Patent Application
20210401210
Many home owners, mobile home owners, RV owners, popup camper owners, and others have cold floors such as in bathrooms, kitchens, garages or patios. To have a heated mat or runner to warm your path to your destination like a sink, shower or toilet would be great any time of year and night. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
A mat is a piece of fabric material place on the floor or another flat surface. Mats have a variety of uses including: to clean items passed over it (a doormat), to protect persons or items over it from a hard or rough surface underneath, to protect what is underneath the mat (a place mat on a table, or matting in archival records), and to provide a regular or flat cushioned surface. A mat may be used in the home to soak up small amounts of water such as a bath mat, to warm a surface, or to provide comfort or ergonomic support for sustained positions such as standing at a desk, kitchen, or work bench.
There exists a need for a heated Bluetooth enabled floor runner that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The present invention is a plush heat up runner with features including: Bluetooth smart app, voice control, lights, timer auto turn off, and battery powered. Heating coils are inside the runner to warm the surface of the runner during use and to facilitate safety for possible spills or pet damage. The heat up runner suctions to the floor to resist shifting while a person walks on it. A user may control settings on the runner by using the accompanying app or the voice control feature.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
Throughout the present disclosure the term runner is used to refer to a piece of fabric material that is placed on the floor, like a rug or mat, that is long and narrow. Runners are commonly used on staircases, narrow hallways, bedrooms, the entrance of a home, the kitchen, and in front of the sink.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the mat has several buttons on the side edge, perpendicular to the floor. The invention contains a voice control feature H, a Bluetooth connect button I where the mat may be controlled by an app on the user's smart phone, a temperature control feature J where an up and a down button may vary the temperature that the mat heats to, and a power button K to turn the heat function on the mat on and off. The runner also has lights along the vertical edges to light up the path.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
While the forgoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present disclosure in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the disclosure be limited, except as by the specification and claims set forth herein.
