Patents by Inventor Tobias SCHMIDT-SCHAFFER
Tobias SCHMIDT-SCHAFFER 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: 11905019Abstract: A passenger cabin area includes at least one aisle extending along a longitudinal axis of the passenger cabin area, a seating area next to the aisle in the direction of a transverse axis, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, of the passenger cabin area and in which at least one passenger seat is provided, and a plurality of sleeping berths arranged above the seating area in the direction of a vertical axis, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis, of the passenger cabin area. Each sleeping berth is accessible from the aisle of the passenger cabin area via a stairway element assigned individually to the sleeping berth.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventor: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer
-
Publication number: 20220306298Abstract: The invention relates to a seat assembly for a cabin of a means of transportation, having an aisle which is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the cabin, two mutually spaced cabin walls which are oriented parallel to the aisle at least in some regions and laterally delimit the cabin, two outer passenger seat regions which are separated from one another by the aisle and each of which adjoins one of the two cabin walls, wherein the outer passenger seat regions have at least one row of seats with a respective inner first seat module which faces the aisle, a central second seat module adjoining the first module, and an outer third seat module adjoining the respective cabin wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer
-
Publication number: 20210269157Abstract: A passenger cabin area includes at least one aisle extending along a longitudinal axis of the passenger cabin area, a seating area next to the aisle in the direction of a transverse axis, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, of the passenger cabin area and in which at least one passenger seat is provided, and a plurality of sleeping berths arranged above the seating area in the direction of a vertical axis, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis, of the passenger cabin area. Each sleeping berth is accessible from the aisle of the passenger cabin area via a stairway element assigned individually to the sleeping berth.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventor: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer
-
Patent number: 10899455Abstract: A seat arrangement for a vehicle has: parallel aisles in a longitudinal direction of a cabin; cabin walls arranged parallel to the aisles; a central region enclosed by the aisles; and two outer regions neighboring the central region and separated from the central region through the aisles. Seat rows having two inner seat modules and two outer seat modules, are arranged in the central region behind each other. Additional seat rows having an inner seat module facing the respective aisle and an outer seat module wall facing the respective cabin wall, are arranged behind each other in the outer regions. Each seat module has a seat and an ottoman. The seat modules of the central region have a use direction aligned parallel to a main extension direction of the bordering aisle or enclose a maximum angle such that the ottoman reaches further into the aisle than the assigned seat.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Inventors: Martin Sieben, Thomas Sütthoff, Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer
-
Publication number: 20180029712Abstract: A seat arrangement for a vehicle has: parallel aisles in a longitudinal direction of a cabin; cabin walls arranged parallel to the aisles; a central region enclosed by the aisles; and two outer regions neighboring the central region and separated from the central region through the aisles. Seat rows having two inner seat modules and two outer seat modules, are arranged in the central region behind each other. Additional seat rows having an inner seat module facing the respective aisle and an outer seat module wall facing the respective cabin wall, are arranged behind each other in the outer regions. Each seat module has a seat and an ottoman. The seat modules of the central region have a use direction aligned parallel to a main extension direction of the bordering aisle or enclose a maximum angle such that the ottoman reaches further into the aisle than the assigned seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Martin SIEBEN, Thomas SÜTTHOFF, Tobias SCHMIDT-SCHÄFFER
-
Patent number: 9796476Abstract: A passenger cabin of an aircraft includes a seat arrangement that includes a number of seat assemblies. The seat assemblies include a seat structure having a seat backrest forming a backrest surface the and a seat cushion element forming a seat surface, and a passenger space partition, which spatially partitions a passenger space of the seat and which at least partially surrounds the seat structure and leaves open an access to the seat structure. The seat cushion element is moveable between a comfort position, in which the seat cushion element projects further into the access in order to provide a larger seat surface, and an access position in which the seat cushion element does not project as far or does not project at all into the access in order to make possible a wider access.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBHInventor: Tobias Schmidt-Schaffer
-
