Monobeam seat with housing receptacle
AssigneeStelia Aerospace
InventorsLionel Bacquey, Remy Barre, Laurent Cecinas, Julien Normandin
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Abstract
A seat-floor assembly for a vehicle comprises a floor element and at least one monobeam seat fixed to the floor element by a beam. A seat cushion and a seat backrest fixed to the beam. The floor element comprises a stiffened panel structure, one face of which forms a top sole of at least one floor crossmember. The floor element further comprises a housing receptacle open on the top sole and fixed to the top sole and/or to the at least one floor crossmember. At least one monobeam seat is fixed to the beam. An aircraft fuselage comprises a floor with such seat-floor assemblies and reinforced by the structure of the floor elements.
Claims16
A seat assembly comprising a mono-beam seat and a housing receptacle to fix a beam of the mono-beam seat to a structure of a vehicle;
- the housing receptacle, to be fixed under a floor of the vehicle on which the mono-beam seat is arranged, comprises an open on its top face so that inside of the housing receptacle is accessible from a top of the floor;
- the mono-beam seat is fixed by a base of the beam entering the housing receptacle via the open top face so that a substantial proportion of structural stress generated by the mono-beam seat in use is transmitted to the housing receptacle;
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- the housing receptacle comprises an immobilizing device at the base of the beam configured to fix a position of the beam in at least two different positions inside the housing receptacle at a constant depth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.