Patent ID: 9132918
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: B60N,B61D,B64D,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An aircraft seat unit comprising: a row of a plurality of adjacent seats, each including a support frame, a seat back, a seat pan mounted on the support frame, and a leg rest the leg rest of each seat being moveable relative to the support frame in a manner to allow the leg rest to move between (a) a stored condition and (b) a fully deployed condition where the seat pan and the leg rest are substantially coplanar, and wherein the leg rest is solely supported by the support frame via at least one support mechanism extending between the support frame and the leg rest for maintaining the leg rest in the fully deployed condition; wherein in the fully deployed condition, the leg rests of adjacent seats are contiguous with each other, wherein flanking each side of each seat in the row, is an armrest, the arm rest intermediate of two seats in the row being able to move between a usable position wherein it is positioned intermediate of the seatback and seat pan and a stowed position wherein it is not positioned intermediate of the seatback and seat pan, and wherein the leg rest and seat pan of each seat in the row can all cooperate to define a reconfigurable horizontal support surface that can be configured to assume each of a T-shape, L-shape and U-shape and I-shape when viewed in plan view and a condition allowing at least two adult passengers assigned to seats in said row to recline on said support surface in a condition where their legs extend in a direction parallel to the row direction.