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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2012
Applicant:
Kenneth Alfano, Canton, MI (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Alfano, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 3/00 (2006.01); B60N 2/64 (2006.01); B60N 3/06 (2006.01); B60N 2/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/643 (2013.01); B60N 2/2863 (2013.01); B60N 3/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle seat feature to provide additional legroom for feet or legs of a rear-facing child in a safety carseat installed in a vehicle seat, by utilizing a bounded cavity or the like in the vehicle seat backrest, which is accessible from the front side of the backrest by feet or legs of a rear-facing child. Such a cavity may in some embodiments be deployable and made available by removing or repositioning a barrier object or the like, which when restored may in effect constitute part of an otherwise normally functional backrest.