Patient transport arrangement in an aircraft

US6273366A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler Chrysler Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wilfried Sprenger · Issendorf, DE
• Ralf Schliwa · Hamburg, DE
• Mikko Gabriel · Stuttgart, DE
• Michael Deppe · Munich, DE
• Erich Foucar · Seewald, DE
• Hans Lobentanzer · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 14, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2011/0092
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A patient transport arrangement is provided in the passenger cabin of an aircraft and includes a patient stretcher, medical supplies and equipment, and a compartment that is variably and adaptably useable as a restroom compartment and as a medical care compartment. The compartment is arranged adjacent to the doorway clearance area in front of the cabin door of the aircraft. The adaptable compartment includes a foldable wall element so that the stretcher can extend at least partially into the compartment during take-off, landing and ground operations of the aircraft while leaving the doorway clearance area unobstructed, and so that the stretcher can be repositioned out of the compartment and into the doorway clearance area during cruise flight so as to allow the compartment to be used as a passenger restroom during the flight. This arrangement makes efficient use of space within the passenger cabin that would otherwise be unused during various phases of flight.