Patent ID: 8061768

Claim:
A child-restraint system comprising a juvenile seat including a seat bottom and a seat back extending upwardly from the seat bottom and terminating at a top edge located in spaced-apart relation to the seat bottom and an energy-dissipation system coupled to the seat back, wherein the energy-dissipation system includes a first multi-pad unit coupled to the seat back, the first multi-pad unit includes a first ride-down pad located near the top edge of the seat back to provide means for communicating with a head of a child seated in the juvenile seat at least when the juvenile seat is exposed to an external impact force and a second ride-down pad located between the first ride-down pad and the seat bottom to provide means for communicating with a shoulder of a child seated in the juvenile seat at least when the juvenile seat is exposed to the external impact force, the first ride-down pad includes a first force dissipater coupled to the seat back and a second force dissipater coupled to the first force dissipater to locate the first force dissipater between the second force dissipater and the seat back, and the second ride-down pad includes a third force dissipater coupled to the seat back.