B/e Aerospace, Inc.

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Richard Henry Jolley

Hsin-I Tsai

Peter John Leslie Burd

Peter J L Burd

Blended turn button set

A galley message center defines a tablet recess were a tablet is docked, substantially flush with the surrounding bulkhead so that a utensil storage drawer may be closely disposed to the message center and slide out in front of the tablet without the tablet needing to be removed. The docking element of the message center may be hinged to allow the tablet to be folded down with the screen against a recessed surface to protect the screen and prevent undesired or accidental interaction. The utensil storage drawer includes a plurality of features for securely holding utensils when not in use and place all of the stored utensils within reach of the flight staff, in proximity to a galley working surface.

Galley slide out utensil drawer and message center

Blended door latch assembly

Push button latch assembly

A solid state liquid-chilled bar unit for an aircraft galley includes a multilevel frame dimensioned to fit the galley and including stacked slots, each slot configured to fit a compartment. Warmer compartments include a liquid thermoelectric device (LTD) with 'cold' and 'hot' sides and a liquid heat exchanger (LHE) connected to the cold side. Scroll fans circulate air over a finned heat exchanger (on the LTD's hot side) to heat the compartment. Chiller compartments include LTDs with an LHE connected to the &#x201c;hot&#x201d; side, and may be bottle coolers or chiller drawers. Bottle coolers chill bottles or other containers via conductive contact with the LTD &#x201c;cold&#x201d; side, while chiller drawers chill air by circulating it over a finned heat exchanger on the &#x201c;cold&#x201d; side. Unchilled drawers store food, drink, or supplies at or near the ambient cabin temperature.

Liquid chilled galley bar unit

An illuminated handle mounted to a surface of a crew work area includes an illuminated portion is disposed on an interior surface. A structural portion is integrated into work area stowage compartments, disposed between two stowage compartments, such that the illuminated portion illuminates the stowage compartments and their contents when opened. The illuminated handle includes an illuminated coat hook protrusion extending from a top portion of the illuminated handle. The illuminated portion of the illuminated coat hook is disposed on an interior surface to further illuminate the stowage compartments and indicate the location of the illuminated coat hook, while the hook extension prevents the illuminated portion from directly illuminating a crew member's face and potentially blinding the crew member momentarily.

Lighted assist handle and coat hook

A stowable folding table is disclosed. In embodiments, the folding table has a stowed (e.g., folded) state and a deployed state between two adjacent aircraft galley structures. The folding table includes two table segments coupled by a hinge; the two segments may be folded parallel to each other and stowed (e.g., in a galley cart bay or elsewhere in or on the adjacent galley structures). The stowed table is unfolded and deployed by attaching the first and second ends respectively to a galley structure (e.g., on either side of an exit door), such that one table segment extends at an angle to the other when deployed.

Stowable door folding table

Sliding concealment panel

A solid-state cooling apparatus for a galley installed in an aircraft that includes at least one storage enclosure for containing chilled beverage and/or foods for storage and a solid-state air-to-air thermoelectric device having a hot side and a cold side mounted in the galley and having at least one fan for circulating chilled air in proximity to the storage enclosure. A waste heat capture device is provided and includes a hot air outlet for discharging waste heat from the hot side of the cooling thermoelectric devices into the aircraft exterior to the galley.

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Addington, United Kingdom

Richard Henry Jolley