US Patent Issued to Safran Seats on Dec. 9 for "Item of furniture provided with a device for rotatably deploying a movable element" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,001, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Safran Seats (Plaisir, France).

"Item of furniture provided with a device for rotatably deploying a movable element" was invented by Bruno Lopez (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Pierre Leroy (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an item of furniture, in particular for an aircraft seat, comprising: a frame, a movable element, a pivot connection for rotating the movable element relative to the frame between a folded position and a deployed position, a locking finger, a cam provided with a locking recess and an elastic member for biasing, when it is under tens...