Patents Assigned to Attax
  • Patent number: 11091269
    Abstract: A fastening system for a seat includes a base associated with the rest of the seat and including a grip for attachment by gripping of the seat on the rail, movable between a free position and an active attachment position of the seat, via a maneuvering lever movable between a free position and an active position for blocking in the active position of the grip. The system includes a lock for locking the lever in the active blocking position. The lock includes an axle that is rotatable relative to one of the lever and the base between an unlocked position and a locked position. The axle is provided with an indexing element provided to engage with a complementary portion of the other of the lever and the base in the locked position of the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Elie Stanislas Guillet
  • Patent number: 11059591
    Abstract: A system for fastening a seat in a rail includes a base and a retainer including clamping jaws blocking the system in position in the rail by pinching of the rail between the base and the clamping jaws. The retainer is movable relative to the base between a separated first position and a close second position using a maneuvering and clamping system that is able to be actuated between an unlocked position and a locked position. The maneuvering and clamping system includes a tightening screw for tightening the retainer on the base and a part carried by the retainer and movable between a retracted position and an active position in which the part is inserted between a head of the tightening screw and the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventors: Elie Stanislas Guillet, Romain Danet
  • Patent number: 10953990
    Abstract: A system for securing a seat, in particular in an aircraft, in a rail, in particular a rail of the aircraft, the system including a base, and clamping and locking jaws for clamping and locking the system into position in the rail, by gripping the rail between the base and the clamping and locking jaws, the clamping and locking jaws being movable relative to the base between a first drawn-apart position for mounting/dismounting of the system in/from the rail and a second drawn-together position for locking the system, by clamping around the rail, by use of an actuator that is operable by a mounting/dismounting operator between an unlocking position and a locking position of the system, wherein hard spot crossing is provided between the base and the clamping and locking jaws, the hard spot crossing maintaining the clamping and locking jaws in their first drawn-apart position for mounting/dismounting the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Romain Danet
  • Patent number: 10759538
    Abstract: A system including a base provided with the means in the form of clamping and locking jaws for clamping and locking of the system into position in the rail, the means in the form of clamping jaws being movable between a first position and a second position by making use of maneuvering means that are operable by an operator between an unlocking position and a locking position, wherein the maneuvering means includes a clamping screw engaged in a hole and adapted so as to cooperate with a threaded hole and in that it has a smooth section in order to allow the screwing thereof into the threaded hole only when the base and the means in the form of clamping jaws are in the correct position of fastening in the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Romain Danet
  • Patent number: 9856903
    Abstract: A device for attaching an object on a rail of a support is provided. The device includes a base designed to bear on the rail, and a device for tightening the base on the rail. The tightening device includes a threaded rod and a nut. A first end of the tightening device includes a tightening heel designed to be placed below the rail to tighten the rail between the heel and the base. A second end of the tightening device includes an element for maneuvering by an operator to tighten/loosen the device. The device can further include a detachable non-return device to prevent any involuntary loosening of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Marc Bouchenoire
  • Patent number: 9592915
    Abstract: A device for securing an aircraft seat includes a base linked to the seat. The base includes a mechanism for fastening the base to a rail of an aircraft. The mechanism can be moved between locked and unlocked positions by an operating lever. The operating lever includes a visual indicator for indication of the locked and unlocked positions of the mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Stéphane Davoust
  • Patent number: 9522736
    Abstract: A fixation device for an aircraft seat includes a base including an attachment for attaching the base on the rail of the aircraft. The attachment is movable according to a retracted assembly/disassembly position and active attachment position of the seat. The fixation device also includes a maneuvering lever for moving the attachment. The maneuvering lever is movable according to a retracted assembly/disassembly position and active position-blocking position of the attachment. The maneuvering lever includes a device for locking in the active blocking position. The maneuvering lever is associated with a toggle joint for crossing a hard point comprising articulation yoke for connecting rods articulated on the base. At least one of the connecting rods is associated with the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Romain Danet
  • Patent number: 8882037
