Patent ID: 8182034
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A portable, collapsible vehicle booster seat for a child wherein the booster seat comprises a seat member that is removably mounted on a vehicle seat and an arm rest mechanism that includes arm rests extending upwardly from opposite sides of the seat member to an arm supporting position on each side of the seat member, each arm rest including an arm, the seat member including an upper seating surface supported on a collapsible seat base, the seat base being raisable to a deployed position and collapsible to a storage position and releasibly latchable in the deployed position, the seat member being thinner in its collapsed position than when in the deployed position, the arm rest mechanism being raisable to a deployed position wherein the arm rests extend above the seat member, the arm rests being collapsible to a storage position wherein the arms are substantially horizontal and lie along the side of the seat member, the seat being releasibly attachable to a vehicle seat and being removable for storage in its collapsed condition, each arm rest including a leg having a lower end pivotally attached to the seat base and an upper end pivotally attached to the arm, the arm rest having a deployed position wherein the leg extends upwardly from the seat and the arm extends forwardly above the seat, the arm rest having a collapsed position wherein the leg and arm are in a generally horizontal position adjacent the sides of the seat base for storage or transportation purposes.