Patent Application
20220007862
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The disclosure relates to pillowcase devices and more particularly pertains to a new pillowcase device for cooling a user when the user is lying on a pillow.
The prior art relates to pillowcase devices including a variety pillowcase devices that have a thermoelectric cooler being integrated therein for cooling a user.
Additionally, the prior art discloses a variety of pillowcase devices that have pockets integrated therein for receiving ice packs or heat packs to cool or heat a user. The prior art discloses a mattress that has a plurality of air apertures integrated therein thereby facilitating a remote air conditioning unit to blow conditioned air through the air aperture for cooling a user. The prior art discloses pillow case that has an electric heat source being removably positionable therein for heating a pillow in the pillow case. The prior art discloses a pillow that has air passages therein for absorbing heat from a user to help the user stay cool while sleeping. The prior art also discloses a wedge pillow and a blower unit that is removably insertable into the wedge pillow for cooling a user.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pillowcase for insertably receiving a pillow for the purposes of sleeping. A plurality of tubes is integrated into the pillow case and each of the tubes is in thermal communication with the pillow case. A cooling unit is provided and the cooling unit is in thermal communication with the plurality of tubes. Moreover, the cooling unit cools each of the tubes when the cooling unit is turned thereby facilitating the plurality of tubes to cool the pillowcase. In this way the cooling unit can cool the user when the user lies on the pillowcase. Additionally, the cooling unit is remotely positioned with respect to the pillowcase.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A plurality of tubes 26 is each integrated into the pillowcase 12 and each of the tubes 26 is in thermal communication with the pillowcase 12. Each of the tube is positioned in the tube space 24 between the inside layer 22 and the middle layer 20 of the pillowcase 12. Additionally, the tubes 26 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed over an entire length and an entire width of the pillowcase 12. As is most clearly shown in
A cooling unit 34 is provided and the cooling unit 34 is in thermal communication with the plurality of tubes 26. The cooling unit 34 cools each of the tubes 26 when the cooling unit 34 is turned on thereby facilitating the plurality of tubes 26 to cool the pillowcase 12. In this way the cooling unit 34 can cool the user when the user lies on the pillowcase 12. Additionally, the cooling unit 34 is remotely positioned with respect to the pillowcase 12.
The cooling unit 34 comprises a housing 36 has an outer wall 38 and the outer wall 38 has a vent 39 extending into an interior of the housing 36. A control circuit 40 is positioned in the housing 36. The cooling unit 34 includes a conduit 42 that has a send portion 44 and a return portion 46, and the send portion 44 is fluidly discrete from the return portion 46. The conduit 42 is fluidly coupled to the port 32 having the send portion 44 being in fluid communication with the common inlet 30 of the plurality of tubes 26. Additionally, the return portion 46 is in fluid communication with the common outlet 28 of the plurality of tubes 26. The conduit 42 may comprise a tube with a pair of chambers, a twin hose or any other similar type of conduit that can send and receive a fluid. The port 32 may comprise a releasable fluid fitting thereby facilitating the conduit 42 to be disconnected from the pillowcase 12 for laundering the pillowcase 12.
The cooling unit 34 includes a pump 48 that is positioned within the housing 36. The pump 48 has an intake 50 and an exhaust 52, and the pump 48 urges a fluid outwardly through the exhaust 52 when the pump 48 is turned on. Moreover, the exhaust 52 is fluidly coupled to the send portion 44 of the conduit 42 such that the pump 48 urges the fluid into the plurality of tubes 26 when the pump 48 is turned on. The exhaust 52 is fluidly coupled to the return portion 46 of conduit 42 for retuning the fluid to the pump 48. The pump 48 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40 and the pump 48 may comprise an electric fluid pump or the like. Additionally, the fluid may be water or other non-toxic fluid.
The cooling unit 34 includes a blower 54 that is positioned in the housing 36 and the blower 54 is in fluid communication with the pump 48. The blower 54 blows air across the pump 48 when the blower 54 is turned on to exchange heat from the fluid with ambient air. In this way the blower 54 cools the fluid when the fluid returns to the pump 48. The blower 54 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40 and the blower 54 may comprise an electric fan or other similar type of blower that can move a volume of air sufficient to exchange heat with the fluid in the pump 48.
The cooling unit 34 includes a low button 56 is movably coupled to the housing 36. The low button 56 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40, and each of the pump 48 and the blower 54 is turned on to a minimum intensity when the low button 56 is depressed. A medium button 58 is movably coupled to the housing 36 and the medium button 58 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40. Each of the pump 48 and the blower 54 is turned on to a medium intensity when the medium button 58 is depressed. A high button 60 is movably coupled to the housing 36 and the high button 60 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40. Each of the pump 48 and the blower 54 is turned on to a high intensity when the high button 60 is depressed.
The cooling unit 34 includes plurality of light emitters 62 that is each coupled to the housing 36 to emit light outwardly therefrom. Each of the light emitters 62 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40 and respective ones of the light emitters 62 is turned on when either the low button 56, the medium button 58 or the high button 60 is depressed. Each of the light emitters 62 may comprise an LED or other similar type of light emitter and each of the light emitters 62 may emit light of a unique color with respect to each other. A power cord 64 is coupled to and extends away from the housing 36, and the power cord 64 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 40. The power cord 64 has a distal end 66 and a male plug 68 is electrically coupled thereto for plugging into a power source 70 comprising a female electrical outlet.
In use, the pillow 16 is inserted into the pillowcase 12 and the cooling unit 34 is turned on by depressing either the low button 56, the medium button 58 or the high button 60. Thus, the fluid is pumped though the tubes 26 to cool the pillowcase 12 and subsequently enhance comfort for the user when the user is lying on the pillow.
Moreover, the middle layer 20 of the pillowcase 12 facilitates the tubes 26 to be cushioned while the user is lying on the pillowcase 12. The conduit 42 is uncoupled from the port 32 to facilitate the pillowcase 12 to be laundered or serviced.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
