Inflatable air mattress autofill and off bed pressure adjustment
AssigneesSleep Number Corporation, Select Comfort Retail Corporation
InventorsRob Nunn, Wade Daniel Palashewski, Steven Jay Young, Carl Hewitt
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Abstract
A method and system may include transmitting a signal to a pump of an air mattress to set the pressure of the air mattress to an initial pressure; receiving, at a central controller, a user preference condition for an automatic adjustment of the pressure in the air mattress; receiving, at the central controller, an indication that the air mattress is empty; and based on determining that the user preference condition has been met and receiving the indication: detecting a change in the pressure of the air mattress beyond a threshold value; and based on the detection, adjusting the pressure of the air mattress to the initial pressure.
Claims19
A system comprising:
- a bed comprising:
- an air mattress having at least one inflatable bladder;
- a pressure sensor configured to sense pressure in the air mattress;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- adjust the pressure of the air mattress;
- and
- receive sensed pressures from the pressure sensor;
- a server that is physically separated from the bed and that is in data communication with the controller, the server configured to:
- store user preferences related to an auto-adjust feature of the bed;
- determine that the bed does not have a user laying on the bed;
- wherein the controller is further configured to:
- responsive to the determination that the bed does not have a user laying on the bed and responsive to a determination that a user preference has been met:
- adjusting the pressure of the air mattress to an unoccupied pressure value;
- and
- maintain the air mattress at the unoccupied pressure value.
A system comprising:
- a bed comprising:
- an air mattress having at least one inflatable bladder;
- a pressure sensor configured to sense pressure in the air mattress;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- adjust the pressure of the air mattress;
- and
- receive sensed pressures from the pressure sensor;
- a server that is physically separated from the bed and that is in data communication with the controller, the server configured to:
- determine that the bed does not have a user laying on the bed;
- wherein the controller is further configured to:
- responsive to a determination that the bed does not have a user laying on the bed and responsive to a determination that a user preference related to an auto-fill feature has been met:
- adjusting the pressure of the air mattress to an empty bed pressure;
- and
- maintaining the air mattress at the empty bed pressure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.