Chairs and seats – Crash seat – Force-absorbing means incorporated into child seat
Patent
1997-07-09
1998-09-01
Nelson, Jr., Milton
Chairs and seats
Crash seat
Force-absorbing means incorporated into child seat
29725615, 297181, B60N 242
Patent
active
058000127
ABSTRACT:
A child's vehicle safety seat having an impact pad assembly rotatably attached to the safety seat. The impact pad assembly is rotatable toward or away from a child riding in the safety seat, and the assembly includes a padded portion upon which the child impacts during a vehicular event such as a collision. The impact pad assembly further includes an adjustable bias that applies a continuous force to rotate the impact pad assembly toward the seat portion. A stop limits the impact pad assembly rotation in order to place the padded portion at a riding position proximate to the child seated within the vehicle safety seat. The adjustable bias provides a mechanism to either increase or decrease the continuous force that rotates the impact pad assembly toward the riding position. The continuous force is adjusted to the weight of a child riding in the safety seat so that if the child's head and/or torso impacts upon the padded portion, the force of the impacting child is greater than the continuous force. The impact pad assembly will then rotate away from the force of the impacting child toward an impact position thereby reducing the shock of impact. As the impact pad assembly rotates away from the impacting child, toward the impact position, the bias applies and increasing resistance that slows the rotating impact pad assembly to a stopped impact position, and a releasable lock mechanism is engaged to prevent the bias from causing "impact pad spring-back" toward the riding position.
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Jr. Milton Nelson
Masteller, Jr. Harold I.
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