Seating group of passenger seats especially for an aircraft cabin

US5829836A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Markus Schumacher · Buxtehude, DE
• Andrew Muin · Buxtehude, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 1996
• Grant date: Nov 3, 1998
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D11/0693
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Seating groups for passengers, for example in an aircraft cabin, are equipped with several seats having seat components supported on a support base on which the seat components, especially the seat sections are laterally slideable to make the seats wider when a passenger sits on a seat or narrower when a passenger is not sitting on a seat. The seat widening or narrowing is accomplished in several ways, for example, with the aid of a grooved shaft that operates as a spindle when turned by tilting a seat component, or by springs that vault upwardly when not loaded and spread when a passenger sits on a seat supported by the springs. The grooved shaft can be operated for example by an armrest or a seat section.