Wireless Acoustic Pillow With Foam Inserts for Better Sound
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional speaker pillows suffer from poor acoustical quality, reliability issues due to electrical component stretching or breaking, and subpar speaker quality, necessitating improved designs for enhanced acoustics, reliability, and user experience.
Innovation Solution
An acoustic pillow design featuring a wireless communication system with a controller housing, power source, and speaker housings integrated into a pillow structure using memory foam and reticulated foam inserts, optimized for improved sound quality and reliability, with adjustable speaker positioning and a flexible cover for enhanced usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional speakers are integrated into pillows, then speaker functionality is achieved, but acoustical quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces acoustic inserts made of specific foam materials (open cell foam, memory foam, or latex foam) positioned between the speakers and the pillow cover. These inserts have different local properties (porosity, density, acoustic absorption characteristics) optimized for acoustic performance, while the rest of the pillow maintains its structural and comfort functions. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction by creating acoustic optimization zones without compromising overall pillow functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite material structures combining speakers, acoustic inserts made of various foam materials, and pillow covering. The acoustic inserts use composite foam materials with specific porosity and acoustic absorption properties that are integrated with the speaker housings and pillow structure. This composite approach enables both good acoustical quality and reliable speaker functionality simultaneously.
2Ease of operation
If electrical components and wiring are integrated into the pillow, then speaker functionality is achieved, but reliability deteriorates due to stretching or breaking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces wired electrical connections with wireless communication technology. The pillow incorporates wireless speakers that communicate wirelessly with external devices, eliminating the need for physical wiring that could stretch or break. This substitution maintains speaker functionality while dramatically improving reliability by removing the vulnerable mechanical wiring system.
3Ease of operation
If speakers are integrated into the pillow structure, then speaker functionality is achieved, but acoustical quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces acoustic inserts as intermediary elements between the speakers and the pillow cover. These inserts act as mediators that manage acoustic wave propagation, reduce unwanted reflections, and enhance sound quality. The inserts are made of acoustic-absorbing materials that improve acoustical quality without interfering with the integrated speaker functionality, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of integration and acoustic performance.
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AI summary
An acoustic pillow includes a pillow body top having an outer surface and an inner surface with assembly projections extending from the inner surface, and a pillow body base having an outer surface and an inner surface with assembly depressions molded into the inner surface of the pillow body base. The pillow body top is assembled with the pillow body base with the inner surface of the pillow body top opposing the inner surface of the pillow body base and the assembly projections inserted into the assembly depressions. The acoustic pillow includes a wireless communication system disposed between the pillow body base and the pillow body top having a controller housing, a power source, at least one speaker housing, and a controller interface housing for operating the acoustic pillow.