Aircraft seat with multidirectionally adjustable wing armor
AssigneeAMI Industries, Inc.
InventorsDouglas E. Hoover, Chad R. Pacheco
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Abstract
An armored seating assembly for a rotorcraft or other aircraft (e.g., for a pilot or operator) includes a wing armor panel capable of rotational and vertical movement relative to the seat base when adjusted by the operator. For example, a carriage attached to the armor panel translates along a carriage slot in the seat base, stabilized in the carriage slot by orthogonal sets of bearings (e.g., lateral bearings and longitudinal bearings) and allowing the wing armor panel to be vertically adjusted relative to the seat base (e.g., to accommodate pilots of varying heights). The armor panel is coupled to the carriage by hinges allowing the panel to pivot or rotate away from the seat base, in order to facilitate entry to and egress from the seat.
Claims7
An armored seating assembly for an aircraft, comprising:
- a seat base mountable to a floor of the aircraft, the seat base including a carriage slot with a lower and upper terminus, the carriage slot set into the seat base and extending vertically between the lower and upper terminus above the floor;
- a carriage slidably coupled to the seat base via a plurality of bearings configured to translate along the carriage slot, the plurality of bearings including:
- at least one lateral bearing configured for rotation relative to a lateral axis;
- and
- at least one longitudinal bearing configured for rotation relative to a longitudinal axis orthogonal to the lateral axis;
- an armor bracket pivotably coupled to the carriage;
- and
- an armor panel fixed to the armor bracket, the armor panel positionable to:
- a vertical position corresponding to a position of the carriage relative to the carriage slot;
- and
- a rotational orientation relative to the seat base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.