Vehicle Seat Massage Bubbles With Coordinated Lifting Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle seat massage systems lack the ability to provide a dynamic and coordinated massage experience that effectively targets multiple areas of the body, such as the thighs, ischial tuberosity, and gluteal muscles, with movements that are not only perpendicular to the seat surface but also adaptable to the user's anatomy and movement patterns.
Innovation Solution
A massage system for vehicle seats that incorporates multiple pneumatic massage bubbles arranged symmetrically around a central axis, each capable of performing lifting movements perpendicular to the seat surface, with a control device coordinating their movements in time and space to create various patterns that can be synchronized or sequential, mimicking lymph flow and adjusting air pressure to vary the intensity and direction of the massage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple massage bubbles are arranged in the seat surface to target multiple body areas, then the comprehensiveness of the massage is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The massage system is divided into multiple independent massage bubbles, each capable of independent activation and control. These bubbles are distributed across the seat surface to target different body areas (thighs, ischial tuberosity, gluteal muscles), allowing the system to provide comprehensive full-body massage while maintaining modular simplicity in each individual component
Solution Approach 2:
Each massage bubble is designed as a multi-functional element that can perform various massage movements (lifting, pressing, rolling) and can be activated in different sequences and patterns. The same bubble structure serves multiple purposes: it can massage different body areas at different times, operate in coordinated or independent modes, and adapt to different user preferences through programmable movement patterns
2Productivity
If massage bubbles perform coordinated lifting movements in time and space to create movement patterns, then the massage effectiveness is improved, but the control system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The massage bubbles execute periodic lifting movements that follow predetermined movement patterns. The control system activates bubbles in sequential or simultaneous periodic cycles, creating rhythmic massage actions that mimic natural lymph flow patterns. This periodic activation simplifies control logic while generating complex effective massage patterns through temporal coordination
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamic control where massage bubbles can change their activation state, movement intensity, and coordination pattern during operation. The control device adjusts which bubbles are active, their lifting amplitude, and their temporal coordination based on programmed patterns, enabling adaptable massage sequences without requiring complex real-time control algorithms
3Adaptability or versatility
If lifting movements are oriented perpendicular to the seat surface to follow body contours, then the adaptability to user anatomy is improved, but the mechanical design complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each massage bubble is designed with localized lifting capability that acts perpendicular to the seat surface at its specific location. This local perpendicular action naturally follows the body contours where the user makes contact, as each bubble responds to the local anatomy beneath it. The uniform perpendicular design simplifies mechanical implementation while achieving anatomical adaptation through the distributed arrangement of bubbles across the seat surface
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system provides a comprehensive and customizable massage experience that dynamically adapts to the user's body, effectively targeting multiple areas with coordinated and varied movements, enhancing comfort and relaxation by simulating natural muscle movements and following body contours.
Implementation Method 1
Each massage bubble is designed to carry out at least one lifting movement, wherein the at least one lifting movement has a component that extends perpendicular to the seat surface... As a rule, at least one massage bubble is designed as a pneumatic massage bubble
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AI summary
A massage system for a seat of a vehicle, which has a seat surface. Multiple massage bubbles are arranged in the seat surface of the seat, and each massage bubble is designed to carry out at least one lifting movement having a component extending perpendicular to the seat surface, to touch a body of a person seat-ed on the seat surface in an area, and to carry out a massage for this area. At least two massage bubbles are designed to carry out their respective lifting movements in a time-coordinated manner and in accordance with at least one intended movement pattern.