Patent ID: 9221366
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A child restraint comprising a juvenile vehicle seat including a seat bottom and a seat back coupled to the seat bottom and arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom and an energy-dissipation system including a pad foundation coupled to the seat back and a ride-down pad having a lower concave and an upper convex surface coupled to the pad foundation to locate the pad foundation between the seat back and the ride-down pad, the ride-down pad being configured to provide means for controlling movement of an occupant sitting on the juvenile vehicle seat during application of an impact force to a side of the juvenile seat to first cause a shoulder of the occupant to impact the lower concave surface of the ride-down pad to cause the ride-down pad to deform at a predetermined rate so that a first portion of impact energy associated with the impact force is absorbed and to second cause a head of the occupant to impact the upper convex surface of the ride-down pad to cause the ride-down pad to deform at the predetermined rate so that a second portion of impact energy associated with the impact force is absorbed and g-loads experienced by the occupant seated in the juvenile vehicle seat are minimized, wherein the ride-down pad includes a first crush strip and a second crush strip coupled to the first crush strip to establish an array of crush strips.