Patent ID: 7490898

Claim:
A child restraint comprising a seat support including a base adapted to set on a vehicle seat, a seat anchor coupled to the base, and a swivel coupled to the base, a juvenile seat mounted on the swivel for swiveling motion relative to the base about an axis of rotation between a forward-facing travel position and a side-facing entry position, the juvenile seat including a seat bottom mounted on the swivel, a seat back arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom, and a seat-back lock coupled to the seat back to move therewith during swiveling motion of the juvenile seat relative to the base and configured to mate with the seat anchor upon movement of the juvenile seat to assume the forward-facing travel position to block further swiveling motion of the juvenile seat, and a swivel-status indicator coupled to the base and configured to cooperate with the seat-back lock to move an indicator and thereby provide signal means for generating a notification signal that the seat-back lock has mated with the seat anchor to notify an observer that the juvenile seat has been locked to the base in the forward-facing travel position.