Patents by Inventor Daniel I. Udriste
Daniel I. Udriste 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).
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Patent number: 11952124Abstract: An aircraft tray table may include a body with a defined interior cavity, a personal electronic device support, and a magnification lens. The personal electronic device support may be configured to hold a personal electronic device when the personal electronic device support is in a support deployed position. The magnification lens may be configured to fit within the interior cavity when the magnification lens is in a lens stowed position. The magnification lens may include a lens configured to magnify content displayed on the personal electronic device held by the personal electronic device support when the magnification lens is in a lens deployed position. The personal electronic device support may be parallel to the magnification lens when the personal electronic device is in the support deployed position and the magnification lens is in the lens deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Ian L. Frost, Daniel I. Udriste, Charles Zurian, Mark Vaughan
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Publication number: 20230286656Abstract: A spring-based seat diaphragm may include at least one support diaphragm component. The at least one support diaphragm component may be transversely coupled to the first structural beam and the second structural beam. The spring-based seat diaphragm may include at least one spring. The at least one spring may be proximate to the at least one support diaphragm component. The at least one spring may be parallel to or positioned transverse to the at least one support diaphragm component between the first primary spreader and the second primary spreader. The at least one spring may include a plurality of bends configured to distribute user weight applied to a cushion installed on the aircraft seat over the spring-based seat diaphragm. The spring-based seat diaphragm may be configured to support an aft portion of the cushion. The first structural beam may be configured to support a forward portion of the cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Christopher D. Adcock, Charles Zurian, Dean Sears, Daniel I. Udriste
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Patent number: 11691738Abstract: A spring-based seat diaphragm may include at least one support diaphragm component. The at least one support diaphragm component may be transversely coupled to the first structural beam and the second structural beam. The spring-based seat diaphragm may include at least one spring. The at least one spring may be proximate to the at least one support diaphragm component. The at least one spring may be parallel to or positioned transverse to the at least one support diaphragm component between the first primary spreader and the second primary spreader. The at least one spring may include a plurality of bends configured to distribute user weight applied to a cushion installed on the aircraft seat over the spring-based seat diaphragm. The spring-based seat diaphragm may be configured to support an aft portion of the cushion. The first structural beam may be configured to support a forward portion of the cushion.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Adcock, Charles Zurian, Dean Sears, Daniel I. Udriste
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Patent number: 11524784Abstract: A ventilated seat assembly with active air circulation including a structural frame element, a cushion assembly supported by the structural frame element, a perforated dress cover, a conduit network embedded in the cushion assembly configured to direct air to at least one target region of the cushion assembly, an air mover coupled in fluid communication with the conduit network, and a controller operable for activating the air mover to cause air to flow through the conduit network to the at least one target region. In operation, the controller activates the air mover to flow air, such as unconditioned air, through the conduit network to be released through the dress cover in the at least one target region.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Daniel I. Udriste, Samantha L. Huckabay, Peter A. Stahl, Catalin Bunea
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Patent number: 11407514Abstract: A step assembly installable in a structure such as a housing of an armrest assembly, the step assembly including a base attachable to the structure including a mounting plate having a low profile and a fixed receptacle to be received in the structure, a step plate pivotally attached along a first end to the base along a lower end of the receptacle, the step plate pivotable between a stowed position in which the step plate is housed within the fixed receptacle and a deployed position in which the step plate is outside of the fixed receptacle, the step plate having a first side for supporting a foot, and a release mechanism for releasing the step plate from the stowed position to the deployed position. The step plate deployed for use and concealed from view between uses.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Stephen A. Puglisi, Daniel I. Udriste, Horng jaan Lin, Ryan J. Suhre, Jason M. Kearns
