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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2015
B/e Aerospace, Inc., Wellington, FL (US);
Pete C. Meister, Miami, FL (US);
Michael J. Farvet, Wellington, FL (US);
B/E Aerospace, Inc., Wellington, FL (US);
Abstract
A lower leg restraint for a side-facing passenger seat including a panel configured to deploy from a first position proximate a seat to a second position forward of the seat in response to an abrupt deceleration event, an actuator coupled with the panel for driving panel deployment from the first position to the second position, and a sensor communicatively coupled with the actuator, the sensor configured to sense the abrupt deceleration event and trigger actuator movement in response thereto. A side-facing aircraft passenger seat having an automatically deployable lower leg restraint.