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US 9,849,985 B2Granted
Foldable divider device for an aircraft cabin
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorTobias Mayer
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Abstract
A divider device for an aircraft cabin including elongate bar elements, each planar and flexible to assume a linear state extending rectilinearly along a longitudinal axis parallel to a plane, each bar element curved in a first stable state, to deform into its first stable state when bent towards the stable state to a predetermined extent, the bar elements arranged side-by-side and adjacent bar elements are pivotably inter-connected with each other.
Claims10
A divider device for an aircraft cabin, comprising:
- a plurality of elongate bar elements,
- wherein each bar element is planar and flexible so that it may assume a linear state in which it extends rectilinearly along a longitudinal axis parallel to a plane;
- wherein each bar element has a first stable state in which it is curved, so that it deforms into its first stable state when being bent out of the linear state towards the stable state to a predetermined extent;
- wherein the bar elements are arranged side-by-side and adjacent bar elements are pivotably interconnected with each other, so that when the bar elements are in the linear state, their longitudinal axes extend in parallel;
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- wherein adjacent bar elements are arranged such that when the bar elements are in the linear state and extend in a common plane, an end of a first adjacent bar element in the first stable state is positioned on a first side of the common plane whereas a corresponding first end of a second adjacent bar element in the first stable state is located on a second side of the common plane opposite the first side.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.