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US 6,663,173 B1Granted
Arrangement at airplane seats
AssigneeMega Technology AB
InventorSten Corfitsen
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Abstract
An arrangement pertaining to aircraft seats (1) includes a seat cushion (2) and a backrest (3), with a number of aircraft seats (1A-D) juxtaposed. The seat cushions (2) of the juxtaposed aircraft seats (1A-D) can be raised or lowered to form a long, generally continuous bed surface, and a further bed section (9) which is normally located beneath the seat cushions or hoisted into the cabin ceiling structure can form a further bed section (9).
Claims11
An arrangement of plural aircraft seats, comprising:
- plural juxtaposed seat sections;
- plural juxtaposed backrest sections that are each associated with a respective one of said seat sections;
- plural rails that are arranged and adapted to extend from a floor on which the aircraft seats are arranged to an overhead above the aircraft seats;
- and
- plural fittings that are each infinitely adjustable along at least part of a respective one of said rails and that connect said seat sections and said backrest sections to respective ones of said rails, wherein movement of said fittings along said rails allows said seat sections to form a first elongate and generally continuous bed surface and said backrest sections to form a second elongate and generally continuous bed surface.
2 more elements
An arrangement of plural aircraft seats, comprising:
- plural seat cushions and backrests;
- plural rotatable threaded rods that are arranged and adapted to extend from a floor on which the aircraft seats are arranged to an overhead above the aircraft seats;
- and
- plural threaded fittings that are each movable along at least part of a respective one of said rods and that connect said seat cushions and backrests to respective ones of said rods, wherein movement of said fittings along said rods allows said seat cushions to form a first elongate bed surface and said backrests to form a second elongate bed surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.