Patent ID: 7488034

Claim:
A child safety seat, comprising (a) a carrier having a molded plastic seat bottom and a seat back; (b) a molded plastic base for releasably receiving the carrier; (c) a U-shaped carry handle attached to opposing lateral sides of the carrier and adapted for securing the carrier and base to each other, and lifting and carrying the carrier, and further including a one-hand carry handle release, comprising: (i) first and second carry handle Isofix latches carried by respective first and second opposing ends of the handle and adapted to latch complementary first and second Isofix latch bars carried by the base; (ii) first and second connector cables extending from each of the Isofix latches along an interior void in the handle to a handle grip positioned on the carry handle intermediate the first and second opposing ends of the handle; (iii) a release assembly, including an actuator button, mounted in the carry handle proximate the handle grip and cooperating with the connector cables for simultaneously releasing both first and second Isofix latches from the complementary first and second Isofix latch bars in the base upon operation of the actuator button of the release assembly to thereby detach the carrier from the base; and (d) an anti-rebound bar carried by the base and extending outwardly and upwardly from a foot end of the base for engaging a seat back of a vehicle seat to which the child safety seat is attached for retarding inertia-induced rotation of the base and the attached carrier by transmitting rotational force applied to the child safety seat during a sudden change in velocity into the seat back of the vehicle seat onto which the seat is attached.