B/e Aerospace, Inc.

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Goodrich Corporation

Heidmann, Kurt R.

Luomanen, Christopher Augustine

Dowty, Mark Brian

Pence, Tracy Neal

Mark Brian Dowty

Tracy N Pence

Glenn Allen Johnson

Robert J Henshaw

James Rolfe Yurchenco

Jefferey M McKee

Daniel I Udriste

Suzuko Hisata

Daniel N Moe

Robert D Wilkey

James Randy Penley

Kurt R Heidmann

Alexander Nicholas Pozzi

Brian St Rock

Ian L Frost

Javier Valdes De La Garza

Brian Jeremy Conner

Adil Mumdood Ali

Matt Round

Erik Eivind Sutton Nilsen

Anthony Michael Charles

Vien Mcarthur Nguyen

Dennis M Heuer

Kent Kroener

Harry Howard Hanson

Martin Hong Lun Mo

Trevor B Skelly

Michael M Princip

Travis K Finlay

Martti Johannes Lampela

Lyle T Davis

Maxime Dempah

Alen Wyss

Jonathon Jarvis

Alexander Filip Grauls

Shawn Raybell

Garen P Moreno

David D Nicolato

Eric J Aulet

Martin Richard Darbyshire

Pradeep Acharya

John R Kuyper

Jeremy F Malecha

Bobby Lawson

Oscar Ruiz Lara

Twinkle V Jacob

Nikhil Anthony Saldanha

William Edward Haushalter

Shirley E Govea Bravo

Christopher Augustine Luomanen

Robert J Lawrence

Gururaja Nekkar

Sreekanth Rao

Joseph S Sikorski

Chirag Krishnamurthy

Nicole Sluder Whyte

Samikshya Parida

Wynn S Parrish

Daniel M Rodriguez

Huiyu Fang

Troy G Perry

Elinor Jane Fulton Suri

Joachim Gustav Voight

Michael Furrer

Charles B Cline

Jc Matthew Bratland

Ethan Husmann

Sam Mecham

Tracy Neal Pence

A seat system for an aircraft including a pilot seat configured to operate in a piloting mode and in a rest mode. The pilot seat includes a dual function component configured to function as a flight controller when the pilot seat is operating in the piloting mode and a rest surface when the pilot seat is operating in the rest mode. The piloting mode and the rest mode are mutually exclusive operating modes. The seat system further includes a control system in electronic communication with the pilot seat and configured to activate the flight controller when the pilot seat is operating in the piloting mode, deactivate the flight controller when the pilot seat is operating in the rest mode. The pilots seats may be utilized in a two-pilot aircraft to provide provisions for pilot rest in an aircraft cockpit.

Pilot sleeper seat with integrated rudder controls and lockout function

The present disclosure provides layouts of columns of lie flat passenger seats for an aircraft cabin. Each column includes a first row, such as a front row, including at least one oblique seat, a second row including at least one forward facing seat, and at least one further row including at least one forward facing seat. None of the seat rows, other than the first rows, include an oblique seat. Each seat is configured to adjust between an upright condition and a lie flat condition, nest with at least one other seat, and utilize a forward footwell formed in a console associated with another seat or a monument. The oblique first row provides a space savings in the cabin layout as compared to conventional layouts wherein all seats are oriented forward facing.

Arrangements of lie flat seats with oblique front row

A system and method for operating electronic equipment associated with a passenger seat and/or surrounding furniture in a vehicle cabin such as an aircraft cabin. According to a standard operating mode, electronic equipment is activated and/or operable without power consumption restrictions. According to a power saving operating mode, corresponding to an economy mode or a Sabbath mode, electronic equipment is inactivated and/or operable with power consumption restrictions. Operating mode selection may be via an interface unit associated with the passenger seat. In embodiments, power consumption statistics are calculated and displayed to the passenger to indicate an economy score for a flight. In embodiments, selecting power saving mode may cause the electronic equipment to perform differently during higher aircraft power demand periods as compared to lower aircraft power demand periods.

Passenger selectable power mode operation for aircraft cabin environment

A layout for a tapering rear section of an aircraft passenger cabin. The layout includes a seat row positioned between an aisle and an exterior wall, and a closet positioned behind the seat row. A first portion of the closet extends behind the seat row and a second portion of the closet extends into gap space formed between an outboard side of the seat row and the exterior wall. The closet forms interior space dimensioned, for example, to accommodate a folded wheelchair positioned along the exterior wall, as well as interior space behind the seat row. The second portion further forms an exterior surface for use by a passenger in the seat row, for instance a horizontal surface including a provision for mounting a bassinet. The interior space is accessible from the rear facing side of the closet to facilitate stowing and retrieving items from the interior space.

Aft row closet with wheelchair accommodation and bassinet mount

An aircraft lavatory is disclosed herein. The aircraft lavatory includes a standard access door providing access to the aircraft lavatory from at least one of an aisle, a cross aisle, or a passageway of an aircraft, a first moveable wall adjacent the standard access door, the first moveable wall having a first end and a second end and configured to move between a closed position and an open position, the first end of the first moveable wall configured to rotate about a first pivot point, and a second moveable wall adjacent the first moveable wall, the second movable wall having a first end and a second end and configured to move between a closed position and an open position, the first end of the second moveable wall configured to rotate about a second pivot point.

