Variable position and orientation infant carrier and safety system

Abstract

A system for carrying infants safely and with flexibility with respect to position and orientation of a carried infant relative to a user. The system includes a vest worn by a user, the vest including multiple vest-side attachment means at various positions on the vest, and a corresponding infant carrier component having a multipoint restraint system and corresponding carrier-side attachment means for reversibly attaching the carrier to the vest in any of a number of positions and orientations on, and relative to the vest and its wearer.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the Invention[0001]The present invention relates to infant carriers.2. Background Information[0002]Both the need and the associated difficulties in carrying infants predate recorded history. Oddly, however, the task has only marginally been made easier and safer with the advancement of design and technology.[0003]If one is charged with the care of an infant and is to traverse any significant distance, carrying or otherwise safely transporting the infant is an undeniable necessity. Many on-body baby carriers and wheeled vehicles (“strollers”, for example) are available, however each presently available such product falls short in minimizing the disruption of attending an infant while mobile, and at the same time addressing safety and comfort concerns (for user and infant). Further still, each product has limitations with respect to the proximity and position of the infant relative to the carrier. Known frontal body infant support, for example, i...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]Embodiments of the present invention provide considerable flexibility in positioning and infant relative to the user, while maximizing safety for the carried infant.

Problems solved by technology

Many on-body baby carriers and wheeled vehicles (“strollers”, for example) are available, however each presently available such product falls short in minimizing the disruption of attending an infant while mobile, and at the same time addressing safety and comfort concerns (for user and infant).

Further still, each product has limitations with respect to the proximity and position of the infant relative to the carrier.

Known frontal body infant support, for example, is not safely convertible to safely caring and infant on one's back, in backpack fashion.

Certainly a stroller cannot be wholly converted to an on-body carrier when space limitations and / or relative to agility is needed while transporting an infant.

When one is in a situation with a stroller, but one in which a stroller becomes no longer an option (alone to traverse a long flight of stairs in a public space, for example), things become quickly complicated as one must, if he or she is to continue, abandon the stroller, while still requiring (for safety's sake) some form of on-body baby carrier.

If one has such an on-body baby carrier, it may or may not be suitable for the particular need for proximity and position of the infant to the carrier.

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