Hammock With Segmented Enclosures For Sensory Stimulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing body supporting structures, such as hammocks, often reduce blood supply to body parts and fail to stimulate additional senses simultaneously, limiting their effectiveness in providing relaxation and sensory stimulation.
Innovation Solution
A hammock design featuring an upper and lower layer connected to form enclosures with freely moving support members that act as pressure points, stimulating kinesthetic, vestibular, and proprioceptive senses by allowing movement and pressure distribution, adaptable to various users through adjustable hardness and size of support members.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If body supporting structures such as blankets are used to stimulate kinesthetic sense, then ease of anxiety is provided, but blood supply to the resting body part is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The hammock is divided into multiple independent enclosures (20-30 enclosures), each containing individual support members. This segmentation allows each enclosure to independently support body parts while maintaining space between them, preventing the continuous pressure that would restrict blood flow, while still providing comprehensive kinesthetic stimulation across the entire body surface.
Solution Approach 2:
Each enclosure contains support members with specific local properties (hardness, size, spacing) that can be optimized for different body regions. The support members are configured to provide appropriate pressure points for sensory stimulation while their distributed arrangement ensures that no single area experiences excessive pressure that would harm blood supply.
2Ease of operation
If traditional hammocks are used for relaxation, then body support is provided, but additional senses are not stimulated simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The hammock is designed to simultaneously perform multiple functions: providing body support for relaxation, stimulating kinesthetic sense through support member pressure points, and activating vestibular and proprioceptive senses through the array configuration. This multi-functionality is achieved by integrating support, sensation, and positioning capabilities into a single system.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from traditional single-layer hammock design to a three-dimensional array of enclosures containing support members. This dimensional expansion creates multiple interaction points between the user's body and the support structure, enabling simultaneous stimulation of multiple sensory systems while maintaining relaxation comfort.
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AI summary
A hammock comprising an upper part and a lower part is disclosed. The upper and lower part are connected together in such a manner that they form a layer comprising a plurality of enclosures. Each enclosure comprises a plurality of support members. The plurality of support members are arranged and configured to freely move within the enclosures. The support members are rigid structures.