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Solution Overview

Problem

The hospitality industry faces challenges with exposed bed bases that lack illumination, leading to safety hazards, such as tripping and stumbling, especially in low-light conditions, and existing night lights are static and lack automated control, limiting their effectiveness.

Innovation Solution

An illuminated bed base structure that includes a bed frame supporting a mattress or mattress foundation, with integrated illumination devices and a control system featuring sensors, timers, and remote control, which adjusts lighting based on environmental conditions, motion detection, and user input to provide safe and aesthetically enhanced lighting.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If traditional bed bases are exposed without illumination, then the bed structure is simple and cost-effective, but safety hazards such as tripping and stumbling occur in low-light conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesafety hazardsVSAvoidbed base structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The illumination devices are integrated into the bed base structure itself, merging the lighting function with the structural support function. This eliminates the need for separate floor-standing night lights and reduces protrusions while providing illumination to prevent tripping hazards.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The bed base is transformed into a multi-functional unit that simultaneously provides structural support and illumination. The control system adds automated sensing capabilities, making the bed base responsive to environmental conditions and user presence, thereby addressing safety concerns without requiring additional standalone devices.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If static night lights are used, then the bed base structure remains simple, but the lighting effectiveness is limited due to lack of automated control

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelighting controlVSAvoidcontrol system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The bed base system performs self-service through automated sensing and control. The sensors detect environmental conditions and user presence, and the control system automatically adjusts illumination without requiring manual intervention. This eliminates the need for users to manually switch lights on and off while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The control system incorporates feedback mechanisms through sensors that continuously monitor environmental conditions and user presence. This feedback enables the system to automatically adjust lighting levels and timing, optimizing safety and comfort while reducing the need for complex manual control interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Object-affected harmful factors

If illumination devices are integrated into the bed base, then safety and aesthetics are improved, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefire hazards and trippingVSAvoidbed base manufacturing

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

By integrating illumination devices directly into the bed base structure, the patent eliminates the need for separate lighting components and their associated installations. This merging approach reduces the overall number of parts, simplifies assembly procedures, and lowers manufacturing costs despite adding lighting functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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 solution enhances safety by providing adaptive and automated lighting, reducing the risk of injuries and improving ergonomics, while integrating illumination seamlessly into the bed base design to eliminate protrusions and potential fire hazards, offering customizable lighting scenarios for various settings.

Implementation Method 1

The control system includes a motion sensor

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectMotion detection:

Implementation Method 2

The control system includes a light sensor

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectLight detection:

Data Source

PatentUS9661931B2Bed structures

Publication Date: 2017.05.30 LUCIANO SEBASTIAN

AI summary

Bed structures are presented. The bed structure may include a bed frame for supporting at least one of a mattress or a mattress foundation, at least one illumination device mounted on the bed frame, and a control system. The control system includes at least one sensor and being configured to illuminate the at least one illumination device responsive to predetermined environmental conditions determined by the at least one sensor. In another aspect, a bed structure includes at least one illumination device mounted on the bed frame, and a control system configured to illuminate the at least one illumination device responsive to predetermined environmental conditions. The control system includes a motion sensor, a light sensor, a timer, and a remote control system facilitating operation of the at least one illumination device responsive to user input control or a predetermined control sequence.