Airbag-Based Smart Mattress for Adjustable Support and Sleep Aid
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional mattresses lack integrated sleep aid, massage, and portability features, failing to improve sleep quality and convenience, especially in non-home settings.
Innovation Solution
A portable smart mattress with an airbag assembly, adjustable air volume, heating elements, and sensors that monitor body parameters to provide massage, wake-up, and sleep aid functions, along with a foldable design for portability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional mattresses are made thick and heavy to provide sufficient support and comfort, then sleep quality is improved, but portability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an airbag assembly with adjustable air volume to provide support and comfort functions. The airbags can be inflated to different pressures and volumes to match body contours, replacing traditional thick foam or spring structures. This pneumatic approach maintains support quality while significantly reducing weight and enabling portability through folding.
Solution Approach 2:
The mattress employs dynamically adjustable airbags that can change their volume and pressure in real-time based on user needs. The air source assembly can inflate or deflate airbags to adapt support levels, transforming the static traditional mattress into a dynamic system that adjusts to different sleeping positions and portability requirements.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional mattresses are designed with simple supporting functions, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but sleep aid functions deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The airbag assembly serves multiple functions: it provides body support, enables massage through differential inflation, facilitates wake-up functions, and aids sleep positioning. This single component system replaces multiple separate mattress types, achieving multi-functionality without proportionally increasing manufacturing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mattress uses adjustable parameters (air volume, pressure, distribution) of the airbags to achieve different functional states. By changing these parameters, the same physical structure can provide support, massage, or wake-up functions, avoiding the need for multiple specialized components and reducing overall manufacturing cost.
3Device complexity
If traditional mattresses lack adjustable support features, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different body positions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress divides the airbag assembly into multiple independent airbags that can be controlled separately. Each airbag can be adjusted independently to support different body regions (head, shoulders, back, legs), enabling precise adaptation to various sleeping positions without requiring a completely complex overall structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The smart mattress enhances sleep quality through adjustable support, massage, and wake-up functions, while being portable and adaptable to various environments, using air volume and temperature control based on real-time body data.
Implementation Method 1
the air volumes of corresponding airbags in the airbag assembly can be controlled according to a user's experience, so that the heights of the corresponding airbags are flexibly adjusted
Implementation Method 2
the heating assembly is set to be an electrical heating element which is controlled by an operation module
Implementation Method 3
a sensor to monitor parameters of the heart rate, respiration and body motion of the human body, wherein an air volume of each of the plurality of airbags in the airbag assembly is adjusted based on data measured by the sensor
Data Source
AI summary
A smart mattress, including a mattress body (1), and further including an airbag assembly (2) disposed on a supporting surface of the mattress body (1). The airbag assembly (2) includes multiple airbags respectively used to support multiple parts of the human body, the height of each of the airbags is adjustable. The present smart mattress has a sleep aid function; the air volumes of corresponding airbags in the airbag assembly (2) can be controlled according to a user's experience, so that the heights of the corresponding airbags are flexibly adjusted to achieve the purpose of floating support of different parts of the human body, and the supporting heights of parts of the mattress are alternately and gently changed to achieve the function of relaxing and massage before sleeping. The smart mattress further has a wake-up function and portability; the mattress body (1) can be folded for carrying with one.