Sliding Mattress Retention Bracket for Adjustable Base Fit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing body supports, such as mattresses, often fail to conform to adjustable bases due to material stiffness and construction, resulting in undesirable gaps and overhangs, which affect comfort and stability.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable bracket assembly with movable and spring-loaded components that can self-adjust to the body support base, allowing for relative movement and improved fit, reducing gaps and overhangs by using slideable brackets and biasing members like coil springs to maintain contact and alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single fixed bracket is used to prevent the body support from sliding off the adjustable base, then the body support is retained on the base, but undesirable spaces and overhangs exist between the body support and base in various positions
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is made movable along the longitudinal axis of the adjustable base through a slot-mounted design, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position as the base changes shape during adjustment, thereby maintaining contact with the body support and eliminating gaps while preserving retention functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket's position parameter is made variable rather than fixed, enabling it to change location along the base to accommodate different base configurations and maintain optimal contact with the body support throughout the adjustment range
2Strength
If the body support uses stiff materials and construction for durability, then strength and longevity are improved, but the body support cannot conform to the shape of the adjustable base in all positions
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is divided into movable and fixed components, with the movable portion allowing independent adjustment along the slot to accommodate base shape changes without requiring the entire body support to deform
Solution Approach 2:
The movable bracket acts as an intermediary element between the rigid body support and the adjustable base, absorbing the adaptation requirements through its own movement rather than requiring deformation of either the support or base
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 adjustable bracket assembly effectively reduces gaps between the body support and base, enhancing comfort and stability by allowing the body support to conform to the base's shape, minimizing unwanted space and overhangs, thereby improving the overall design of adjustable body supports.
Implementation Method 1
The bracket assembly can include a spring enabling the position of the bracket to be automatically adjusted (and in some cases, automatically self-adjusted) based upon the relative position of the body support base with respect to the body support
Data Source
AI summary
A body support assembly includes a body support having a head portion, a middle portion, and a foot portion. The body support assembly also includes a foundation underlying and supporting the body support proximate an edge of the body support at one of the head and foot portions, and a bracket coupled to the foundation and slideable between first and second positions at different distances with respect to the edge of the body support.