    Abstract: System for fastening a seat, on the rest of an aircraft, of the type including a base associated with the rest of the seat and including hooking elements thereof on the rest of the aircraft, which can be moved between a retracted assembly/disassembly position of the seat and an active hooking position thereof on the rest of the aircraft, and locking elements for locking the hooking elements in the active position. The hooking elements include at least one hook-shaped heel to be engaged in an opening of the rest of the aircraft, and by movement of the base, under a hooking shoulder thereof, and the locking elements in the active position include pin-shaped locking members supported by the base and that can be moved between a position retracted in the base and an active position wherein the pin-shaped locking elements protrude from the base into an opening of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Attax
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8820697
    Abstract: The system for engaging an aircraft seat in a fastening rail of the rest of said aircraft, of the type including a catching means able to be moved between an assembly/disassembly position of the seat and an active position locking said seat in position, via a handling lever that can be moved by an assembly operator between an assembly/disassembly position and a locking position, and including a means for locking the lever in the locking position, able to be disengaged by the operator via a quarter turn means, to release the lever and therefore release the catching means, is characterized in that at least one handling portion of the quarter turn means for disengaging the locking means of the lever is accessible to the operator, from the upper face of the catching means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Attax
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8814126
    Abstract: A system for attaching an aircraft seat to an aircraft. The system includes a pair of attachment devices. Each device includes a base connected to the seat, attachment means for attaching the seat to the rest of the aircraft, the attachment means being movable between a retracted position for fitting or dismantling the seat and an active position for blocking the seat. The attachment devices also include an operating lever to move the attachment means, the operating lever being articulated with the base and movable between a retracted position for fitting or dismantling the seat and an active position for blocking the lever in the active position. The attachment devices further include locking means for locking the lever in the active position, the locking means being disengageable by a rotary actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8662446
    Abstract: A fixing system for a seat, in particular an aircraft seat, comprising a base having attachment portions which are adapted to be set in an active position for attachment of the seat, by an operating lever which is movable to an active position for blocking the attachment portions, and which comprises a catch for locking the lever in the active position which is carried by the lever or the base and is adapted to cooperate with holding portions in order to lock the lever in the active position, the catch being movably mounted against the urging of resilient portions in order to allow the catch to pass over the holding portions and engage in the locking position, and to be disengaged under the action of rotary operating portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8628053
    Abstract: This system comprising a base (2) provided in the vicinity of one of its ends with means in the form of jaws (3) for clamping and blocking in position of the system in the rail by pinching the latter between the base (2) and laterally protruding portions (4) of these means in the form of jaws (3), the base (2) and the means in the form of jaws (3) able to be displaced in relation to one another between a mounting/dismounting position of the system in the rail and a blocking position of the system by clamping around the rail, by the intermediary of the means of manoeuvring (6) that can be actuated by an operator, is characterized in that the means of manoeuvring (6) include a slide (7) which can be displaced in the base (2) by the operator and comprising at one end, a surface for manoeuvring (8) by the operator, at the other end, a ramp portion adapted (9) to cooperate with an additional ramp portion (10) of the means in the form of jaws (3) in order to displace the latter in relation to the base between the m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8517310
    Abstract: A system for fastening an aircraft seat in a corresponding rail of the rest of the aircraft, of the type including a base to which the rest of the seat is connected and including support surfaces on the upper face of the rail and associated with a locking slide that can be moved by a lever under the control of an assembly operator, between an assembly/disassembly position of the system relative to the rail and a locking position thereof and therefore of the seat relative to the rail and therefore the aircraft, in which the support surfaces of the base on the rail include elastically deformable facing device(s) for reacting fastening play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Attax
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8496220
    Abstract: The system comprising a base (2) having attachment means (3) which are movable between a retracted position for fitting/dismantling the seat and an active position for attachment of the seat, by an operating lever (4) which is movable between a retracted fitting/dismantling position and an active position for blocking of the attachment means and which has means (6) for articulation with the base (2) and disengageable means (8) for locking the lever in the active position, is characterized in that the locking means comprise means in the form of a catch (9) which are carried by the lever or the base and are suitable for cooperation, in the active position, with holding means (10) of the base or of the lever in order to lock the lever (4) in the active position, the means in the form of a catch (9) being resiliently deformable in order to allow them to pass over the holding means (10) and engage in the locking position and to be freed therefrom under the action of rotary operating means (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8360386
