Patent ID: 8678498
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: B60N,B62B

Abstract:
1. A child restraint system comprising an infant carrier including a seat shell and a front shell anchor coupled to the seat shell and configured to include a latch plate mounted on a rim included in the seat shell for pivotable movement about a pivot axis relative to the seat shell between a shell-retaining position and a shell-releasing position and a base including a foundation adapted to set on a passenger seat in a vehicle and a front anchor holder coupled to the foundation and arranged to overlie a distal portion of the latch plate to block removal of the seat shell from a mounted position on a top surface of the foundation upon pivoting movement of the latch plate to assume the shell-retaining position while the seat shell occupies the mounted position and the rim of the seat shell engages an underlying shell-support pad included in the top surface of the foundation, wherein the latch plate is formed to include a finger-receiving aperture, the front anchor holder includes a blocker support arranged to extend upwardly from the shell-support pad included in the top surface of the foundation through an opening formed in the rim of the seat shell when the seat shell occupies the mounted position on the top surface of the foundation and a latch-blocker arm cantilevered to the blocker support and arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the shell-support pad of the foundation to locate the distal portion of the latch plate therebetween when the seat shell is in the mounted position and the latch plate is in the shell-retaining position, and the front anchor holder further includes a motion-blocking finger coupled to the latch-blocker arm and configured to extend downwardly into the finger-receiving aperture during disengagement of the rim of the seat shell from the shell-support pad in response to deformation of the seat shell when the seat shell is in the mounted position to cause the motion-blocking finger to provide lock means for engaging the latch plate to block movement of the latch plate relative to the front anchor holder from the shell-retaining position to the shell-releasing position so that the seat shell is retained in the mounted position.