US 12,377,984 B2
Economy seat to full bed
Krishna Chaitanya Prathipati, Hyderabad (IN); and Ravindra Ramulu Kandukuri, Secunderabad (IN)
Assigned to B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Jul. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/218,324.
Claims priority of application No. 202311026865 (IN), filed on Apr. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0343395 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. B60N 2/427 (2006.01); B64D 11/06 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 11/0641 (2014.12) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft seat frame comprising:
a first seat pan frame portion comprising stationary rails;
a second seat pan frame portion comprising rails configured to translatably engage the stationary rails of the first seat pan portion; and
a third seat pan frame portion comprising rails configured to translatably engage the rails of the second seat pan frame,
wherein the first seat pan frame portion, second seat pan frame portions, and third seat pan frame portion are configured to translate from a collapsed configuration where the first seat pan frame portion, second seat pan frame portions, and third seat pan frame portion are nested together, to an extended configuration where the first seat pan frame portion, second seat pan frame portions, and third seat pan frame portion are telescopically extended.