Patents by Inventor Iain Powell

Iain Powell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230373363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a child seat, wherein the child seat comprises a main body for receiving a child and an impact shield for holding the child, wherein the child seat is configured such that a center of gravity of the child, at least in an initial state at the beginning of a sudden deceleration of the motor vehicle and/or at the beginning of a rotation of the child relative to the vehicle seat and/or at the beginning of a rotation of the child relative to the main body during a sudden deceleration of the motor vehicle, for example in the event of a frontal impact, is at least approximately at or below, preferably slightly below, a level at which a child rotation axis is located, about which rotation axis the child rotates with respect to the main body, as soon as the child starts to rotate with respect to the main body, and/or is at least approximately at or below, preferably slightly below, a level at which at least one impact shield rotation axis is located about which the impact shield can rotate wit
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph THURN, Thomas MÜLLER, Iain POWELL
  • Patent number: 11590998
    Abstract: A stroller frame, comprising at least one motor, particularly an electric motor, for assisted driving of the stroller frame, a pusher bar for pushing the stroller frame and at least one force sensor device for detecting a direction and/or an amount of force and/or a force component acting on the pusher bar, and/or for detecting a value derived from said force or force component, particularly a temporal change of the force or force component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CYBEX GmbH
    Inventors: Iain Powell, Jiri Spour
  • Publication number: 20220118934
    Abstract: The invention relates to a child safety seat for attaching to a motor vehicle seat, comprising a seat region, a back portion, an impact shield, the impact shield comprising an integrated airbag and/or an airbag being provided in the seat region, an acceleration-sensing device for sensing an acceleration of the child safety seat, and a control device, which is configured in such a way that the airbag is deployed on the basis of an acceleration sensed by the acceleration-sensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Iain Powell
  • Patent number: 11214216
    Abstract: The invention relates to a child safety seat for attaching to a motor vehicle seat, comprising a seat region, a back portion, an impact shield, the impact shield comprising an integrated airbag and/or an airbag being provided in the seat region, an acceleration-sensing device for sensing an acceleration of the child safety seat, and a control device, which is configured in such a way that the airbag is deployed on the basis of an acceleration sensed by the acceleration-sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CYBEX GmbH
    Inventor: Iain Powell
  • Publication number: 20210078624
    Abstract: A stroller frame, comprising at least one motor, particularly an electric motor, for assisted driving of the stroller frame, a pusher bar for pushing the stroller frame and at least one force sensor device for detecting a direction and/or an amount of force and/or a force component acting on the pusher bar, and/or for detecting a value derived from said force or force component, particularly a temporal change of the force or force component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Iain Powell, Jiri Spour
  • Publication number: 20200247346
    Abstract: The invention relates to a child safety seat for attaching to a motor vehicle seat, comprising a seat region, a back portion, an impact shield, the impact shield comprising an integrated airbag and/or an airbag being provided in the seat region, an acceleration-sensing device for sensing an acceleration of the child safety seat, and a control device, which is configured in such a way that the airbag is deployed on the basis of an acceleration sensed by the acceleration-sensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Iain Powell
  • Patent number: 10081274
    Abstract: The child safety seat (1) for use in a vehicle in accordance with the invention comprises a seat member (3) configured to hold a child (2), a base member (4) adapted to be attached to a seat (15) of the vehicle, and a deformable energy absorbing element (20), wherein the seat member (3) is slidably mounted to the base member (4) in such a way that the seat member (3) is displaceable from an initial position to a shifted position by sliding the seat member (3) relative to the base member (4) and in such a way that crash-induced inertial forces acting on the child safety seat (1) during a frontal collision of the vehicle tend to slide the seat member (3) from the initial position to the shifted position, wherein the deformable energy absorbing element (20) is arranged to be deformed when the seat member (3) is slid from the initial position to the shifted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: BRITAX RÖMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Frank, Iain Powell, Farid Bendjellal
  • Publication number: 20160144752
