Elastic cushion, additional elastic cushion layer, and furniture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing high-end mattresses have one-piece structures, making them inconvenient to transport and store, and lack customization options for adjusting hardness, leading to waste when components wear out.
Innovation Solution
An elastic pad with a modular design featuring a stackable additional elastic pad layer system, allowing users to customize hardness and assembly by selecting from different materials and stacking sequences, and utilizing engagement structures for easy attachment and detachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If high-end mattresses use one-piece structures to ensure comfort and structural integrity, then comfort and reliability are improved, but adaptability and ease of operation deteriorate due to inability to disassemble, transport, or customize
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress is divided into multiple independent functional layers (support layer, comfort layers, cover) that can be separately assembled and disassembled. Each layer maintains its structural integrity while allowing modular customization combinations.
Solution Approach 2:
The support layer and cover are designed as universal components that can work with multiple different comfort layer configurations, allowing one base structure to support various customization combinations.
2Reliability
If high-end mattresses use one-piece structures to maintain comfort, then comfort is improved, but loss of substance increases as the whole mattress must be discarded when components wear out
Solution Approach 1:
The modular design allows users to discard only the worn comfort layers while retaining and reusing the support layer and cover, significantly reducing material waste compared to discarding entire one-piece mattresses.
3Reliability
If high-end mattresses are made thick with complicated inner structures to provide comfort, then comfort is improved, but device complexity increases making them inconvenient to transport and store
Solution Approach 1:
The complicated inner structure is segmented into standardized modular layers with simple connection mechanisms, reducing overall structural complexity while maintaining comfort performance through layered composition.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular layers are designed to nest within each other during storage and transport, with comfort layers able to be stored within or alongside the support layer, significantly reducing storage volume despite thick comfort performance.
4Reliability
If high-end mattresses are made thick with complicated inner structures to provide comfort, then comfort is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in assembly and customization
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress is segmented into pre-assembled modular layers with simple connection interfaces, transforming complex assembly into straightforward stacking and fastening operations.
Solution Approach 2:
Each modular layer is pre-assembled and pre-configured during manufacturing with standardized connection elements, so that final assembly by the user requires only simple fastening operations rather than complex construction.
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
Enables users to customize comfort levels by selecting and arranging additional elastic pad layers, facilitating easy assembly and disassembly for transport and storage, reducing waste by allowing component replacement.
Implementation Method 1
an elastic module layer disposed within the receiving space, the elastic module layer comprising a plurality of elastic modules arranged in an array, each of the elastic modules provided therein with a conical spring in a compressed state
Implementation Method 2
each of the elastic modules provided therein with a conical spring in a compressed state along a height direction of the elastic pad
Implementation Method 3
at least one additional elastic pad layer separate from one another and all independent of the elastic pad body, the at least one additional elastic pad layer configured to be stacked and attached outside of a top of the elastic pad body
Data Source
AI summary
An elastic pad includes a body and at least one additional separate elastic pad layer independent of the body. The at least one additional elastic pad layer can be stacked and attached on top of the body. The elastic pad is configured to allow users to select types, number and stacking sequence of additional elastic pad layers. The elastic pad provides users with convenience in assembling and replacing the additional elastic pad layers and a better customization experience without disassembling the body.