Adjustable Bracket Design for Mattress Stability
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Summary
Problems
Existing body supports, such as mattresses, often fail to conform to adjustable bases due to material stiffness and construction, resulting in undesirable gaps and overhangs, which affect comfort and stability.
Innovation solutions
An adjustable bracket assembly with movable and spring-loaded components that can self-adjust to the body support base, allowing for sliding and automatic positioning to minimize gaps and ensure proper fit, utilizing compression springs and sliding mounts to accommodate the shape of the base.
TRIZ Analysis
Specific contradictions:
General conflict description:
Principle concept:
If a single fixed bracket is used to prevent the body support from sliding off the adjustable base, then the body support is retained on the base, but undesirable spaces and overhangs exist between the body support and base in various positions
Why choose this principle:
The bracket is made movable along the longitudinal axis of the adjustable base through a slot-mounted design, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position as the base changes shape during adjustment, thereby maintaining contact with the body support and eliminating gaps while preserving retention functionality
Principle concept:
If a single fixed bracket is used to prevent the body support from sliding off the adjustable base, then the body support is retained on the base, but undesirable spaces and overhangs exist between the body support and base in various positions
Why choose this principle:
The bracket's position parameter is made variable rather than fixed, enabling it to change location along the base to accommodate different base configurations and maintain optimal contact with the body support throughout the adjustment range
Application Domain
Data Source
AI summary:
An adjustable bracket assembly with movable and spring-loaded components that can self-adjust to the body support base, allowing for sliding and automatic positioning to minimize gaps and ensure proper fit, utilizing compression springs and sliding mounts to accommodate the shape of the base.
Abstract
A body support assembly includes a body support having a head portion, a middle portion, and a foot portion. The body support assembly also includes a foundation underlying and supporting the body support proximate an edge of the body support at one of the head and foot portions, and a bracket coupled to the foundation and slideable between first and second positions at different distances with respect to the edge of the body support.