US 12,420,932 B2
Seat recline system
Marcin Szymon Kołodziejczak, Wrocław (PL)
Assigned to B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Jan. 16, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/025,057.
Claims priority of application No. 24461509 (EP), filed on Jan. 16, 2024; and application No. 24461512 (EP), filed on Jan. 17, 2024.
Prior Publication US 2025/0229899 A1, Jul. 17, 2025
Int. Cl. B64D 11/06 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 11/064 (2014.12) [B64D 11/0648 (2014.12)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat recline system comprising:
one or more seat legs to which a seat comprising a seat pan and a seat back moveable relative to the seat pan, can be mounted, in use; wherein each of the one or more seat legs comprises:
a recline arm having a first end pivotally mounted to each of the one or more seat legs and arranged to be fixedly mounted to a first mounting point of the seat back, in use, and a second end arranged to be fixedly mounted to a second mounting point of the seat back, in use, the recline arm further comprising one or more detents formed on an inner side of the recline arm intermediate the first end and the second end;
a seat pan mount having a first end attached to the seat pan and a second end located between the recline arm and each of the one or more seat legs, the seat pan mount fixedly attached at the second end to each of the one or more seat legs, and wherein the recline arm is free to pivot about the first mounting point relative to the seat pan mount, wherein the seat pan mount has a hole therethrough arranged to align with the one or more detents in the recline arm at predetermined pivot positions of the recline arm relative to the seat pan mount; and
a locking system comprising a locking pin and a lever arranged to move the locking pin relative to the hole in the seat pan mount, between a locking position in which the locking pin extends through the hole to engage in a detent of the one or more detents when the detent aligns with the hole, and a release position in which the locking pin does not extend through the hole.