US 12,145,732 B2
Vehicle seating rows for increasing cross aisle space
Prasandh M. Selvarajan, Cuddalore (IN); Mallikarjuna R. Guntapati, Hyderabad (IN); Trilok K. Polamarasetti, Visakhapatnam (IN); and Abhishek Ghanathey, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed by B/E Aerospace, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/104,942.
Claims priority of application No. 202241019967 (IN), filed on Apr. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312108 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B64D 11/06 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 11/0648 (2014.12) [B64D 11/064 (2014.12)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle seating row for installation in a passenger cabin adjacent to an aisle, the vehicle seating row comprising:
a framework including a first seat and a second seat;
the framework for the first seat includes:
a fixed rear leg mounted to a fixed rear transverse beam and mountable to a first seat track; and
a fixed front leg mounted to a fixed front transverse beam and mountable to the first seat track; and
the framework for the second seat includes:
a fixed rear leg mounted to a fixed rear transverse beam and mountable to a second seat track;
a movable front leg mounted to a movable front transverse beam, the movable front leg and the movable front transverse beam displaceable relative to the fixed rear leg and the fixed rear transverse beam between a first position in which the second seat has a maximum length and a second position in which the second seat has a minimum length;
an actuator coupled to at least one of the movable front leg and the movable front transverse beam, the actuator configured to displace the movable front leg and the movable front transverse beam between the first and second positions; and
a floor mountable guide, wherein one end of the movable front leg is slidably received in the floor mountable guide, the floor mountable guide is configured to constrain horizontal translation of the movable front leg between the first and second positions, and the floor mountable guide defines a linear opening having a length determinative of an amount of displacement of the movable front leg between the first and second positions.