BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a basket and a stroller apparatus thereof, and more specifically, to a basket detachably mounted on a mount of a carrier for allowing an infant car seat to be mounted on the carrier and a stroller apparatus thereof.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In general, a stroller provides a convenient way to transport an infant seated in its seat. For convenience of a caregiver, the stroller usually has a basket disposed thereon to give the caregiver a place to store and access items, such as diaper bags or coats. However, since a conventional basket is only fixed in a bottom area of the stroller, the caregiver can find it difficult to get items into and out of the basket, so as to greatly limit convenience and installation flexibility of the basket in use.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a basket detachably mounted on at least one first mount of a carrier for allowing an infant car seat to be mounted on the carrier via the basket. The first mount has a first mounting slot formed thereon. The basket includes a basket body and at least one mounting structure. The basket body has a storage space. The mounting structure is connected to at least one side of the basket body corresponding to the first mount. The mounting structure has a body portion, an inserting portion and a mounting portion. The body portion is connected between the mounting portion and the inserting portion. The infant car seat is suspended on the storage space of the basket body when the inserting portion is inserted into the first mounting slot and the infant car seat is mounted on the mounting portion.
The present invention further provides a stroller apparatus. The stroller apparatus includes an infant car seat, a stroller, and a basket. The stroller has a handle assembly, a main frame assembly, a wheel assembly, and at least one first mount. The main frame assembly is connected between the handle assembly and the wheel frame. The first mount has a first mounting slot formed thereon and is connected to the main frame assembly. The basket is detachably mounted on the first mount of the stroller for allowing the infant car seat to be mounted on the stroller via the basket. The basket includes a basket body and at least one mounting structure. The basket body has a storage space. The mounting structure is connected to at least one side of the basket body corresponding to the first mount. The mounting structure has a body portion, an inserting portion and a mounting portion. The body portion is connected between the inserting portion and the mounting portion. The infant car seat is suspended on the storage space of the basket body when the inserting portion is inserted into the first mounting slot and the infant car seat is mounted on the mounting portion.
These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a partial exploded diagram of a stroller apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a stroller in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a basket in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a partial exploded diagram of two mounting structures in FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the basket in FIG. 3 in a folded state.
FIG. 6 is a side view of the basket in FIG. 5 being folded with the stroller.
FIG. 7 is a side view of the basket in FIG. 1 being mounted at another different position of the stroller.
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an infant car seat in FIG.
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a basket according to another embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. FIG. 1 is a partial exploded diagram of a stroller apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a stroller 14 in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the stroller apparatus 10 includes an infant car seat 12, the stroller 14, and a basket 16. The stroller 14 has a handle assembly 18, a main frame assembly 20, a wheel assembly 22, and two first mounts 24. The main frame assembly 20 is connected between the handle assembly 18 and the wheel assembly 22, such that a user can grip the handle assembly 18 by his two hands to drive the stroller 14 to move forward or backward via the wheel assembly 22. Each first mount 24 has a first mounting slot 26 formed thereon and is connected to the main frame assembly 20. In this embodiment, a supporting structure 28 could preferably be formed at an inner side of each first mount 24 for supporting the infant car seat 12 cooperatively with the basket 16.
Please further refer to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the basket 16 in FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is a partial exploded diagram of two mounting structures 34 in FIG. 3. As shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3, and FIG. 4, the basket 16 is detachably mounted on the two first mounts 24 of the stroller 14 for allowing the infant car seat 12 to be mounted on the stroller 14 via the basket 16. The basket 16 includes a basket body 32 and the two mounting structures 34. The basket body 32 has a storage space 36 for a user to place an infant or store and access items (e.g. diaper bags or coats), and the two mounting structures 34 are connected to two sides of the basket body 32 respectively. To be more specific, each mounting structure 34 could have a body portion 38, an inserting portion 40 and a mounting portion 42. The body portion 38 is connected between the inserting portion 40 and the mounting portion 42. In this embodiment, the inserting portion 40 extends downward from a bottom side S1 of the body portion 38, and the mounting portion 42 extends upward from a top side S2 of the body portion 38. Accordingly, the infant car seat 12 can be suspended on the storage space 36 when the two inserting portions 40 are inserted into the first mounting slots 26 respectively and the infant car seat 12 is mounted on the two mounting portions 42.
