Aircraft flight deck comprising a folding seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9340293-B2
Application number	US-201213628206-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2012
Priority date	Sep 30, 2011
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

There is provided an aircraft folding seat, comprising a frame which pivots about a vertical axis and on which are mounted a seat-rest and a back-rest. The flight deck provided comprises control and/or viewing devices, at least one seat, an access door and a corridor for access to the at least one seat which is closed at its opposite end to the at least one seat by the access door. A folding seat is mounted in the corridor such that it can pivot and adopt a first position in which it closes the corridor so forming a lock enclosure with the access door and a folded back second position enabling access to the at least one seat from the corridor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A flight deck of an aircraft, the flight deck comprising:
control and/or viewing devices;
at least one seat;
an access door; and
a corridor for access to the at least one seat, which is closed at an opposite end to the at least one seat by the access door;
a folding seat comprising a frame which pivots about a vertical axis and on which are mounted a seat-rest and a back-rest, the folding seat being mounted in the corridor such that the folding seat is configured to pivot and adopt a first position in which the folding seat closes the corridor so forming a lock enclosure with the access door and a second position in which the folding seat enables the access to the at least one seat from the corridor.

2. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the folding seat is, in the second position, folded back against a member delimiting the corridor and is configured to adopt a third position pivoted through at least 135° relative to the second position.

3. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the corridor comprises a floor in which is located a hatch door for access to a lower equipment zone, and the hatch door is located behind the folding seat when the folding seat is in the first position.

4. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the corridor comprises a ceiling in which is located a hatch door for rescue and emergency evacuation, and the hatch door is located above the seat-rest when the folding seat is folded back against a member delimiting the corridor.

5. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the corridor is delimited laterally by furniture.

6. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 5 , wherein at least one item of the furniture comprises a structural upright, such that the folding seat is pivotally mounted relative to the structural upright.

7. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the folding seat comprises an armored sliding plate in each of a lower portion and an upper portion of the folding seat.

8. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 7 , wherein the folding seat in the first position closes the lock enclosure using the armored sliding plates.

9. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein a back face of the folding seat is reinforced to be resistant to impact of projectiles from a firearm.

10. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the folding seat bears on a back face a ladder mounted via at least one four-bar linkage parallelogram, and wherein the back face of the folding seat opposes a face adapted to receive a user of the folding seat.

11. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the folding seat is adjustable in height.

12. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 11 , wherein the folding seat is mounted on structural components of the flight deck via at least one intermediate member of profiled cross-section able to slide on the structural components bearing the folding seat.

13. The aircraft flight deck according to claim 1 , wherein the back-rest of the folding seat is tiltable.

14. An aircraft comprising a flight deck according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Guering Bernard
• Airbus Operations Sas

Inventors

• Guering Bernard

Classifications

• B64D45/0015

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• B64D11/0691

  specially adapted for cabin crew · CPC title

• B64C1/1469

  Doors between cockpit and cabin · CPC title

• B64D11/06

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

• B64D11/0689 Primary

  specially adapted for pilots · CPC title