Child seat assembled with vehicle seat

Abstract

A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle, having a seat cushion pivotally mounted at its rear end on the bottom of a recessed portion in a back rest of a vehicle seat to be stored in an upright condition in the recessed portion during non-use of the child seat and pulled out from the recessed portion for use in a horizontal condition, wherein the child seat is provided with support means for supporting the seat cushion in the horizontal condition when pulled out from the recessed portion of the vehicle seat.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle, having a seat cushion pivotally mounted at its rear end on the bottom of a recessed portion in a back rest of a vehicle seat to be stored in an upright condition in the recessed portion during non-use of the child seat and pulled out from the recessed portion for use in a horizontal condition, 
 wherein the child seat is provided with support means for supporting the seat cushion in the horizontal condition when pulled out from the recessed portion of the vehicle seat.    
     
     
         2 . A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle, having a seat cushion pivotally mounted at its rear end on the bottom of a recessed portion in a back rest of a vehicle seat to be stored in an upright condition in the recessed portion during non-use of the child seat and pulled out from the recessed portion for use in a horizontal condition, 
 wherein the child seat is provided with a back rest movable in a fore-and-aft direction in the recessed portion of the vehicle seat to be retained in a retracted position and retained in a forward position where a front surface of the back rest is placed to coincide with a front surface of the back rest of the vehicle seat, and    wherein the seat cushion of the child seat is pivotally mounted to a lower end portion of the back rest at its rear end to be rotated in a fore-and-aft direction.    
     
     
         3 . A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the child seat is provided with support means for supporting the seat cushion in a horizontal condition when it has been drawn out from the recessed portion of the vehicle seat.  
     
     
         4 . A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle as claimed in  claim 1  or  3 , wherein said support means is in the form of a set of flexible belts or a set of foldable lnkages.  
     
     
         5 . A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle as claimed in  claim 1  or  3 , wherein said support means is composed of a flexible belt and means for extending the flexible belt in accordance with the weight of a person seated on the seat cushion in the occurrence of a collision of the vehicle.  
     
     
         6 . A child seat for use in an automotive vehicle as claimed in  claim 2  or  3 , wherein the back rest is connected to the backside wall of the recessed portion in the vehicle seat by means of a pair of left and right connecting mechanisms, and wherein the connecting mechanisms each are composed of a first bracket provided on the back rest, a second bracket provided on the backside wall, a linkage pivoted at its opposite ends to the first and second brackets to be rotated with a fulcrum in connection to the second bracket to move the back rest in a fore-and-aft directon through the first bracket, a stopper provided on the first bracket to restrict rotary movement of the linkage by engagement with the linkage when the back rest is placed in a forward position, and a spring engaged at its opposite ends with the linkage and the backside wall of the recessed portion to bias the first bracket upward through the linkage.