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).
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Publication number: 20260138554Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2026Publication date: May 21, 2026Inventor: Iain POWELL
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Patent number: 12545207Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: CYBEX GmbHInventor: Iain Powell
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Publication number: 20260014954Abstract: Child restraint device, in particular child seat and impact shield, for mounting in a vehicle. The device can include at least one airbag with at least one inflatable gas bag. The gas bag is transferable from a non-inflated state to an inflated state. At least one guiding device for guiding a gas flow during the transfer from the non-inflated to the inflated state is associated with the at least one inflatable gas bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2025Publication date: January 15, 2026Inventor: Iain POWELL
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Patent number: 12434653Abstract: Child restraint device, in particular child seat and impact shield, for mounting in a vehicle, or component of such a device, comprising at least one airbag with at least one inflatable gas bag, wherein the gas bag is transferable from a non-inflated state to an inflated state, wherein the gas bag is at least substantially non-folded in the non-inflated state, or wherein an outer surface of the gas bag in the non-inflated state of the gas bag is configured such that, for at most 25% of the outer surface it applies that a respective outer surface perpendicular intersects the outer surface at a second point of the outer surface, or wherein, in the non-inflated state of the at least one gas bag, at most 25% of the outer surface of the gas bag directly abuts on another part of the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: CYBEX GmbHInventor: Iain Powell
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Publication number: 20240278744Abstract: Child restraint device, in particular child seat and impact shield, for mounting in a vehicle, or component of such a device, comprising at least one airbag with at least one inflatable gas bag, wherein the gas bag is transferable from a non-inflated state to an inflated state, wherein the gas bag is at least substantially non-folded in the non-inflated state, or wherein an outer surface of the gas bag in the non-inflated state of the gas bag is configured such that, for at most 25% of the outer surface it applies that a respective outer surface perpendicular intersects the outer surface at a second point of the outer surface, or wherein, in the non-inflated state of the at least one gas bag, at most 25% of the outer surface of the gas bag directly abuts on another part of the outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventor: Iain POWELL
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Publication number: 20240270131Abstract: Child seat for mounting on a motor vehicle seat, wherein the child seat has a main body for accommodating a child and an impact shield for holding the child, wherein at least one active protective means is arranged on or formed by the impact shield, wherein the active protective means is transferable from a non-activated state to an activated state, Wherein in the non-activated state, a rotation of the tipper body of the child relative to the buttocks of the child is enabled and in the activated state is not enabled or only enabled to a limited extent or in the non-activated state, a displacement of the child in the direction of travel is enabled and in the activated state is not enabled or only enabled to a limited extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Thomas MÜLLER, Iain POWELL, Christoph THURN
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Publication number: 20230373363Abstract: 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 witType: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Christoph THURN, Thomas MÜLLER, Iain POWELL
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Patent number: 11590998Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: CYBEX GmbHInventors: Iain Powell, Jiri Spour
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Publication number: 20220118934Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventor: Iain Powell
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Patent number: 11214216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: CYBEX GmbHInventor: Iain Powell
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Publication number: 20210078624Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Iain Powell, Jiri Spour
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Publication number: 20200247346Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventor: Iain Powell
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Patent number: 10081274Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: BRITAX RÖMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBHInventors: Richard Frank, Iain Powell, Farid Bendjellal
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Publication number: 20160144752Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Richard Frank, Iain Powell, Farid Bendjellal
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Patent number: 9187059Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: BRITAX RÖMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBHInventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine
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Patent number: 8746793Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Britax Romer Kindersicherheit GmbHInventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine, Richard Arthur Moon, Andrew Anthony Whiteway
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Patent number: 8684456Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Britax Romer Kindersicherheit GmbHInventor: Iain Powell
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Publication number: 20140070597Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine
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Publication number: 20130234479Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: BRITAX ROMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBHInventors: IAIN POWELL, DAVID SHAUN CARINE, RICHARD ARTHUR MOON, ANDREW ANTHONY WHITEWAY
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Patent number: 8449030Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Britax Römer Kindersicherheit GmbHInventors: Iain Powell, David Shaun Carine, Richard Arthur Moon, Andrew Anthony Whiteway