Patent ID: 7083146
Filing Date: 2006-08-01
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. In a passenger transport aircraft having a passenger cabin that has an exit and that is equipped with plural rows of passenger seats arranged spaced apart one behind another at prescribed seat spacings in a longitudinal direction of said aircraft, and a transverse aisle extending transversely relative to said longitudinal direction and leading to said exit along one of said rows of passenger seats, an improved seating arrangement wherein: said exit is an emergency exit, said row of passenger seats along which said transverse aisle extends is a row of foldable passenger seats that each comprise a seat back and a tiltable seat bottom which is tiltable relative to said seat back between a normal seating position and an upright stowed position, said row of foldable passenger seats is arranged with said tiltable seat bottoms thereof bordering on and facing toward said transverse aisle, a width of said transverse aisle bounded by said row of foldable passenger seats in said longitudinal direction is variable with a relatively larger width when said tiltable seat bottoms are respectively tilted to said upright stowed position and a relatively smaller width when said tiltable seat bottoms are respectively tilted to said normal seating position, said relatively larger width of said transverse aisle is equal to or exceeds a regulatory prescribed minimum aisle width for said transverse aisle leading to said emergency exit, and said relatively smaller width of said transverse aisle is less than said regulator prescribed minimum aisle width.