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US 2024/0026201 A1Published application
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 (10) 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 (32) to a base layer (20) to provide an extended cooling effect. The surface coating may be mixed and applied or may be applied as separated layers.
Claims16
A method of producing a support cushion, comprising the steps of:
- providing a base layer having a lower surface and an upper surface;
- providing a phase change material slurry and a polyurethane gel;
- mixing the phase change material slurry and the gel to form a combined system;
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- applying the combined system to the upper surface of the base layer to form a surface coating, the surface coating being configured to allow an amount of air to flow through the base layer and the surface coating and further configured to provide a cooling effect.
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