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Gabriel Martin

Laurent Texeraud

Didier Guinot

Franck Vergnaud

Frédéric Cloet

Olivier Jerome

Sylvain Gonfalone

Laurent Cecinas

Christian Verny

Ronan Kerdoncuff

A cabin of a vehicle for transporting passengers includes a plurality of units, each unit including a seat and a modular seat extension arranged staggered in the units. Each extension includes a shell having a front bottom and a rear opening determined by a hollow volume open towards the rear and a footrest area inside the hollow volume suitable for receiving the feet of a passenger. The shell of each extension includes an invariant portion and a modular portion located in front of the invariant portion. The modular portion making it possible during the fastening thereof to the invariant portion to obtain an extension with a length that can be modified between the opening and the bottom of the shell and, a width of passage towards the aisle between the seats and the extensions of the units is maintained constant during the use of the extensions by the passengers.

Seat extension with modular length, unit comprising a seat extension and passenger cabin

A block of two seats side by side which can be converted individually between a chair configuration and a horizontal flat bed configuration, the longitudinal axes of two of the seats in the bed configuration converging towards a point situated in front of the seats at a distance such that the foot areas in front of the seats in the bed configuration are superposed. Bed planes of the two seats of the block are vertically offset and extended by rest surfaces of the foot areas arranged in a column arranged between the seat backs of the seats of a block situated in front, making it possible to reduce the seat pitch while not affecting comfort, and allowing an improved cabin layout for transporting passengers.

Seat that can be converted into a sleeping-berth

A set includes two blocks each of two seats convertible for lying down, wherein the two blocks are arranged with the seats of one block face-to-face with the seats of the other block inside a circumscribed rectangle. Each block includes a first seat and a second seat. The first-seats of the two blocks are arranged along a first diagonal of the circumscribed rectangle and the longitudinal axes of the first seats are oriented so that their directions are close to the first diagonal and the first seats are substantially face-to-face. The distance between the two first seats is such that a foot area of a first seat of a block is superposed when seen from above with a foot area of the first seat of the other block. In the recumbent configuration, the planes to lie down on of the two first seats are at different heights.

Arrangement of seats convertible into bunks

A seat for a passenger cabin of a vehicle includes a bucket seat (), the bucket seat including a seat pan () and a back rest () attached to the seat pan with which it determines a dihedron with a constant angle, integral with a base (). The bucket seat is mobile, between a sitting position 'a,' in which the seat pan () is approximately horizontal, and a resting position 'r,' in which the back rest () is pivoted rearward by an angle &#xc2; relative to the sitting position &#x201c;a,&#x201d; in rotation relative to the base around an axis of rotation (), approximately fixed relative to the base, located above the seat pan () and in front of the back rest () when the bucket seat is in the sitting position &#x201c;a.&#x201d; The pivoting axis is defined by, for example, the shape of slides on which rollers or shoes travel.

Passenger seat having a bucket seat structure and adjustable position

In a block of two seats side by side which can be converted individually between a chair configuration and a horizontal flat bed configuration, the two seats are arranged and oriented substantially in the same direction, the longitudinal axes of each of the seats in the bed configuration converge towards a point situated behind the seats at a distance such that upper parts of the seat backs and of the head rests are superposed in a head area of the block. The bed planes of the seats of a block are vertically offset and extended by rest surfaces of the foot areas arranged in lateral columns arranged to the sides of the head area in the region of the rear shell of a block situated in front, allowing to reduce the seat pitch without affecting comfort and allowing an improved layout of a cabin for transporting passengers.

Seat which can be converted into a bed

A furniture unit for a vehicle includes a seat having a side that is joined permanently to a couch. The general direction of the couch is angled, forwards of the seat, with respect to the direction in which the seat faces. A squab of the seat and a squab of the couch are located at the same level, in such a way as to form a surface suitable for use as a bed.

Furniture unit for a vehicle, especially an aircraft

Seat for means of transport

Seats for means of transport

A convertible seat, e.g., for an aircraft, including a fixed structure and a mobile structure, including a seat bottom, a seat back, a leg rest and, optionally, a leg rest extension. The different elements of the mobile structure are mechanically connected to each other, and to the fixed structure, to automatically move the mobile structure between a first extreme seat type posture and a second extreme bed type posture, passing through given ergonomically comfortable intermediate postures, using a single control. This control may be a manual control or a motorized control.

Seat convertible into a bed, in particular for aircraft

In order that the acceleration suffered by the occupant (O) of an aircraft, particularly a rotary-wing aircraft seat in the case of an accident remains below a humanly withstandable limit, no matter what the size of said occupant, a seat is proposed in which a height regulation of the pan or bucket (16), in which the occupant is received, also has the effect of modifying the inclination of the energy absorbers (38). Thus, the vertical component of the retaining force exerted on the pan (16) by said absorbers decreases with the size of the occupant, which leads to the desired result.

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Gabriel Martin