Vibrating bed
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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-controlled software system to produce unique vibrational patterns and frequencies, enhancing the vibrational resonance and relaxation experience.
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 system dynamically adjusts vibration parameters (frequency, amplitude, pattern) in real-time based on user input and physiological feedback. The computer-controlled amplifier modifies the transducer output to create personalized vibrational patterns that adapt to individual user needs and body responses.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes multiple vibration parameters including frequency, amplitude, and temporal patterns to create unique vibrational profiles for each user. The software enables precise control over these parameters, allowing customization of vibration characteristics to match individual therapeutic requirements.
2Reliability
If personalized vibrational patterns are implemented, then the therapeutic effectiveness is improved, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single transducer and amplifier combination to provide multiple vibration patterns and frequencies, making the core mechanism universal while the software provides customization. This approach achieves personalization without requiring multiple physical vibration mechanisms, simplifying manufacturing.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces complex mechanical vibration generation systems with an electronically controlled transducer and amplifier system. The computer software generates the vibration patterns electronically, eliminating the need for complex mechanical linkages, springs, or motors that would complicate manufacturing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vibration frequencies and patterns are produced, then the ability to treat specific conditions is improved, but the loss of information about individual user responses increases without feedback mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor user physiological responses during vibration therapy. This feedback information is used by the computer to adjust vibration parameters in real-time, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to individual user responses and maintains optimal therapeutic effect.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Induces personalized relaxation states by aligning vibrational frequencies with individual harmonic modes, activating the immune system and facilitating self-healing through deep relaxation.
Implementation Method 1
a transducer for producing different vibrational patterns in the mattress
Implementation Method 2
the transducer is controlled by an amplifier through which sounds are produced to vibrate the water mattress in one or more specific harmonic modes
Implementation Method 3
The frame is preferably made of hard wood (such as Tasmanian Oak) which is particularly effective at transmitting vibrations
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.