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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2021
B/e Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Catalin Bunea, Miramar, FL (US);
Twinkle V. Jacob, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A passenger seat incorporating a path and follower mechanism for nonlinear deployment of a passenger leg rest is disclosed. The passenger seat incorporates lightweight tubular members linked to backrest linkages, the backrest linkages driven by a passenger occupying the seat, e.g., via a reclining motion of the seatback. The reclining motion drives the backrest linkages which in turn drive path followers through a curving path such that, as the path follower drives forward or backward, the leg rest deploys at a variable rate between undeployed and fully deployed configurations, consistently providing an optimally relaxing leg position at any point between.