Abstract: In spite of a flexible structure which can be easily transferred and stored, it is possible to make a child sit at a high position and remove a cooped-up feeling. A seat surface portion 10 is made in an air cushion structure expanding due to an injection of air. A back rest reclining portion 20 connected to the seat surface portion 10 is formed in a vest shape so as to fix the child. An air cushion 23 is mounted to the back rest reclining portion 20. It is possible to fold up the seat surface portion 10 and the back rest reclining portion 20 small by taking the air out.

Abstract: A footrest for a child safety seat (20) includes a support (10) for supporting the lower side of an adherent child safety seat (20) and a footstep (13) that is attached to the support (10). The footstep (13) is adjustable in order to adapt to the length of the legs of the child (21) that is seated in the child safety seat (20). The footrest is equipped with an anchor (12) that is intended to be received in a space (24) between the upper side of an adherent seat (22) and the lower side of an adherent backrest (23) in a vehicle where the footrest is mounted.

Abstract: A booster seat having a base 10 with foldable legs 20 to raise and lower the base. A seat assembly 12 is provided on the base having a seating surface 50 and arms 52. A backrest 14 is pivotally connected to the seat assembly 12 and moves between an operative erect position and a stored collapsed position wherein it lies substantially parallel to and closely adjacent the seating surface 50. A tray 16 is selective mountable on the seat assembly 12 for use by a child seated in the booster and a stored position on the bottom of the base 10. A retractable strap assembly is mounted in the base having one pair of straps 168 and 169 for wrapping around the seat and a second pair of straps 164 and 165 for wrapping around the back of a chair on which the booster is supported.

Abstract: The present structure is a flexible, lightweight foldable child restraint device designed for attachment to a vehicle seat such as an aircraft passenger seat without using vehicle seat belting and having restraint capacity for children of all ages. In an emergency situation, this child restraint device has a quick release feature to enable parents to disengage the device while keeping the child restrained, embrace the seat and restrained child in their lap, and further restrain and protect the child by cradling or hugging the child while the child remains restrained to the seat.

Abstract: The invention relates generally to an adjustable seat back and belt positioning juvenile booster car seat that folds compactly for easy transportation.

Abstract: A footrest for a child safety seat (20) includes a support (10) for supporting the lower side of an adherent child safety seat (20) and a footstep (13) that is attached to the support (10). The footstep (13) is adjustable in order to adapt to the length of the legs of the child (21) that is seated in the child safety seat (20). The footrest is equipped with an anchor (12) that is intended to be received in a space (24) between the upper side of an adherent seat (22) and the lower side of an adherent backrest (23) in a vehicle where the footrest is mounted.

Abstract: A child's seat, more specifically a child's seat that is capable of engaging the handle of a wheeled luggage container. The child's seat includes a platform for the child to sit on and a back rest, the platform and back rest being attached by a hinge and foldable from a use position where the two platforms are perpendicular to one another to a folded position where the platforms fold so that their planes parallel to one another. The seat back platform contains a loop that will engage the handle of the luggage container such that the handle will maintain the seat back against a flat surface of the luggage container when the seat back is in a used position.

Abstract: A passenger chair which can be converted into a child chair, including a floor frame, a passenger back rest with side members which are linked with rear side portions of the frame for tilting the passenger back rest backwards and forwards, the passenger back rest having a first flap the top of which is linked with an upper portion of the passenger back rest and a second flap with a first end portion which is linked with a lower end portion of the first flap. The passenger chair has a mechanism which, when the passenger back rest is moved forwards, effects a forcible rotation of the second flap to an approximately horizontal position, while at the same time the first flap is moved forwards. The first flap thereby forms a back rest and the second flap a seat of a child chair which faces in the opposite direction relative to the passenger chair.

Abstract: A vehicles passenger safety device for use on vehicles such as airplanes and automobiles. In each embodiment of the invention, the device includes a seat strap assembly and a body strap assembly that are attached to a back-support portion. The seat strap assembly is adapted to secure the device onto the back-support of the existing vehicle seat. The seat strap assembly, which may include one or both of a horizontal strap and a strap web, rests over the vehicle seat. The body strap assembly is adapted to secure a passenger on the device. The body strap assembly includes a body strap or a crotch strap, or both. The body strap may be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. The device further includes at least one loop to receive the existing seat belt to secure the device. The loop may be part of the back-support portion or the body strap assembly.

