Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Fuselage and body construction
Patent
1979-10-30
1982-09-14
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Fuselage and body construction
297216, 188372, 296 65A, B64D 2504, B64D 1106
Patent
active
043491677
ABSTRACT:
A light-weight aircraft passenger seat, which includes a plurality of integrally mounted wire-bending energy attenuators, and which can be floor mounted to face either forward or backward. Four seat legs, pivotally connected between the seat and floor, extend upward at the same angle from the floor, which is determined by two energy attenuators also pivotally connected between the seat and the floor, and extending upward from the floor in an opposite direction from the seat legs. When facing forward, the seat is stroked forward and downward. When facing backward, the seat is stroked backward and downward. In either a forward or backward facing disposition, the free ends of the energy attenuations extend into the back of the seat. Also the seat is flexibly connected to the seat legs and energy attenuators, which, in turn are connected by swivels to the floor to provide seat articulation as the floor distorts during a crash.
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Mason J. Reilly, "Crashworthy Troup Seat Investigation" USAAMROL-TR-74-93, Dec. 1974 317 pp.
Barefoot Galen L.
D'Ambrosio Felix J.
Puffer Jack D.
The Boeing Company
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