Illumination in the area of aircraft cabins
AssigneeAirbus Deutschland GmbH
InventorsJens Kessler, Carsten Kohlmeier-Beckmann, Hubertus Pohlmann
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an illumination strip for illuminating a handrail recess that itself at the same time forms a handrail; to a hatrack for installation in an aircraft cabin with a correspondingly designed handrail recess that at least in sections can be illuminated; as well as to the use of an illumination strip or a hatrack in an aircraft. The illumination strip comprises a carrier module for accommodating the illumination unit and illumination units accommodated by the carrier module. The carrier module is strip shaped and includes a positive locking member to secure the carrier module of the illumination strip into the handrail in an exchangeable manner.
Claims18
A hatrack for an aircraft cabin including a plurality of ribs, a pair of adjacent ribs defining a rib section, rib sections arranged one after another along a length of the aircraft cabin, the hatrack comprising:
- a handrail having a surface shaped to define a concave handrail recess formed in the hatrack, the handrail and the hatrack formed of a single piece such that the handrail is configured to extend continuously along a plurality of rib sections;
- at least one illumination module;
- at least one positive-locking member configured to exchangeably secure the illumination module into the handrail;
- the handrail configured to accommodate the illumination module in a positive-locking manner so that the concave handrail recess is illuminated by the illumination strip at least in some sections of the handrail recess above the handrail.
A hatrack for an aircraft cabin, the hatrack comprising:
- a handrail having a top surface shaped to define a concave handrail recess formed in the hatrack, the handrail and the hatrack formed of a single piece;
- a plurality of illumination strips, each illumination strip comprising a strip shaped carrier module comprising a plurality of illumination sources positioned at the carrier module and configured to illuminate the handrail recess;
- a positive-locking member configured to secure the carrier module into the handrail;
- the handrail comprising a lighting recess configured to accommodate the illumination strip so that the concave handrail recess is illuminated by the illumination strip at least in some sections of the handrail recess above the handrail;
- a second illumination strip of the plurality of illumination strips configured to generate light of a wavelength different from a first illumination strip of the plurality of illumination strips and positioned remote from the first illumination strip,
- wherein the hatrack extends at least in part along a first passenger class and at least along a second passenger class of the aircraft cabin, and
- wherein the first illumination strip is positioned in the first passenger class and is configured to generate light of a first color, and the second illumination strip positioned in the second passenger class and configured to generate light of a second color different from the first color.
A hatrack for an aircraft cabin, the hatrack comprising:
- a handrail having a top surface shaped to define a concave handrail recess formed in the hatrack, the handrail and the hatrack formed of a single piece;
- a plurality of illumination strips, each illumination strip comprising a strip shaped carrier module comprising a plurality of illumination sources positioned at the carrier module and configured to illuminate the handrail recess,
- a positive-locking member configured to secure the carrier module into the handrail;
- the handrail comprising a lighting recess configured to accommodate the illumination strip in a positive-locking manner so that the concave handrail recess is illuminated by the illumination strip at least in some sections of the handrail recess above the handrail;
- a second illumination strip of the plurality of illumination strips configured to generate light of a wavelength different from a wavelength of light of a first illumination strip of the plurality of illumination strips and positioned remote from the first illumination strip.
In combination the hatrack for an aircraft cabin and a control system for controlling a plurality of illumination strips, the hatrack comprising:
- a handrail having a top surface shaped to define a concave handrail recess formed in the hatrack, the handrail and the hatrack formed of a single piece;
- a plurality of illumination strips, each strip comprising a strip shaped carrier module comprising a plurality of illumination sources positioned at the carrier module and configured to illuminate the handrail recess,
- a positive-locking member configured to secure the carrier module into the handrail,
- the handrail comprising a lighting recess configured to accommodate the illumination strip in a positive-locking manner so that the concave handrail recess is illuminated by the illumination strip at least in some sections of the handrail recess above the handrail;
- the illumination control system configured to control a first illumination strip of the plurality of illumination strips to emit light of a wavelength different from the wavelength of light of a second illumination strip of the plurality of illumination strips.
A hatrack in an aircraft cabin including a plurality of ribs, a pair of adjacent ribs defining a rib section, rib sections arranged one after another along a length of the aircraft cabin, the hatrack comprising:
- a handrail having a surface shaped to define a concave handrail recess formed in the hatrack,
- the handrail and the hatrack formed of a single piece such that the handrail is configured to extend continuously along a plurality of rib sections;
- a lighting module positioned in the handrail and configured to illuminate at least a portion of the concave handrail recess above the lighting module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.