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Publication number: 20220185482Abstract: A spring-based seat diaphragm may include at least one support diaphragm component. The at least one support diaphragm component may be transversely coupled to the first structural beam and the second structural beam. The spring-based seat diaphragm may include at least one spring. The at least one spring may be proximate to the at least one support diaphragm component. The at least one spring may be parallel to or positioned transverse to the at least one support diaphragm component between the first primary spreader and the second primary spreader. The at least one spring may include a plurality of bends configured to distribute user weight applied to a cushion installed on the aircraft seat over the spring-based seat diaphragm. The spring-based seat diaphragm may be configured to support an aft portion of the cushion. The first structural beam may be configured to support a forward portion of the cushion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Adcock, Charles Zurian, Dean Sears, Daniel I. Udriste
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Publication number: 20210339870Abstract: An aircraft tray table may include a body with a defined interior cavity, a personal electronic device support, and a magnification lens. The personal electronic device support may be configured to hold a personal electronic device when the personal electronic device support is in a support deployed position. The magnification lens may be configured to fit within the interior cavity when the magnification lens is in a lens stowed position. The magnification lens may include a lens configured to magnify content displayed on the personal electronic device held by the personal electronic device support when the magnification lens is in a lens deployed position. The personal electronic device support may be parallel to the magnification lens when the personal electronic device is in the support deployed position and the magnification lens is in the lens deployed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Ian L. Frost, Daniel I. Udriste, Charles Zurian, Mark Vaughan
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Patent number: 11046437Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Javier Valdes De La Garza, Glenn A. Johnson, Daniel I. Udriste, Alexander N. Pozzi, Mark B. Dowty
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Publication number: 20210053686Abstract: A step assembly installable in a structure such as a housing of an armrest assembly, the step assembly including a base attachable to the structure including a mounting plate having a low profile and a fixed receptacle to be received in the structure, a step plate pivotally attached along a first end to the base along a lower end of the receptacle, the step plate pivotable between a stowed position in which the step plate is housed within the fixed receptacle and a deployed position in which the step plate is outside of the fixed receptacle, the step plate having a first side for supporting a foot, and a release mechanism for releasing the step plate from the stowed position to the deployed position. The step plate deployed for use and concealed from view between uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Stephen A. Puglisi, Daniel I. Udriste, Horng jaan Lin, Ryan J. Suhre, Jason M. Kearns
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Patent number: 10913535Abstract: A cushion assembly such as an aircraft passenger seat cushion assembly including a solid foam component and an elastomeric lattice insert disposed in a void in the solid foam component, the elastomeric lattice insert having a compression profile that mimics a predetermined compression profile of a solid foam. The elastomeric lattice insert including repeating like cuboid structures such as interconnected repeating face-centered cube structures, interconnected repeating body-centered cube structures, or interconnected repeating kagome structures. The elastomeric lattice insert may be in thermal communication with an air conditioning system for delivering conditioned air through the elastomeric lattice insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Daniel I. Udriste, Stephen A. Puglisi
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Publication number: 20210031926Abstract: A ventilated seat assembly with active air circulation including a structural frame element, a cushion assembly supported by the structural frame element, a perforated dress cover, a conduit network embedded in the cushion assembly configured to direct air to at least one target region of the cushion assembly, an air mover coupled in fluid communication with the conduit network, and a controller operable for activating the air mover to cause air to flow through the conduit network to the at least one target region. In operation, the controller activates the air mover to flow air, such as unconditioned air, through the conduit network to be released through the dress cover in the at least one target region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Daniel I. Udriste, Samantha L. Huckabay, Peter A. Stahl, Catalin Bunea
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Patent number: 10889378Abstract: A system for heating and cooling a passenger seat utilizing a single unit for producing hot and cold conditioned air. The system includes a source of pressurized air, a vortex tube coupled to the source of pressurized air for producing hot and cold air streams, a duct network coupled to the vortex tube through a valve assembly, and a controller controlling passage of the flow of hot and cold air streams through the manifold assembly based on passenger selection. Conditioned air flow can be dispersed into a cushion assembly such as an interior of a spacer mesh component of the cushion assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Peter A. Stahl, Daniel I. Udriste, Catalin Bunea
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Publication number: 20200369388Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Javier Valdes De La Garza, Glenn A. Johnson, Daniel I. Udriste, Alexander N. Pozzi, Mark B. Dowty
