Baggage bin door and baggage bin

• US 7,665,692 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Issued: 02/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Airbus
• Original Assignee: Airbus
• Inventors: Bock, Thomas-Mathias
• Primary Examiner(s): Mansen; Michael R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bonzell; Philip J
• Application Number:
  US11/589,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20070164154A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,212 Days
• Field of Search: 244/118.1, 244/118.5, 244/137.2, 312/319.1, 312/319.2, 312/325, 105/325, 105/329.1, 105/344, 296/37.8
• US Class Current: 244/118.5
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/003 Stowage devices for passengers' personal luggage

Abstract

A baggage bin for an aircraft includes a compartment with a lower face substantially plane and a first flap that, in a closing position, is inclined toward the inside of the baggage bin in relation to a plane perpendicular to the lower face of the baggage bin. The first flap is mounted pivoting around a first axis. The bin includes a second flap arranged outside the first flap in relation to the baggage bin and articulated with the first flap. The second flap extends, in the closing position of the baggage bin, from a lower edge of the baggage bin to a ceiling edge.

Claims

1. A baggage bin, comprising:

a compartment having an opening; and

a door to cover the opening and to allow access to said compartment via the opening;

wherein said compartment has a lower face having a planar area near the door,

wherein the door has, in a closed position, a first flap inclined toward an inside of the compartment in relation to a plane perpendicular to the planar area of the lower face of the compartment, said first flap being mounted pivoting around a first axis at an upper edge of the compartment that defines a top of the opening,

wherein the door comprises a second flap arranged, in the closed position, outside the first flap in relation to the compartment such that the first flap and the second flap overlap in a lateral direction, and the second flap is articulated with the first flap,

wherein the second flap is connected to the first flap at a lower portion of the second flap and the lower portion of the second flap contacts a lower edge of the compartment in the closed position, and

wherein the second flap extends, in said closed position, from the lower edge of the compartment in a direction angled away from the inside of the compartment in relation to the plane perpendicular to the planar area of the lower face of the compartment.

2. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein the second flap is articulated with the first flap so as to be able to pivot in relation to said first flap around a second axis of pivoting that is parallel to the first axis.

3. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein the first flap only partially closes the opening of the compartment.

4. An aircraft cabin comprising at least one baggage bin according claim 1.

5. An aircraft comprising at least one baggage bin according to claim 1.

6. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein the first flap is connected to the second flap at a bottom edge of the first flap.

7. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein an entirety of the first flap pivots around the first axis.

8. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein, in the closed position, an angle between the second flap and the lower face of the compartment is greater than 90°

.

9. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein, as the door moves from the closed position to an open position, an angle between the first flap and the second flap decreases.

10. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein, as the door moves from the closed position to an open position, the second flap remains in contact with a ceiling edge.

11. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein the second flap includes a rabbet at an end of the second flap to contact a ceiling edge in the closed position.

12. The baggage bin according to claim 1, wherein an overall shape of the first flap is planar.

13. The baggage bin according to claim 12, wherein, in the closed position, an angle between the planar first flap and the lower face of the compartment is less than 90°

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