Aircraft seat with separated seat back and seat pan
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorMartin R. Darbyshire
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Abstract
An aircraft seat may include a seat back coupled to a shell of one or more passenger compartment shell sections of a passenger compartment installed within an aircraft cabin. The aircraft seat may include a seat pan coupled to a floor of the aircraft cabin proximate to an ottoman installed within the passenger compartment. The seat back may be in contact with a surface of the seat pan when the aircraft seat is in a first position. The seat back may be separated from the surface of the seat pan when the aircraft seat is in a second position. The seat back may be configured to move independently of the seat pan when the aircraft seat transitions between the first position and the second position.
Claims16
An aircraft seat, comprising:
- a seat back coupled to a shell of one or more passenger compartment shell sections of a passenger compartment installed within an aircraft cabin, the seat back coupled to the shell by a first set of linkages, the linkages having two pivot points, a first pivot point located at the seat back and a second pivot point located at the shell;
- the seat back configured to move from a first seat back position to a second seat back position by the set of linkages;
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- a seat pan coupled to a floor of the aircraft cabin proximate to an ottoman installed within the passenger compartment, the seat pan configured to move from a first seat pan position to a second seat pan position,
- the seat back being in contact with a surface of the seat pan when the seat back is in the first seat back position and the seat pan is in the first seat pan position,
- the seat back being separated from the surface of the seat pan when the seat back is in the second seat back position and the seat pan is in the second seat pan position,
- the seat back being configured to move independently of the seat pan when the seat back transitions between the first seat back position and the second seat back position.
A passenger compartment of an aircraft cabin comprising:
- one or more passenger compartment shell sections;
- an ottoman;
- an aircraft seat, comprising:
- a seat back coupled to a shell of the one or more passenger compartment shell sections, the seat back coupled to the shell by a first set of linkages, the linkages having two pivot points, a first pivot point located at the seat back and a second pivot point located at the shell, the seat back configured to move from a first seat back position to a second seat back position by the set of linkages;
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- a seat pan coupled to a floor of the aircraft cabin proximate to the ottoman, the seat pan configured to move from a first seat pan position to a second seat pan position,
- the seat back being in contact with a surface of the seat pan when the seat back is in the first seat back position and the seat pan is in the first seat pan position,
- the seat back being separated from the surface of the seat pan when the seat back is in the second seat back position and the seat pan is in the second seat pan position,
- the seat back being configured to move independently of the seat pan when the seat back transitions between the first seat back position and the second seat back position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.