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Granted Patent B2
US 12,030,638 · App. 17/756,903 · Granted Jul 9, 2024

On-board toilet cubicle

Inventors: Jesus Rodriguez-Conde (Wels, AT); Elisabeth Hoeller (Raab, AT); Bernhard Hatzmann (Hofkirchen, AT); Maximilian Guerocak (Passau, DE)
Assignee: FACC AG
B64D11/02B64C1/1423
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Patent No.
US 12,030,638
App. No.
17/756,903
Granted
Jul 9, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An on-board toilet cubicle for an aircraft, including a front long side and a rear long side; a front short side and a rear short side, which are each connected at one end to the front long side and at their other end to the rear long side, the long sides and the short sides enclosing an interior of the toilet cubicle, and the front and the rear long sides each being wider than the front and the rear short sides; a toilet unit with a toilet opening; and an L-shaped door for accessing the on-board toilet cubicle, the L-shaped door having one door leg in the front long side and one door leg in the front short side, the toilet unit arranged adjacent to the rear long side, and the door leg in the front long side being wider than the door leg in the front short side.

Claims (52)

1. An on-board toilet cubicle comprising:

a front long side and a rear long side,

a front short side and a rear short side, which are each connected at one end to the front long side and at their other end to the rear long side,

the front and rear long sides and the front and rear short sides enclosing an interior of the on-board toilet cubicle, and the front and the rear long sides each being wider than the front and the rear short sides,

a toilet unit with a toilet opening, and

an L-shaped door for accessing the on-board toilet cubicle, the L-shaped door comprising one door leg in the front long side and one door leg in the front short side,

wherein

the toilet unit is arranged adjacent to the rear long side, and the one door leg in the front long side is wider than the one door leg in the front short side.

2. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 1 ,

wherein

a toilet seat axis forms an angle of less than 45° with a normal of the rear long side, wherein the toilet seat axis runs substantially parallel to the normal of the rear long side.

3. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 1 ,

wherein

a hinge point of the L-shaped door is provided on the front short side.

4. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 1 ,

wherein

the perpendicular distance of the toilet opening from the front long side is more than 1.5 times the perpendicular distance of the centre point of the toilet opening from the rear long side.

5. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 4 ,

wherein

the perpendicular distance of the toilet opening from the front long side is more than 25% of the width of the rear short side and/or the front short side.

6. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 5 ,

wherein

the perpendicular distance of the centre point of the toilet opening from the front short side is more than 15% of the width of the rear long side.

7. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 5 ,

wherein

the perpendicular distance of the centre point of the toilet opening from the rear short side is more than 25% of the width of the rear long side.

8. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 1 ,

wherein

the toilet unit comprises a seat area in which the toilet opening is provided, wherein an oblique section of a horizontal edge, facing the front long side, of the seat area forms an angle of between 1° and 60° with the rear long side.

9. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 8 ,

wherein

the oblique section of the horizontal edge of the seat area lies on a straight line which intersects the door leg on the front short side.

10. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 8 ,

wherein

a starting point, facing the front short side, of the oblique section of the edge on the seat area has a perpendicular distance from the front short side which is smaller than the longitudinal extent of the one door leg on the front long side.

11. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 4 ,

comprising

a washbasin unit with a washbasin, wherein the washbasin unit is arranged adjacent to the rear short side.

12. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 11 ,

wherein

the washbasin is arranged adjacent to the front long side.

13. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 11 ,

wherein

the toilet opening is arranged at a horizontal distance of less than 1.5 m from the washbasin.

14. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 11 ,

wherein

the perpendicular distance of the washbasin from the rear long side is more than 50% of the length of the rear short side.

15. An aircraft, comprising an on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 1 .

16. The aircraft according to claim 15 ,

wherein

the on-board toilet cubicle is arranged such that a corridor adjoining the front short side leads to a seating area for passengers.

17. The on-board toilet cubicle according to claim 9 , wherein the oblique section of the edge of the seat lies on a straight line which intersects the half of the door leg which is closer to the rear long side.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 8, 2022
From: RODRIGUEZ-CONDE, JESUS; HOELLER, ELISABETH; HATZMANN, BERNHARD; GUEROCAK, MAXIMILIAN
To: FACC AG
Reel/Frame 060744/0459 →
Priority Claims (1)
AT A 50213/2019 · Dec 4, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230013546A1 · Jan 19, 2023
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