INTEGRATED CHILD SEAT HAVING SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

• US 20100026063A1
• Filed: 07/24/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Mosler, Michael, Ulbrich-Gasparevic, Jovan
• Granted Patent: US 8,061,772 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/237
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/06 Arrangements of seats, or adaptations or details specially adapted for aircraft seats crew seat constructions for emergency purposes B64D25/04
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0612 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/062 Belts or other passenger restraint means for passenger seats

Abstract

A passenger seat with an integrated child seat that comprises a folded-in position and a folded-out position. In its folded-in position the passenger seat can be used as a seat for an adult passenger. In its folded-out position the child seat can be used as a seat for a child seated with his/her back in forward direction.

Claims

1. A passenger seat with a seating surface comprising a child seat integrated in the seating surface of the passenger seat, wherein the child seat comprises two positions:

a folded-in position for use of the passenger seat as a seat for an adult passenger; and

a folded-out position for use of the child seat as a seat for a child,

wherein the passenger seat comprises a bearing arrangement with a rotator axis and which is designed for unfolding a backrest of the child seat in the direction of seating;

wherein the bearing arrangement comprises a stop device for fixing the backrest at a desired angle;

wherein the stop device comprises a clamping device which is seated on the rotatory axis of the bearing arrangement.

2. The passenger seat of claim 1,

wherein the child seat in its folded-in position forms at least part of the seating surface of the passenger seat.

3. The passenger seat of claim 1,

wherein the passenger seat is designed for seating the adult passenger in a direction of seating when the child seat is in its folded-in position;

and

wherein in its folded-out position the child seat is designed for seating the child against the direction of seating.

4. The passenger seat of claim 1,

wherein the passenger seat comprises a lock-in device for snapping the backrest of the child seat into place in its folded-out position at a defined angle to the seating surface of the child seat.

5. The passenger seat of claim 4,

wherein the defined angle is between 90 degrees and 120 degrees.

6. The passenger seat of claim 4,

wherein the lock-in device is furthermore designed for folding the backrest of the child seat out to an angle of up to 180 degrees to the seating surface of the child seat.

7. The passenger seat of claim 1, further comprising:

a belt that is integrated in the backrest of the child seat.

8. The passenger seat of claim 1,

wherein the passenger seat is a passenger seat for an aircraft.

9. The passenger seat of claim 1,

wherein an outside contour of the passenger seat corresponds to an outside contour of a passenger seat without an integrated child seat.

10. An aircraft comprising a passenger seat of claim 1.

11. A method for securing a child in a vehicle, with the method comprising the step of:

moving a child seat from a folded-in position to a folded-out position for use of the child seat as a seat for an infant or a toddler,

wherein in its folded-in position the child seat is at least in part located in a passenger seat that is used as a seat for an adult passenger when the child seat is folded-in,

wherein the passenger seat comprises a bearing arrangement with a rotator axis and which is designed for unfolding a backrest of the child seat in the direction of seating;

wherein the bearing arrangement comprises a stop device for fixing the backrest at a desired angle.