Airplane seat provided with a reinforcing strip for absorbing impacts
AssigneeExpliseat
InventorsBenjamin Jacob Saada, Jean-Charles Marcel Samuelian, Vincent Tejedor
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Abstract
A seat for an airplane is provided that makes it possible to absorb, in the event of a frontal impact of the airplane, the rocking to which a passenger in a seat located behind the seat is subjected. The backrest of the seat is provided with a reinforcing strip placed behind the backrest. The seat portion can also be provided with a second reinforcing strip placed under the seat portion. The reinforcing strip includes knitted or woven textile. In the case of knitting, the yarn used has a high tenacity, and the knitting stitch can advantageously be the Jersey stitch. In the case of weaving, the weft and warp threads have approximately the same tenacity.
Claims16
A seat for an airplane comprising:
- a skeleton comprising a hollow tubular structure providing mechanical strength of a structure of the seat, and
- a first part forming a backrest of the seat and a second part forming a seat portion of the seat, the first part and the second part being configured to be in direct contact with a passenger seated on the seat and also being more flexible than the skeleton,
- wherein the skeleton comprises a void in a middle of the backrest, wherein the seat comprises a reinforcing strip placed behind the backrest and situated set back in relation to the backrest, wherein the reinforcing strip is made of energy absorbing textile, wherein the reinforcing strip is configured to absorb a rocking of a head of a passenger situated on another seat behind the seat, in the event of frontal impact of the airplane, and wherein the energy absorbing textile of the reinforcing strip is more elastically deformable and of a higher tenacity than the backrest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.