IP Library Granted Patent US 12,473,092
Granted Patent B2
US 12,473,092 · App. 19/085,047 · Granted Nov 18, 2025

Aircraft passenger seat

Inventors: Metin Albert Bopp (Tettnang, DE); Alper Altunbas (Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, DE)
Assignee: ZIM AIRCRAFT SEATING GMBH
B64D11/0647B64D11/064
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Patent No.
US 12,473,092
App. No.
19/085,047
Granted
Nov 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Aircraft passenger seat, wherein the aircraft passenger seat has a frame, a seating area element and a backrest element. The aircraft passenger seat is distinguished in that the backrest element has a first beam and a second beam, wherein the backrest element has an elastic element, wherein the elastic element extends from the first to the second beam, so that the elastic element forms a support area for a back of a user of the aircraft passenger seat, wherein the elasticity of the elastic element is adjustable.

Claims (10)

1 . An aircraft passenger seat comprising a base, a seating surface element and a backrest element, wherein the backrest element has a first beam and a second beam, wherein the backrest element has an elastic element, wherein the elastic element extends from the first to the second beam, such that the elastic element forms a support surface for a back of a user of the aircraft passenger seat, wherein the elasticity of the elastic element is adjustable, wherein the elastic element is designed as a stretchable strap or a stretchable band, wherein the elastic element is arranged on the backrest element so as to run around the first and the second beam, wherein a first and a second end of the elastic element are movable toward one another and away from one another, wherein there is a tension device, wherein the first and the second end of the elastic element are connected to a tension element of the tension device, wherein an adjusting element of the tension device engages on the tension element, wherein the tension element can be moved in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the first or the second beam by the adjusting element, such that adjustment of the elasticity of the elastic element takes place during a movement of the tension element, and wherein the elasticity of a first of the plurality of elastic elements is adjustable, wherein the elasticity of a second of the plurality of elastic elements is invariable.

2 . The aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the backrest element has a plurality of elastic elements.

3 . The aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and the second beam are connected to one another by a first and a second cross brace, such that the beams and the cross braces form a frame.

4 . The aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the position of the backrest element relative to the base is invariable.

5 . The aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the tension element is designed as a ring, as an eye or as a rod.

6 . The aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the adjusting element is designed as a cable or as a wire.

7 . The aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the aircraft passenger seat has a shaft, wherein the adjusting element is connected to the shaft, wherein, during a rotary motion of the shaft, the adjusting element is wound onto or off the shaft, wherein a position of the tension element is changed by the winding process of the adjusting element.

8 . A seat row comprising an aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 .

9 . An aircraft having a seat row as claimed in claim 8 .

10 . An aircraft having an aircraft passenger seat as claimed in claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 29, 2025
From: BOPP, METIN ALBERT; ALTUNBAS, ALPER
To: ZIM AIRCRAFT SEATING GMBH
Reel/Frame 071251/0550 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2022 129 531.1 · Nov 8, 2022 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2023081110 · Nov 8, 2023
Related Publication 20250263169A1 · Aug 21, 2025
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