An aircraft passenger compartment suite may include a privacy shell element proximate to an aircraft seat installed within the aircraft passenger compartment suite. The privacy shell element may include a first section configured to conform to a primary section of the aircraft seat, and a second section configured to conform to an auxiliary section of the aircraft seat. The privacy shell element may include a first profile configured to conform with the aircraft seat when the aircraft seat is in a first position, and a second profile configured to conform with the aircraft seat when the aircraft seat is in a second position. The second profile of the privacy shell element may be configured to occupy a greater amount of passenger aircraft living space surrounding the aircraft passenger compartment suite than an amount of passenger aircraft living space occupied by the first profile of the privacy shell element.

Vehicle seat assemblies including support structures having at least two supports parts coupled at an articulating joint and a pneumatic actuator system including at least one pneumatic chamber inflated and deflated to articulate the articulating joint to move one support part relative to the other or to synchronize movement of two support parts. Support structures can include a backrest coupled to a seat bottom or leg rest coupled to a seat bottom, wherein articulation of the joint causes movement of the backrest or leg rest along a non-hinged trajectory to change a sitting position of the support structure, change seat orientation, and generally improve seat comfort.

An ottoman for an aircraft passenger seat is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the ottoman may include a base. The ottoman may include a frame. The ottoman may include a shell. The ottoman may include a resting surface. The ottoman may include an actuation assembly. The actuation assembly is configured to actuating the resting surface from a first actuation position relative to the base. The ottoman may include an attachment surface. The attachment surface provides and anchor point for the actuation assembly.

Passenger seating groups positionable in a column in an aircraft between a longitudinal aisle and a fuselage wall. Each passenger seating group includes a first passenger seat positioned along an aisle side and facing a first direction, a first footwell positioned along the aisle side and facing the first passenger seat, a second passenger seat positioned along the wall side and facing the first direction, and a second footwell positioned along the wall side and facing the second direction to serve a second passenger seat in an adjacent like seating group. Each seat has its own dedicated entry from the longitudinal aisle and seats within the same seating group are physically separated by privacy walls.

A seating assembly may employ one or more of: a seat stagger, a seat overlap, and a seat angling to offer significant width and comfort gains and reduce the negative impact of width and leg room gains on seating density. With one seat of a pair staggered forward with respect to the other seat each may then be moved laterally and overlap (as seen from the front). The seating positions may be further improved by angling each seat away from their center arm rest area, reducing the encroaching effect of the overlap by pointing the passenger away from the overlap, reducing the visual impact of the staggered seating by pointing the passenger away from the nearest seat ahead, and improving leg room by directing the passenger's legs forward at an angle.

A reclining seat system, that has an upright seat that is fixed, and a movable reclining seat, which connects to and moves relative to the upright seat, between an upright position where the movable reclining seat portion is in the same shape of an upright position as the fixed upright seat, and between a reclined position where the movable reclining seat portion is in a position of reclining, while the upright portion remains upright to avoid impringing on the space behind the upright seat.

A portable leg lift device for an airplane seat with a seat panel, a movable leg lift panel, a stationary panel, an inflatable chamber, an inflation tube, an outer foldable outer panel and a inner foldable panel. The outer foldable panel is attached to the seat panel and the movable leg lift panel. The inner foldable panel is attached to the stationary panel. The inner foldable panel is also attached to the outer foldable panel. The inflatable chamber is attached on its distal surface to the inner wall of the movable leg lift panel and on its proximal surface to the stationary panel. The seat panel rests on the surface of an airplane seat. The inflation chamber can be inflated thereby lifting the movable leg panel and raising the lower legs of a person sitting on the seat panel.

The invention relates to a vehicle seat (1) comprising a seat surface (2) and at last one backrest element (3, 13) which are pivotable about an axis (6) relative to the seat surface (2). The at least one backrest element (3, 13) is movable from a sitting position, in which the backrest element (3, 13) is positioned substantially at an angle (a) relative to the seat surface (2), into a reclined position, in which the seat surface (2) and the at least one backrest element (3, 13) form a substantially planar surface, and back again. The vehicle seat (1) has at least one pneumatic cushion (10; 10.1, 10.2) and a pneumatic unit (9), which is configured in such a way that the pneumatic unit substantially completely inflates the at least one pneumatic cushion (10; 10.1, 10.2) if the at least one backrest element (3, 13) is moved into the reclined position, and the at least one pneumatic cushion (10; 10.1, 10.2) is substantially completely emptied when the backrest element (3, 13) is moved into the sitting position. The at least one pneumatic cushion (10; 10.1, 10.2) is arranged in an edge region (8) of the seat surface (2) or of the at least one backrest element (3, 13), which adjoins the at least one backrest element (3, 13) or the seat surface (2), such that in the reclined position the at least one pneumatic cushion (10; 10.1, 10.2) extends between the seat surface (2) and the at least one backrest element (3, 13).

An object of the present invention is to provide a seat unit structure, a seat unit, and an attachment method thereof in which component reinstallation does not arise when the seat unit is attached in an aircraft. One representative seat unit structure according to the present invention relates to a seat unit structure configured to support a seat, wherein the structure has a lower structure having a monocoque structure and defines an outermost shell in at least one direction of the seat unit. That is, the member mounted in the one direction of the seat unit can be stored inside the outermost shell of the structure. In addition, the one direction is the width direction of the airframe.

A suspension recline system for a stowable seat may comprise a suspension member comprising a first end configured to be coupled to a seat back of the stowable seat, and a second end configured to be coupled to a legrest for the stowable seat, wherein the suspension recline system is moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The stowable seat may recline in response to the suspension recline system being moved to the deployed position. An end of the suspension member may be configured to be inserted into a slot disposed in the legrest, in the deployed position.