Dual configuration lavatory with assist space

US11542007B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• René Waldheuer · Hamburg, DE
• Andreas Heidtmann · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 11, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 3, 2023
• Expiry date: Nov 27, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D11/02
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, a dual configuration aircraft lavatory includes a plurality of walls enclosing and defining a lavatory interior space, wherein one of the walls is coextensive with a portion of the cabin. Within the lavatory interior space are a toilet, a washing station and a waste receptacle movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the waste receptacle is attached to a wall of the lavatory between the washing station and a door wall. In the second position, the waste receptacle occupies a second predetermined volume of space in the aircraft cabin separated from a first predetermined volume of space occupied by the waste receptacle in the first position. Moving the waste receptacle from the first position to the second position reveals additional space within the lavatory sufficient so that two adult humans simultaneously fit within the lavatory interior space.