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US 11,807,799 B2Granted
Cooling support cushion and related methods
AssigneeTempur World, LLC
InventorsBeat Niederoest, Michael Mozeika, Tony Turoso, Stephen Wallace
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Abstract
A cooling support cushion and method of forming same is provided. In particular, the present cooling support cushions and methods of producing the same make use of a plurality of surface coatings to a base layer to provide an extended cooling effect. The surface coating may be mixed and applied or may be applied as separated layers.
Claims12
A support cushion, comprising:
- a base layer having a lower surface and an upper surface;
- and
- a surface coating positioned atop the upper surface of the base layer, the surface coating including a phase change material slurry and a polyurethane gel, the phase change material slurry including a phase change material and one or more binders selected from an acrylic latex binder, a carboxylated styrene-butadiene binder, and a vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer binder;
- wherein the surface coating allows an amount of air to flow through the base layer and the surface coating;
- and
- wherein the surface coating provides a cooling effect.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.