KR20190047641A - Power sensitized smart pillow - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a power-sensitive smart pillow capable of changing a shape of a pillow to promote sound sleep of a user. The power-sensitive smart pillow comprises: a pillow main body which is made of a cushion material and on which a head of a user is mounted; a pixelated lifting member which divides a mounting surface of the pillow main body into a plurality of pixel forms having a predetermined size and changes a shape of the pillow main body while lifting the mounting surface individually for each pixel; a sensing member which is provided in the pillow main body and senses a state of the mounting surface for each pixel to provide the same; and a control unit which controls an operation of the pixelated lifting member based on a sensing signal of the sensing member.

Description

POWER SENSITIZED SMART PILLOW

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a power-responsive smart pillow, and more particularly, to a power-responsive smart pillow capable of changing the shape of a pillow to provide a user with a good night's sleep.

Although sleep is an essential activity to relieve physical and mental fatigue, currently more than 20% of humans suffer from sleep disorders.

Sleep disturbances can lead to a variety of personal and social problems and can be causes of learning disability, inefficiency, traffic accidents, safety accidents, emotional disturbances, and social adjustment disorders.

 The importance of quality of sleep is overlooked in the busy daily life of modern people, and it is a problem not only for silk workers but also for the elderly and the young.

Through sleep, humans recover physical fatigue and mental fatigue. During sleep, metabolism is regulated and neuronal cell re-synthesis occurs. Sleep is therefore a necessary activity for humans.

One of the important factors in determining sleep quality is pillows, which can determine the quality of sleep depending on the material and structure of the pillow.

Here, a pillow with a proper structure for taking a good night's sleep can be thought of as the three aspects of cervical lordosis, hair temperature, and comfort during use.

Inadequate pillow construction causes muscle pain and headaches. It also hinders ventilation around the head, raising the temperature of the head and causing sweating, which is not good for health and hygiene. In other words, avoiding crowding on the cervical spine and head while using pillows and maintaining proper temperature may ultimately be directly related to sleep quality.

In the meantime, many studies have shown that human beings have a suitable pillow structure that significantly relieves pain in the neck and improves sleep quality. Because each person's body structure is different, optimized pillow structure is also various. Therefore, there is a demand for a product that provides an optimized pillow structure to the user.

Conventional sizing pillow products have a form that is driven by changing the size of the pillow using one bulky air bag.

This conventional pillow has a limited number of pillow shape changes due to a small height of the pillow due to a small number of driving parts, and thus has a limitation in realizing a pillow shape optimized for the body.

In addition, the conventional pillow has a limitation in that it can not only monitor the user's sleeping state but only deform the shape of the pillow.

As related prior art, there is a sleep monitoring pillow disclosed in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1910170.

The above-described prior art is a technique for monitoring and monitoring a user's pulse, body temperature, blood pressure, etc., but there is a limitation in that the sleeping posture of the user can not be monitored, and in particular, the shape of the pillow can not be changed.

Also, the prior art has a limitation that the snoring of the user's snoring can not be detected.

Also, there is a problem that power consumption is wasted because the prior art consumes power while operating normally.

Therefore, a technique for solving the above-described problems is required.

On the other hand, the background art described above is technical information acquired by the inventor for the derivation of the present invention or obtained in the derivation process of the present invention, and can not necessarily be a known technology disclosed to the general public before the application of the present invention .

The embodiments disclosed herein are based on the idea that, in deforming the shape of the pillow body, the pillow body is divided into a plurality of pixels and is deformed on a pixel-by-pixel basis, whereby power that can realize various shapes conforming to the user's head The purpose of the present invention is to provide a smart pillow which is sensitive.

In addition, the embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a power-sensitive smart pillow capable of deforming a pillow shape into a predetermined shape through interaction with a sensing member by sensing the height or angle of each pixel of the pillow body .

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a smart pedometer which can sense the user's sleeping state by sensing the load applied to each pixel of the pillow body.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a power-responsive smart pillow capable of providing a pillow shape suitable for a user by storing the data of the pillow body by type.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a smart pillow that can automatically deform the shape of a pillow body by sensing a user's snoring sound generated during sleep.

It is also an object of the presently disclosed embodiments to provide a power-sensitive smart pillow that can be operated based on power supply status information, such as a standby power state or a demanded power state.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a smart pedometer comprising: a pillow body made of a cushion material to which a user's head is seated; A pixel-shaped elevating member that divides the seating surface of the pillow body into a plurality of pixel shapes having a predetermined size and deforms the shape of the pillow body while lifting and lowering the pillow body by pixel; A sensing member provided on the pillow body to sense and provide the state of the seating surface for each pixel; And a controller for controlling the operation of the pixel-shaped lifting member based on a sensing signal of the sensing member.

