Customisable mattress with slats, customising kit and configuration method for the mattress
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mattresses fail to provide long-term comfort and can be harmful due to individual differences in sensitivity, weight, and sleeping position, making it difficult for users to select a suitable mattress, especially for shared use, leading to potential posture-related pathologies.
Innovation Solution
A customizable mattress system with adjustable slats and channels that allow users to personalize the mattress configuration based on physical characteristics, such as weight and preferred sleeping position, using a kit that includes a mattress with upper and lower channels and slats made of materials like wood or rigid plastics, and a method for selecting the appropriate configuration using a processor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a standard mattress configuration is used, then manufacturing cost and simplicity are maintained, but it cannot provide long-term comfort for all users due to individual differences in sensitivity, weight, and sleeping position
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress base is divided into multiple channels (upper channels and lower channels) that can independently accommodate different numbers of slats. This segmentation allows each region of the mattress to be customized with different support levels, enabling adaptation to various user needs while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The mattress configuration is made dynamic and adjustable through the removable slat system. Users can insert or remove slats from channels based on their specific needs, allowing the mattress to adapt to different users, weights, and sleeping positions. This transforms a static mattress into a dynamically customizable support system.
2Reliability
If a customizable mattress system with multiple slats and channels is implemented, then user-specific comfort and posture support are improved, but device complexity and initial cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support system is segmented into multiple independent slats that can be individually positioned in channels. This allows precise control over support distribution across different body regions, improving posture support reliability while keeping each individual slat and channel relatively simple in design.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the mattress can have different numbers of slats inserted into channels, creating local variations in support firmness. This local quality adjustment enables optimized posture support for specific body areas (e.g., more slats under the lumbar region) without requiring complete redesign of the entire mattress structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the mattress is designed for shared use by multiple users, then versatility is improved, but it becomes difficult to satisfy the specific needs of each user simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress channels are segmented into upper and lower sections, allowing different slat configurations for different sleeping positions. Users can adjust the number and position of slats to create personalized support zones, enabling one mattress to serve multiple users with different needs through reconfigurable support patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The slat configuration system is designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing users to easily insert or remove slats from channels based on their preferences or the needs of different users. This dynamic reconfigurability enables a single mattress to adapt to multiple users without requiring complex automated systems.
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AI summary
Described is a mattress (1) customisable for at least one user (U) comprising a main body (2) with a sheet-like shape comprising at least one layer (3a) made of porous and/or soft material and having, along a longitudinal dimension (L), at least one series of upper channels (4a) and at least one series of lower channels (4b) offset with respect to the upper channels (4a) and designed to house respective slats (6) in such a way as to define different configurations of the mattress (1) as a function of physical characteristics of at least one user (U), and a textile covering (7) equipped with reversible perimeter closing means, positioned in at least one lateral portion (7a) corresponding to a longitudinal side (5) of the main body (2), and designed to define a closed configuration and an open configuration wherein the lateral portion (7a) of textile covering (7) is away from the longitudinal side (5) in such a way that the channels (4a, 4b) can be reached in such a way as to extract and/or insert the slats (6) in the respective channels (4a, 4b).