Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Passenger or crew accommodation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-31
2008-12-30
Collins, Timothy D (Department: 3643)
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Passenger or crew accommodation
C244S12200B
Reexamination Certificate
active
07469861
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.
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Doy Gary
Ferry David
Lawler Andrew Leslie
Miles Luke
Mills Simon Frederick
Collins Timothy D
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited
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