Patent ID: 7378979
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: B60N,G08B

Abstract:
1. A vehicle child seat safety system for preventing a child from being left unattended in a vehicle, comprising: a child safety belt device that senses whether or not a child is secured to a child car seat by a first belt attached to the child car seat; a driver detecting device that senses when a driver is present or not present inside the vehicle, the driver detecting device being formed as a plurality of sensors operatively connected to the driver seat of the vehicle to detect whether the driver is seated in the vehicle; an alarm circuit operatively connected to an alarm, the child safety belt device, and the driver detecting device, the alarm circuit including a delay timer that times how long the driver is not present in the vehicle, wherein the alarm circuit sounds the alarm after a predetermined time period set in the delay timer when the child safety belt device senses that the child is present inside the vehicle and the driver detecting device senses that the driver is not present in the vehicle; and an alarm disabling device operatively connected to the alarm circuit to temporarily disable the delay timer while the driver is accessing the vehicle after the alarm circuit detects that the driver is not in the vehicle.