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US 9,572,434 B2Granted
Foam panel receiving foam springs
AssigneeHsiu Chen Liao
InventorMartin B Rawls-Meehan
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Abstract
An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined by the software application; and configuring the selected foam springs within the support facility to match the user's firmness requirements.
Claims17
A human support facility, comprising:
- a containment facility;
- a plurality of foam springs having an elongated shape removably and replaceably mounted substantially vertically in the containment facility, each one of the plurality of foam springs each having a top and a bottom end;
- and
- a foam panel in the containment facility, the foam panel defining a top face and including:
- a plurality of individual openings that extend at least partially through the top face of the foam panel, each one of the plurality of openings adapted to receive one bottom end of the plurality of foam springs, wherein
- the foam spring bottom ends are removably and replaceably disposed within the plurality of individual openings of the foam panel thereby keeping the foam springs in desired positions and alignments relative to the containment facility,
- each disposed foam spring of the plurality of foam springs includes a region that extends upwardly above the top face of the foam panel, and each disposed foam spring of the plurality of foam springs is not physically surrounded by the foam panel in the region that extends upwardly above the top face of the foam panel;
- wherein the plurality of foam springs includes at least one foam spring characterized by a first firmness and at least one foam spring characterized by a second firmness, wherein the first firmness is different from the second firmness;
- wherein the at least one foam spring characterized by the first firmness includes a first firmness pattern embodied in at least a surface of the at least one foam spring having the first firmness, and wherein the at least one foam spring characterized by the second firmness includes a second firmness pattern embodied in at least a surface of the at least one foam spring having the second firmness, the first firmness pattern correlating to the first firmness and the second firmness pattern correlating to the second firmness.
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A human support facility, comprising:
- a containment facility;
- a plurality of foam springs having an elongated shape removably and replaceably mounted substantially vertically in the containment facility, each one of the plurality of foam springs each having a top and a bottom end;
- and
- a foam panel in the containment facility, the foam panel defining a lower face and including:
- a plurality of individual openings that extend at least partially through the lower face of the foam panel, each one of the plurality of openings adapted to receive one top end of the plurality of foam springs, wherein
- the foam spring top ends are removably and replaceably disposed within the plurality of individual openings of the foam panel thereby keeping the foam springs in desired positions and alignments relative to the containment facility, and
- each disposed foam spring of the plurality of foam springs includes a region that extends downwardly below the lower face of the foam panel, and each disposed foam spring of the plurality of foam springs is not physically surrounded by the foam panel in the region that extends downwardly below the lower face of the foam panel;
- wherein the plurality of foam springs includes at least one foam spring characterized by a first firmness and at least one foam spring characterized by a second firmness, wherein the first firmness is different from the second firmness;
- wherein the at least one foam spring characterized by the first firmness includes a first firmness pattern embodied in at least a surface of the at least one foam spring having the first firmness, and wherein the at least one foam spring characterized by the second firmness includes a second firmness pattern embodied in at least a surface of the at least one foam spring having the second firmness, the first firmness pattern correlating to the first firmness and the second firmness pattern correlating to the second firmness.
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