US 12,325,523 B2
Self-disinfecting portable physical partitions for aircraft interiors
Sanith Kurumpilavu Subramanian, Bangalore (IN); Raja Mandava, Rammurthy Nagar (IN); and Dharamveer Surya Prakash Bathla, Sonipat (IN)
Assigned to B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/340,451.
Claims priority of application No. 202011024785 (IN), filed on Jun. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0387729 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B64D 11/06 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01); B64F 5/30 (2017.01)
CPC B64D 11/0606 (2014.12) [A61L 2/10 (2013.01); B64F 5/30 (2017.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/121 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/123 (2013.01); A61L 2202/26 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A self-disinfecting partition system comprising:
a housing;
an attachment element configured to couple the housing to a seat comprising one or more apertures configured to accept one or more supports;
an extension assembly coupled to the housing and the attachment element, comprising:
the one or more supports coupled to the housing and configured to slide within the one or more apertures, wherein sliding of the one or more supports within the one or more apertures adjusts a distance of the housing from the seat; and
a lock coupled to the attachment element and operationally coupled to the one or more supports and the one or more apertures; wherein the lock is configured upon activation to restrict a movement of the one or more supports relative to the one or more apertures;
a flexible screen configured to block a transmission of microbes, and further configured to deploy from a retracted position within the housing to a deployed position; and
one or more electromagnetic energy sources disposed within the housing configured to emit electromagnetic energy onto the flexible screen when the flexible screen is configured in the retracted position, wherein the electromagnetic energy is configured to disinfect the flexible screen.