Furthermore, for ensuring that the mounting structure 34 could be assembled with the first mount 24 more steadily, as shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, each mounting structure 34 could further have a latch portion 44. The latch portion 44 is pivotally hinged to the body portion 38 and has an elastic arm 46 and a fixing hook 48, and the first mounting slot 26 has a fixing hole 27 (briefly depicted by dotted lines in FIG. 2) formed therein corresponding to the fixing hook 48. The elastic arm 46 bends from a first surface S3 of the latch portion 44 to abut against the inserting portion 40, and the fixing hook 48 protrudes from a second surface S4 (opposite to the first surface S3) of the latch portion 44. Accordingly, the elastic arm 46 could provide an elastic force to drive the fixing hook 48 to be engaged with the fixing hole 27 of the first mounting slot 26 when the inserting portion 40 and the latch portion 44 are inserted into the first mounting slot 26, so as to fix the latch portion 44 and the inserting portion 40 in the first mounting slot 26 securely. On the other hand, when the user wants to release engagement between the fixing hook 48 and the first mounting slot 26, the user just needs to press the latch portion 44 inwardly toward the inserting portion 40 to disengage the fixing hook 48 from the fixing hole 27, so that the user could pull the latch portion 44 and the inserting portion 40 out of the first mounting slot 26 easily for lifting the basket 16 from the stroller 14.
In practical application, the basket body 32 could preferably be foldable with the stroller 14. For example, please refer to FIG. 3, FIG. 5, and FIG. 6. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the basket 16 in FIG. 3 in a folded state. FIG. 6 is a side view of the basket 16 in FIG. 5 being folded with the stroller 14. As shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 5, and FIG. 6, the basket body 32 could include a tube structure 50 and a basket fabric 52 (the basket fabric 52 is briefly depicted by dotted lines in FIG. 3 for clearly showing the structural design of the mounting structure 34 and is omitted in FIG. 5 for simplicity). The basket fabric 52 is attached under the tube structure 50 for forming the storage space 36, and the two mounting structures 34 are connected to two sides of the tube structure 50 respectively. In this embodiment, the tube structure 50 could include two bent tubes 54 (preferably U-shaped, but not limited thereto), and two ends of each bent tube 54 are pivoted to the two body portions 38 respectively (e.g. the mounting structure 34 could preferably utilize a pivot pin 35 to pivotally connect an end of the bent tube 54 to an elongated slot 37 on the body portion 38 as shown in FIG. 3, but not limited thereto). In such a manner, the two bent tubes 54 could be upwardly foldable with the basket fabric 52, so as to make the basket 16 foldable with the stroller 14 (as shown in FIG. 6) for convenient storage.
Furthermore, disposal of the basket 16 is not limited to the position as shown in FIG. 1. For example, please refer to FIG. 1, FIG. 2, and FIG. 7. FIG. 7 is a side view of the basket 16 in FIG. 1 being mounted at another different position of the stroller 14. As shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, and FIG. 7, the stroller 14 could further have two second mounts 56 corresponding to the two first mounts 24 respectively. Each second mount 56 could have a second mounting slot 58 formed thereon and preferably be located at a rearward position of the wheel assembly 22 (but not limited thereto, meaning that the present invention could adopt the design that the two second mounts 56 are located at other different positions from the two first mounts 24, such as a forward or central position of the wheel assembly 22). Accordingly, the basket 16 could be selectively disposed at the position of the stroller 14 as shown in FIG. 7 by inserting the inserting portion 40 of the mounting structure 34 into the second mounting slot 58 of the second mounts 56 for the user to get items into and out of the basket 16 conveniently, so as to improve the installation flexibility of the basket 16 in use. To be noted, the structural design of the carrier on which the basket 16 could be mounted is not limited to the aforesaid stroller 14. That is to say, the basket 16 could be mounted on any other type of carrier having at least one first mount for baby care, such as a foldable X-shaped frame, and the related description for the design for mounting the basket on the aforesaid carrier could be reasoned by analogy according to this embodiment and omitted herein.