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Patent number: 10829222Abstract: An aircraft seat assembly for achieving a reclined sitting position suitable for taxi-take-off and landing (TTOL). The assembly includes an independently adjustable seat back and seat bottom coupled to a frame member configured to translate relative to a base and actuators dedicated for driving independent articulation of each of the seat back, seat pan and optional legrest to achieve sitting positions including upright, lie-flat and positions therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Javier Valdes De La Garza, Daniel I. Udriste, Mark B. Dowty
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Patent number: 10773804Abstract: A seating arrangement for a cabin of a passenger aircraft that includes 5-abreast passenger accommodation suites, each including a privacy wall and a seat movable between a seating position and a lie-flat bed position, and adapted to be laterally positioned in the aircraft cabin in respective adjacent outboard, middle and inboard positions. Three of the suites are adapted to be positioned in a longitudinally-offset position in relation to each other and defining respective ingress/egress paths to a cabin aisle extending along a longitudinal axis of the aircraft cabin adjacent the third suite. Two of the suites are positioned in a longitudinally-offset position in relation to each other and defining respective ingress/egress paths on the opposite side of the cabin aisle. At least some of the suites define an angular offset relative to the longitudinal axis of the cabin aisle.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: B/E AEROSPACE, INC.Inventors: Javier Valdes De La Garza, Glenn A. Johnson, Daniel I. Udriste, Alexander N. Pozzi, Mark B. Dowty
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Publication number: 20200231285Abstract: A cushion assembly such as an aircraft passenger seat cushion assembly including a solid foam component and an elastomeric lattice insert disposed in a void in the solid foam component, the elastomeric lattice insert having a compression profile that mimics a predetermined compression profile of a solid foam. The elastomeric lattice insert including repeating like cuboid structures such as interconnected repeating face-centered cube structures, interconnected repeating body-centered cube structures, or interconnected repeating kagome structures. The elastomeric lattice insert may be in thermal communication with an air conditioning system for delivering conditioned air through the elastomeric lattice insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Daniel I. Udriste, Stephen A. Puglisi
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Patent number: 10683093Abstract: An aircraft passenger seat configured to facilitate ergonomic alignment of a passenger while in a sleeping position, including a seat bottom; and a seatback including a central opening corresponding to a shoulder region of a passenger, and a sleep support assembly mounted within the central opening, the sleep support assembly including an adjustable support member spanning a central portion of the seatback, where the adjustable support member is configured for at least one of translation and deformation; where, when the seat bottom is aligned with the seatback in a lie-flat seating position, a load provided by the shoulder region of the passenger, at least in a side-sleeping position, causes translation and/or deformation of the adjustable support member toward a floor of an aircraft cabin, thereby facilitating ergonomic alignment of the spine.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Daniel I. Udriste, Catalin Bunea, Bobby W. Lawson
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Patent number: 10611278Abstract: Cushion components for use in an aircraft and methods of making thereof. The cushion components having a lattice that is open celled, breathable, and has a compressibility profile that mimics an indentation load deflection (ILD) and spring rate of foam. In certain aspects, the elastomeric lattice is formed of interconnected cuboid structures that include, for example, interconnected face-centered cube (FCC) structures, interconnected body-centered cube (BCC) structures, or interconnected kagome structures.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Tyler N. Pardue, Ryan J. Suhre, Daniel I. Udriste, Stephen A. Puglisi
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Patent number: 10315770Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, electromechanical actuation systems and methods for use in an aircraft passenger suite include aircraft suite actuators for allowing passenger-initiated adjustment of a passenger seat and other suite components, a LRU coupled to each of actuators including control circuitry for controlling actuation of a given actuator in response to a passenger-initiated adjustment request, and wireless communication circuitry configured to: initiate communication links with LRUs creating a communication network, establish master/slave relationships with LRUs, and communicate actuation commands via the communication network.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Daniel I. Udriste, Catalin Bunea
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Publication number: 20190160989Abstract: Cushion components for use in an aircraft and methods of making thereof. The cushion components having a lattice that is open celled, breathable, and has a compressibility profile that mimics an indentation load deflection (ILD) and spring rate of foam. In certain aspects, the elastomeric lattice is formed of interconnected cuboid structures that include, for example, interconnected face-centered cube (FCC) structures, interconnected body-centered cube (BCC) structures, or interconnected kagome structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Tyler N. Pardue, Ryan J. Suhre, Daniel I. Udriste, Stephen A. Puglisi