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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2024
B/e Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Javier Valdes De La Garza, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Moises Perez, Miami, FL (US);
B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A passenger seating assembly for an aircraft cabin includes a set of passenger seats, each seat disposed between two adjacent seat spreaders and including a seatpan and backrest connected at a common pivot point at or near the base of the backrest. The seat spreaders are connected by lower crossmembers under the seatpans and an upper crossmember extending laterally behind the passenger seats. Each passenger seat includes a deployable meal table for use by the passenger seated immediately behind, the meal tables connected to and deploying relative to the upper crossmember rather than the backrest or seatpan, such that the meal table deploys independently of the configuration of the passenger seat. Similarly, as the meal table attaches to the upper crossmember rather than the passenger seat, the size of the meal table is not restricted by the width of the backrest.