Patent ID: 8585076

Claim:
A stroller, comprising: a first stroller component; a second stroller component: at least one of the first and second stroller components being movable from a first position to a second position; a drive mechanism operatively engaged with the at least one of the first and second stroller components to move the at least one of the first and second stroller components from its first position to its second position; a user-controlled disengaging mechanism for disengaging the operative engagement between the drive mechanism and the at least one of the first and second stroller components to allow a user to manually move at least one of the first and second stroller components from the first position to the second position when at least one of a) power supplied to the drive mechanism is not sufficient to actuate the drive mechanism to move at least one of the first and second stroller components from its first position to its second position and b) a failure with at least one of the first stroller component, the second stroller component, and the drive mechanism has occurred; one or more latches in operative engagement with at least one of the first stroller component and the second stroller component, which one or more latches are moveable by one or more latch drive mechanisms operatively connected thereto between a latched position in which the one or more latches prevent movement of at least one of the first stroller component and the second stroller component toward their second positions, and an unlatched position in which the one or more latches allow movement of at least one of the first stroller component and the second stroller component toward their second positions; and a manual latch release mechanism operatively connected to the one or more latches to allow manual movement of the one or more latches from the latched position to the unlatched position when at least one of failure of the latch drive mechanism and obstruction of the latch drive mechanism has occurred.