Patents by Inventor Arthur Glain

Arthur Glain has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11981435
    Abstract: Described are temporary privacy modules for non-passenger seating areas of aircraft cabin arrangements. The temporary privacy modules selectively enclose a portion of the non-passenger seating areas. The temporary privacy modules include a support and a privacy device. The privacy device is movable relative to the support between a stowed position and a deployed position. In the deployed position, the privacy device encloses the portion of the non-passenger seating area and defines a temporary privacy room within the non-passenger seating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz Lara, Arthur Glain
  • Patent number: 11975839
    Abstract: Described are privacy screens and privacy assemblies for passenger seats including a frame defining a perimeter of the privacy screen and shaped to partially wrap around a portion of a passenger seat, a textile shell connected with and surrounding the frame, and a sound-absorbing layer positioned within the frame and surrounded by the textile shell for conferring physical, visual, and sound privacy for an occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventor: Arthur Glain
  • Publication number: 20230348063
    Abstract: Described are passenger partitioning systems having multiple divider partitions arranged. A first divider partition is arranged along an longitudinal axis of an passenger aircraft. A second divider partition is arranged along a lateral axis of the aircraft. The passenger partition systems may be used to partition off two or more seats within the passenger aircraft (e.g., to quarantine sick passengers).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Reza Mansouri, Arthur Glain
  • Patent number: 11801941
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a suite, in particular for an aircraft cabin, comprising: a seat, an ottoman, and a storage cupboard, the suite further comprising a movable table capable of assuming: a stowed state in which the movable table extends in a vertical plane, in which the movable table is arranged between the cupboard and the ottoman, and a deployed state in which the movable table extends in a horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: Safran Seats, Safran Seats GB Limited
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz, Arthur Glain, Yann Cavereau, Paul Wills, Rachel James, James Woodington, Shaun Kilbane, Ryan Jones
  • Patent number: 11780585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft cabin having a longitudinal axis and comprising at least one aisle and an arrangement of seat units, a seat unit comprising, in particular, a seat provided with a base and a backrest as well as a foot area, the seat being movable between a sitting position and a lying position, the arrangement of seat units comprising: at least one rear group of two seat units, at least one front group of two seat units, each group of two seat units comprising a seat unit arranged on the side of the aisle and referred to as the “aisle-side seat unit” and a seat unit arranged on the side of a window and referred to as the “window-side seat unit”, each seat of a group of seat units having an axis forming a non-zero angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft cabin, such that the seats of each group are facing the aisle, a first passage for accessing the aisle associated with the window-side seat unit of the rear group extending between the foot area and the seat of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Safran Seats, Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Florelle Rousse, Arthur Glain, Adrien Beauvais, Nguyen Foek Le, David Morales
  • Publication number: 20230257121
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a suite, in particular for an aircraft cabin, comprising: a seat, an ottoman, and a storage cupboard, the suite further comprising a movable table capable of assuming: a stowed state in which the movable table extends in a vertical plane, in which the movable table is arranged between the cupboard and the ottoman, and a deployed state in which the movable table extends in a horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz, Arthur Glain, Yan Caverau, Paul Wills, Rachel James, James Woodington, Shaun Kilbane, Ryan Jones
  • Publication number: 20230002056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft cabin having a longitudinal axis and comprising at least one aisle and an arrangement of seat units, a seat unit comprising, in particular, a seat provided with a base and a backrest as well as a foot area, the seat being movable between a sitting position and a lying position, the arrangement of seat units comprising: at least one rear group of two seat units, at least one front group of two seat units, each group of two seat units comprising a seat unit arranged on the side of the aisle and referred to as the “aisle-side seat unit” and a seat unit arranged on the side of a window and referred to as the “window-side seat unit”, each seat of a group of seat units having an axis forming a non-zero angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft cabin, such that the seats of each group are facing the aisle, a first passage for accessing the aisle associated with the window-side seat unit of the rear group extending between the foot area and the seat of the a