    Abstract: In a coupling system for coupling an aircraft seat in a rail of the rest thereof, of the type including a base to which the rest of the seat is connected and associated with a locking slide able to be moved using a control device under the control of a handling lever that can be actuated by an assembly operator, between an assembly/disassembly position and a locking position, the control device includes a device in needle form, which is able to be moved in the base by the lever and whereof one end includes a support surface adapted to cooperate with a complementary ramp surface of the slide to move the latter from its assembly/disassembly position towards its locking position, against the stress from an elastic or spring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Attax
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Publication number: 20120273616
    Abstract: System for fastening a seat, on the rest of an aircraft, of the type including a base associated with the rest of the seat and including hooking elements thereof on the rest of the aircraft, which can be moved between a retracted assembly/disassembly position of the seat and an active hooking position thereof on the rest of the aircraft, and locking elements for locking the hooking elements in the active position. The hooking elements include at least one hook-shaped heel to be engaged in an opening of the rest of the aircraft, and by movement of the base, under a hooking shoulder thereof, and the locking elements in the active position include pin-shaped locking members supported by the base and that can be moved between a position retracted in the base and an active position wherein the pin-shaped locking elements protrude from the base into an opening of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier MARECHAL
  • Patent number: 8251623
    Abstract: Provided is a system for fixing a seat in an aircraft, the system including a movable base and slide. The base and slide include a device for hooking into a rail of the aircraft, by movement of the slide between an assembly/disassembly and a hooking position, using a lever articulated on the base and the slide by rods. The lever is movable between a retracted position for assembly/disassembly and an active hooking position, wherein a hook-shaped device of the lever co-operate with a retaining member that is provided at one end of a resilient member. The resilient member is associated with unlocking device that includes a cams which are rotatable in the base and capable of being actuated so as to move the retaining device towards a release position for the hook-shaped device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Attax
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Patent number: 8152405
    Abstract: This system, comprising a fastener (1) which is V-shaped and which comprises an intermediate portion (2) which is in the form of a clamp having two arms (3, 4), for receiving a projecting portion (12a, 12b) of the first component (12) and from which wings (6, 7) extend and are provided with engagement means for passing an over-center position on an edge of the second component (13) and in the region of the junction zone of each wing and the corresponding arm, at least one harpoon-like cut-out (8, 9) extending in continuation of the wing in the direction of the intermediate portion, is characterized in that the engagement means of the wings (6, 7) comprise means for resilient snap-fitting thereof on the edge of the second component (13), allowing the projecting portion (12a, 12b) of the first component (12) to be engaged, to a greater or lesser depth, in the intermediate clamp-like portion (2) of the fastener (1) during assembly thereof, in order to adjust the two components relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Attax
    Inventor: Dominique Dubost
  • Publication number: 20110278422
    Abstract: The system for engaging an aircraft seat in a fastening rail of the rest of said aircraft, of the type including a catching means able to be moved between an assembly/disassembly position of the seat and an active position locking said seat in position, via a handling lever that can be moved by an assembly operator between an assembly/disassembly position and a locking position, and including a means for locking the lever in the locking position, able to be disengaged by the operator via a quarter turn means, to release the lever and therefore release the catching means, is characterized in that at least one handling portion of the quarter turn means for disengaging the locking means of the lever is accessible to the operator, from the upper face of the catching means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier Marechal
  • Publication number: 20110133032
    Abstract: This system comprising a base (2) provided in the vicinity of one of its ends with means in the form of jaws (3) for clamping and blocking in position of the system in the rail by pinching the latter between the base (2) and laterally protruding portions (4) of these means in the form of jaws (3), the base (2) and the means in the form of jaws (3) able to be displaced in relation to one another between a mounting/dismounting position of the system in the rail and a blocking position of the system by clamping around the rail, by the intermediary of the means of manoeuvring (6) that can be actuated by an operator, is characterised in that the means of manoeuvring (6) include a slide (7) which can be displaced in the base (2) by the operator and comprising at one end, a surface for manoeuvring (8) by the operator, at the other end, a ramp portion adapted (9) to cooperate with an additional ramp portion (10) of the means in the form of jaws (3) in order to displace the latter in relation to the base between the m
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: ATTAX
    Inventor: Xavier MARECHAL