Seating arrangement
AssigneeAdient Aerospace, LLC
InventorsSahng Seok Lee, Zhao Jin
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Abstract
Improved seating arrangements for a vehicle cabin of a passenger transport system, in particular of an aircraft are disclosed. Examples herein provide improved seating arrangements providing a high density of seats and increased PAX numbers while ensuring privacy, comfort and a direct aisle access to each passenger. For example, the seating arrangements provided herein are applicable to narrow body aircrafts and wide body aircrafts, in particular in view of business class solutions.
Claims19
A seating arrangement for a vehicle cabin comprising:
- a first seat with a respective privacy area arranged extending substantially along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle cabin and having direct aisle access to an aisle of the cabin;
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- a second seat and a third seat offset relative and angled relative to the longitudinal direction, the second seat and the third seat arranged one behind another along the longitudinal direction and laterally offset with respect to the first seat, and both the second and third seat having direct aisle access to the aisle, wherein the first seat and the second seat are laterally distanced from each other by at least a side utility element that is shared by the first and second seats.
A seating arrangement for a vehicle cabin comprising:
- a first seat with a respective privacy area arranged extending substantially along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle cabin and having direct aisle access to an aisle of the cabin;
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- a second seat and a third seat offset relative and angled relative to the longitudinal direction, the second seat and the third seat arranged one behind another along the longitudinal direction and laterally offset with respect to the first seat, and both the second and third seat having direct aisle access to the aisle of the cabin, wherein the second seat includes a foot support structure that is movable between a deployed use position and a stowed position, wherein the deployed use position closes the direct aisle access from the aisle of the cabin to a seat pan of the second seat, and wherein the foot support structure of the second seat is hinged to at least one of an armrest of the third seat or a foot support structure of the first seat.
A seating arrangement for a vehicle cabin comprising:
- a first seat with a respective privacy area arranged extending substantially along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle cabin and having direct aisle access to an aisle of the cabin;
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- a second seat and a third seat offset relative and angled relative to the longitudinal direction, the second seat and the third seat arranged one behind another along the longitudinal direction and laterally offset with respect to the first seat, and both the second and third seat having direct aisle access to the aisle of the cabin;
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- a side utility element arranged between the first and second seats, the side utility element comprising a foot support structure of another seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.