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Florelle Rousse, Arthur Glain, Adrien Beauvais, Nguyen Foek Le, David Morales
  • Patent number: 11535380
    Abstract: An armrest assembly for a passenger seat includes a moveable arm including a proximal end and a distal end, a stowed configuration wherein the moveable arm is disposed adjacent and approximately parallel to a seatback of the passenger seat, and a deployed configuration wherein the moveable arm is approximately parallel to a seat pan of the passenger seat. The moveable arm may include a first portion and a second portion. The armrest assembly may include a first rotation axis such that the moveable arm pivots about the first rotation axis when moving between the stowed configuration and the deployed configuration. The armrest assembly may include a second rotation axis such that the second portion pivots about the second rotation axis relative to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Glain, Oscar Ruiz Lara
  • Patent number: 11365010
    Abstract: A passenger seat includes a seat frame, a plurality of legs extending down from the seat frame where each of the plurality of legs includes an upper end attached to the seat frame and a lower end, and at least one tube attached to the lower end of at least one of the plurality of legs. The at least one tube includes at least two attachments to a floor structure. The at least one tube includes at least one bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: Safran Seats USA LLC, Safran
    Inventors: Reza Mansouri, Romain Tranier, Charles Michael Parker, Arthur Glain
  • Patent number: 11358723
    Abstract: Described are passenger seats (102) having a seat bottom (122) connected to the seat frame (108) at a hinge (130) at an aft portion of the seat bottom (122), and having a release mechanism (132) operably connected with the seat bottom (122) that, when actuated by a user, cause the seat bottom (122) to be released from a locked configuration to an unlocked configuration, whereby the seat bottom (122) is free to rotate downward, independent of a seat back (142), about the hinge (130) to a tilted position in order to increase a range of available angles between the seat bottom (122) and seat back (130).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz Lara, Arthur Glain
  • Patent number: 11352142
    Abstract: A passenger seat back can include a rearward surface, a tray table (106) deployable away from the rearward surface of the seat back, and a shelf (108) independent from the tray table (106). The shelf (108) can include a support surface (110) and at least one pivot (116) pivotally coupling the support surface (110) to the rearward surface of the seat back. For example, the support surface (110) may support a passenger's personal entertainment device or other item at a variety of viewing orientations and apart from the tray table (106).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz Lara, Arthur Glain
  • Patent number: 11312497
    Abstract: The invention relates to a seat arrangement, in particular designed to be installed in an airplane cabin, comprising: at least one “front” seat and at least one “rear” seat, positioned one behind the other along a longitudinal axis of the airplane cabin and comprising respectively at least one seat that can pass from a “seating” position to a “bunk” position, a transverse passage arranged between the “front” seat and the “rear” seat to allow access to an aisle, characterized in that the seat arrangement comprises movable closure means that can at least partially close off the transverse passage when the closure means are deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats
    Inventors: Patrick Herault, Bastien Bonnefoy, Arthur Glain, Eric Freienmuth
  • Patent number: 11299275
    Abstract: A removable privacy panel assembly (100) for a passenger seat includes a center panel (101) with a width approximately equal to a width of the passenger seat and at least one side panel (103, 104) with a connection to the center panel (101) where the at least one side panel extends approximately perpendicular to the center panel. The removable privacy panel assembly includes a deployed configuration where the removable privacy panel assembly is attached to the passenger seat and an uninstalled configuration where the removable privacy panel assembly is detached from the passenger seat. In the deployed configuration, the center panel is approximately aligned with a seatback (11) of the passenger seat and the at least one side panel (103, 104) extends forward from the center panel (101) beyond a seating surface of the passenger seat. In the deployed configuration, the at least one side panel (103, 104) is disposed adjacent to a headrest (15) of the passenger seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Glain, Oscar Ruiz Lara
  • Publication number: 20220041284
