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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern lifestyles, including prolonged sitting and stress, lead to spinal and digestive issues such as lower back pain, poor breathing, and intestinal problems, which existing solutions like mattresses and mechanical devices often fail to address effectively, especially when lying on one's back, which can impede spinal correction and global system improvement.

Innovation Solution

A mattress designed for prone lying with specific sections for head, shoulder, and pelvis support, featuring dedicated supporting members made of visco-elastic memory foam and inflatable plastic materials, promoting passive involuntary digestive tract movement and shoulder opening, allowing for gentle pressure distribution and relaxation of the spinal column.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If existing mattresses and mechanical devices are used to address spinal and digestive issues, then some level of support is provided, but they fail to effectively promote passive involuntary digestive tract movement and shoulder opening, and lying on one's back impedes spinal correction and global system improvement

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveeffectiveness in addressing spinal and digestive issuesVSAvoidability to promote passive involuntary digestive tract movement and shoulder opening

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The mattress is designed for prone lying instead of the conventional supine position. This inversion allows the digestive tract to move passively without being compressed against the spine, enables shoulder opening through dedicated supporting members, and permits spinal correction by allowing the spine to return to its natural curvature without artificial support against the back

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The mattress is divided into distinct sections: a head support section with an open face section, an upper main section with dedicated supporting members for shoulders and abdomen, and a lower support section for the pelvis. Each section is configured to address specific anatomical needs and promote particular physiological functions independently

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If prolonged sitting and modern lifestyle stress are endured, then daily activities are maintained, but spinal and digestive health deteriorates leading to lower back pain, poor breathing, and intestinal problems

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemaintenance of daily activitiesVSAvoidspinal and digestive health deterioration

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The mattress enables preliminary therapeutic action during daily sleeping routines. By lying prone on the mattress, users passively receive digestive tract movement stimulation and spinal realignment before engaging in daily activities, preventing health deterioration rather than treating it after symptoms appear

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The mattress design allows the body's own physiological processes to work therapeutically. Deep breathing naturally moves the digestive tract, and the mattress configuration allows the spine to self-correct to its natural curvature, eliminating the need for active intervention or specialized equipment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Stress or pressure

If lying on one's back is used for spinal support, then the back is supported, but spinal correction is impeded and global system improvement is prevented

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespinal supportVSAvoidspinal correction capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stress or pressureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of supporting the spine from behind (supine position), the mattress supports the body in a prone position, allowing the spine to naturally return to its physiological curvature. This inversion enables the spine to self-correct without being constrained by artificial support against the back

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The mattress removes the need for active spinal support mechanisms. By eliminating the requirement for the user to lie on their back with pillows or special supports, the design extracts the problematic element that prevents spinal correction and allows natural spinal alignment to occur

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

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 mattress facilitates deep relaxation, reduces spinal stress, promotes intestinal movement, and improves breathing by enabling gentle shoulder expansion and pelvic flexibility, leading to long-term benefits in spinal and digestive health, including reduced pain and improved neural control of abdominal organs.

Implementation Method 1

featuring dedicated supporting members made of visco-elastic memory foam and inflatable plastic materials, promoting passive involuntary digestive tract movement

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectVisco-elasticity: Viscoelasticity

Data Source

PatentUS9545156B2Enhanced mattress

Publication Date: 2017.01.17 DAILY BACK UP

AI summary

An enhanced mattress for enabling passive involuntary digestive tract movement, shoulder opening and pelvis bones movement. The apparatus is configured solely for prone lying of a human body thereupon and includes a head support section which comprises an open face section, an upper main section connected to the head support section, the upper main section comprises a plurality of dedicated supporting members. A lower support section connected to the upper main section.