Neck Pillow with Integrated Storage Compartments for Personal Items
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing neck pillows lack integrated storage solutions for personal items, limiting their convenience and versatility in providing both support and carrying functionality during prolonged seated activities.
Innovation Solution
A neck pillow design featuring a coupling mechanism, such as a hinge or fabric flap, with internal compartments and external pockets for storing items like ice packs, phones, and sunglasses, allowing the pillow to serve as both a support device and a carrying mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a neck pillow is designed with basic support structure only, then it provides neck support function, but it lacks storage capability for personal items
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the neck pillow support structure with storage compartments into a single integrated device. The pillow body incorporates internal and external compartments that can store personal items such as phones, sunglasses, and ice packs, merging the support function with storage function in one unified structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The neck pillow is designed to perform multiple functions: providing neck support, storing personal items in internal compartments, and carrying additional items in external pockets. This multi-functional design allows a single device to serve both as a comfort item and a carrying mechanism.
2Adaptability or versatility
If storage compartments are added to the neck pillow, then storage capability is improved, but the pillow structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The storage system is segmented into multiple independent compartments within the pillow body and separate external pockets. This segmentation allows each compartment to serve specific storage needs while maintaining the overall structural integrity of the pillow through modular coupling mechanisms.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple compartments and pockets are integrated into the neck pillow, then carrying functionality is enhanced, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pillow is divided into distinct modular sections including the support body, internal compartments, and external pockets. Each segment can be manufactured separately and then assembled using coupling mechanisms, simplifying the overall manufacturing process while maintaining carrying functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling mechanisms allow for flexible assembly and disassembly of the pillow components. This dynamic design enables manufacturers to produce individual parts separately and assemble them through simple coupling actions, reducing manufacturing complexity while preserving the integrated functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed embodiments provide a neck pillow with storage capability. In embodiments, the neck pillow can open to reveal internal compartments, suitable for storage of small personal items. In this way, the neck pillow can also serve as a carrying mechanism as well as functioning as a traditional neck pillow. In this way, one can carry the neck pillow and personal items conveniently. This makes neck pillows of disclosed embodiments convenient for a variety of activities such as relaxing at the beach, concerts, movies, sporting events, and anywhere else where sitting for prolonged periods may occur. Further, the neck pillow may have a pocket to receive a heating and/or cooling pack to be used in conjunction with an individual who has suffered a head or neck injury. Here, the neck pillow may be utilized to promote proper body alignment and provide therapeutic relief.