In addition, as a technical means for achieving the above technical object, the sensing member may be provided to each of the pixels of the seating surface partitioned by the pixel-shaped lifting member and provided to the control unit while sensing the height and angle of the pixel An IMU sensor; And a load cell installed in the pixel on the seating surface together with the IMU sensor to sense the load applied to the pixel and provide the load to the control unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the control unit controls the pixel-shaped lifting member while sensing a user's head position based on a sensing signal of the load cell.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the control unit may store data on the pixel-shaped lifting member according to the shape of the pillow body based on a sensing signal of the sensing member.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a smart pillow including a sound sensing unit provided on the pillow body for sensing a sound of a user and providing the sensed sound to the control unit, And the shape of the pillow body can be deformed while the pixel-shaped lifting member is operated by sensing the sound of the snoring through the sound received as a part.

In addition, as a technical means for achieving the above technical object, the control unit may receive power supply state information and control the pixel-type elevation member and the sensing member in a power-sensitive manner according to the power supply state information .

According to the above-mentioned problem solving means, since the pillow body is lifted and lowered for each pixel supported by the pressing cylinder by the plurality of pressing cylinders constituting the pixel type elevating member, the pillow body is deformed into a shape suitable for the user, .

Further, according to the above-mentioned problem solving means, since the height or angle of each pixel of the pillow body is sensed by the IMU sensor, the length of each pressure cylinder can be precisely adjusted, Can be stored and provided for each type of pillow body or for each user.

In addition, according to the above-mentioned problem solving means, when the load cell is provided in each pixel of the pillow body, it is possible to detect the head position according to the user's sleeping state, Can be provided.

In addition, according to the above-mentioned problem solving means, since the shape of the pillow body is automatically deformed according to the sound of the snoring of the user received through the sound sensing unit, the snoring can be prevented through the posture modification of the user.

According to the above-mentioned problem solving means, since the control unit controls the operation of the pixel-shaped elevating member and the sensing member based on the power supply state information, the energy efficiency can be improved by controlling differently according to the standby power or the demanded power state.

The effects obtained in the disclosed embodiments are not limited to the effects mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned are obvious to those skilled in the art to which the embodiments disclosed from the following description belong It can be understood.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating a power-responsive smart pillow according to an embodiment.
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing a configuration of a power-responsive smart pillow according to an embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a power-responsive smart pillow according to an embodiment.
4 is a schematic view showing the operating state of the pressurizing cylinder and the pillow body shown in Fig.

Various embodiments are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below may be modified and implemented in various different forms. In order to more clearly describe the features of the embodiments, detailed descriptions of known matters to those skilled in the art are omitted. In the drawings, parts not relating to the description of the embodiments are omitted, and like parts are denoted by similar reference numerals throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a configuration is referred to as being "connected" to another configuration, it includes not only a case of being directly connected, but also a case of being connected with another configuration in between. In addition, when a configuration is referred to as " including ", it means that other configurations may be included, as well as other configurations, as long as there is no specially contradicted description.

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a power-responsive smart pillow according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a power- Type smart pillow according to the present invention. 4 is a schematic view showing an operating state of the pressurizing cylinder and the pillow body shown in Fig. 2. Fig.

The power-sensitive smart pillow 10 according to one embodiment is a pillow for providing a good quality sleep by being deformed to have a height and an angle suitable for a user.

As shown in FIG. 1, the power-sensitive smart pillow 10 is a pillow that can realize various pillow shapes by dividing a seating surface on which a user's head is seated into a plurality of pixels 1 and deforming them.

2, the power-sensitive smart pillow 10 includes a pillow body 100, a pixel type elevation member 200, a sensing member 300, and a control unit 400 .

The pillow body 100 is a component that provides a cushion while the user's head is seated.

The pillow body 100 is made of a material having a cushion. The pillow body 100 may be made of any material having a cushion such as latex, sponge, memory foam, or the like. The pillow body 100 may be formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, (100a).

