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US 2011/0210205 A1Published application
Aircraft cabin
AssigneeSingapore Airlines Limited
InventorsThomas BOCK, Jean-Jacques COSTE
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Abstract
An aircraft cabin that comprises a plurality of compartments (5) for passengers each having side walls (7a, 7b, 15) and accessible via a doorway (9) in one of the side walls (7a, 7b, 15). The compartments (5) include door assemblies for closing the doorways (9) and creating enclosed spaces and chair and other furniture interactively arranged in the compartment (5).
Claims18
A private passenger compartment for a passenger during an aircraft flight, the private passenger compartment comprising:
- a plurality of compartment walls that are at least 1.5 m high and define a compartment space,
- a doorway in one of the walls that enables access to the compartment from an aisle,
- a chair that is useable by a passenger during take off and landing of the aircraft and is disposed in one portion of the compartment space,
- a bed, said bed being moveable from a raised horizontally disposed storage position and a lowered horizontally disposed sleep position within the compartment space, and any one or more of a work desk, a table assembly, a seat, and a visual display system of an entertainment system located in the compartment space, wherein at least one or more of said work desk, table assembly, and seat comprise furniture that are structurally interactive such that the furniture can be selectively arranged in a number of different configurations adapted for relaxation, work, and sleep,
- wherein said bed is positioned in the storage position when the furniture is arranged in the relaxation and work configurations and in the sleep position when the furniture is arranged in the sleep configuration,
- wherein an interactive combination of the furniture in the compartment space comprises:
- (a) at least one of (1) the seat adjacent a wall opposite the chair when the chair is in a take-off and landing position, (2) the work desk adjacent a side wall opposite the wall that defines the doorway and (3) the table assembly movable between a stored position adjacent the side wall and an operative position with a table of the table assembly extending horizontally in a space between the chair and the seat, and (c) the bed movable between a raised horizontally disposed storage position and a lowered sleep position disposed horizontally on and supported by the work desk,
- wherein at least one of the work desk and the table assembly are located adjacent the side wall,
- wherein at least a part of the work desk and/or the table is adaptable to define a support platform for the bed and supports the bed when the bed is in the sleep position, and
- wherein the bed is stored in the raised position in the compartment space and is moveable down to the lowered sleep position on the support platform and is supported by the support platform in the lowered position.
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A private passenger compartment for a passenger during an aircraft flight, the private passenger compartment comprising:
- a plurality of compartment walls that are at least 1.5 m high and define a compartment space, said compartment walls including two opposed side walls and two opposed end walls that interconnect the side walls and define the compartment space;
- a doorway in one of the side walls that enables access to the compartment from an aisle, with the doorway being positioned centrally in the side wall and dividing the side wall into two sections with one section on each side of the doorway;
- one passenger chair only that is disposed in the compartment space and suitable for take off and landing of the aircraft and is foldable between a first seating position and a second support position;
- a bed, said bed being moveable between a raised horizontally disposed storage position and a lowered horizontally disposed sleep position within the compartment space;
- and
- at least one of (a) a credenza that may house a table assembly and (b) a seat located in the compartment space and adjacent a wall that is opposite a wall of the one passenger chair,
- wherein said chair, said bed and said at least one of said credenza and said seat are structurally interactive such that they can be selectively arranged in a number of different configurations adapted for relaxation, work, and sleep,
- wherein when the chair is in the first seating position, a person can sit upright in the chair in at least one of the relaxation and work configurations,
- wherein when the chair is in the second support position, a back portion of the chair can be folded forward over a seat portion of the chair to define a support for the bed when the bed is in the sleep position in the sleep configuration, with the bed being supported on the back portion and wherein the back portion and the seat portion are below the bed and do not form an extension of the bed, and
- wherein, at least one of the seat and the credenza defines a support for the bed when the bed is in the sleep position in the sleep configuration.
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A private passenger compartment for a passenger during an aircraft flight, the private passenger compartment comprising:
- a plurality of compartment walls that define a compartment space, one of the compartment walls comprising a doorway that enables access to the compartment, the doorway being positioned centrally in the one of the compartment walls;
- a passenger chair that is disposed in the compartment space and is foldable between a first seating position and a second support position;
- a table assembly, at least a portion of which is disposed between the passenger chair and one of the compartment walls, for use by a passenger when the passenger chair is in the first seating position;
- a seat disposed within the compartment space and across the compartment space from the passenger chair;
- and
- a bed, said bed being moveable between a raised horizontally disposed storage position and a lowered horizontally disposed sleep position within the compartment space,
- wherein
- when the chair is in the first seating position, a person can sit in the passenger chair, and
- when the passenger chair is in the second support position, a back portion of the passenger chair is folded forward over a seat portion of the passenger chair to define a support for the bed when the bed is in the horizontally disposed sleep position, and the bed is supported by the support, the table assembly, and the seat when in the bed is in the horizontally disposed sleep position.
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