Small diameter pressure structure commercial aircraft crew rest

摘要

An aircraft crew rest station includes an overhead crew rest portion including a central deck portion, forward and aft bunk portions, and a central entry vestibule connected between a passenger seating area and the central deck portion. The forward and aft bunk portions include a plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths configured in interfitting alternating trapezoid shapes to optimize spatial accommodation of body proportions of crew members in the available aircraft space. The central deck portion includes an emergency escape hatch, a fold-down jump seat, and a fold-down entry door that removably covers a stairway of the central entry vestibule.

主权项

1. An aircraft crew rest station for an aircraft having a hull with a curved top portion, a lowered ceiling overlying a passenger seating area, and a space therebetween overlying a passenger seating area below the lowered ceiling, the aircraft crew rest station comprising:
an overhead crew rest portion contoured to occupy the space between the curved top portion of the hull of the aircraft and the lowered ceiling of the aircraft, said overhead crew rest portion including a central deck portion disposed in the overhead crew rest portion, a forward bunk portion connected to a forward portion of said central deck portion and disposed in said overhead crew rest portion, and an aft bunk portion connected to an aft portion of the central deck portion and disposed in the overhead crew rest portion, said forward bunk portion including a plurality of adjacent partitioned individual forward sleeping berths and said aft bunk portion including a plurality of adjacent partitioned individual aft sleeping berths, each of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths in the forward and aft bunk portions having a head end and a foot end, said head end being wider than said foot end, and said berths in said forward and aft bunk portions being configured in interfitting adjacent alternating trapezoid shapes with a head end of at least one of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths being positioned adjacent to a foot end of at least one other of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths to optimize spatial accommodation of body proportions of crew members in the forward and aft bunk portions in the overhead crew rest portion; and a central entry vestibule connected between the aircraft passenger seating area and the central deck portion of the overhead crew rest portion to provide direct access to the central deck portion of the overhead crew rest portion, each of said plurality of adjacent partitioned individual sleeping berths in said forward and aft bunk portions having individual entrances connected to said central deck portion at alternating adjacent head and foot ends of said plurality of adjacent partitioned sleeping berths of said forward and aft bunk portions.