Split Quilt Fastening Structure for Independent Thermal Comfort
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional quilts provide uniform thermal resistance across the bed, which can lead to discomfort for individuals with different body temperatures, as they cannot be easily customized to suit individual preferences for warmth, limiting market variations and user satisfaction.
Innovation Solution
Designing quilts in two separate parts with differing thermal resistivity, each equipped with hook or loop fasteners, allowing for independent selection and combination to achieve personalized warmth levels, using materials like wool, feather, or synthetic fibers, and optionally zips or buttons for attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a quilt is made as a single piece with uniform thermal resistance, then the manufacturing process is simple and the cover is even, but it cannot accommodate individuals with different body temperatures, reducing user comfort and satisfaction
Solution Approach 1:
The quilt is divided into two separate parts (first quilt part and second quilt part), each with different thermal resistivity values. This segmentation allows each part to be optimized for different thermal requirements, enabling users with different body temperatures to select the appropriate part for their side of the bed, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and structural complexity.
2Ease of operation
If conventional joining mechanisms like zips or buttons are used to connect quilt parts, then the parts can be joined together, but the joining mechanism is not reversible and does not provide both negative and positive sections on each part, limiting flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The channel wall is given a special local quality by providing both negative sections (recesses) and positive sections (protrusions) on each quilt part. This local differentiation enables complementary fitting between parts, allowing easy joining and separating operations while maintaining a relatively simple overall fastening system structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If quilts are manufactured in different portions to allow individual selection, then thermal resistance customization is possible, but conventional methods limit the number of variations that can be applied, requiring up to 250 combinations or more to suit individual preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The channel wall design with standardized negative and positive sections provides universal compatibility across different quilt parts. Each part can be independently manufactured with standard thermal resistance values, and the universal channel wall interface allows any part to be joined with any other part, dramatically reducing the number of manufacturing combinations needed while maintaining high adaptability for user preferences.
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
Enables each bed partner to choose their desired level of warmth, increasing comfort and market versatility by allowing multiple thermal resistance combinations, ensuring ease of manufacture and functionality.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of hook or loop fasteners disposed on the surface, whereby, the hook or loop fasteners disposed on the flat surface of the channel wall of the first quilt part are releasably attachable to the hook or loop fasteners disposed on the flat surface of the channel wall of the second quilt part for releasably attaching the two quilt parts together
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AI summary
The disclosed “Quilt” is in two “Parts”, each Part having a level of insulation which is independent of the other Part. For example, one “Part” can be extremely warm, and the other “Part” can be extremely cool. Both “Parts” can then be joined together to form a “Quilt”. When juxtaposed the two separate “Parts” of the “Quilt”, are a reverse image of each other, sharing both Negative and Positive componentry of a joiner. In this instance a Hook and Loop fastener is sewn into the joining “Channel Wall” of each “Part”. The Hook Fastener tape is sewn along one half of the edge of the joining “Channel Wall” to the middle of the “Channel Wall”, and the other half of the joining “Channel Wall” is sewn with a Loop Fastener tape. This arrangement permits both “Parts” can be purchased separately, and joined together allowing the individual to choose their own level of thermal resistance independently, while still being joined up with another individual's chosen thermal resistance.