4, the pillow body 100 is formed of a flexible material having a cushion and deformable in shape, so that the seating surface 100a is deformed by the pressing cylinder 210, which will be described later, (2). ≪ / RTI >

Here, the pillow body 100 may be embedded in the pillow cover 110 as shown in FIG. 2, and a protection plate 120 of a cushion material may be provided at upper and lower portions of the pillow body 100 to protect the pillow body 100. Of course, the protective plate 120 may be formed of a flexible material so that the pillow body 100 is deformed together with the seating surface 100a.

The pillow cover 110 may have a structure in which the pillow body 100 and the protection plate 120 can be received therein and may be formed of a material that can be washed or cleaned.

Here, as shown in FIG. 2, the pillow cover 110 is formed with a plurality of suction ports 111 to allow the outside air to communicate with the receiving space inside.

The suction port 111 can suck outside air when the pressure providing member 220 constituting the pixel-shaped elevating member 200 described later operates.

Meanwhile, a cylinder receiving holder may be formed on the bottom surface of the pillow body 100 to accommodate each of the pressing cylinders 210 described later.

The pixel-shaped lifting member 200 is a component for deforming the shape of the pillow body 100 according to the user. Particularly, as shown in FIG. 2, the pixel-shaped lifting member 200 divides the seating surface 100a of the pillow body 100 into a plurality of pixels 1 and lifts the pillow body 100 for each pixel 1, And the like.

For example, the pixel-shaped lifting member 200 may be configured to include the pressure cylinder 210 and the pressure providing member 220 as shown in Figs.

The pressure cylinder 210 is extended and contracted by the operation of the pressure providing member 220 under the control of a control unit 400 to be described later and a part of the pillow body 100 is moved up and down to deform the shape of the pillow body 100 .

Specifically, the pressure cylinder 210 has a pneumatic cylinder 210 whose length is reduced while the rod 211 is pulled by the air pressure supplied from the pressure providing member 220 or the rod 211 is drawn by discharging the air pressure, ≪ / RTI >

Further, the pressure cylinder 210 may be constituted by a hydraulic cylinder whose length is extended by the hydraulic pressure provided in the pressure providing member 220 or whose length is reduced by the discharge of the hydraulic pressure.

The pressure cylinders 210 may be arranged in a rectangular shape with a predetermined spacing on the mounting plate 210a. The pressure cylinders 210 are disposed under the pillow body 100 to support the lower portion of the pillow body 100 .

The pillow body 100 is divided into a plurality of pixels 1 by supporting the pillow body 100 through the respective rods 211 in a state where the plurality of pressure cylinders 210 are spaced apart at predetermined intervals Can support.

Each of the plurality of pressurizing cylinders 210 can thus move the supported pixels 1 of the pillow body 100 up and down to deform the shape of the pillow body 100 into various shapes, The pillow body 100 can be deformed in a shape corresponding to the shape of the head 2.

Here, the plurality of pressure cylinders 210 are provided with unshown intermittent valves, respectively, so that the pressure supplied from the pressure providing member 220 can be introduced into or discharged from the interior by opening and closing the intermittent valve.

The pressure providing member 220 may be installed on the mounting plate 210a as a component for providing a pressure for expanding and contracting the plurality of pressure cylinders 210. [

When the pressure cylinder 210 is constituted by a pneumatic cylinder, the pressure providing member 220 is configured by an air pump and is operated by a control unit 400 to supply air pressure by the compressed air to the pressure cylinder 210 .

When the pressure cylinder 210 is constituted by a hydraulic cylinder, the pressure providing member 220 may be a hydraulic pump and may be operated by a control unit 400 to supply pressure to the pressure cylinder 210 by hydraulic pressure. have.

2, the pressure providing member 220 may be operated by a power source of a rechargeable battery 221 installed in the mounting plate 210a and may be operated by an external power source connected through an external terminal It may also work.

The sensing member 300 is installed on the pillow body 100 and detects the state information of the seating surface 100a of the pillow body 100 according to each of the pixels 1 and provides the sensing information to the controller 400 Element.

Specifically, the sensing member 300 senses the state information including the height and the angle of each pixel 1 of the seating surface 100a raised or lowered by the plurality of pressure cylinders 210, can do.

For example, the sensing member 300 may comprise an IMU sensor 310, as shown in FIG.

The IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor 310 is an inertial measurement device as known in the art, and comprises an acceleration sensor and a gyroscope sensor to detect movement or angle of an object.

The IMU sensor 310 may be installed in each of the pixels 1 of the pillow body 100 divided and supported by the plurality of pressure cylinders 210. The IMU sensor 310 may include a plurality of pixels, 1 to the control unit 400 to be described later.

