Patent ID: 7434878

Claim:
A juvenile vehicle seat comprising a seat bottom, a seat back arranged to extend upwardly from the seat bottom and to cooperate with the seat bottom to provide a seating surface for a juvenile, and a shield mounted on the seat back for pivotable movement about an axis from a raised position to allow a juvenile to access the seating surface and a lowered position to retain a juvenile contacting the seating surface in a seated position on the seat bottom, the shield including a left swing arm pivotably coupled to a left side of the seat back, a right swing arm pivotably coupled to a right side of the seat back, a barrier arranged to interconnect the left and right swing arms and to lie above a portion of the seating surface included in the seat bottom upon movement of the shield to assume the lowered position, and a compressible shield lifter carried on the shield and arranged to engage the seat bottom upon movement of the shield to assume the lowered position.