Armrest assembly with deployable bed extension
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Gordon Wallace, Paul Benedict Rutter, Alexander Nicholas Pozzi
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Abstract
An armrest assembly for a seat of the type that is convertible into a lie flat bed, the armrest assembly including an armrest, an armrest housing in which the armrest is mounted for vertical movement, and a planar bed extension having an upper bed surface is mounted in the armrest housing for movement between a stowed position wherein the bed extension is contained in a vertical position in the armrest housing and a deployed position wherein the bed extension is positioned exterior to the armrest housing in a raised, horizontal position, wherein the armrest and bed extension reside in horizontal alignment with a seat back and seat bottom of the seat to collectively define a portion of a bed.
Claims18
An armrest assembly of a seat of a type that is convertible into a lie flat bed, comprising:
- (a) an armrest assembly that includes an armrest and an armrest housing in which the armrest is mounted for movement between an upper horizontal armrest position and a lower horizontal bed position;
- (b) a planar bed extension having an upper bed surface, and mounted in the armrest housing for movement between a stowed position wherein the bed extension is contained in a vertical position in the armrest housing and a deployed position wherein the bed extension is positioned exterior to the armrest housing in a raised, horizontal position with the bed surface in horizontal alignment with an upper horizontal surface of the armrest;
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- (c) the armrest and bed extension adapted to reside in horizontal alignment with a seat back and seat bottom of a lie flat seat to collectively define a portion of a bed.
A seat of a type that is convertible into a lie flat bed, comprising:
- (a) a seat back and seat bottom that are movable between seating and lie flat sleeping positions;
- (b) a first armrest assembly mounted on a first lateral side of the seat, and including:
- (i) an armrest and an armrest housing in which the armrest is mounted for movement between an upper horizontal armrest position and a lower horizontal bed position;
- (ii) a planar bed extension having an upper bed surface, and mounted in the armrest housing for movement between a stowed position wherein the bed extension is contained in a vertical position in the armrest housing and a deployed position wherein the bed extension is positioned exterior to the armrest housing in a raised, horizontal position with the bed surface in horizontal alignment with an upper horizontal surface of the armrest;
- (iii) the armrest and bed extension of the first armrest assembly adapted to reside in horizontal alignment with the seat back and seat bottom of a lie flat seat to collectively define a portion of the bed;
- (c) a second armrest assembly mounted on a second lateral side of the seat, and that includes:
- (i) an armrest and an armrest housing in which the armrest is mounted for movement between an upper horizontal armrest position and a lower horizontal bed position;
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- (ii) the armrest of the second armrest assembly adapted to reside in horizontal alignment with the seat back and seat bottom of the lie flat seat on the second lateral side of the seat to define a portion of the bed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.