In addition, the sensing member 300 may further include a load cell 320 as shown in FIG.

The load cell 320 is a component for sensing and providing a load. The load cell 320 is installed in each pixel 1 together with the above-described IMU sensor 310 to detect a load applied to the pixel 1 by a user, ) Can be applied.

That is, the load cell 320 can sense the user's head position or posture by sensing the pixel 1 to which the load of the user's head is applied.

The control unit 400 controls the operation of the pressure cylinder 210 constituting the pixel type elevating member 200 based on the sensing signal of the sensing member 300 to change the shape of the pillow body 100 Element.

2, the controller 400 may include an embedded board installed in the mounting plate 210a. The controller 400 receives the sensing signals of the sensing member 300 installed in each pixel 1, It is possible to operate the pressurizing cylinder 210 of FIG.

The control unit 400 may include a control panel (not shown) to allow the operation of the pressure cylinders 210 while being directly controlled by the user.

3, the control unit 400 is controlled remotely through an application installed in the user's terminal 50 such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, a server computer, etc., and allows the operation of the pressure cylinders 210 You may.

Here, the control unit 400 can communicate with the terminal 50 through the communication unit 410 as shown in FIG. For example, the communication unit 410 may communicate with the terminal 50 through either a Bluetooth module, a Wi-Fi module, or a wireless communication module.

The WiFi module performs communication in a WiFi manner and the wireless communication module is used in various communication standards such as IEEE, ZigBee, 3G (3 ^rd Generation), 3GPP (3 ^rd Generation Partnership Project), LTE (Long Term Evolution) And the like. Here, ZigBee is a standard technology for configuring and communicating a private communication network using a small, low-power digital radio, which can be made based on the IEEE 802.15 standard.

The control unit 400 can expand and contract the pressure cylinders 210 to the correct height of each pressure cylinder 210 by expanding and contracting the pressure cylinders 210 while sensing the height of each pixel 1 through the IMU sensor 310 described above.

When the load cell 320 is provided in the sensing member 300, the controller 400 controls the pressure cylinders 210 at the corresponding position while sensing the head position of the user through the load applied to the load cell 320 The shape of the pillow body 100 can be deformed to fit the user's head.

The controller 400 senses the height of the pressure cylinders 210 through the respective IMU sensors 310 so that the shape of the pillow body 100 formed by the entire pressure cylinders 210 can be stored as numerical data have.

For example, the controller 400 may store the numerical data of the pressure cylinders 210 when the user directly lays down or sideways so that the shape of the pillow body 100 It can be transformed into a set form.

The control unit 400 may store the shape of the pillow body 100 formed by the pressure cylinders 210 as numerical data for each user as well as the shape of the pillow body 210 so that the shape of the pillow body 100 Can be modified to suit the user.

In addition, the control unit 400 may process the pillow body 100 and the pillow body 100 in such a manner that the pillow body 100 is deformed by deriving the optimal shape for each user while processing the data of the pillow body 100 or the data for each user while processing through techniques such as deep running or machine learning .

In addition, the control unit 400 may massage the user's head or neck while operating the pressure providing member 220 and the pressurizing cylinders 210 with a predetermined massage program.

That is, the control unit 400 repeatedly and repeatedly raises and lowers the respective pressure cylinders 210 in a predetermined pattern, thereby providing the effect of massaging the user's head or neck.

For example, the control unit 400 may provide a massage effect while repeatedly raising and lowering the pressure cylinders 210 disposed on both sides of the user's head or neck.

Meanwhile, the power-sensitive smart pillow 10 according to one embodiment may further include the sound sensing unit 500 as shown in FIG.

The sound sensing unit 500 senses a sound such as a user's voice, a snoring sound, and the like, and provides the sensed sound to the control unit 400.

The sound sensing unit 500 may include a microphone 510 installed on the pillow body 100 to receive a sound of a user as shown in FIG.

The microphone 510 may be embedded in the pillow body 100 so as not to be interfered with by the user's head and may be connected to the control unit 400 to provide the received sound to the control unit 400.

Accordingly, the control unit 400 senses the snoring sound of the user through the sound information received by the microphone 510 and operates the above-described pixel-shaped lifting member 200 to change the shape of the pillow body 100, Can induce smooth breathing.

For example, the control unit 400 may sense the snoring sound from the sound of the microphone 510 by using a speech recognition technique trained by a neural network learning algorithm.

Meanwhile, the control unit 400 may provide sleeping information of the user, such as data by the sound sensing unit 500 or data by the sensing member 300, to the application installed in the user terminal 50.