As for the mounting design of the infant car seat 12, the related description is provided as follows. Please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 8. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the infant car seat 12 in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 8, the infant car seat 12 has two engaging slots 60 (briefly depicted by dotted lines in FIG. 2) corresponding to the two mounting portions 42 respectively (e.g. the shape of the engaging slot 60 could be matched with the shape of the mounting portion 42 for securely mounting the infant car seat 12 on the mounting structure 34). To be more specific, in this embodiment, the infant car seat 12 could include a handle 62 and a seat body 64, and two ends of the handle 62 could have two connection bases 63 connected to two sides of the seat body 64 respectively. The two engaging slots 60 are formed on the two connection bases 63 for receiving the two mounting portions 42 respectively. Moreover, in this embodiment, each supporting structure 28 could have an engaging groove 29, and the infant car seat 12 could further have two protruding blocks 68 formed at two sides of the infant car seat 12 corresponding to the two engaging grooves 29 respectively. Accordingly, the infant car seat 12 could be positioned at the rearward facing position as shown in FIG. 2 on the two mounting structures 34 steadily when the two engaging slots receive the two mounting portions 42 respectively and each protruding block 68 is engaged with the corresponding engaging groove 29. In practical application, for installation flexibility, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 8, each supporting structure 28 could further have an engaging groove 30 adjacent to the engaging groove 29. In such a manner, the infant car seat 12 could be turned 180° and be positioned at the forward facing position on the two mounting structures 34 steadily when the two engaging slots 60 receive the two mounting portions 42 respectively and each protruding block 68 is engaged with the corresponding engaging groove 30.
Via the aforesaid designs, when the user wants to mount the infant car seat 12 on the stroller 14 via the basket 16, the user just needs to mount the basket 16 on the two first mounts 24 of the stroller 14 by inserting the two inserting portions 40 into the two first mounting slots 26 of the two first mounts 24 respectively, and then mounts the infant car seat 12 on the two mounting structures 34 by utilizing the engaging slots 60 to receive the two mounting portions 42 respectively. After the basket 16 and the infant car seat 12 are mounted on the stroller 14 sequentially, as mentioned above, the two engaging slots 60 can receive the two mounting portions 42 respectively to support the infant car seat 12 and the two protruding blocks 68 can be engaged with the two engaging grooves 29 to position the infant car seat 12 at the rearward facing position, so as to make the infant car seat 12 suspended on the storage space 36 more steadily. In such a manner, the user can place an infant in the infant car seat 12 and can get items into and out of the basket 16 conveniently and smoothly, so as to greatly improve convenience of the basket 16 in use. Moreover, since the basket 16 can contain rear straps of the infant car seat 12 in the storage space 36 after the infant car seat 12 is mounted on the stroller 14 via the basket 16, the present invention can surely prevent an infant in the infant car seat 12 from being entangled in the rear straps, so as to enhance safety of the stroller apparatus 10 in use.
It should be mentioned that the forming position of the supporting structure is not limited to the aforesaid embodiment, meaning that the present invention could adopt the design that the supporting structure is formed integrally with the mounting structure of the basket in another embodiment. For example, please refer to FIG. 9, which is a schematic diagram of a basket 16′ according to another embodiment of the present invention. Components both mentioned in this embodiment and the aforesaid embodiment represent components with similar structures or functions, and the related description is omitted herein. For clearly showing the structural design of two mounting structure 34′, the basket fabric 52 is briefly depicted by dotted lines in FIG. 9. As shown in FIG. 9, the basket 16′ could include the basket body 32 and the two mounting structures 34′. Each mounting structure 34′ could have the body portion 38, the inserting portion 40, the mounting portion 42, and a supporting structure 28′. Each supporting structure 28′ could extend downward from the bottom side S1 of the body portion 38 to be adjacent to an inner side of the corresponding inserting portion 40. To be noted, in this embodiment, the structural shape of the first mounting slot 26 could be matched with the structural shape of the supporting structure 28′ for completely containing the inserting portion 40 when the inserting portions 40 is inserted into the first mounting slot 26. Accordingly, when the two inserting portions 40 are inserted into the first mounting slots 26 respectively and the infant car seat 12 is mounted on the two mounting portions 42, the two supporting structures 28′ can position the infant car seat 12, so as to make the infant car seat 12 suspended on the storage space 36 of the basket 16′ more steadily. As for the related description for the other structural designs of the basket 16′ (e.g. the folding design, the design that the basket could be mounted on a carrier, the infant car seat positioning design, etc.), it could be reasoned by analogy according to the aforesaid embodiment and omitted herein.
To be noted, in another embodiment, the present invention could adopt the design that the basket has only one mounting structure to be detachably mounted on only one first mount of the stroller for allowing the infant car seat to be mounted on the stroller via the basket, so as to simplify the structural design of the stroller apparatus. As for the related description for the structural designs of this embodiment (e.g. the design for supporting the infant car seat on the basket, the design for mounting the basket on the stroller, etc.), it could be reasoned by analogy according to the aforesaid embodiments and omitted herein.
Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
Patent Application
20180029625
