Patent ID: 11407513

Abstract:
An aircraft seat arrangement having identical groupings, each separately including at least one aircraft seat, each including a voltage supply port associated only with the aircraft seat for the connection of external devices of a passenger seated on the aircraft seat, a voltage supply unit, with a voltage input, at least one voltage output, each connected to the voltage supply port of another of the aircraft seat, and a switching circuit, such that each of the voltage output can be activated and deactivated. At least one control unit is connected to the switching circuit, and a near-field communication reading device is connected to the control unit for wireless reception of near-field communication signals from an external near-field communication sending device. The communication reading device can receive signals from a predetermined group of predetermined near-field communication signals. The number of predetermined signals in the group equals the number of aircraft seats in the grouping and each of the predetermined near-field communication signals is associated with another of the aircraft seats of the grouping. The control unit activates the voltage supply port by the switching circuit only upon receiving one of the predetermined signals, which port is associated with the aircraft seat associated with the received predetermined near-field communication signal.