Aircraft passenger seat

US8616643B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• British Airways Plc · GB

Inventors

• Martin Darbyshire · London, GB
• Matthew J. Round · London, GB
• Asa Dancy Herring, III · Phoenix, US
• Dennis Isaac Waldrip · Winston-Salem, US
• Marc Schatell · Winston-Salem, US
• Alen Wyss · Winston-Salem, US
• Gregory Hall · Winston-Salem, US
• Walter Sutcavage · Winston-Salem, US
• John Lovingood · Winston-Salem, US
• Dan Alford · Winston-Salem, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 24, 2012
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 24, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D11/0646
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aircraft passenger seat having a primary seat (1) having a seat back (3) and a seat pan (4), and a secondary support surface (5) located or locatable opposite the primary seat (1), the passenger seat being able to adopt each of an upright configuration, a reclined configuration and a substantially flat configuration, such that in the reclined configuration, the primary seat (1) is reclined relative to the upright configuration and the secondary support surface (5) is angled upwardly towards the primary seat (1) to support the lower leg(s) of a passenger seated in the primary seat (1); and in the substantially flat configuration, the secondary support surface (5) is substantially horizontal and the seat back (3), the seat pan (4), and the secondary support surface (5) form a substantially flat and continuous surface where the secondary support surface (5) is rotatable about an axis between the reclined and substantially flat configurations, the axis being translated between the reclined and substantially flat configurations.