Patent ID: 9315126
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: B60N

Claim Text:
1. A child restraint comprising a juvenile vehicle seat including a seat bottom and a seat back, the seat back including a backrest arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom, a headrest including a rear panel coupled to an upper portion of the backrest, a first side-wing panel coupled to a first side of the rear panel and arranged to extend forwardly away from the rear panel and to lie above the seat bottom, and a second side-wing panel coupled to an opposite second side of the rear panel and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first side-wing panel to extend forwardly away from the rear panel and to lie above the seat bottom, wherein each of the rear, first side-wing, and second side-wing panels and the backrest have an interior surface defining an occupant-receiving space and an oppositely facing exterior surface, wherein an energy-dissipation system is coupled to at least a part of the exterior surface of the first and second side-wing panels, wherein the energy-dissipation system includes a first force dissipater coupled to an exterior surface of the first side-wing panel and a second force dissipater coupled to an exterior surface of the second-side wing panel, and wherein the first and second force-dissipaters are each in the form of an array of crush strips and each crush strip of the first and second force-dissipaters includes a series of polygonal structures coupled to one another to establish a crush strip and each polygonal structure is formed to have walls that are arranged to lie generally in perpendicular relation to the exterior surface of an adjacent companion side-wing panel.