Patent ID: 6619753
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: B60N,Y10T

Abstract:
A car seat comprising:a seat body having a seat back and a seat pan for receiving an occupant thereon; at least one shoulder harness coupled to said seat body and being located to fit over the torso of an occupant to retain said occupant on said seat body; and a buckle for releasably coupling said shoulder harness to said seat body, said buckle including a bracket coupled to said shoulder harness and a base coupled to said seat body, said bracket including a gripping portion and a tongue and being releasably couplable to said base, said buckle being in a latched condition when said bracket is coupled to said base and being in an unlatched condition when said bracket is not coupled to said base, and wherein one of said gripping portion or said base includes a notification portion that has a visual property different from any adjacent areas of said one of said gripping portion or said base, and wherein said notification portion is visible when said buckle is in said unlatched condition and wherein said visual property of said notification portion is generally obscured by the other of said gripping portion or said base when said buckle is in said latched condition.