapid and uncomplicated release of the child from the child safety harness 10.
  • any suitable type(s) of buckle(s) or closure mechanism(s) may be employed to mount the shoulder straps 15, the torso strap 20, the crotch strap 30 and the back straps 25 to enable rapid and uncomplicated release of the child from the child safety harness 10.
  • the lap belt 50 and the shoulder belt 60 are mounted to the back strap 25 with the help of the connector 26.
  • the male connector 27 of the connector 26 is inserted into the female connector 28 of the connector 26.
  • the connector 26 when joined or buckled, is sufficiently sturdy to endure any foreseeable inertial or strain placed on the connector 26 such that the connector 26 ensures the child safety harness 10 is mounted to the lap belt 50 and the shoulder belt 60 via the back strap 25 during sudden deceleration or impact of the vehicle.
  • FIGS 4 to 6 a child safety harness 100 used in a vehicle for securing a child to a seat or seat belt are shown, in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 show a perspective view and a top view of the child safety harness 100, respectively.
  • the child safety harness 100 comprises shoulder straps 115.
  • the shoulder straps 115 include two pairs of shoulder straps 115 as shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5. It should be understood that the two pairs of shoulder straps 115 is used to secure two children at a time.
  • the child safety harness 100 might also be used to secure three or more children to the seat and/or seat belt. As such, three or more pairs of shoulder straps 115 might be provided to secure three or more children to the seat and/or seat belt.
  • the child safety harness 100 further comprises a pair of torso straps 120, each mounted to the respective pair of shoulder straps 115. Further, the child safety harness 100 comprises a pair of back straps 125; each mounted to the respective pair of shoulder straps 115 and the respective torso straps 120. Further, the child safety harness 100 comprises connectors 126 (similar to connector 26 shown in FIG. 3) indicative of a strap such as a buckle at the back straps 125.
  • the child safety harness 100 comprises a pair of crotch straps 130, each mounted to the respective torso straps 120 and the respective back straps 125.
  • the child safety harness 100 comprises a lap belt 150 that comes with a seat S (shown in FIG. 6) of a vehicle (not shown) as known in the art.
  • the lap belt 150 comprises a free end 152 at one end and a buckle 154 at the other end.
  • the seat S comprises a shoulder belt 160.
  • the shoulder belt 160 comprises a free end 162 and a buckle 164.
  • one end of the lap belt 150 and one end of the shoulder belt 160 is mounted to the seat S, as such in the current embodiment, the free end 152 of the lap belt 150 and the free end 162 of the shoulder belt 160 are mounted to the seat using known mechanism.
  • FIG. 6 the child safety harness 100 used to secure children K to the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 is shown, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • the two pairs of shoulder straps 115 in which each pair of the shoulder straps 115 is placed over the shoulders of children K.
  • the torso straps 120 comes over the torso area of children K and the back straps 125 comes over the back i.e., spine area of children K.
  • each of the crotch straps 130 is extended under the crotch and between the legs of children K.
  • the crotch straps 130 is mounted to the respective torso straps 120 and the respective back straps 125. It should be understood that each pair of the shoulder straps 115, the torso straps 120, the crotch straps 130 and the back straps 125 are mounted for example using a buckle to enable rapid and uncomplicated release of the child from the child safety harness 100. Alternatively, any suitable type(s) of buckle(s) or closure mechanism(s) may be employed to mount the pair of shoulder straps 115, the torso straps 120, the crotch straps 130 and the back straps 125.
  • seat S might indicate a front seat or rear seat of a vehicle.
  • the vehicle may include, but not limited to, a car, truck, bus, aircraft and other vehicles including ships.
  • the seat belts i.e., the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 are drawn through the back straps 125 provided to children K. In other words, the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 go through the back or adjacent to the back straps 125.
  • the connectors 126 provided at the respective back straps 125 is used to firmly mount the back straps 125 to the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160.
  • the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 are mounted or locked to the seat S as known in the prior art. That is, the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 are buckled to the seat S, similar to seat belt used to secure an adult passenger.
  • the connectors 126 provided at back straps 125 ensures that the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 are firmly mounted to the back straps 125.