Patent number: 9513622Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin (1), more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and the method furthermore comprises the following steps: —selection of a plurality of individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) from a pool of individual modules, —automatic connection of the selected individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) to form a desired module package (10a), —automatic calculation of a desired module package configuration value, —automatic comparison of the desired module package configuration value with predefined module package configuration values which respectively correspond to a technically prevalidated module package, —automatic selection of the module package (10b) whose module package configuration value deviates the least from the desired module package configuration value, —arrangement of the selected module package (10b) in a zone (A, B, C, D, E) of the cabin (1).Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
-
Patent number: 9261874Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin, more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and wherein at least one parameter zone (A, C, E) and one dynamic zone (B, D) are provided, comprising the following steps: —selection of one or more individual modules from a pool of individual modules, —automatic arrangement of the at least one selected individual module in the parameter zone in accordance with at least one predetermined individual module parameter for the complete configuration of the meter zone, —selection of one or more individual components from a pool of individual components, —automatic calculation of an individual component configuration of the dynamic zone in accordance with the arrangement of the individual modules in the parameter zone and automatic arrangement of individual components in the dynamic zone in accordance with the calculated individual component configuratType: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
-
Publication number: 20160016667Abstract: A passenger cabin of an aircraft includes a seat arrangement that includes a number of seat assemblies. The seat assemblies include a seat structure having a seat backrest forming a backrest surface the and a seat cushion element forming a seat surface, and a passenger space partition, which spatially partitions a passenger space of the seat and which at least partially surrounds the seat structure and leaves open an access to the seat structure. The seat cushion element is moveable between a comfort position, in which the seat cushion element projects further into the access in order to provide a larger seat surface, and an access position in which the seat cushion element does not project as far or does not project at all into the access in order to make possible a wider access.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventor: Tobias SCHMIDT-SCHAFFER
-
Patent number: 8560287Abstract: A method and a device for the computer-assisted generation of a construction plan for modular aircraft components on the basis of already validated partial module construction plans for the individual modules wherein at least one element is assigned to a respective partial module construction plan, and in this manner a hierarchy is defined that comprises a higher, module level and a lower, element level, with the method comprising: re-utilizing at least one of the already validated partial module construction plans; depending on user input, re-specifying at the element level one of the at least one element in one of the partial module construction plans to obtain an individualized partial module construction plan; validating, only at the module level, a combination of one of the partial module construction plans with the individualized partial module construction plan; and in the case of successful validation, composing the partial module construction plans of the combination validated in this manner, to obtaType: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Milton Amador, Ulrich Seifert, Ulf Schiller, Benjamin Becker
-
Publication number: 20130066602Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin (1), more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and the method furthermore comprises the following steps: selection of a plurality of individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) from a pool of individual modules, automatic connection of the selected individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) to form a desired module package (10a), automatic calculation of a desired module package configuration value, automatic comparison of the desired module package configuration value with predefined module package configuration values which respectively correspond to a technically prevalidated module package, automatic selection of the module package (10b) whose module package configuration value deviates the least from the desired module package configuration value, arrangement of the selected module package (10b) in a zone (A, B, C, D, E) of the cabin (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
-
Publication number: 20130035906Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin, more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and wherein at least one parameter zone (A, C, E) and one dynamic zone (B, D) are provided, comprising the following steps: —selection of one or more individual modules from a pool of individual modules, —automatic arrangement of the at least one selected individual module in the parameter zone in accordance with at least one predetermined individual module parameter for the complete configuration of the meter zone, —selection of one or more individual components from a pool of individual components, —automatic calculation of an individual component configuration of the dynamic zone in accordance with the arrangement of the individual modules in the parameter zone and automatic arrangement of individual components in the dynamic zone in accordance with the calculated individual component configuratType: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
-
Publication number: 20120173210Abstract: A method and a device for the computer-assisted generation of a construction plan for modular aircraft components on the basis of validated partial construction plans for individual modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Milton Amador, Ulrich Seifert, Ulf Schiller, Benjamin Becker