Patent ID: 8348451

Claim:
Emergency cabin illumination for an aircraft, comprising: at least one emergency lighting device, and a diffuser, wherein the emergency lighting device is arranged so as to be recessed within a vertically-oriented gap between a first overhead bin and a second overhead bin adjacent to the first overhead bin, the vertically-oriented gap dividing a storage space within the first overhead bin from a storage space within the second overhead bin, wherein said gap is not illuminated during normal operation of the aircraft such that the emergency lighting device has no contrast to its surroundings and is hidden from view within said gap, and wherein in the switched-on state of the emergency lighting device, the light emitted therefrom emerges from the gap between the first and second overhead bins, wherein the first overhead bin and the second overhead bin are disposed in a same individual row of overhead bins running along a longitudinal direction of the aircraft, wherein the vertically-oriented gap is oriented transverse to the longitudinal direction of the individual row of overhead bins and the vertically-oriented gap separates the first overhead bin from the second overhead bin, and wherein the diffuser is mounted flush with a lower end of the vertically-oriented gap between the first and second overhead bins.