Vibrating Water Mattress Bed with Customizable Frequency Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vibrating beds lack personalization in vibration settings, failing to provide customized vibrational patterns tailored to individual needs for therapeutic benefits.
Innovation Solution
A bed system comprising a water mattress, a wooden frame, a transducer, an amplifier, and a computer with software to produce unique vibrational patterns and sounds, allowing for customizable frequency adjustments to induce relaxation and therapeutic effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If generic vibration settings are used in vibrating beds, then the device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the adaptability to individual user requirements deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustability in vibration beds through electronic control systems that allow users to modify vibration frequency, amplitude, and patterns in real-time. The system transitions from fixed generic settings to dynamically可调 parameters, enabling adaptation to individual user needs while maintaining a manageable device complexity through modular control architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention utilizes parameter changes by allowing users to adjust key vibration parameters such as frequency, amplitude, and duration according to their specific therapeutic or comfort requirements. This enables the same basic device structure to serve multiple user needs through software-controlled parameter modification rather than requiring multiple hardware configurations.
2Measurement precision
If generic vibration settings are provided, then the ease of operation is improved and device complexity is reduced, but the measurement precision of individual vibrational needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where user responses to vibration stimuli are monitored and used to automatically adjust vibration parameters. This closed-loop system improves measurement precision of individual needs by continuously adapting to user feedback, while the automated nature of the feedback processing keeps device complexity manageable through algorithmic control rather than manual intervention.
3Adaptability or versatility
If customizable vibrational patterns are implemented, then the adaptability to individual needs is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to increased complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by providing pre-configured vibration programs and settings that are prepared in advance for common therapeutic scenarios and user preferences. Users can select from these pre-programmed options for immediate use, while still retaining the capability to customize parameters when needed. This approach maintains ease of operation through simple selection while preserving adaptability through available customization features.
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 system enables personalized vibrational patterns that resonate with an individual's unique harmonic mode, promoting deep relaxation, activating the immune system, and facilitating self-healing by harmonizing cellular vibrations.
Implementation Method 1
a transducer for producing different vibrational patterns in the mattress
Implementation Method 2
The inventor has found that a hard wood called Tasmanian Oak is particularly effective at transmitting vibrations
Implementation Method 3
the water mattress is filled to about 80% capacity in order to provide a comfortable level of support to the user and to permit the best propagation of vibrations to the body of the user
Implementation Method 4
an amplifier for controlling the transducer; Preferably, the amplifier is a vibrotactile amplifier
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are embodiments of a vibrating bed which allows a particular person to induce a customized vibrational pattern that they find particularly therapeutic. In certain embodiments, the bed has a water mattress, a carriage for the mattress, a hardwood frame to support the carriage, a transducer for producing different vibrational patterns in the mattress, a vibrotactile amplifier for controlling the transducer, a computer for controlling the amplifier and software on the computer for producing sounds of particular frequencies to induce the vibrational patterns in the water mattress.