Aircraft passenger seat
AssigneeAida Development GmbH
InventorsFrank-Heinrich Schönenberg, Thomas König
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Abstract
An aircraft passenger seat is formed of a mounting frame having a tilt axis about which a seat part containing a seating surface and a backrest is tiltable. To ensure simple measures for adjusting the seat part with little movement in a region of the front edge, the tilt axis is disposed in a middle portion of the seating surface and a device is provided in a front portion of the seating surface which reduces the thigh pressure in the front portion of the seating surface on reclining the seat part. This may be achieved for example by a forwards downswept outer contour of the seating surface in the front portion.
Claims13
An aircraft passenger seat, comprising:
- a one-part plastic shell seat part having a seating surface and a backrest;
- said seating surface having a front portion, a middle portion, and a rear portion, said middle portion defining a seating location for a passenger;
- a mounting frame having a positioner for changing a seating position, and a tilt axis about which said seat part is to be tilted in a reclined position, said tilt axis running through said middle portion of said seating surface causing the weight of a passenger to promote an uprighting of said seat part from said reclined position;
- said positioner having at least one lifting device hinged at one end to said mounting frame and at another end to said seat part in a region of said rear portion defining a main pressure point for a passenger in said reclined position;
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- said seating surface having an outer contour in said front portion, said outer contour extending initially upwardly starting from said tilt axis in direction of a front edge of said front portion and then extending downwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.