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US 2019/0168877 A1Published application
Passenger compartment
OwnerSarkis Agajanianinventor
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Abstract
A passenger module that may be connected to an aircraft for transport, and may be detached and attach different module for carriage to a different destination. In alternative embodiments involving different aircrafts such as fixed wing and helicopter aircraft, a module may be adapted to have a transparent exterior so that passengers may have a broad range of unobstructed view of the outside surroundings. The module may have a range of free movements while still connected to the aircraft for such purposes as sightseeing.
Claims13
A detachable passenger module for an aircraft comprising:
- a seating area wherein seats can be placed within the said seating area;
- exterior walls, a floor, and a ceiling wherein the exterior walls and the ceiling fully encloses the entire seating area separate from a fuselage of the aircraft;
- at least a portion of the exterior walls and the ceiling are continuously transparent, and the continuously transparent portion of the exterior walls and the ceiling allowing a substantially unobstructed view of the outside surroundings from within the passenger module;
- at least one connector wherein the connector extends from the passenger module and the at least one connector may be detachably fastened to the aircraft;
- a rotating mechanism, separate from the flight controls, which actuates rotation of the entire passenger module while fastened to the aircraft;
- a tilting mechanism which actuates the tiling of the entire passenger module away aircraft which the passenger module is fastened to the aircraft;
- a set of wheels connected to the passenger module may be used as landing gear of the passenger module;
- and
- crash bars affixed to the front of the passenger module.
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An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- flight controls which control the flight of the aircraft;
- a passenger module wherein said passenger module is detachable from the fuselage of the aircraft;
- at least one connector wherein said connector is detachably connected the passenger module to the fuselage;
- the passenger module having a fully enclosed seating area,
- a controller that controls the rotation and tilting of the passenger module and not the flight of the aircraft;
- and
- a rotating mechanism that actuates rotation of the entire passenger module around a central axis connected to the aircraft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.