Abstract: An integrated child's seat (10) is provided for a motor vehicle seat. The child's seat (10) is displaceable between a low and an unfolded raised position. It has a base portion (12) and a support portion (14) which are pivotably connected by front and rear parallelogram arm devices (16, 18). A diagonal strut device (40) is linearly movably guided with a guide end portion (42) along a guide device (44) provided on the support portion (14) or on the front parallelogram arm device (16). The diagonal strut device (40) is pivotably connected with its second end portion (52) to the rear parallelogram arm device (18) by a pivotal connection (58). The rear parallelogram arm device (18) has a weak crash location (38) so that in the unfolded condition of the child's seat (10) with a corresponding weight on the support portion (14), the rear parallelogram arm device (18) buckles at the weak crash location (38) and the support portion (14) dips downwardly with its rear end part.

Abstract: A car seat is provided with a seat part and a backrest and equipped with a headrest region, wherein the backside of the back support is formed a backrest surface of a child seat. The backrest surface can be moved in the travel direction to be used as a child seat from the usage position for adults and the back support is attached to the seat part with an inclination-adjusting fixture, enabling adjustment of the inclination around a lower horizontal axis. The backrest is provided with a lower backrest region attached to the inclination-adjusting fixture, as well as with an upper backrest region, which can be rotated around an upper horizontal axis by means of a fixable hinge fixture hinged on the lower region of the backrest. The lower backrest region can be adjusted with an inclination-adjusting fixture forward into at least an almost horizontal position and the upper backrest region can be adjusted with a hinge fixture into a position inclined in the travel direction.

Abstract: A passenger safety device for use on vehicles such as airplanes and automobiles is disclosed. In a first embodiment, the device is a “soft” device, i.e., a safety harness comprising exclusively straps and fasteners. A horizontal strap wraps around the back-support of a vehicle seat to secure the harness to the vehicle seat. In a second embodiment, the device comprises a back-support portion and a seat-pan portion. When folded, the exterior frame resembles a small briefcase with a shoulder strap. In a third embodiment, the device comprises a rigid front-support with an inflatable cushion that fills up the space between the passenger and the front-support.

Abstract: A seat cushion 17 is provided with a seat portion 17a, a back portion 17b provided so as to be continued to the seat portion 17a, and a leg-pad portion 17c. A get-out preventing cloth 17e is sewn onto the leg-pad portion 17c. The get-out preventing cloth 17e is sewn onto not only the front end but also the left and right sides of the leg-pad portion 17c. At the inside front portion of each of arm-rest cover portions 17d, a pocket 17f is provided in a state where the pocket 17f is opened at its rear end, and hook and loop fastener 24 is stuck inside the pocket 17f. A second crotch belt through hole 17n is formed in a suitable position of the get-out preventing cloth 17e so that a crotch belt 14 is inserted through this crotch belt through hole 17n.

Abstract: A flexible and adjustable harness used by drivers of cranes and earth moving equipment is disclosed. In its preferred embodiment, the flexible and adjustable harness is used when it is necessary for a driver of a crane or an earth moving equipment to lean over to view objects such as loads and obstacles directly below his or her seat. The flexible and adjustable harness includes a flexible slip-on portion that easily slips onto the driver seat. The harness also includes a flexible right wrap and a flexible left wrap which enclose the driver's abdominal and chest areas and bear the weight of the driver when he or she leans over to view loads or obstacles under his or her seat. The flexible and adjustable harness also comprises left and right wrap elastic safety bands that add to the protection and safety provided by the left and right wraps. The flexible and adjustable harness further includes back side left and right safety bands to safely secure the harness' slip-on portion to the driver seat.

Abstract: An seat cushion is adapted to selectively conform to a user's anatomy with a seat portion having at least one inflatable interior seat compartment with a resiliently compressible foam element disposed therein. The compartment also has an openable and closable seat valve for selectively communicating the seat compartment with the ambient atmosphere. The foam is expanded and compressed within the seat compartment in relation to selective application of a compression force acting on the seat portion when the seat valve is opened to selectively draw inflating air into and exhaust inflating air from the seat compartment.

Abstract: A portable, collapsible child safety seat for use within a shopping cart. The portable, collapsible child safety seat comprises a seat support frame member securable to an interior rear wall of the shopping cart wherein the seat support frame comprises a first L-shaped member and a second L-shaped member. The portable, collapsible child safety seat further comprises a collapsible seating member for suspending a child within the shopping cart, having a first longitudinal side coupled to the first L-shaped support frame member and a second longitudinal side coupled to the second L-shaped member and a rotatable horizontal support bar coupled to the seat support frame member wherein the horizontal support bar serves to maintain the seat support frame in a full extended position. Henceforth, existing shopping carts, having coupled thereto the portable, collapsible child safety seat of the present invention, are capable of accommodating two children.

