Restraint and protection seat for infant

Patent 5527094 Issued on June 18, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date:

January 24, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Takata Corporation

Application

No. 188328 filed on 01/24/1994

US Classes:

297/250.1, SUPPLEMENTAL SEAT (E.G., CHILD SEAT, ETC.)297/463.1CHAIR HARDWARE OR ATTACHMENT (E.G., BRACKET, OPERATING LEVER, LEG EXTENSION, ETC.)

Examiners

Primary: Nelson, Milton Jr.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Kanesaka & Takeuchi

Foreign Patent References

0504618A1 EP. 09/21/1992

International Classes

A47C 001/08
472
476
479
480
463.1

Foreign Application Priority Data

1993-01-28 JP

Abstract

A restraint and protection seat for an infant is placed on a seat of a vehicle and restrained by a seat belt equipped in the vehicle. The restraint and protection seat is formed of a seat section, an infant restraint device attached to the seat section for holding a body of an infant when the infant is seated in the seat section, and a belt engaging device attached to a back surface of a seat back portion of the seat section. The belt engaging device includes an elongated base portion having a first pointed waveform surface, and a hook portion having a second pointed waveform surface corresponding to the first pointed waveform surface. The hook portion is spaced from the base portion to form a space therebetween smaller than the thickness of a seat belt in the vehicle. Thus, when the seat belt is inserted into the space between the base portion and the hook portion, the seat section is securely fixed to the seat belt.