US 12,472,852 B2
Child restraint
Said S. Nakhla, Daphne, AL (US)
Assigned to Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US)
Filed by Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/512,753.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/426,057, filed on Nov. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0166097 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. B60N 2/28 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/2806 (2013.01) [B60N 2/2812 (2013.01); B60N 2/2821 (2013.01); B60N 2/2827 (2013.01); B60N 2/2857 (2013.01); B60N 2/2869 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A child restraint comprising
an outer seat-support shell adapted to rest on a vehicle seat and to be secured to the vehicle seat for transportation in a vehicle, the outer seat-support shell formed to include a seat receiving space and including a shell bottom and a shell back coupled to the shell bottom, and
an inner juvenile seat at least partially received in the seat receiving space and configured to provide a child-receiving space sized to receive a child therein, the inner juvenile seat is coupled to the outer seat-support shell so as to be supported in spaced apart relation to the vehicle seat and configured to move relative to the outer seat-support shell to change a recline orientation of the inner juvenile seat relative to the outer seat-support shell from a first recline orientation when the juvenile seat is arranged in a forward-facing arrangement and a second recline orientation when the juvenile seat is arranged in a rearward-facing arrangement,
wherein the shell back includes a fixed back frame coupled to the shell bottom and a juvenile-seat brace coupled to an upper end of the fixed back frame for pivotable movement about horizontal pivot axis between a first seat-support position in which an upper end of the juvenile seat brace is spaced apart from the juvenile seat when the juvenile seat is arranged in the forward-facing arrangement, and a second seat-support position in which an upper end of the juvenile-seat brace engages the juvenile seat when the juvenile seat is arranged in the rearward-facing arrangement.