Abstract: A baby chair for seating and securing children to the seat of an airplane or vehicle having an upper back support pivotally affixed to a seat via a hinge which greatly reduces the bulk during travel and storage. A locking mechanism is provided for securing the chair in both an open and closed position and a unique storage cavity with a removeable bag that allows a multiplicity of baby related items to be carried along during travel.

Abstract: A built-in baby seat including a retractable seat, which can be made of fabric, leather, synthetic leather, plastic, or any other similar material. The seat includes a mounting bar that can be shaped as a semiarch, a semicircle, a semiquadrangle, a semirectangle or semitriangle. The bar is made of iron, aluminum, plastic or any similar material, and is covered with plastic foam and/or rubber, which is in turn covered with some finishing material (leather, fabric, synthetic leather, plastic, or the like).

Abstract: A vehicle seat having an integrated booster seat in which a child booster seat cushion is disposed within a cavity in the seat back and is rotatable to a forward extending use position spaced above the seat cushion providing a raised booster seat cushion for a child to elevate the child to a position in which an adult restraint system can be used with the child. The seat back has a movable panel which covers the cavity in the seat back in which the booster seat cushion is stored. Once the booster seat cushion has been moved to its use position, the panel is returned to its closed position whereby the panel forms the seat back surface for both an adult and a child. The booster seat can be provided in a form of a removable module which can be removed from the seat back and replaced with another module containing unique features such as an integral child seat or an armrest module.

Abstract: A collapsible child seat is provided which has an adjustable bottom panel so as to position the bottom panel in a position generally parallel to a supporting chair seat. The child seat comprises a bottom panel hinged to a back panel. A rear sleeve, which is configured to receive at least an upper portion of the chair backrest, is attached to the back panel. The child seat further includes a support strap which attaches to opposing side edges of the bottom panel and slidably connects to the rear sleeve. When the rear sleeve is slipped over the chair backrest, the child seat is suspended above the chair seat. The support strap extends around the rear of the chair seat and supports the bottom panel in a position generally parallel to the chair seat. The support strap desirably is adjustable in length to draw the rear sleeve around the chair backrest and to adjust the position of the bottom panel.

Abstract: A seat cushion for prolonged sitting, having a thigh cushion coupled to and spaced apart from a back cushion. A seat well is defined between the thigh cushion and the back cushion to remove pressure from the buttocks region. Coupling members couple the thigh cushion and the back cushion, and extend therebetween on either side of the seat well.

Abstract: A child seat positionable between an operative deployed orientation and an inoperative storage orientation comprising a main support frame in a generally inverted U-shaped configuration having a pair of parallel vertical legs and a single horizontal leg coupled therebetween at the upper extent of the vertical leg; attachment brackets secured to each vertical leg at an upper extent thereof and at a lower extent thereof for coupling the main support frame to a horizontal surface such as the wall of a bathroom; a pivotable frame formed with linear parallel legs and with hinge means coupling the inboard end thereof to a central extent of the vertical legs of the main support frame intermediate the brackets, the pivotable frame also having an elongated cross leg at the outboard ends of the parallel legs; a flexible fabric cover having inboard ends coupled to the vertical and horizontal legs of the main support free and outboard ends coupled to the parallel and cross leg of the pivotable frame; and a strap coupling

Abstract: A vehicle auxiliary seat is provided for spanning the space between first and second adjacent structures. In a preferred embodiment, the seat includes a sheet providing a seating surface, the sheet having a first free end; a roll for storing the sheet, the roll being rotatively mounted with the first structure; a connector to removably attach the sheet with the second structure; and a ratchet to tension the sheet to a desired tension by rotating the roll, the ratchet having a telescopically extended ratchet arm and wherein the ratchet can only be adjusted to a position tensioning the roll or adjusted to release the tension in the roll when the ratchet handle is extended.

Abstract: A child's booster seat comprises an inflatable seat member having a primary base chamber, two opposed side chambers and a back chamber upstanding from the base chamber. An inflatable secondary base chamber is located below the primary base chamber to support the seat member thereon, the secondary base chamber being selectively inflatable to determine the height of the seat member relative thereto, restraining means being provided for retaining a child in the seat member, and securing means being provided for attaching the booster seat to a supporting chair.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an upfront carrier device for infants or other items which is adapted to be secured to a wearers upper body and comprises first and second rigid, inverted J-shaped members, each of the J-shaped members comprises a downwardly extending short leg portion and a downwardly extending long leg portion interconnected by a top portion which is positioned central over each shoulder of the wearer. A cross-bar interconnection member including first and second ends extends between and is connected to at its first and second ends to the first and second J-shaped member long leg portions to position the long leg portions parallel to each other. The J-shaped member long leg portions are pivotally attached to the cross-bar interconnection member to allow about 90.degree. inward axial rotation of the long leg portions and cause the short leg portions to swing into a folded position. A generally U-shaped seat portion having a front, first side, second side, first end and second end is provided.

