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US 12,698,083 B2Granted
Passenger bays on a blended wing body aircraft
AssigneeJetZero, Inc.
InventorsScott Savian, Ian Geoffrey Scoley
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Abstract
A blended wing body (BWB) aircraft including a blended wing body having a main body and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along leading edges of the BWB aircraft, a passenger cabin located within the main body and more than one passenger bays located within the passenger cabin, wherein a perimeter of at least one passenger bay is demarcated by at least a divider and wherein the at least one passenger bay is substantially parallel to at least one leading edge of the BWB aircraft.
Claims17
A blended wing body (BWB) aircraft comprising:
- a blended wing body having a main body and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along leading edges of the BWB aircraft;
- a passenger cabin located within the main body;
- and
- a plurality of passenger bays located within the passenger cabin, wherein:
- a first portion of the plurality of passenger bays is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the BWB aircraft;
- a second portion of the plurality of passenger bays is substantially parallel to at least a portion of the leading edges of the BWB aircraft, wherein the at least a portion of the leading edges is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis;
- each passenger bay comprises a plurality of passenger seats;
- and
- wherein the second portion of the plurality of passenger bays comprises a bay aisle that is non-orthogonal to the cross aisle, wherein the plurality of passenger seats of the second portion of the plurality of passenger bays are disposed along the bay aisle.
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A blended wing body (BWB) aircraft comprising:
- a blended wing body having a main body and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along leading edges of the BWB aircraft;
- a passenger cabin located within the main body;
- and
- a plurality of passenger bays located within the passenger cabin, wherein:
- a first portion of the plurality of passenger bays is situated along a longitudinal axis of the BWB aircraft;
- a second portion of the plurality of passenger bays is situated along at least a portion of the leading edges of the BWB aircraft, wherein the at least a portion of the leading edges is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis;
- each passenger bay comprises a plurality of passenger seats;
- and
- wherein the second portion of the plurality of passenger bays comprises a bay aisle that is non-orthogonal to the cross aisle, wherein the plurality of passenger seats of the second portion of the plurality of passenger bays are disposed along the bay aisle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.