Wheelchair accessible airliner lavatory

A triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) is described. The TPMS is adjustable and tunable depending on desired breathability, vibration performance, weight reduction, pressure distribution, and the like. The TPMS may be used in a cushion of a passenger seat. The cushion may be used for one or more locations of the passenger seat, including a head rest cushion, a back rest cushion, a seat pan cushion, and the like. the TPMS may include a cylindrical gyroid. Each of the cushions may include multiple of the cylindrical gyroids.

Printed optimized TPMS structure

A door assembly for use in an aircraft providing standard and accessible operating modes. The assembly includes a partition wall movable between a first position and a second position, a sliding door including a first door portion and a second door portion, and a latch mechanism operable to couple the first and second door portions. In a first operating mode of the door assembly, the partition wall is maintained in the first position and the sliding door moves to an open state to form a first opening. In a second operating mode of the door assembly, the partition wall is moved from the first position to the second position and the sliding door moves to an open state to form a second opening different from the first opening.

Door assembly with standard and accessible operating modes

A tray table assembly and a passenger seat arrangement including a tray table assembly. The tray table assembly includes a tray table coupled to a motion path element determining a motion path of the tray table between stowed and deployed positions. In embodiments, the motion path element may be implemented as at least one of a helical shaft, helical slot, and helical ramp. The motion path combines rotational and vertical motion such that an angular change of the table caused by rotational movement simultaneously causes an elevation change of the tray table. In some embodiments, the tray table may lower when rotated toward the deployed position and raise when rotated toward the stowed position.

Console mounted tray table with helical pivot

A rotary lap belt energy attenuator for reducing inertial loads on seat components. In embodiments, a shackle assembly includes a seat frame component, a shackle pivotally attached to the seat component and attachable to a lap belt component, a deformable link attached to the shackle and the seat component, an attachment guide configured to travel along the guideway, and an energy attenuator positioned in the guideway. In use, each of the deformable link and the energy attenuator undergo plastic deformation during rotary motion of the shackle to attenuate impact energy.

Rotary lap belt shackle assembly

A movable area partition is disclosed herein. The movable area partition includes a bottom pivot point, a top pivot point, a first panel having a first end and an opposing second end, the first end of the first panel pivotably coupled to the bottom pivot point, and a second panel having a first end an opposing second end, the first end of the second panel rotatably coupled to the second end of the first panel and the second end of the second panel pivotably coupled to the top pivot point.

Movable area partition

Disclosed are embodiments of passenger seats equipped with seat belts for mitigating seat damage and spinal tension from free-flail movements. In embodiments, the assembly includes a seat back, a first slip ring positioned proximate a top of the seat back, a second slip ring positioned lower on the seat back, a retractor, and a webbing threaded through each of the first and second slip rings. During normal use of the seat the first slip ring forms a first pivot for the webbing, and during a qualifying deceleration event the second slip ring forms a new pivot for the webbing lower on the seat back. In a further embodiment, first and second webbings form primary and auxiliary restraints guided by respective first and second pivots.

Seat belt assemblies for mitigating spinal tension during free-flail

An aircraft passenger seat installable in an aircraft cabin at an angle relative to an aircraft longitudinal axis. The passenger seat includes movable or shape changing seat elements for temporarily re-indexing the passenger orientation according to at least one predetermined flight condition such that the seat assembly meets predefined regulatory certification criteria in at least one of the predetermined flight conditions. A method for effecting a temporary change in position of a seated passenger relative to the aircraft longitudinal axis (i.e., direction of flight) according to at least one predetermined flight condition.

Passenger positioning devices for aircraft seats for regulatory compliance

A system and method for delivering an axial compression load to a passenger during a frontal deceleration event is disclosed. The system includes a seat frame, a seat pan, and an impulse generator coupled to the seat pan configured to provide an axial compression load onto a spine of a sitting passenger during a forward deceleration event. The system further includes a controller configured to receive a forward deceleration signal from the inertial sensor and activate the impulse generator based on the forward deceleration signal. The impulse generator may generate a compressive force via a chemical reaction, via a mechanically stored energy, a solenoid switch, or via a rotating cam assembly.

Seat pan impulse device for the reduction of spinal tension loads resulting from a free flail event

A slanted aircraft seat privacy panel may include a body. The body may be defined by a contour line along at least a portion of a height of the body. The contour line may be a straight line slanted at an angle relative to a vertical line. The vertical line may be defined relative to a floor of the aircraft cabin. The contour line being slanted may generate increased shoulder space in the passenger compartment in the aircraft cabin. The increased shoulder space in the passenger compartment may use a portion of non-fully utilized space in an adjacent passenger compartment in the aircraft cabin. The passenger compartment and the adjacent passenger compartment may be offset relative to an aisle in the aircraft cabin. A portion of each of the passenger compartment and the adjacent passenger compartment may be formed by the slanted aircraft seat privacy panel.

Slanted aircraft seat privacy panels

For a vehicle seat, for instance an aircraft passenger seat, a seat belt system including a seat belt reel having a rotating shaft, a seat belt wound on the rotating shaft, and a lock for locking at least one of the rotating shaft and the seat belt. At least one sensor is operative to output a signal when a sensed parameter exceeds a predetermined magnitude threshold. An activation device is operative to activate the lock. A time delay device electrically coupled to the at least one sensor and the activation device is operative to, upon receiving the signal output by the at least one sensor, activate the activation device upon completion of a time delay after receiving the signal output by the at least one sensor. Further embodiments include shoulder belts forming loops allowing a predetermined amount of forward travel prior to restraining a passenger.

Passenger restraints for reducing spinal tension

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Rural Hall, NC, United States of America

Mark Brian Dowty