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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional mattresses often create a 'hammock effect' due to their uniform top panel, leading to spinal misalignment and pressure buildup, as the weight and pressure applied by the individual are distributed uniformly across a single surface, which can negatively impact sleep quality and overall well-being.

Innovation Solution

A mattress with independently configured sections, each with distinct firmness and separate top surfaces, allowing for individualized support of different body regions, such as the head, shoulders, and hips, to prevent the hammock effect by ensuring each section operates independently both internally and externally.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a single-piece uniform top panel is used to envelope the mattress, then the mattress structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but it creates a hammock effect that causes spinal misalignment and pressure buildup

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemattress assembly simplicityVSAvoidspinal misalignment and pressure buildup

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The mattress top panel is divided into multiple independent sections (head section, shoulder section, hip section, etc.) instead of using a single-piece uniform panel. Each section can be independently configured with different firmness levels and support characteristics, eliminating the hammock effect while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through modular assembly

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different sections of the mattress top panel are configured with different firmness levels and support properties tailored to specific body regions. For example, the head section may have different characteristics than the shoulder or hip sections, providing optimized local support for each anatomical region rather than uniform support across the entire surface

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If variable support structure is designed internally with different firmness regions, then theoretical support for different body weights is improved, but the uniform top panel masks the variable firmness and creates hammock effect

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevariable support for different body regionsVSAvoidhammock effect

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The internal variable support structure is segmented into distinct sections that correspond to different body regions, with each section having independently configurable firmness levels. This segmentation allows the variable support characteristics to be visible and functional at the top panel level, preventing the hammock effect while maintaining adaptability to different body types

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mattress employs asymmetric configuration of support sections, where different sections have different firmness levels, materials, or structural characteristics tailored to the specific support needs of each body region. This asymmetric design enables optimized support distribution that adapts to the natural asymmetry of the human body

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

3Shape

If the top panel is sealed and secured as a single surface, then the mattress has a uniform appearance and simple construction, but weight and pressure distribute uniformly causing spinal misalignment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuniform top surfaceVSAvoidspinal misalignment

Core Design Contradiction:

ShapeVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The top panel is segmented into multiple independent sections that can have different shapes, firmness levels, and support characteristics. Each section is independently configured to support specific body regions, creating a non-uniform top surface that actively prevents spinal misalignment by providing differentiated support where needed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20220202196A1Mattress

Publication Date: 2022.06.30 DRREST PTY LTD

AI summary

Disclosed is a mattress for providing comfort and support for an individual, and in particular, to a mattress structured to have independent sections that are configured to support an individual in a manner that supports the individual's body to improve comfort and avoid spinal misalignment issues from developing. In one aspect of the invention there is provided a mattress for supporting an individual thereon, the mattress comprising: at least two sections configured to support different regions of a body of the individual, at least one of the at least two sections having a different firmness to the other sections; wherein the at least two sections are independently configured such that they are isolated from each other both internally and externally.