Appeal No. 99-0630 Page 10
Application No. 08/633,400
(142), thereby preventing the rotation of the pawl necessary
to allow the other pawl tooth (146) to withdraw from a notch
(140) in the sector (134). Accordingly, the sector (134)
connected to the child seat pan (28) cannot be rotated and
thus the child seat cannot be deployed when the latch (23) is
released.
When the latch (23) is in the latched position, the child
seat pan (28) must be rotated into the deployment position
with sufficient force to overcome the force of the spring
(148) so as to rotate the sector (134) counter-clockwise and
the pawl (142) clockwise, thereby withdrawing the tooth (146)
from the notch (140) (column 6, lines 55 through 60). When
the child seat pan is in the deployed position shown in Figure
8, the pawl tooth (150) interferes with the path of travel of
the distal end (152) of the cam (126), thereby preventing
clockwise rotation of the cam in response to tension in the
pull cable (80). Thus, when the child seat is deployed, the
seat back cannot be unlatched.
The examiner submits that the pawl (142) is a manual lock
"for constantly and unyieldingly locking the bottom cushion in
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