Patent ID: 8870285

Claim:
A child safety seat assembly comprising: a detachable child seat having a seatback, and a foremost end opposite to the seatback; and a base including: a shell body having a first and a second end edge opposite to each other, a bottom adapted to provide stable resting on a support surface, and an upper surface extending between the first and second end edges of the shell body, wherein the first end edge is at a height relative to the bottom that is greater than that of the second end edge, and the shell body extends along a lengthwise axis between the first and second end edges; an adjustable platform assembled with the shell body for displacement along the lengthwise axis relative to the shell body and operable to releasibly attach with the child seat, wherein the adjustable platform and the child seat attached with each other are movable in unison along the upper surface between a first state where the foremost end of the child seat is at a first position near the first end edge of the shell body, and a second state where the foremost end of the child seat is at a second position away from the first end edge of the shell body and lying below the first position and the first end edge of the shell body, a child when sitting on the child seat facing the foremost end, and the foremost end of the child seat in the first and second states remaining between the first and second end edges of the shell body along the lengthwise axis; and a latch mechanism disposed between the upper surface of the shell body and the adjustable platform, wherein the latch mechanism is operable to lock the adjustable platform with the shell body in any of the first and second states.