  • the child safety harness 100 ensures that the children K are firmly secured to the seat S with the help of the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 of the vehicle.
  • the child safety harness 100 ensures that the children K are removably mounted to the lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 with the help of the connectors 126, the children K are strapped to the seat S and are protected from falling off the seat at the time of sudden deceleration or impact of the vehicle.
  • each of the straps such as the shoulder straps 115, the torso straps 120, the back straps 125 and the crotch straps 130 is capable of being adjusted in length.
  • an adult passenger can adjust the length of each of the shoulder straps 115, the torso straps 120, the back straps 125 and the crotch straps 130 such that the child safety harness 100 can be used to secure children K of different ages to the seat S.
  • the adult passenger may demount the connectors 126 such that the back straps 125 of the child safety harness 100 are released from the seat belts. Subsequently, the adult passenger may demount the buckles provided at the shoulder straps 115 or the torso straps 120 or the back straps 125 or the crotch straps 130. After removing the child safety harness 100, the adult passenger may store the child safety harness 100 in a boot space of the vehicle. Based on the above, it should be understood that the child safety harness 100 is easy to install or to remove from the child
  • the straps such as the shoulder straps 115 or the torso straps 120 or the back straps 125 or the crotch straps 130, and the seat belts such as lap belt 150 and the shoulder belt 160 are provided with a buckle to enable rapid and uncomplicated install or release of the child K from the child safety harness 100
  • any suitable type(s) of buckle(s) or closure mechanism(s) including, but not limited to hook-and-loop, buttons, clasps, and snaps may be employed to secure the children K to the seat belts of the vehicle using the child safety harness 100.
  • the child safety harness can be used with existing seat belts present in the vehicle.
  • the child safety harness may also be provided as an accessory with a new vehicle in that the passengers can mount the child safety harness to the seat belts whenever they need to take a child for a ride in the vehicle.
  • the back strap may be provided with an aperture to receive the lap belt and the shoulder belt.
  • the back strap is not provided with the connector as explained above.
  • the lap belt and the shoulder belt are received in the aperture provided at the back strap of the child safety harness to mount the seat belt to the child safety harness.
  • the child safety harness is made of any suitable high tensile strength, non-stretchable woven belt material surrounded by relatively high-density foam, such as thermoplastic foam, substantially enclosed by an attractive fabric cover with the belt encased in the foam providing the tensile strength for physical restraint of the child.
  • the child safety harness has several embodiments for industrial applicability.
  • the child safety harness may be implemented into existing vehicles in order to the safety of a child within a vehicle.
  • the harness may be provided as being included with a vehicle or may be offered as an accessory to the vehicle that may be sold separately.
  • the safety harness is comfortable to the child without compromising their safety within the vehicle.
  • the child safety harness comprises a pair of shoulder straps, a torso strap mounted to the pair of shoulder straps, and a back strap mounted to the pair of shoulder straps and the torso strap.
  • the child safety harness comprises a connector provided at the back strap.
  • the connector allows the child safety harness to be easily removable from the seat of the car.
  • the connector is used to mount the child safety harness to the seat belt via the back strap to secure the child to the seat of the vehicle.

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L'invention concerne un harnais de sécurité pour enfant permettant d'attacher des enfants au siège d'un véhicule. Le harnais de sécurité pour enfant comprend une paire de sangles d'épaule, une sangle de torse montée sur la paire de sangles d'épaule, et une sangle de dos montée sur la paire de sangles d'épaule et la sangle de torse. Par conséquent, le harnais de sécurité pour enfant peut convenir à tous les enfants et soulage l'inconfort provoqué par d'autres harnais. Le harnais de sécurité pour enfant comprend un accouplement disposé au niveau de la sangle de dos. L'accouplement permet de retirer facilement le harnais de sécurité pour enfant du siège de la voiture. L'accouplement est utilisé pour monter le harnais de sécurité pour enfant sur la ceinture de sécurité par l'intermédiaire de la sangle de dos pour attacher l'enfant au siège du véhicule. Dans un mode de réalisation, le harnais de sécurité pour enfant est conçu pour attacher de multiples enfants en utilisant une ceinture abdominale et une ceinture d'épaule.
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