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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
David Ferry, East Sussex, GB;
Adam Bernard Wells, Hertfordshire, GB;
Luke Miles, London, GB;
Andrew Leslie Lawler, Bucks, GB;
David Edward Starkey, Bucks, GB;
Simon Frederick Mills, Bucks, GB;
Gary Doy, Warwickshire, GB;
David Ferry, East Sussex, GB;
Adam Bernard Wells, Hertfordshire, GB;
Luke Miles, London, GB;
Andrew Leslie Lawler, Bucks, GB;
David Edward Starkey, Bucks, GB;
Simon Frederick Mills, Bucks, GB;
Gary Doy, Warwickshire, GB;
Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited, Crawley West Sussex, GB;
Abstract
A passenger seat assembly for a vehicle, particularly an aircraft, which is adapted to provide self-contained, individual seating and sleeping accommodation for a passenger, said seating assembly including a supporting structure () for supporting said assembly off the floor of a vehicle; one or more movable, passenger-bearing, structural components (); and means for connecting said movable, structural components to said structure such that said components can be selectively moved between a seat configuration, in which a plurality of passenger-bearing surfaces on said one or more structural, movable components () or said supporting structure form a seat for the passenger, and a bed configuration, in which a plurality of said bearing surfaces () are disposed substantially coplanarly and substantially contiguously to form a bed for the passenger; characterized in that at least one of said movable components () is double-sided, comprising first and second opposite sides, one of said sides having a first seat surface () that forms part of the seat in said seat configuration, and the other side having a second bed surface () that forms part of said bed in said bed configuration.