Patent ID: 8596718
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A child restraint comprising an adjustable base including a tiltable carrier cradle configured to include a foot end and an opposite head end and adapted to set on a passenger seat in a vehicle in one of an untilted position characterized by a first angular orientation and a tilted position characterized by a second angular orientation different from the first angular orientation and a detachable infant carrier configured to mate temporarily with the tiltable carrier cradle, and wherein the adjustable base further includes a movable foot mounted for movement in a foot-receiving chamber formed in the foot end of the tiltable carrier cradle between a retracted storage position lying substantially in the foot-receiving chamber to establish the untilted position of the tiltable carrier cradle and an extended cradle-tilting position extending partly out of the foot-receiving chamber to raise the foot end of the tiltable carrier cradle above the passenger seat while the opposite head end of the tiltable carrier cradle remains engaged to an underlying portion of the passenger seat and change the angular orientation of the tiltable carrier cradle and the detachable infant carrier mated therewith relative to the underlying portion of the passenger seat to establish the tilted position of the tiltable carrier cradle, and a tilt controller coupled to the tiltable carrier cradle and to the movable foot and configured to provide tilt-control means for supporting the movable foot for outward and inward sliding movement along an axis and rotation about the axis to manage movement of the movable foot relative to the tiltable carrier cradle between the retracted storage position in the foot-receiving chamber formed in the tiltable carrier cradle, a withdrawn rotation-ready position outside of the foot-receiving chamber in which the movable foot is free to rotate about the axis relative to the tiltable carrier cradle between a first rotation position associated with the retracted storage position and a second rotation position different from the first rotation position and associated with the extended cradle-tilting position, and the extended cradle-tilting position extending partly out of the foot-receiving chamber so that the angular orientation of the tiltable carrier cradle relative to an underlying portion of the passenger seat is changed in response to movement of the movable foot between the retracted storage position and the extended cradle-tilting position.