Extendable tray for an aircraft seat
AssigneeAirbus SAS
InventorsAlexandra Collins, Mark Collins
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Abstract
A tray table system to be mounted onto a seat, particularly in an aircraft, and to an associated aircraft, and a system that includes a retractable tray table having utility-surface dimensions that vary between a storage retracted position and an extended use position. The tray table system includes a tray table including an upper utility surface, and a translation mechanism capable of modifying by translation dimensions of the upper utility surface during movement of the tray table between at least a first general storage position and a second general use position.
Claims12
A seat tray table system comprising:
- a tray table including an upper surface, the tray table configured to be displaced along a longitudinal axis between at least two positions;
- and
- a translation mechanism that modifies, by transversal translation perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, exposed dimensions of the upper surface during displacement of the tray table between the at least two positions,
- wherein the translation mechanism modifies the exposed dimensions of the upper surface in response to the translation mechanism being moved along the longitudinal axis.
A seat tray table system comprising:
- a tray table including an upper surface, the tray table configured to be displaced along a longitudinal axis between at least two positions;
- and
- a translation mechanism that modifies, by transversal translation relative to the longitudinal axis, dimensions of the upper surface during displacement of the tray table between the at least two positions,
- wherein the translation mechanism comprises two racks coupled by a toothed wheel, the two racks being respectively integral with a movable part of the tray table and with an actuating member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.