An apparatus is provided for warning when a child has been left in an
infant car seat within a vehicle and the vehicle's door is opened to
accommodate exiting driver. The apparatus includes an occupant detection
mechanism for detecting the presence of an occupant within an infant seat
located within a vehicle; a light detection component for detecting the
state of the vehicle's dome light; a battery which provides power to the
apparatus; an alarm which activates when the occupant detection mechanism
detects the presence of an occupant within the infant seat and the light
detection component detects the vehicles dome light has gone from an "off"
state to an "on" state because the driver opened the door to exit vehicle.
Components of the apparatus are located within the infant seat and can
move from vehicle to vehicle along with the infant seat or from infant
seat to infant seat.
