Patent ID: 6672663
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
A juvenile vehicle seat comprisinga seat including a seat bottom and seat back extending away from the seat bottom, a support base appended to an underside of the seat, arranged to lie behind the seat back and adapted to support the seat on a surface underlying the seat, and a first belt retainer coupled to the support base on an underside of the seat back and arranged to provide a shoulder belt receiver channel located between the support base and the first belt retainer and adapted to receive only a vehicle shoulder belt therein to retain the seat in place in a vehicle, the first belt retainer being formed to include a belt receiver slot opening into the shoulder belt receiver channel adjacent to the support base to facilitate movement of a vehicle shoulder belt into and out of the shoulder belt receiver channel, wherein the support base includes first and second support legs extending away from the seat back, each support leg includes an upper portion lying adjacent to the seat back and a foot portion lying away from the seat back, each foot portion includes an exterior wall providing a shoulder belt receiver surface adapted to engage a vehicle shoulder belt, the first belt retainer is coupled to the upper portion of the first support leg, and the first belt retainer and the shoulder belt receiver surface on the external wall of the second support leg cooperate to provide means for receiving a vehicle shoulder belt internally in the shoulder belt receiver channel adjacent to the first support leg and externally on the shoulder belt receiver surface on the second support leg to retain the seat in place in a vehicle.