B/e Aerospace, Inc.

Kranos IP Corporation

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Schutt Sports Ip, LLC

Kanos IP Corporation

Michael M Princip

Jeremy J Thompson

James C Wingo

Glenn Allen Johnson

Charles Martin Hansson

Cortney Warmouth

Vincent R Long

Robert W Erb

Louis Anthony Vanhoutin

Travis J Vaninetti

Mark Brian Dowty

Jefferey M McKee

Stephen A Puglisi

Tracy N Pence

Alex L Velet

Brian P Wenger

Trevor B Skelly

Ryan J Suhre

James Randy Penley

Thomas Martz

Jeremy F Malecha

Jaan Lin

Alexander Filip Grauls

Alexander Lei Velet

Jason M Kearns

Thomas L Phillips

Edgar Owen Kinnier, Iii

Gary William McKelvey

A portable electronic device (PED) holder for a passenger seat back. The PED holder includes a backstop pivotally attachable to the seat back and a shelf pivotally attached to the backstop. In use, the backstop is configured to rotate to a position outside of a recess formed in the seat back and the shelf is configured to rotate open. When the PED holder is fully deployed, the shelf is substantially horizontal and an angle formed between the backstop and a vertical axis is no greater than about negative 45 degrees, such that when a tray table is stowed the closing motion of the tray table causes the shelf to fold against the backstop and the folded PED holder to rotate into the recess. The present disclosure further provides a passenger seat including the PED holder and a PED holder assembly installable as a kit of parts.

Passenger seat with self-stowing portable electronic device holder

Seat console

Console privacy divider

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

The invention disclosed herein is a protective support for joints and extremities comprising a structure for securing the support to the body in the vicinity of the joint, one or more elongated resilient hinges that are attached to the support. Each resilient hinge spans a parasagittal plane of the joint and has a superior end, an opposite inferior end, and an intermediate section there between, the hinge also defining a cross-sectional thickness that is at its minimum near the superior end and inferior end, but gradually increases along a length of the hinge such that the intermediate section defines the hinge's maximum cross-sectional thickness. Each hinge may define a plurality of longitudinal ribs and optional transverse ribs that aid in structural integrity of the hinge and may have a generally hourglass shape, and with the superior and inferior ends adapted to conform to the various superficial contours of the joint or extremity.

Protective support for joints and extremities

A static aircraft seat privacy panel may include a body. At least a portion of a surface of the body may be shaped to at least partially conform with at least a portion of an aircraft seat. A lower edge of the body may be configured to couple to a floor via a set of floor-mounted components. The set of floor-mounted components may be within the floor separate from a set of seat tracks of an aircraft seat compliant with 16G force requirements for aviation transport. An upper edge of the body may be configured to be offset a selected distance from a surface of one or more overhead structures of the aircraft cabin when the body is coupled to one or more structures positioned proximate to a ceiling of the aircraft cabin. The static aircraft seat privacy panel may be compliant with 9G force requirements for aviation transport.

Static aircraft seat privacy panels

Football helmet shell

A protective football helmet is provided having a one-piece molded shell with an impact attenuation system. This system includes an impact attenuation member formed in an extent of the front shell portion by removing material from the front portion. The impact attenuation member changes how a portion of the shell having the impact attenuation member responds to an impact force having a component applied substantially normal to the impact attenuation member as compared to how the left and right side portions respond to the impact force.

Impact attenuation system for a protective helmet

A portable electronic device holder, separate from an aircraft tray table, has a spring biased lower retention portion with lower retention plates for securing a lower edge of a portable electronic device. The lower retention plate acts in concert with either one or more ridges molded into or affixed to a recess in a seat back panel, or with a spring biased, extendable upper retention portion with an upper retention plate to hold the portable electronic device in place.

Deployable portable electronic device holder for aircraft seat

A ventilated airline seating component including a porous air pad disposed in an interior volume of a housing and configured to collect air to be conditioned and ultimately forced out through the seating component to heat or cool a passenger to enhance comfort. The housing can serve as or be incorporated into a seating component such as an arm rest, leg rest or head rest, among other seating components within a passenger seating environment.

Ventilated airline seating component

Passenger safety belt buckle

Passenger safety belt buckles are disclosed. In embodiments, a safety belt buckle includes a base member and a release member coupled to the base member. The release member is configured to release a tongue held between the release member and the base member when the release member is pulled away from the base member. In an example embodiment, the release member is formed by a plurality of printed device layers and a metal coating disposed over the plurality of printed device layers. In another example embodiment, the release member is formed by a plurality of printed metal layers. In yet another example embodiment, the release member includes a recess with an in-mold feature disposed within the recess.

Passenger safety belt buckles

Economy class seating unit

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Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Michael M Princip