Child restraint lower anchorage for a motor vehicle seat
View Patent ↗The invention is a lower anchorage system to be used with a child restraint in a motor vehicle. The lower anchorage system has a trim assembly that attaches to an anchorage bar that in turn is affixed to an anchorage support. The trim assembly includes a trim apparatus that fits within an anchorage box. Both the anchorage box and the trim apparatus engage to the anchorage bar.
1. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat, comprising:
an anchorage box comprising opposite first and second box sidewalls, a top and opposite bottom being located between the box sidewalls, an open front, and a back opposite the front;
a trim apparatus fitting within the anchorage box and comprising opposite first and second sidewalls, a trim top and opposite trim bottom being located between the opposite first and second sidewalls, a rear, and a mouth opposite the rear;
an anchorage bar;
a trim slit in each of the opposite first and second sidewalls extending approximately horizontally from the rear toward the mouth and ending with a slit terminus engaging the anchorage bar;
an anchorage support being affixed to the anchorage bar; the anchorage box has slots attaching to the anchorage bar; a trim lock locking the anchorage box and the trim apparatus together;
a bore; and
a button inserting within the bore, wherein each slot is vertical.
2. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the anchorage support attaches to the motor vehicle.
3. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat, comprising:
an anchorage box comprising opposite first and second box sidewalls, a top and opposite bottom being located between the box sidewalls, an open front, and a back opposite the front;
a cover plate extending laterally from the box sidewalls at the front and downwardly beyond the bottom;
a trim apparatus fitting within the anchorage box and comprising opposite first and second sidewalls, a trim top, an opposite trim bottom being located between the sidewalls, a rear, and a mouth opposite the rear;
a face plate extending outwardly from the trim top, sidewalls, and trim bottom opposite the rear;
an anchorage bar being attached to the anchorage box and the trim apparatus; and
an anchorage support being affixed to the anchorage bar, wherein the anchorage bar attaches to slots in the anchorage box and a trim slit in each sidewall of the trim apparatus.
4. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 3 , wherein each slot is formed between the cover plate and the box sidewalls.
5. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 4 , wherein each slot is formed by a rearward slanting slot side of the box sidewall extending from a slot terminus to the bottom and a rear face of the cover plate.
6. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 5 , wherein each trim slit extends approximately horizontally from the rear toward the mouth and ends with a slit terminus engaging the anchorage bar.
7. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 6 , wherein the trim top, sidewalls and trim bottom have a curved section curving toward the face plate.
8. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 7 , further comprising:
a trim lock locking the anchorage box and the trim apparatus together.
9. A lower anchorage system for a motor vehicle seat of claim 8 , wherein the trim lock further comprises:
a bore; and
a button inserting within the bore.
10. A kit of parts capable of being assembled into a trim assembly for a lower anchorage system of a motor vehicle seat, comprising:
an anchorage box comprising opposite first and second box sidewalls, a top and opposite bottom being located between the box sidewalls, an open front, and a back opposite the front, a cover plate extending laterally from the box sidewalls at the front and downwardly beyond the bottom;
and a slot being at least partially formed in each box sidewall; and
a trim apparatus for inserting within the anchorage box and comprising opposite first and second sidewalls, a trim top and opposite trim bottom being located between the sidewalls, a rear, and a mouth opposite the rear, a trim slit in each sidewall extending approximately horizontally from the rear toward the mouth and ending with a slit terminus, and a face plate extending outwardly from the trim top, sidewalls, and trim bottom opposite the rear.
11. A kit of parts capable of being assembled into a trim assembly for a lower anchorage system of a motor vehicle seat of claim 10 , wherein each slot is formed by a rearward slanting slot side of the box sidewall extending from a slot terminus to the bottom and a rear face of the cover plate.
12. A kit of parts capable of being assembled into a trim assembly for a lower anchorage system of a motor vehicle seat of claim 11 , wherein the trim top, sidewalls and trim bottom have a curved section curving toward the face plate.
13. A kit of parts capable of being assembled into a trim assembly for a lower anchorage system of a motor vehicle seat of claim 12 , further comprising:
a bore in the top of the anchorage box; and
a button in the top of the trim apparatus to engage the bore when assembled.