Patents by Inventor Thomas Jake Mitchell
Thomas Jake Mitchell 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).
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Publication number: 20240149759Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat shell for receiving a child therein. a rotating pedestal, and a seat base. The pedestal and seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base. The pedestal can include a locking pin and the seat base can include a multitude of pin receiving apertures that allow a user to rotate the seat shell and pedestal in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at a number of different angles or positions. The child safety seat can also include two separate seat belt/LATCH tether pathways. One seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided on the seat back of the seal shell and can be used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Brunick, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Andrew Phillip Kitchens, David Hotard
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Patent number: 11884188Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat shell for receiving a child therein, a rotating pedestal, and a seat base. The pedestal and seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base. The pedestal can include a locking pin and the seat base can include a multitude of pin receiving apertures that allow a user to rotate the seat shell and pedestal in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at a number of different angles or positions. The child safety seat can also include two separate seat belt/LATCH tether pathways. One seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided on the seat back of the seat shell and can be used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Daniel J Brunick, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Andrew Phillip Kitchens, David Hotard
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Publication number: 20230301441Abstract: An infant carrier assembly may be removably securable to a car seat. The infant carrier assembly may include an adapter and an infant carrier. The adapter is removably securable to the car seat. The infant carrier is removably securable to the car seat by engagement with the adapter. A car seat assembly may include a car seat and the infant carrier assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Douglas Kim, Tyler Petito, Joonho Na, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Phillip LaPlante, Patrick Kil, Matthew Johnson
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Publication number: 20230294585Abstract: A car seat assembly includes a car seat and an accessory. The car seat includes a base defining a right receiver port and a left receiver port. The accessory includes a right clip and a left clip removably securable within the respective right and left receiver ports to removably secure the accessory to the car seat. A method for securing the accessory to the car seat includes aligning the right and left clips with the respective right and left receiver ports. The method further includes introducing the right and left clips into the respective right and left receiver ports. The method further includes pushing the accessory toward the car seat until the right and left clips are secured within the respective right and left receiver ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Adam McKenzie, Douglas Kim, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Rachael Knapp
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Publication number: 20220219581Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat shell for receiving a child therein, a rotating pedestal, and a seat base. The pedestal and seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base. The pedestal can include a locking pin and the seat base can include a multitude of pin receiving apertures that allow a user to rotate the seat shell and pedestal in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at a number of different angles or positions. The child safety seat can also include two separate seat belt/LATCH tether pathways. One seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided on the seat back of the seat shell and can be used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INCInventors: Daniel J. Brunick, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Andrew Phillip Kitchens, David Hotard
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Patent number: 11260779Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat shell for receiving a child therein, a rotating pedestal, and a seat base. The pedestal and seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base. The pedestal can include a locking pin and the seat base can include a multitude of pin receiving apertures that allow a user to rotate the seat shell and pedestal in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at a number of different angles or positions. The child safety seat can also include two separate seat belt/LATCH tether pathways. One seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided on the seat back of the seat shell and can be used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Graco Children's Products, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Brunick, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Andrew Phillip Kitchens, David Hotard
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Publication number: 20210070201Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat shell for receiving a child therein, a rotating pedestal, and a seat base. The pedestal and seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base. The pedestal can include a locking pin and the seat base can include a multitude of pin receiving apertures that allow a user to rotate the seat shell and pedestal in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at a number of different angles or positions. The child safety seat can also include two separate seat belt/LATCH tether pathways. One seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided on the seat back of the seat shell and can be used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Brunick, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Andrew Phillip Kitchens, David Hotard
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Patent number: 10829012Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat shell for receiving a child therein, a rotating pedestal, and a seat base. The pedestal and seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base. The pedestal can include a locking pin and the seat base can include a multitude of pin receiving apertures that allow a user to rotate the seat shell and pedestal in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction at a number of different angles or positions. The child safety seat can also include two separate seat belt/LATCH tether pathways. One seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided on the seat back of the seat shell and can be used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH tether pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Brunick, Thomas Jake Mitchell, Andrew Phillip Kitchens, David Hotard
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Patent number: 10710478Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat base configured to rest on a vehicle seat and a seat shell for receiving a child therein. The seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base and with a rotation axis offset from a center of the longitudinal axis of the seat base. The seat base can include a seat belt lock-off system for maintaining positioning of the automobile seat belt with respect to the seat base and for adding tension into the automobile seat belt. The child safety seat can include two separate seat belt/LATCH belt pathways. One seat belt/LATCH belt pathway can be provided along the seat back of the seat shell and used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH belt pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Nicholas Henry Reaves, Taylor Daniel Genoway, Thomas Jake Mitchell
