Quilt structure with non-powered energy layer comprising far-infrared fibres
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bedding products claiming to emit far-infrared rays for promoting blood circulation and metabolism lack scientific evidence and often contain ineffective or harmful materials, leading to discomfort and unproven benefits.
Innovation Solution
A quilt structure with a non-powered energy layer incorporating far-infrared fibers woven into its layers, which radiate far-infrared energy without external power, ensuring effective blood circulation and metabolism promotion while preventing material escape and ensuring user safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If arbitrary special fibers or powders are filled into bedding products to claim far-infrared radiation, then the product complexity is reduced and manufacturing is simplified, but the reliability of far-infrared efficacy is compromised and harmful radiation may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent specifies precise wavelength parameters for far-infrared radiation (3-14 micrometers) and defines the chemical composition parameters of the polymer matrix and far-infrared filler. By controlling these parameters, the invention ensures reliable far-infrared efficacy while maintaining manufacturability through clear specification standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses composite materials consisting of a polymer matrix combined with specific far-infrared filler particles. This composite structure ensures both the reliability of far-infrared radiation (through proven material composition) and ease of manufacture (through established composite material processing techniques).
2Use of energy by moving object
If excessive radioactive energy is absorbed by the body, then the energy radiation function is enhanced, but harmful effects occur such as discomfort, allergies, itchiness or swelling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent controls the far-infrared radiation parameters by specifying the wavelength range (3-14 micrometers) and limiting the filler content to 1-50 parts by weight per 100 parts of polymer matrix. This parameter control ensures beneficial energy radiation while preventing harmful excessive absorption.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates different functional layers with specific properties: the far-infrared functional layer provides controlled energy radiation, while the barrier layer provides selective blocking. This local quality differentiation ensures that energy radiation is beneficial in the functional layer while harmful excess is blocked by the barrier layer.
3Reliability
If a non-powered energy layer with far-infrared fibers is created, then the far-infrared radiation efficacy is improved, but the device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the quilt into distinct functional layers: a far-infrared functional layer containing polymer matrix with far-infrared filler particles, and a separate barrier layer. This segmentation allows each layer to perform its specific function reliably while simplifying the manufacturing process through modular layer-by-layer construction.
Solution Approach 2:
The barrier layer acts as an intermediary between the far-infrared functional layer and the user's body. It mediates the far-infrared energy transmission, allowing beneficial wavelengths to pass through while blocking harmful excessive radiation, thus simplifying the control of energy interaction.
4Ease of manufacture
If materials are placed inside the insulating layer without barrier layers, then the manufacturing process is simplified, but materials may escape or be exposed to the outside causing safety issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the containment function into a separate barrier layer that is disposed between the insulating layer and the outer shell. This separation allows the insulating layer to focus on thermal insulation while the barrier layer specifically handles material containment, simplifying the overall manufacturing through specialized functional layers.
Solution Approach 2:
The barrier layer is implemented as a flexible thin film or membrane that can be easily integrated into the quilt structure. This thin film provides reliable material containment while maintaining flexibility for manufacturing and comfort, solving the contradiction between containment reliability and manufacturing simplicity.
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 quilt structure effectively improves blood circulation and metabolism by radiating far-infrared energy within a safe range, maintaining normal body temperature and blood pressure, and reducing skin roughness over time.
Implementation Method 1
the non-powered energy layer would emit a far-infrared ray, such that the far-infrared ray would excite the user's skin, so as to make the microvascular dilation and promote the blood circulation and metabolism of user body
Implementation Method 2
the far-infrared fibers can be used together with other optional fibers to provide a product containing far-infrared fibers. The product does not emit harmful radiation and could raise a user's body temperature safely
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AI summary
A quilt structure with non-powered energy layer having an insulating layer, a first barrier layer, a second barrier layer, a first fabric layer and a second fabric layer is provided. The first barrier layer and the second barrier layer are disposed on two opposite sides of the insulating layer. The first fabric layer is disposed on one of the first barrier layer or the second barrier layer opposite the insulating layer, and the second fabric layer is disposed on another of the first barrier layer or the second barrier layer opposite the insulating layer. At least one of the insulating layer, the first fabric layer and the second fabric layer has bio-energetic fibers or far-infrared fibers.