Multi-zone adjustable bed with smart adjustment mechanism
AssigneeDP Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPhilippe Richard Kahn, Arthur Kinsolving, Mark Andrew Christensen
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Abstract
A smart sleep system comprising a mattress including a plurality of pressure zones, each pressure zone separately adjustable for firmness, a sensor to sense a user's position on the mattress, a processing system to determine pressure for each of the plurality of pressure zones based on data from the sensor, and a controller to adjust one or more of the pressure zones based on the determination.
Claims23
A smart sleep system comprising:
- a mattress including a plurality of pressure zones, each pressure zone separately adjustable for firmness, the plurality of pressure zones having a plurality of different sizes, where the plurality of different sizes correspond to different proportions of parts of a body, wherein there are a same number of bladders and pressure zones, such that there is one bladder per pressure zone;
- a processing system to determine pressure, for a single sleeper, for fewer than all of the plurality of pressure zones based on data from a sensor;
- the processing system configured to detect a change;
- a controller to adjust fewer than all of the pressure zones from a baseline configuration based on the determination by adjusting the pressure in one or more of the bladders corresponding to the one or more adjusted pressure zones.
A method to provide a smart sleeping system including a mattress with a plurality of pressure zones separately adjustable for firmness, the method comprising:
- sensing a user's position on the mattress;
- determining a baseline pressure, for a single sleeper, for fewer than all of the plurality of pressure zones based on the sensing, the plurality of pressure zones having a plurality of different sizes, where the plurality of different sizes correspond to different proportions of parts of a body, wherein there are a same number of bladders and pressure zones, such that there is one bladder per pressure zone;
- adjusting fewer than all of the pressure zones from a baseline configuration based on the determination;
- a processing system configured to detect a change;
- detecting a change in a sleeping pattern of the user;
- adjusting the pressure for fewer than all of the plurality of pressure zones based on the change in the sleeping pattern of the user by adjusting the pressure in one or more of the bladders corresponding to the one or more adjusted pressure zones.
A smart sleep system comprising:
- a mattress including a plurality of pressure zones, each pressure zone separately adjustable, and at least two of the plurality of pressure zones being of different sizes to match different proportions of a body, wherein there are a same number of bladders and pressure zones, such that there is one bladder per pressure zone;
- a processing system capable of adjusting each of the pressure zones at a baseline for a user;
- one or more sensors to sense a user's position on the mattress;
- a controller to determine a pressure, for a single sleeper, for and to adjust fewer than all of pressure zones from the baseline based on the user's position on the mattress;
- the processing system configured to detect a change in a sleeping pattern of the user;
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- the controller to adjust the pressure for fewer than all of the plurality of pressure zones based on the change by adjusting the pressure in one or more of the bladders corresponding to the one or more adjusted pressure zones.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.