3, when the external power is supplied to the external terminal (not shown), the controller 400 controls the pixel type elevating member 200 And the sensing member 300 can be controlled in a power-sensitive manner.

For example, the controller 400 may charge the rechargeable battery 221 and may control the pixel-shaped lifting unit 200 when the preliminary power of the external power received by the power supply information receiving unit 450 is sufficient The sensitivity of the deformation of the pillow body 100 can be improved by controlling the pixel-shaped lifting member 200 while receiving the sensing signal of the sensing member 300 at all times.

The control unit 400 can stop the charging of the rechargeable battery 221 and control the pixel-shaped lifting unit 200 when the preliminary power of the external power received by the power supply information receiving unit 450 is insufficient The pillow body 100 can be fixed in a predetermined shape using the stored data without a sensing signal by the sensing member 300.

A method of using the power-sensitive smart pillow 10 according to an embodiment including the above-described components will be described.

When the user lies on the pillow body 100, the control unit 400 can change the shape of the pillow body 100 in a form corresponding to the user through the stored data of the pillow body 100 by the user.

Specifically, the control unit 400 operates the pressure providing member 220 to move the pixels 1 of the pillow body 100 up and down respectively while pulling or pulling the rods 211 of the pressure cylinders 210 individually, 100) can be modified.

At this time, the controller 400 operates the pressure cylinder 210 while sensing the height of the pixel 1 by the rod 211 of the pressure cylinder 210 through the IMU sensor 310, The pillow body 100 can be deformed accurately.

The control unit 400 controls the pressure cylinder 210 to be fixedly connected to the power supply information receiving unit 450 according to the preliminary power state through the information of the external power source received by the power supply information receiving unit 450, can do.

When the user changes the postures during sleep, the controller 400 senses the position of the user's head through the load cell 320 and actuates the pressure cylinders 210 at the corresponding positions to change the shape of the pillow body 100 As shown in Fig.

The controller 400 senses the sound of the snoring among the sounds of the user received through the microphone 510 and transmits the deformation of the pillow body 100 through the operation of the pressure cylinders 210. [ By adjusting the angle of the user's neck and jaw, normal breathing can be induced.

As described above, the power-responsive smart pillow 10 according to the embodiment has the pillow body 100 and the sensing member 300, Various modifications are allowed, so that it can be matched to the user's head, and ultimately, the user can sleep with good quality.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiments are for illustrative purposes only and that those skilled in the art will readily understand that other embodiments can be readily modified without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the embodiments described above You will understand. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

It is to be understood that the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description and should be construed as including all changes and modifications that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims, .

10: Power-sensitive smart pillow
100: pillow body
200: Pixel type elevating member
210: pressure cylinder
211: Load
220: pressure providing member
221: Battery
300: sensing member
310: IMU sensor
320: Load cell
400:
500: sound detection unit
510: microphone
50: User terminal
1: Pixel

Claims (6)

A pillow body made of a cushion material on which a user's head is seated;
A pixel-shaped elevating member that divides the seating surface of the pillow body into a plurality of pixel shapes having a predetermined size and deforms the shape of the pillow body while lifting and lowering the pillow body by pixel;
A sensing member provided on the pillow body to sense and provide the state of the seating surface for each pixel; And
And a control unit for controlling the operation of the pixel-shaped lifting member based on a sensing signal of the sensing member.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sensing member comprises:
An IMU sensor installed at each of the pixels of the seating surface partitioned by the pixel-shaped lifting member to sense the height and angle of the pixel and provide the sensor to the control unit; And
And a load cell installed on each of the pixels of the seating surface together with the IMU sensor to sense a load applied to the pixel and provide the load cell to the control unit.
3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein,
And controls the pixel-shaped lifting member while sensing a user's head position based on a sensing signal of the load cell.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
And the data of the pixel-shaped lifting member is stored according to the shape of the pillow body based on the sensing signal of the sensing member.
The method according to claim 1,
The smart pillow,
And a sound sensing unit provided on the pillow body for sensing a sound of a user and providing the sound to the controller,
Wherein,
And the shape of the pillow body is deformed while the pixel-shaped lifting member is operated by sensing the snoring sound through the sound received by the sound sensing unit.
6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
Wherein,
And a power-sensitive smart pillow receiving the power supply state information and controlling the pixel-shaped lifting member and the sensing member in a power-sensitive manner according to the power supply state information.

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