US 11,805,915 B2
Seat usage prevention device
Jefferey M. McKee, Duvall, WA (US); Travis K. Finlay, Winston-Salem, NC (US); Glenn A. Johnson, Rural Hall, NC (US); Travis J. Vaninetti, Bothell, WA (US); and Charles Martin Hansson, Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Assigned to B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/094,054.
Application 18/094,054 is a division of application No. 17/317,497, filed on May 11, 2021, granted, now 11,571,070.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/025,100, filed on May 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0148757 A1, May 18, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A47B 23/00 (2006.01); B64D 11/06 (2006.01); A47C 7/62 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 7/622 (2018.08) [B64D 11/062 (2014.12); B64D 11/0606 (2014.12); B64D 11/0627 (2014.12)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat usage prevention device, the seat usage prevention device comprising:
at least one device component being configured to interact with one or more seat components of a first seat, the at least one device component including a body with an upward facing surface and at least one support structure coupled to the body, the upward facing surface including a planar table surface,
the at least one device component configured to prevent usage of at least one of a seat pan or a seatback of the first seat,
the at least one device component configured to separate a second seat from at least a third seat, the at least the third seat being proximate to at least one of the first seat or the second seat, a top surface of the planar table surface being substantially flush with a top surface of a first armrest positioned between the first seat and the second seat and a top surface of a second armrest positioned between the first seat and the third seat.