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Patent number: 10518671Abstract: A car seat may include a seat shell configured for supporting a child thereon, a base supporting the seat shell, and a support frame positioned at least partially within the seat shell and/or the base and configured to manage energy during a crash event. The support frame may include a first frame portion and a second frame portion attached to the first frame portion. The first frame portion may include a first side support and a second side support spaced apart from one another, and the second frame portion may include a first side support and a second side support spaced apart from one another. A stiffness of each of the first side support and the second side support of the second frame portion may be different than a stiffness of each of the first side support and the second side support of the first frame portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Graco Children's Products Inc.Inventors: Thomas Jake Mitchell, Daniel Brunick, Nicholas Lombardi, William Conway
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Patent number: 10245981Abstract: A child's booster seat with detachable belt positioner car seat is provided. The booster seat can include a seat back that can be coupled and decoupled from a seat base. The seat base can include a primary seat base and a removable seat base. The removable seat base can be coupled and decoupled from the primary seat base and used as a booster seat for a child without the primary seat base. The primary seat base can include protrusions and/or recesses and the removable seat base can include recesses and/or bosses for aligning and/or coupling the removable seat base to the primary seat base. A pair of armrests can be adjustably coupled to the seat base, such as to the removable seat base. The seat base can further include one or more lap belt positioners. The seat back can include an adjustable headrest and one or more shoulder belt positioners.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS INC.Inventor: Thomas Jake Mitchell
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Publication number: 20190077282Abstract: A rotatable child safety seat can include a seat base configured to rest on a vehicle seat and a seat shell for receiving a child therein. The seat shell can rotate with respect to the seat base and with a rotation axis offset from a center of the longitudinal axis of the seat base. The seat base can include a seat belt lock-off system for maintaining positioning of the automobile seat belt with respect to the seat base and for adding tension into the automobile seat belt. The child safety seat can include two separate seat belt/LATCH belt pathways. One seat belt/LATCH belt pathway can be provided along the seat back of the seat shell and used when the child safety seat is in a forward-facing configuration and the other seat belt/LATCH belt pathway can be provided in the seat base and used when in a rearward-facing configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Nicholas Henry Reaves, Taylor Daniel Genoway, Thomas Jake Mitchell
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Patent number: 10173553Abstract: A child car seat can include a seat base and a seat shell. The seat shell can include a seat bottom and a seat back along a front side of the seat shell. Shoulder straps can be provided to assist holding a child in place in the car seat. The shoulder straps can extend through openings in the seat back of the seat shell and can be coupled to a splitter plate positioned along a back side of the seat shell. The splitter plate can include a slot for receiving a tightening strap and a roller or radiused edge positioned adjacent the slot to help the tightening strap slide along the roller or radiused edge when tension is applied to it. The tightening strap can be routed through the slot and under the seat shell and can pass through another slot along the seat bottom to tighten the shoulder straps.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS INC.Inventors: Thomas Jake Mitchell, Nicholas James Lombardi, Nicholas Henry Reaves, Daniel J. Brunick, Andrew Phillip Kitchens
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Publication number: 20180072195Abstract: A car seat may include a seat shell configured for supporting a child thereon, a base supporting the seat shell, and a support frame positioned at least partially within the seat shell and/or the base and configured to manage energy during a crash event. The support frame may include a first frame portion and a second frame portion attached to the first frame portion. The first frame portion may include a first side support and a second side support spaced apart from one another, and the second frame portion may include a first side support and a second side support spaced apart from one another. A stiffness of each of the first side support and the second side support of the second frame portion may be different than a stiffness of each of the first side support and the second side support of the first frame portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Thomas Jake Mitchell, Daniel Brunick, Nicholas Lombardi, William Conway
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Publication number: 20170282758Abstract: A child's booster seat with detachable belt positioner car seat is provided. The booster seat can include a seat back that can be coupled and decoupled from a seat base. The seat base can include a primary seat base and a removable seat base. The removable seat base can be coupled and decoupled from the primary seat base and used as a booster seat for a child without the primary seat base. The primary seat base can include protrusions and/or recesses and the removable seat base can include recesses and/or bosses for aligning and/or coupling the removable seat base to the primary seat base. A pair of armrests can be adjustably coupled to the seat base, such as to the removable seat base. The seat base can further include one or more lap belt positioners. The seat back can include an adjustable headrest and one or more shoulder belt positioners.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventor: Thomas Jake Mitchell
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Publication number: 20170210254Abstract: A child car seat can include a seat base and a seat shell. The seat shell can include a seat bottom and a seat back along a front side of the seat shell. Shoulder straps can be provided to assist holding a child in place in the car seat. The shoulder straps can extend through openings in the seat back of the seat shell and can be coupled to a splitter plate positioned along a back side of the seat shell. The splitter plate can include a slot for receiving a tightening strap and a roller or radiused edge positioned adjacent the slot to help the tightening strap slide along the roller or radiused edge when tension is applied to it. The tightening strap can be routed through the slot and under the seat shell and can pass through another slot along the seat bottom to tighten the shoulder straps.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Thomas Jake Mitchell, Nicholas James Lombardi, Nicholas Henry Reaves, Daniel J. Brunick, Andrew Phillip Kitchens
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Publication number: 20160114705Abstract: A child safety seat can include a seat back and a seat bottom. The seat back can be fixedly, removably, and or rotatably coupled to the seat bottom. The seat back can include an adjustable head rest that moves vertically with respect to the seat back. The head rest can include a headrest latching mechanism for adjusting the vertical position of the headrest with respect to the seat back and a fold locking mechanism to selectively position the head rest and lock the seat back orientation in a raised position for use or a folded position for carrying or storage. The head rest can include a single adjustment actuator, such as a pushbutton or lever, to actuate both the latching and locking mechanisms with a single hand for selectively adjusting the headrest position and seat back orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Matthew Alan Morgenstern, Thomas Jake Mitchell