Sliding flight attendant seat

• US 20140027572A1
• Filed: 07/23/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Ehlers, Bernd, Herzog, Mark, Behrens, Stefan
• Granted Patent: US 9,260,190 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 244/118.6
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/307 in a transversal-vertical plane
• 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 11/0691 specially adapted for cabin crew

Abstract

A flight attendant seat, an aircraft monument assembly having such a flight attendant seat, and also an aircraft having an aircraft monument assembly of this kind. In one embodiment, the flight attendant seat includes a backrest element, a seat element and a guiding apparatus for holding the flight attendant seat in a starting position. The guiding apparatus according to this embodiment is also configured so that the flight attendant seat is movable, in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the backrest element, from the starting position into at least one end position.

Claims

1. A flight attendant seat for an aircraft, said seat comprising:

a backrest element;

a seat element; and

a guiding apparatus for holding the flight attendant seat in a starting position, wherein the guiding apparatus is also configured so that said flight attendant seat is movable, in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the backrest element, from the starting position into at least one end position.

2. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein the guiding apparatus comprises a rail arrangement along which said flight attendant seat is guidable from the starting position into the end position.

3. The flight attendant seat according to claim 2, wherein the rail arrangement extends in the direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the backrest element.

4. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein the direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the backrest element forms an acute angle with a normal of the longitudinal axis of said backrest element.

5. The flight attendant seat according to claim 4, wherein the acute angle is in the range of 10 to 45 degrees.

6. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein the guiding apparatus is configured so that a distance of the end position above a floor of the aircraft is greater than a distance of the starting position above said floor of the aircraft.

7. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein the guiding apparatus is configured so that the flight attendant seat moves back automatically into the starting position from the end position.

8. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat element and the backrest element are rotatable, relative to one another, about an axis of rotation in order to move said seat element between an inoperative position and an operating position, the flight attendant seat being locked in the end position when the seat element is in the operating position.

9. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein two or more end positions are provided, in which the flight attendant seat occupies a different distance above the floor of the aircraft in each end position.

10. The flight attendant seat according to claim 1, wherein the flight attendant seat is attached to an aircraft monument via the guiding apparatus.

11. An aircraft monument assembly comprising:

an aircraft monument; and

a flight attendant seat according to claim 1 which is fastened to a wall of said aircraft monument.

12. An aircraft having an aircraft monument assembly according to claim 11.