Abstract: A collapsible, folding vehicle seat and safety restraint apparatus for animals includes a padded seat pivotally extended from a generally vertically disposed seat back which is removably affixed to an otherwise conventional vehicle seat back by a pair of suspension hooks. An adjustable animal restraint harness, such as a chain, is attached to the upper end of the apparatus seat back. An opaque or translucent sun shade is securable, as by clips, to the front of the apparatus seat.

Abstract: A collapsible stroller frame adapted to carry variously sized and shaped infant type seats. The frame includes a pair of longitudinal elements having handles at one end and wheels at the other. A strap connects between the longitudinal elements in a rearward portion of the erect frame. A sling element is positioned in a forward portion of the erect frame and is possibly supported by an additional support member connecting between the longitudinal elements. The sling accommodates the front portion of an infant seat and the strap supports the rear portion of the seat. The frame may also include additional strap elements to secure the seat to the frame.

Abstract: A convertible carseat/stroller is of the type having a molded plastic shell with lower door panels in the shell and a wheel assembly includes front and rear legs pivotally connected to a common support member within the shell and extensible between a downwardly divergent stroller position beneath the shell and upper retracted position within the shell under the control of a manual release member which is slidable along the support member for the wheel assembly. A handle unit is telescopically mounted with respect to the support member and is retractable into the shell when converted into a carseat. The door panels on the bottom of the shell follow movement of the wheel assembly so as to open in extending the wheel assembly between the shell for use as a stroller and will return to a closed position when the wheel assembly is retracted into the shell.

Abstract: A speciality convenience device comprising a U-shaped framework of rigid-tubing, serving to both house and support an extensible flexible-gooseneck member capable of being manually omni-adjusted into any desired positional attitude; the device being substantially flat between legs of said U-frame so as to be easily installed upon an existing automobile's or spectator-bench's seat back, while thus held captive thereto by presence of the user's own back resting thereupon; the user being either an adult or juvenile by virtue of a special U-frame width-adjustment provision which includes a co-operative sizing-adjustment of the back-spanning fabric covering; the covering including a pocket-like formation thereto also facilitating a convenient stowing place for the gooseneck's detachable sunshield member, including provision of a sunshield folding capacity, as well as an optional attachable child's activity-center thereto.

Abstract: An adjustable awning attachable to the top of an automobile headrest and pivotable from a lockable vertical position to a horizontal position for protecting an infant in a bassinet beneath the awning from rays of the sun. The pivotable awning is on a rectangular frame that is pivoted at one end to a second frame with an arcuate upper end that hooks over the top of the auto backrest. A limiting chain is used to limit the amount of downswing of the pivoting awning and a dependable lock secures the awning frame in its upward position.

Abstract: A baby stroller comprising a seat portion and a frame portion separable from the seat portion. The stroller seat comprises a concave front portion forming a seat and a pair of opposite retaining walls. A flexible safety belt serving both as fastening means and buffer means is provided on the stroller seat. A pivotally adjustable U-shaped stand, which enables the stroller seat to be positioned as a seat or a bed without the stroller frame attached to, is provided on the back of the stroller seat. The stroller frame is collapsable and can be folded into a compact volume when not in use. The assembly and disassembly of the stroller seat and the stroller frame can be easily achieved by turning a couple of engagement members.

Abstract: Wire links (41) respectively pivoted at the junctions between the two back members (12) and the two upper brace members (14) of a collapsable lie-back push chair are formed, at their lower ends, with hooks 42 which are permanently connected to the seat back and releasably engagable with the two back members (12) and with the two upper brace members (14). To move the seat back between upright and lie-back positions it is merely necessary to release the hooks 42 from the supporting member and to swing the links 41 until the hooks 42 are engaged in the other of the support members.

Abstract: A stroller having side frame sections which are adapted to fold longitudinally and also laterally toward and away from one another, with a flexible seat and a flexible seat back extending therebetween, and with preferably transparent side panels extending vertically from the seat back to the side sections of the frame, to retain a child between the side panels both in a downwardly retracted generally horizontal position of the seat back and in upper variously inclined positions thereof.