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement of individual seat units intended to be installed in particular in an aircraft cabin, characterized in that a console of a seat unit of a given row is arranged in the vicinity of a seat of a seat unit of the other row so as to define a space for stowing and/or placing objects, and in that said arrangement has access passages for access to a traffic aisle, an access passage being delimited at least in part on the one hand by a shell of a seat unit of the second row and on the other hand by an adjacent console of a seat unit of the second row, in such a way that each access passage allows direct access to the traffic aisle (14) for a passenger of a seat belonging to the first row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur Glain, Oscar Ruiz, Charles Ehrmann
  • Publication number: 20220017224
    Abstract: The present invention relates essentially to an arrangement of individual seats intended to be installed in an aircraft cabin and characterised in that the first seat faces inwards in the direction of the axis of the aircraft cabin and the second seat faces outwards away from the axis of the aircraft cabin and in that at least a portion of the first seat and of the corresponding first footwell are capable of defining at least a portion of a first bed surface which faces outwards away from the axis of the aircraft cabin and in that at least a portion of the second seat and of the corresponding second footwell are capable of defining at least a portion of a second bed surface which faces inwards in the direction of the axis of the aircraft cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur Glain, Oscar Ruiz, Charles Ehrmann
  • Publication number: 20220017225
    Abstract: A passenger seat includes a seat frame, a plurality of legs extending down from the seat frame where each of the plurality of legs includes an upper end attached to the seat frame and a lower end, and at least one tube attached to the lower end of at least one of the plurality of legs. The at least one tube includes at least two attachments to a floor structure. The at least one tube includes at least one bent portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Reza Mansouri, Romain Tranier, Charles Michael Parker, Arthur Glain
  • Publication number: 20210380254
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin is provided. The aircraft cabin comprises a first seat unit and a second seat unit, the first and second seat units being in a first row of seat units and being separated by an aisle. The cabin comprises a partition movable between a stowed position and a deployed position in which the partition is positioned at least partially in the aisle between the first and second seat units thereby at least partially blocking the aisle. The cabin further comprises an item of furniture movable between a stowed position and a deployed position in which the item of furniture is positioned in the aisle between the first and second seat units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: James Woodington, Paul Wills, Oscar Ruiz, Arthur Glain, Matthew Cleary, Victor Carlioz
  • Patent number: 11192654
    Abstract: Described are passenger seat headrest assemblies and seats including headrest assemblies having a semi-rigid flap fixedly connected with an upper portion of the seat back or headrest assembly at a first location and movably connected with the seat back or headrest assembly at a receiving element separated from the first location. The distance of the movable connection from the first location can be adjusted to cause the flexible headrest assembly to flex outward from the seat to provide a greater or lesser degree of support for a passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz Lara, Arthur Glain
  • Publication number: 20210347483
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin is provided. The aircraft cabin comprises a first row of seat units extending across the cabin between a first outboard sidewall of the cabin and a second opposite outboard sidewall of the cabin, a first aisle extending along the cabin, and a second aisle extending along the cabin. The first row of seats units comprises a first seat unit, a second seat unit, a third seat unit and no further seat units. The first aisle is positioned adjacent the first outboard sidewall and separates the first outboard sidewall and the first seat unit, the second seat unit is positioned adjacent the first seat unit, and the third seat unit is spaced apart from the second seat unit by the second aisle, the third seat unit being positioned adjacent the second outboard sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: James Woodington, Paul Wills, Oscar Ruiz, Arthur Glain, Matthew Cleary, Victor Carlioz
  • Publication number: 20210316867
    Abstract: A passenger seat back can include a rearward surface, a tray table (106) deployable away from the rearward surface of the seat back, and a shelf (108) independent from the tray table (106). The shelf (108) can include a support surface (110) and at least one pivot (116) pivotally coupling the support surface (110) to the rearward surface of the seat back. For example, the support surface (110) may support a passenger's personal entertainment device or other item at a variety of viewing orientations and apart from the tray table (106).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Oscar Ruiz Lara, Arthur Glain