Patent · US Expired

Device for recognition of a child-restraint seat attached to a vehicle seat

US6522257B1 · kind B1 · utility

16Cited by

5References

6Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Gert Jakob · Stuttgart, DE
Werner Nitschke · Ditzingen, DE
Arno Schaumann · Ludwigsburg, DE
Gerd Bohmwetsch · Erbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 14, 2001
Grant date	Feb 18, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 14, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60R21/01556
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A very reliable device, which can be implemented at a low cost, has a switch mechanism arranged on a fastening device which is installed on a vehicle seat and can engage with a plug element on a child seat; The switch mechanism has a stationary part attached to the fastening, device and a movable part, which is moved by the plug element into the stationary part on mutual engagement of the plug element with the fastenings device, thereby activating a switch so that occupancy of the vehicle seat by a child seat is signaled.

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