US 12,071,246 B2
Air flow management
Matthew Robert Pearson, Hartford, CT (US); Brian St. Rock, Andover, CT (US); Abbas A. Alahyari, Glastonbury, CT (US); and Yasmin Khakpour, East Hartford, CT (US)
Assigned to B/E AEROSPACE, INC., Winston Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/481,106.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/080,997, filed on Sep. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0089289 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B64D 13/06 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 13/06 (2013.01) [B64D 2013/0651 (2013.01); B64D 2013/0688 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
an environmental control system (ECS) having a plurality of ducts configured to convey an airflow into an interior space through the plurality of ducts, wherein the airflow results in a net top-to-bottom airflow;
a plurality of valves disposed in the plurality of ducts to control the airflow through a respective duct into the interior space;
an overhead bin mounted in the interior space below the plurality of ducts relative to a direction of the airflow; and
a diffuser disposed at an outlet of the plurality of ducts configured to induce the airflow to flow along a convex outer surface of the overhead bin, wherein the diffuser is configured to induce the airflow to flow along the convex outer surface of the overhead bin under the Coandă effect, wherein each duct includes a first inlet that is positioned on a crown of the interior space and a plurality of second inlets such that at least one of the plurality of second inlets is positioned above each passenger service unit of a plurality of passenger service units, and wherein an outflow is positioned on a floor of the interior space configured to exhaust the airflow.