Abstract: A transport device for small children which is detachably secured to a chair lift. The transport device includes a seat sized to accommodate a child. A safety bar is pivotally mounted to the sides of the child's seat, and which when placed in a chair lift, the safety bar is positively secured in the down or fastened position in a manner to prohibit the pivoting of the safety bar to a release or unfastened position. A linking member is connected to the transport device to secure the child seat to the back of a chair lift when the child's seat is placed in a chair lift, and a central support member is connected to the safety bar so as to prohibit a child from sliding under the safety bar when in the fastened position.

Abstract: A child restraining seat is hung securely on a back portion of a vehicle occupant seat that has mounted therein a seating sensor, such that a child, if restrained to the child seat, will not close or energize the seating sensor. The seating sensor is circuited in a trigger circuit of an air bag corresponding to the occupant seat such that the air bag will not be inflated to its active position unless said seating sensor is energized.

Abstract: Safety passenger seat apparatus for a vehicle including a passenger seat having a backrest pivotally attached to a seat rest. Energy absorption devices are provided for dissipating and absorbing collison and/or deceleration forces acting on the seat or a passenger in the seat, which energy absorption devices utilize both pivotal and linear movement of portions of the seat during the energy absorption. In one preferred embodiment, a rotation energy transformer is provided at the pivotal connection between the backrest and the seat rest, while a further rotation energy transformer is provided at the attachment of the seat rest to a fixed foot support structure. This preferred embodiment further includes a linear energy transformer which frictionally dissipates energy during linear movement of the foot and attached seat along guide rails fixed in the floor of the vehicle.

Abstract: A children's car seat which is adapted to convert into a stroller apparatus with minimum of effort and adjustment required by the user. The apparatus includes an adjustable handle means and wheel assemblies which are pivotally mounted between a raised position defining a car seat configuration and a lowered position defining a stroller configuration.

Abstract: A child car seating apparatus and method for assembling the same are disclosed to form a seat to protect a child riding in an automobile from infancy until he is old and large enough to use the automobile seat belts. The child car seating apparatus comprises an outer shell usable in two positions to form either a reclining seat for an infant or an upright seat for a toddler or small child, an infant insert insertable in the outer shell to form a seat for the infant, a shield attachable to the outer shell to form a seat with an impact surface for a toddler, the outer shell, itself, forming a seat for the small child, various belts and straps, and, optionally, a booster to raise the height of the outer shell when used as a seat for the toddler or small child.