Aircraft seat
AssigneeAirbus SAS
InventorBruno Saint-Jalmes
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Abstract
An aircraft seat includes a seat cushion and a seat back. The seat cushion has a rear portion along the seat back and a front portion of complementary shape to the rear portion to form a complete seat cushion. The rear portion moves between a raised position and a lowered position. A coupling arrangement connects the front portion to the rear portion so that when the front portion is in the raised position along the seat back the front portion is in the lowered position, in which at least part of it is retracted under the rear portion. When the rear portion is in its lowest position along the seat back the front portion is in a raised, advanced position at the same height as the rear portion to form therewith the seat cushion of the seat for receiving a seated passenger.
Claims9
1-9. (Canceled)
An aircraft seat for an aircraft cabin having a floor, said aircraft seat comprising:
- a frame member;
- a seat back mounted to said frame member;
- a seat cushion having a rear portion movably mounted to one of said seat back and said frame member and a front portion mounted adjacent said rear portion, said front portion having a front end segment and a rear end segment opposite said front end segment;
- means for biasing said rear portion of said seat cushion between a raised position and a lowered position said means for biasing mounted between said rear portion of said seat cushion and said frame member;
- means for moving said front portion of said seat cushion from a first lower retracted position to a second raised extended position whereby in said first lower retracted position said rear end segment of said front portion of said seat cushion is moved substantially underneath said rear portion of said seat cushion and in said second extended position, said front portion is moved to fully extend such that said front end segment of said front portion of said seat cushion is moved to extend from said rear portion at substantially the same height as said rear portion of said seat cushion to provide a seat for a passenger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.