Monument complex for an aircraft rear area

• US 8,925,862 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2011
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Ehlers, Bernd, Herzog, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Hellner, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woldemaryam, Assres H
• Application Number:
  US13/279,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20120273614A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,173 Days
• Field of Search: 244/118.5, 244/118.6, 244/119, 244/129.5, D12/195, 186/40
• US Class Current: 244/118.5
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/1423 Passenger doors
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/02 Toilet fittings of general application A47K
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/04 Galleys
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2011/0046 Modular or preassembled units for creating cabin interior structures

Abstract

A monument complex is provided for a rear area of a passenger cabin. The rear contour of the monument complex is adapted to the contour of the bulkhead so that an additional wash basin can be installed without there being any loss of space in the passenger cabin.

Claims

1. An aircraft comprising a monument complex mounted in a rear area of a cabin of the aircraft, the monument complex comprising:

two abutting lavatory modules mounted directly in front of a rear bulkhead of the aircraft, divided from each other by a dividing wall, each of the lavatory modules including a wash basin and an entrance region arranged in front of the wash basin with respect to a flight direction, the entrance region opposite a rear contour defined by both of the lavatory modules, the entrance region including a first sub-area and a second sub-area;

a first door to the first sub-area of the monument complex;

a second door to the second sub-area of the monument complex, the first door and the second door each directly coupled at an end to the dividing wall such that an angle between the first door and the second door is less than 180 degrees and at least one of the first door and the second door is positioned in front of the wash basin with respect to a flight direction;

the rear contour of the lavatory modules having an outside edge directly facing the rear bulkhead arranged in the rear of the cabin, and the rear contour of the lavatory modules is a non-planar wall that is at least in part adapted to conform to a curved contour of the rear bulkhead, and the non-planar wall of the rear contour defines a space inside each of the lavatory modules; and

wherein the wash basins are arranged at least in part in a space defined by the curved contour of the rear bulkhead and the space defined by the non-planar wall of the lavatory modules.

2. The aircraft of claim 1, wherein teach of the lavatory modules comprises a floor cupboard with systems engineering equipment contained therein.

3. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the rear contour of the cabin is predetermined by the rear bulkhead.

4. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the rear contour is a three-dimensionally curved surface.

5. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the monument complex further comprises a galley module.

6. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the monument complex and components installed therein project at least in part into the space defined by the curved contour of the rear bulkhead.

7. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the dividing wall is arranged in an approximate middle of the monument complex.

8. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the rear contour is a continuous wall.

9. The aircraft of claim 1,

wherein the monument complex comprises two sub-modules that during installation in the cabin are inserted separately from each other into the cabin.

10. The aircraft claim 1,

wherein the cabin is a passenger cabin.

11. An aircraft comprising a monument complex mounted in a rear area of a cabin of the aircraft, the monument complex comprising:

two directly abutting lavatory modules that form a rear contour and each lavatory monument including a wash basin, an entrance region arranged in front of the wash basin with respect to a flight direction, the entrance region spaced apart from the rear contour, the entrance region including a first sub-area and a second sub-area;

a first door to the first sub-area of the monument complex;

a second door to the second sub-area of the monument complex, the first door and the second door each directly coupled at an end to the dividing wall such that an angle between the first door and the second door is less than 180 degrees and at least one of the first door and the second door is positioned in front of the wash basin with respect to a flight direction; and

the rear contour of the lavatory modules having an outside edge directly facing a rear bulkhead arranged in the rear of the cabin, the rear contour comprising a non-planar wall that at least in part conforms to a curved contour of the rear bulkhead in the rear area of the cabin, the non-planar wall defining a space inside each of the lavatory modules;

wherein the wash basins are arranged adjacent to the rear contour at least in part in a space defined by the curved contour of the rear bulkhead and the space defined by the non-planar wall of the lavatory modules.