Personalized Climate Control Room With Heat and UV Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional climate control rooms do not provide temperature and ultraviolet light tailored to specific user needs, which are essential for improving cardiovascular health and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Innovation Solution

A climate control room system equipped with sensors and a programmable controller that adjusts temperature and ultraviolet light intensity based on user data, including core body temperature, skin tone, and exercise parameters, to raise core body temperature and provide adequate UV exposure for a predetermined time.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional climate control rooms provide elevated temperatures, then users are exposed to heat therapy, but the temperature is not tailored to specific physiological needs of individual users

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemperature personalizationVSAvoidcontrol system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The climate control system dynamically adjusts temperature based on real-time physiological data from sensors monitoring user core body temperature, heart rate, and other vital signs. The system transitions from static predetermined temperatures to dynamic personalized temperature control that adapts during the treatment session

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback loops where sensors continuously monitor user physiological responses and feed this information back to the control algorithm, which then adjusts temperature settings accordingly. This closed-loop control enables personalized temperature tailoring while managing system complexity through automated feedback processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional climate control rooms provide heat therapy, then cardiovascular health may be improved, but ultraviolet light exposure is not provided which is also important for reducing cardiovascular disease risk

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetherapy completenessVSAvoidsystem integration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges heat therapy and ultraviolet light therapy into a single integrated climate control room environment. Both therapeutic modalities are combined and controlled together, providing comprehensive cardiovascular health benefits in one unified system rather than separate treatments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The climate control room is designed as a multi-functional system that simultaneously provides thermal therapy and ultraviolet light therapy. The system performs multiple therapeutic functions within a single device, addressing different aspects of cardiovascular health through combined heat and UV exposure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If the system raises core body temperature by a predetermined threshold, then cardiovascular health is improved, but the exposure time and temperature levels must be precisely controlled to avoid harm

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetherapy effectivenessVSAvoidoverheating risk

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Real-time feedback from temperature sensors and physiological monitors continuously tracks user response to heat therapy. The system adjusts temperature levels dynamically based on feedback signals, preventing overheating while ensuring therapeutic effectiveness is achieved through controlled temperature elevation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements safety mechanisms that cushion against potential harm by setting predetermined temperature thresholds and time limits before therapy begins. Protective measures are built into the control algorithm to prevent excessive temperature elevation or prolonged exposure that could cause harm

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

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 system effectively improves cardiovascular health by providing personalized heat and UV exposure, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease by increasing nitric oxide bioavailability.

Implementation Method 1

raising a core body temperature of the user by a predetermined threshold

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHeat transfer: Conduction (thermal)

Implementation Method 2

providing ultraviolet light to the user based on the user's skin tone

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectUltraviolet light emission: Light

Data Source

PatentUS11904208B2Systems and methods for climate control room

Publication Date: 2024.02.20 WASHINGTON COREY

AI summary

Climate control room includes systems and sensors associated therewith. A further aspect includes programmed software instructions which include obtaining data of a user of the climate control room from the one or more sensors, raising a core body temperature of the user by a predetermined threshold based on the obtained data; and determining whether the core body temperature of the user has been raised by the predetermined threshold for a predetermined time period. The programmed software instructions may also set an ultraviolet light intensity level based on the obtained data.