Appeal No. 2006-0037
Application No. 09/874,371
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to “a method for improving thermal
comfort in passenger airplanes . . . [and] to improved airplanes
and improved interior cabin parts for airplanes” (specification,
page 1). Representative claims 1, 18 and 20 read as follows:
1. A method of improving thermal comfort in a passenger
airplane, the airplane having a cabin with interior surfaces, the
airplane cabin for transporting one or more passengers, the method
comprising:
applying a heat-reflecting coating with a thermal emission
coefficient no greater than approximately 0.5 to at least one
interior surface of a cabin of a passenger airplane,
whereby the coating provides improved radiation exchange with
a passenger in the airplane cabin when compared with an uncoated
interior surface.
18. An airplane improved for thermal comfort, the improved
airplane comprising:
an airplane comprising an airplane cabin having interior
surfaces,
a heat-reflecting coating with a thermal emission coefficient
no greater than approximately 0.5 on at least one of the interior
surfaces,
whereby the coating provides improved radiation exchange with
a passenger in the airplane cabin when compared with an uncoated
airplane cabin.
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