    Abstract: The child safety seat (1) for use in a vehicle in accordance with the invention comprises a seat member (3) configured to hold a child (2), a base member (4) adapted to be attached to a seat (15) of the vehicle, and a deformable energy absorbing element (20), wherein the seat member (3) is slidably mounted to the base member (4) in such a way that the seat member (3) is displaceable from an initial position to a shifted position by sliding the seat member (3) relative to the base member (4) and in such a way that crash-induced inertial forces acting on the child safety seat (1) during a frontal collision of the vehicle tend to slide the seat member (3) from the initial position to the shifted position, wherein the deformable energy absorbing element (20) is arranged to be deformed when the seat member (3) is slid from the initial position to the shifted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Frank, Iain Powell, Farid Bendjellal
  • Patent number: 9187059
    Abstract: The object to provide a child safety seat with which the user is able to restrain and fasten a child in a child safety seat in a optimal way is solved by the child safety seat with the five point harness according to the invention comprises a two tongue buckle, whereby the two tongue buckle comprises guiding means through which webbing is guided and the webbing comprises stopping means to allow a predetermined length of webbing to run through the guiding means and retracting means operatively connected to at least one part of the webbing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: BRITAX RÖMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBH
    Inventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine
  • Patent number: 8746793
    Abstract: Child safety seats are used for the safe transport of children in vehicles. The child safety seats known from prior art often offer only insufficient protection in the case of a side impact. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a child safety seat that improves the protective effect of the child safety seat in the case of a side impact. This object is solved by a child safety seat with side impact protection according to the invention. Such a child safety seat comprises at least one element absorbing and/or transmitting energy which is arranged and designed to be transferred from a rest position to a functioning position to absorb a laterally impacting energy in the functioning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Britax Romer Kindersicherheit GmbH
    Inventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine, Richard Arthur Moon, Andrew Anthony Whiteway
  • Patent number: 8684456
    Abstract: The object of the invention to improve significantly the safety of a child sitting in a safety seat in a vehicle in case of a side impact will be solved by a child safety seat for a vehicle according to the invention comprising an outer shell with a seating area for a child and side wings located on both sides of the seating area, whereas at least one side wing comprises at least one side-impact-pusher-element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Britax Romer Kindersicherheit GmbH
    Inventor: Iain Powell
  • Publication number: 20140070597
    Abstract: The object to provide a child safety seat with which the user is able to restrain and fasten a child in a child safety seat in a optimal way is solved by the child safety seat with the five point harness according to the invention comprises a two tongue buckle, whereby the two tongue buckle comprises guiding means through which webbing is guided and the webbing comprises stopping means to allow a predetermined length of webbing to run through the guiding means and retracting means operatively connected to at least one part of the webbing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine
  • Publication number: 20130234479
    Abstract: Child safety seats are used for the safe transport of children in vehicles. The child safety seats known from prior art often offer only insufficient protection in the case of a side impact. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a child safety seat that improves the protective effect of the child safety seat in the case of a side impact. This object is solved by a child safety seat with side impact protection according to the invention. Such a child safety seat comprises at least one element absorbing and/or transmitting energy which is arranged and designed to be transferred from a rest position to a functioning position to absorb a laterally impacting energy in the functioning position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: BRITAX ROMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBH
    Inventors: IAIN POWELL, DAVID SHAUN CARINE, RICHARD ARTHUR MOON, ANDREW ANTHONY WHITEWAY
  • Patent number: 8449030
    Abstract: Child safety seats are used for the safe transport of children in vehicles. The child safety seats known from prior art often offer only insufficient protection in the case of a side impact. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a child safety seat that improves the protective effect of the child safety seat in the case of a side impact. This object is solved by a child safety seat with side impact protection according to the invention. Such a child safety seat comprises at least one element absorbing and/or transmitting energy which is arranged and designed to be transferred from a rest position to a functioning position to absorb a laterally impacting energy in the functioning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Britax Römer Kindersicherheit GmbH
    Inventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine, Richard Arthur Moon, Andrew Anthony Whiteway
  • Publication number: 20130062917
    Abstract: The object of the invention to improve significantly the safety of a child sitting in a safety seat in a vehicle in case of a side impact will be solved by a child safety seat for a vehicle according to the invention comprising an outer shell with a seating area for a child and side wings located on both sides of the seating area, whereas at least one side wing comprises at least one side-impact-pusher-element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: BRITAX ROMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBH
    Inventor: Iain Powell
  • Patent number: 7954895
    Abstract: The present invention provides a child seat (1) comprising a seat back (3), a headrest (4) which is moveable relative to the seat back (3), and a removable harness which may be installed for use in securing an occupant to the seat (1), wherein the headrest (4) is coupled to the seat back (3) such that the headrest (4) may undergo a first extent of movement relative to the seat back (3) when the harness is installed and may only undergo a second further extent of movement relative to the seat back (3) when the harness is removed. In this regard, only when the harness is removed from an operative position, namely one where it is installed such that it can be used to restrain a child, can the headrest (4) undergo its second further extent of movement relative to the seat back (3). This ensures that the headrest (4) is not inappropriately positioned for the group of child being restrained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Britax Excelsior Limited
    Inventors: Vincent Freeman, Iain Powell, Gareth James
  • Publication number: 20110012398
    Abstract: Child safety seats are used for the safe transport of children in vehicles. The child safety seats known from prior art often offer only insufficient protection in the case of a side impact. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a child safety seat that improves the protective effect of the child safety seat in the case of a side impact. This object is solved by a child safety seat with side impact protection according to the invention. Such a child safety seat comprises at least one element absorbing and/or transmitting energy which is arranged and designed to be transferred from a rest position to a functioning position to absorb a laterally impacting energy in the functioning position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine, Richard Arthur Moon, Andrew Anthony Whiteway
  • Publication number: 20090236881
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an article holder for a child seat, the holder comprising a holder portion (6) for holding one or more articles, and a mounting (7) in relation to which said holder portion is movably mounted. The holder portion and said mounting are configured for relative sliding movement there-between along an arcuate path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: BRITAX EXCELSIOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Vincent Freeman, Iain Powell, James Gareth
  • Publication number: 20090212613
    Abstract: The present invention provides a child seat (1) comprising a seat back (3), a headrest (4) which is moveable relative to the seat back (3), and a removable harness which may be installed for use in securing an occupant to the seat (1), wherein the headrest (4) is coupled to the seat back (3) such that the headrest (4) may undergo a first extent of movement relative to the seat back (3) when the harness is installed and may only undergo a second further extent of movement relative to the seat back (3) when the harness is removed. In this regard, only when the harness is removed from an operative position, namely one where it is installed such that it can be used to restrain a child, can the headrest (4) undergo its second further extent of movement relative to the seat back (3). This ensures that the headrest (4) is not inappropriately positioned for the group of child being restrained thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: BRITAX EXCELSIOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Vincent Freeman, Iain Powell, Gareth James
  • Publication number: 20080303321
    Abstract: A base (1) for a child safety seat to be used with an adult seat in a vehicle equipped with ISOFIX loops comprises an upper moulding (2) and a lower moulding (3) screwed and clipped together. The upper moulding comprises a pair of front humps (8) and a pair of rear humps (9) with a flat portion (10) between the pairs. The humps have moulded recesses (11) for the front and rear anchor bars (51, 52) of a conventional infant carrier (53). Below release button (61) the base has formation (71) for pivotal connection of foot prop (72) is clipped up under the base, anti-rebound flap (38) is folded against the prop and ISOFIX latches (34) are pivoted in towards the front of the base. For use, ISOFIX latches (34) are turned backwards, anti-rebound member (38) is swung around from below to above the base and foot prop (72) is extended down to abut the floor. To fit infant carrier (53), its anchor bars (51, 52) are engaged in recesses (11) and the infant carrier is pushed down to push hooks (45) away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: BRITAX EXCELSIOR LIMITED
    Inventor: Iain Powell