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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2023
B/e Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Krishna Chaitanya Prathipati, Hyderabad, IN;
Ravindra Ramulu Kandukuri, Secunderabad, IN;
Aditya Sharma, Bangalore, IN;
B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A passenger seating arrangement including contiguous rows configured to form a bed. Each passenger seat in the first row includes a deployable bed extension. In use, each deployed bed extension resides in a plane of a seat pan in an aft positioned row. At least one support deploys relative to its respective seat pan to support the deployed bed extension, for instance from below. In embodiments, a bifold cushion carried on the seat pan in the aft row unfolds to be positioned atop the deployed bed extension to form a bed. In embodiments, each of the contiguous rows includes at least three seats, wherein each seat is independently configured to form a portion of the bed.