1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve, which can memorize a spine curve of a user lying on the bed; and when the user lies on the bed again, the healthy bed can actively support the spine curve through air cushions to achieve the best sleep quality.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In modern developed society, workers could suffer from pressures and have insomnia problems, and bad sleep quality could lead to anxiety, depression, headache, muscle soreness, burnout, palpitations and hair loss. Therefore, manufacturers have developed various mattresses such as a healthy mattress, a memory foam mattress, and an energy mattress, which claim to improve sleep qualities. However, because the traditional mattresses use springs to bear the weight of the users, they cannot actively support the users to relieve their stresses, and thus, the insomnia problems still persist.
Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, the applicant of this invention has already filed PCT applications PCT/CN2007/0002585 (citation 1), PCT/CN2007/002602 (citation 2), and PCT/CN2007/002956 (citation 3), which are described below:
Citation 1 discloses a healthy bed which can adjust the human spine curve. The healthy bed comprises a plurality of lifting devices, each lifting device is driven by a motor to lift and lower the independent bed tubes of the mattress so as to let the mattress form a profile corresponding to a human spine curve to actively support the user. However, the motor driven means needs to use a lot of motors, which makes the costs high, thereby making it difficult for massive applications.
Citation 2 discloses another healthy bed which can adjust the human spine curve. The healthy bed comprises a plurality of lifting devices, which uses air bags or water bags to lift and lower the independent tubes of the mattress so as to let the mattress form a profile corresponding to the human spine curve to actively support the user. However, this application needs to use a lot of air bags or water bags, which can be complicated to implement, and which makes the costs high, thereby making it difficult for massive applications.
Citation 3 discloses another healthy bed which can adjust the human spine curve. The healthy bed comprises a plurality of lifting devices, each lifting device comprises a base with a slot being disposed at a front end of the base. Both sides of the slot are fixed with an elastic body. The two elastic bodies support the two ends of the mobilizing rod to let the mobilizing rod move up and down through the elastic forces of the elastic bodies. A height sensor is disposed in the side wall of the slot to detect the moving distance of the mobilizing rod. More than one air cushions is disposed on the base. Each air cushion comprises a sensing bar extending from its top to reach the mobilizing rod. The air cushion is connected with an air pump. The air pump and the height sensor are coupled with a control device. When the air cushion is pressed by a user, the sensing bar is lowered, and the mobilizing rod is pushed downward with a distance, then the height sensor detects the lowest position of the mobilizing rod and transmits the detection result to the control device, then the control device will determine if the person lying down is the user, if so, then the air pump will inflate the air cushion according to the detection result received by the control device to actively support the spine curve of the user to improve sleep quality. Citation 3 has all the components being built in the mattress, however, the bed is too bulky and too heavy to handle.
Therefore, the traditional healthy beds present several shortcomings to be overcome.
In view of the deficiencies of the traditional healthy beds, after years of constant research, the inventor has consequently invented and proposed a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve, which can memorize the spine curve of the user. When the user lies on the mattress, the mattress can actively form a profile corresponding to the spine curve of the user by using the inflation/deflation of the air cushion layer to actively support the spine curve of the user to improve sleep quality.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve. The upper mattress is disposed with an air cushion layer therein and the air cushion layer is near the bottom surface. The air cushion layer comprises a plurality of supporting air bags. The healthy bed can actively support the spine curve when the user is lying on the healthy bed with the automatic inflation/deflation of the supporting air bags.
In order to achieve the above objects, the present invention discloses a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve, mainly comprising an upper mattress and a lower base. The upper mattress having a pad, and the pad has an air cushion layer being placed on its top surface. The air cushion layer comprises a plurality of supporting air bags, each supporting air bag connects with an air pipe. A plurality of push rods extend downward from the top surface of the air cushion layer. The air pipes and the push rods protrude out of the bottom of the upper mattress, wherein the lower base is a hollow and has its top surface being disposed with a plurality of slotes. Each slot corresponds to a mobilizing device inside the lower base, and each mobilizing device has a height sensor being disposed under the mobilizing device. The lower base is further disposed with a control device and an inflating device therein. The inflating device and the height sensor are connected with the control device. When the upper mattress is placed on the top surface of the lower base, the push rod enters the slot of the lower base to correspond with the mobilizing device, and the air pipe is connected with the inflating device inside the lower base. The control device is used for memorizing the spine curve of a person lying on the upper mattress. When a user lies on the upper mattress, the push rod is pressed to push the mobilizing device to move downward, and the height sensor detects a moving distance of the mobilizing device and sends the detection results to the control device to determine whether the user is the one whose spine curve is memorized. If so, the control device drives the inflating device to inflate the plurality of supporting air bags to let the surface of the upper mattress meet the profile of the spine curve of the user to achieve the object of actively supporting human spine curve.
