Patent ID: 7458643

Claim:
A passenger seat with increased knee space for an aft-seated passenger, comprising: (a) a seat base for being attached to a supporting deck; (b) at least one seat frame including a seat back and seat bottom carried by the seat base; (c) first and second concave, forwardly-dished areas integrally formed in a rear facing surface of the seat back, and extending inwardly towards a central area of the seat back from respective first and second opposite side edges of the seat back in a position for accommodating the knees of an aft-seated passenger; and (d) at least one arm rest carried by the seat for supporting a seated passenger's arm, the arm rest being mounted to the seat at a point forward of one of the first or second concave, forwardly-dished areas such that a knee of an aft-seated passenger can occupy space behind the arm rest and within the inwardly dished area.