Back to results
US 12,145,326 B2Granted
Anti-microbial fiber reinforced plastic
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorsBradford D'Alessio, Thomas Martz
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
In-aircraft seats include plastic components having anti-microbial, metallic reinforcing fibers such as copper or silver. Copper or silver wires are embedded into the plastic at the time or molding to provide both structural reinforcement and anti-microbial properties. At the time of molding, copper or silver wires are disposed in a plastic mold prior to plastic application to ensure the metallic wires are generally disposed toward the surface of the molded part.
Claims7
An aircraft seat including a plurality of plastic components including at least an armrest, produced by a method comprising:
- disposing a plurality of metallic wires reinforcements in a mold, the metallic wire reinforcements comprising anti-microbial properties;
- and
- molding a plastic component via one of rotational molding,
- wherein:
- the plurality of metallic wires reinforcements are disposed in the mold to be concentrated toward an outer surface of the plastic component via centrifugal force;
- and
- a first set of metallic wire reinforcements are disposed longitudinally around the armrest to reinforce the armrest along a first axis and a second set of metallic wire reinforcements are disposed latitudinally around a handrest portion of the armrest to reinforce the plastic component along a second axis.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.