Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Seating system and passenger accommodation unit for a vehicle
- Patent Title (中): 座椅系统和车辆乘客住宿单元
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Application No.: US13655296Application Date: 2012-10-18
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Publication No.: US08720821B2Publication Date: 2014-05-13
- Inventor: David Ferry , Adam Bernard Wells , Luke Miles , Andrew Leslie Lawler , David Edward Starkey , Simon Frederick Mills , Gary Doy
- Applicant: Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited
- Applicant Address: GB West Sussex
- Assignee: Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited
- Current Assignee: Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB West Sussex
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Priority: GB0119459.6 20010809; GB0202389.3 20020201
- Main IPC: B64D13/00
- IPC: B64D13/00 ; B64D11/06

Abstract:
A passenger seat assembly for a vehicle, particularly an aircraft, which is adapted to provide self-contained, individual seating and sleeping accommodation for a passenger, said seating assembly includes a supporting structure (42) for supporting said assembly off the floor of a vehicle; one or more movable, passenger-bearing, structural components (71,72); and means for connecting said movable, structural components to said structure such that said components can be selectively moved between a seat configuration, in which a plurality of passenger-bearing surfaces on said one or more structural, movable components (71,71) or said supporting structure form a seat for the passenger, and a bed configuration, in which a plurality of said bearing surfaces (47,48,67,74,76) are disposed substantially coplanarly and substantially contiguously to form a bed for the passenger; characterized in that at least one of said movable components (72) is double-sided, comprising first and second opposite sides, one of said sides having a first seat surface (73) that forms part of the seat in said seat configuration, and the other side having a second bed surface (74) that forms part of said bed in said bed configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130043345A1 SEATING SYSTEM AND PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION UNIT FOR A VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2013-02-21
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