Aircraft passenger suite seating arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9169020-B2
Application number	US-201313799372-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2013
Priority date	Mar 22, 2012
Publication date	Oct 27, 2015
Grant date	Oct 27, 2015

Abstract

An aircraft passenger suite including one or more privacy walls arranged to define a seating area and a living area positioned to the side of the seating area, the seating area including a seat configured to achieve a horizontal bed position and the living area including at least one amenity for use by a passenger in the suite, the living area having a length substantially less than a length of the seating area such that the suite overlaps another suite in a longitudinal direction, and wherein an entrance to the suite is defined by a break in the one or more privacy walls.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A premium class aircraft passenger seating arrangement, comprising:
a first suite bound by one or more privacy walls defining a seating area including a seat configured to achieve a horizontal bed position and a living area positioned to a side of the seating area and including at least one amenity for use by a passenger in the first suite; and
a second suite adjacent the first suite bound by one or more privacy walls defining a seating area and including a seat configured to achieve a horizontal bed position and a living area positioned to a side of the seating area and including at least one amenity for use by a passenger in the second suite, the living area having open floor space, and an entrance to the seating area from an aisle being provided through the living area;
wherein the first and second suits share a privacy wall separating the seating area of the first suite from the living area of the second suite and the living area of the first suite from the seating area of the second suite, the first and second suites overlapping in a longitudinal direction and the seats of the first and second suites positioned facing in a direction of one another and laterally offset about a longitudinal axis of the first and second suites; and
wherein an entrance into the first suite is through the seating area of the first suite and an entrance into the second suite is through the living area of the second suite.

2. The seating arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the living area of the first suite shares a privacy wall with a living area of a third suite that is laterally adjacent the first suite and is a mirror image of the first suite, and the seating area of the second suite shares a privacy wall with a seating area of a fourth suite that is laterally adjacent the second suite and is a mirror image of the second suite.

3. The seating arrangement of claim 1 , wherein each of the first and second suites include a closet positioned to the side of the seat, an ottoman positioned forward of and apart from the seat, the ottoman and the seat residing in a common horizontal plane when the seat is in the horizontal bed position, and a video monitor positioned forward of the seat and vertically above the ottoman.

4. The seating arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the at least one amenity in the living area of each of the first and second suites includes a headset storage compartment recessed within the one or more privacy walls and accessible through a door that pivots open and closed.

5. The seating arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the at least one amenity in the living area of each of the first and second suites includes a beverage bar having a door configured to pivot open to provide an auxiliary horizontal table vertically spaced from an underlying countertop to permit simultaneous use of the auxiliary horizontal table and the underlying countertop.

6. The seating arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the at least one amenity in the living area of each of the first and second suites includes a combination power outlet and data port integrated into the one or more privacy walls and accessible through a vertically sliding cover.

7. The seating arrangement of claim 1 , wherein the at least one amenity in the living area of each of the first and second suites includes a suite control panel positioned forward of the seat in a location reachable by a seated passenger.

8. An aircraft passenger suite seating arrangement, comprising:
a first passenger suite including a seating area and a living area positioned to the side of the seating area, the seating area including a seat and the living area including at least one passenger amenity;
a second passenger suite longitudinally adjacent the first passenger suite and including a seating area and a living area positioned to the side of the seating area, the seating area including a seat and the living area including at least one passenger amenity, the living area having open floor space and an entrance to the seating area from an aisle being provided through the living area, and the first and second passenger suites separated by a shared privacy wall, and the seats in the first and second passenger suites arranged facing each other and laterally offset about a longitudinal axis;
a third passenger suite laterally adjacent the first passenger suite and including a seating area and a living area positioned to the side of the seating area, the seating area including a seat and the living area including at least one passenger amenity, the living areas of the first and third passenger suites separated by a shared privacy wall and the seats in the first and third passenger suites arranged facing in the same direction; and
a fourth passenger suite longitudinally adjacent the third passenger suite and laterally adjacent the second passenger suite, the fourth passenger suite including a seating area and a living area positioned to the side of the seating area, the seating area including a seat and the living area including at least one passenger amenity, the living area having open floor space and an entrance to the seating area from an aisle being provided through the living area, and wherein the seating areas of the second and fourth passenger suites are separated by a shared privacy wall and the seats in the second and fourth passenger suites are arranged facing in the same direction.

9. The seating arrangement of claim 8 , wherein each of the first and third passenger suites include a closet in their respective seating areas, and each of the second and fourth passenger suites include a closet in their respective living area.

10. The seating arrangement of claim 8 , wherein the shared privacy wall separating the first and second passenger suites separates the seating area of the first passenger suite from the living area of the second passenger suite and the living area of the first passenger suite from the seating area of the second passenger suite.

11. The seating arrangement of claim 8 , wherein each of the first, second, third and fourth passenger suites includes at least one of an ottoman, a video monitor, a headphone storage compartment, and a beverage bar.

Assignees

• Be Aerospace Inc

Inventors

• Kroll Russell
• Hisata Suzuko
• Garing Francis X
• Pozzi Alexander Nicholas
• Johnson Glenn Allen
• Henshaw Robert J
• Gu Jaehun
• Stephens Benjamin D

Classifications

• B64D11/0604

  including a bed, e.g. cocoon type passenger seat modules · CPC title

• B64D11/0636

  Personal storage means or waste disposal bags · CPC title

• B64D11/0606

  with privacy shells, screens, separators or the like (class dividers B64D11/0023) · CPC title

• B64D11/0601

  Arrangement of seats for non-standard seating layouts, e.g. seats staggered horizontally or vertically, arranged in an angled or fishbone layout, or facing in other directions than the direction of flight · CPC title

• B64D11/06 Primary

  Arrangements of seats, or adaptations or details specially adapted for aircraft seats (crew seat constructions for emergency purposes B64D25/04) · CPC title