These features and advantages of the present invention will be fully understood and appreciated from the following detailed description of the accompanying Drawings.
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A plurality of height sensors 3, the plurality of height sensors 3 is disposed inside the lower base 1 and placed right under the mobilizing rod 23. When the mobilizing rod 23 is moving downward, it will be in contact with the height sensor 3 to let the height sensor 3 detect a position when the mobilizing rod 23 of the mobilizing device 2 reaches the lowest point.
An upper mattress 6, the upper mattress 6 is disposed with a plurality of hole 64, and a pad 61 placed therein. The pad 61 is disposed with a plurality of through holes 611. Each through hole 611 corresponds to a hole 64 on the bottom of the upper mattress 6. The pad 61 has an air cushion layer 62 being placed on its top surface. The air cushion layer 62 comprises a top layer 621 and a plurality of supporting air bags 622. The plurality of supporting air bags 622 is placed under the top layer 621 equidistantly. Each supporting air bag is implemented with an air hole for inflation/deflation (not shown in figure), and the top layer 621 comprises a plurality of push rods 63 thereon. The push rods 63 go through the through holes 611 of the pad 61 and the holes 64 of the upper mattress 6, and the push rods 63 protrudes out of the holes 64 of the upper mattress 6. The push rods 63 are disposed at both sides of the supporting air bags 622, wherein the upper mattress is disposed on the top surface of the lower base 1 to let the push rod 63 in the upper mattress enter the slot of the lower base and to stick to or to come close to a corresponding mobilizing rod 23 of the mobilizing device 2. The pad 61 can be made of foam materials or cushioning materials.
An inflating device 4, wherein the inflating device 4 is fixed in the lower base 1. The inflating device 4 connects to each supporting air bag 622 through a plurality of pipes 7. The plurality of pipes 7 connect with the supporting air bags 622 and the inflating device 4 through the through holes 611 of the pad 61 of the upper mattress 6 and the pits 12 of the lower base 1.
A plurality of control switches 9, as shown in
A control device 5, wherein the control device 5 is fixed in the lower base 1 and connected with the height sensor 3, the plurality of control switches 9 and the inflating device 4, so the control device 7 can receive a detection signal from the height sensor 3 to activate some or all of the control switches according to the detection signal to inflate or deflate each one of the plurality of supporting air bags 622 through the inflating device respectively.
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Additionally, the control device 5 memorizes the spine curve of the user 8 for various sleeping postures in advance and supports the spine curves of the user 8 when he/she is changing sleeping postures.
When the user 8 once again lies on the upper mattress 6, which memorizes the spine curve, the control device 5 detects the moving distance of the mobilizing rod 23 to determine if the person is the user 8. If so, then the control device 5 activates the control switches 9 to inflate the supporting air bags 622 respectively through the inflating device 4 if necessary. When a supporting air bag 622 is inflated to a predetermined volume, the control device 5 will deactivate the corresponding control switch 9. Since each control switch 9 has different activating and deactivating times, the upper mattress 6 will form a profile corresponding to the spine curve regarding to the neck vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and sacral vertebrae of the user 8 through the supporting air bags 622, and the supporting air bags 622 will fill the space between the neck vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and sacral vertebrae of the user 8, and the bed will actively support the human spine curve. So when the user 8 is lying on the healthy bed, he/she can get the best support and the best sleep quality.
When the user 8 leaves the upper mattress 6, the push rod 63 moves upward, the mobilizing rod 23 returns to its original position due to the elastic force of the elastic body 22, then the height sensor 3 detects the returning movement of the mobilizing rod 23 and sends the detection signal to the control device 5, the control device 5 drives the inflating device 4 to deflate the bloated supporting air bag 622 to let the top surface of the upper mattress 6 become flat again.
The present invention discloses a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve, while compared with other prior art techniques, is advantageous in:
1. The present invention provides a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve, which can memorize the spine curve of the user, when the user lies on the mattress, the mattress can actively form a profile corresponding to the spine curve of the user by using the inflation/deflation of the air cushion layer to actively support the spine curve of the user to improve sleep quality.
2. The present invention provides a healthy bed for actively supporting a human spine curve, the upper mattress is disposed with an air cushion layer therein and the air cushion layer is near the bottom surface, the air cushion layer comprises a plurality of supporting air bags, the healthy bed can actively support the spine curve when the user is lying on the healthy bed with the automatic inflation/deflation of the supporting air bags.
Many changes and modifications in the above described embodiment of the invention can, of course, be carried out without departing from the scope thereof. Accordingly, to promote the progress in science and the useful arts, the invention is disclosed and is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claim.
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