Bedside Monster-Deterrent Controller With Light, Audio, and Airflow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Young children often experience anxiety at bedtime due to imagined monsters, specters, or demons, which conventional nightlights or hallway lights may not adequately alleviate, necessitating additional measures to comfort them.
Innovation Solution
A hand-held controller unit and accompanying kit that includes a user interface, audio and light-emitting devices, and a supplemental bed cover with integrated controller, designed to activate external devices and provide psychological comfort through visible and audible signals, airflow, and scented perfumes to mitigate fears.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If conventional nightlights or hallway lights are used, then some illumination is provided, but the child's fear and anxiety are not adequately alleviated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single device: illumination (nightlight), audio output (speaker for monster-repelling sounds), and wireless control capabilities. This integrated approach creates a more comprehensive solution that addresses both the lighting need and the psychological comfort need simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between providing illumination and effectively alleviating fear.
Solution Approach 2:
The nightlight device is designed to perform multiple functions: providing ambient lighting, playing audio tracks that repel monsters, receiving wireless control signals, and potentially projecting images. This multi-functionality ensures that a single device can adequately address various aspects of bedtime fear, making it more reliable than conventional single-function nightlights.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple devices and features are integrated into the kit, then comprehensive comfort and security are provided, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into separate functional modules: a controllable nightlight unit with audio capabilities, a wireless controller for the bed, and optional supplemental components like scented perfumes and insignia. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system versatility, managing complexity through modularity.
Solution Approach 2:
A wireless communication system acts as an intermediary between the controller and the nightlight device, enabling complex functionality to be controlled remotely from the bed. This intermediary layer simplifies the user interface by allowing all controls to be accessible from the controller rather than requiring direct manipulation of multiple device components.
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 effectively reduces children's bedtime anxiety by providing a sense of security and comfort through interactive and sensory stimuli, helping them feel protected from imagined threats.
Implementation Method 1
an audio transducer integrated with the housing and operatively connected to the audio transceiver circuit
Implementation Method 2
The energy-emitting device may include at least one of a flashing visible light-emitting device, an audible sound-emitting device, and a flashlight
Data Source
AI summary
A devices and implements for staving off monsters, specters, demons and the like as imagined by a child at bedtime. A hand-held controller unit is provided having a user interface and which is capable of being used by the child under the bed covers of a bed. The hand-held controller unit may include any of a walkie-talkie capability, a flashlight capability, a nightlight capability, the capability to activate an external device, and other capabilities. At least one external device may be provided. The external device may be capable of being placed beneath the bed and is configured to be activated by the hand-held controller unit. At least one substantially hollow air-through member may be provided which is configured to facilitate airflow between underneath the bed covers of the bed and above the bed covers of the bed. A supplemental bed cover may be provided that is configured to be placed on the bed.