US20130326816A1

US20130326816A1 - Pillow assembly

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Publication number: US20130326816A1
Application number: US13/493,305
Authority: US
Inventors: Chin-chang Wu
Original assignee: SUNFAR COMPUTER CO Ltd
Current assignee: SUNFAR COMPUTER CO Ltd
Priority date: 2012-06-11
Filing date: 2012-06-11
Publication date: 2013-12-12

Abstract

A pillow assembly has a body and two lateral sleeping modules. The body includes a supine sleeping area and two lateral sleeping areas, and the supine sleeping area is between the lateral sleeping areas. The two lateral sleeping modules are separately mounted on the lateral sleeping areas of the body. Each lateral sleeping module have at least one lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit and a fixed section to hold the at least one lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit on one of the lateral sleeping areas at position. The height of the pillow assembly is adjustable according to different figures of users. Therefore, the pillow assembly has a better comfort, support and suitability to reduce tension of neck muscle of the user.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a pillow assembly, and more particularly to a pillow assembly that could adjust height and width according to user's need.
2. Description of the Prior Arts
Busy life with accumulating stress causes modern people to suffer sleep disorders. In order to promote sleep quality, the sleeping bedding has been gradually valued, including mattress, covers and pillows. Take pillow for example, generally a pillow includes a pillowcase, which is filled with cotton pillow inner, provides better comfort but poor support. Therefore, the market further has developed memory pillow or sponge pillow made of memory foam or sponge. They include a body, and the body has two protrudent cambered surfaces, and the two protrudent cambered surfaces separately extend to edges of two opposite sides of the body to form a high cambered protrusion and a low cambered protrusion.
User could choose to lie on the high cambered protrusion or the low cambered protrusion according to user's need. However, the user would change sleeping position when in sleep. The distance between the neck back and lying surface is small at supine sleeping position; and the distance between the neck back and lying surface is big at lateral sleeping position. If the user lies on the low cambered protrusion at first, the neck and shoulder would be pressed at a harmful angle at lateral sleeping position; and if the user lies on the high cambered protrusion at first, neck muscle tension would be caused by a harmful angle at supine sleeping position. Consequently, the structure of a simple integrated pillow of prior art could not provide appropriate support and comfort to respond to sleeping position variation, and could not be adjusted to an appropriate size according to different figures of users. So the practicability of the pillow of the prior art is limited.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention provides a pillow assembly to mitigate or obviate the aforementioned problems.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The main objective of the present invention is to provide a pillow assembly to enhance practicability.
To achieve the objective, the pillow assembly in accordance with the present invention has a body, two lateral sleeping modules and a pillowcase.
The body includes a supine sleeping area and two lateral sleeping areas, and the supine sleeping area is between the lateral sleeping areas. The two lateral sleeping modules are separately mounted on the lateral sleeping areas of the body. Each lateral sleeping module has at least one lateral sleeping height adjusting unit and a fixed section. The pillowcase covers outside of the body and the lateral sleeping modules.
Based on the above-mentioned, the pillow assembly could adjust the stacking number of the lateral sleeping height-adjusting units of the lateral sleeping modules according to different figures of users. The user could lie on the supine sleeping area with the lower height at supine sleeping position, and the user could lie on the lateral sleeping area of the lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit with the higher height at lateral position. Even the user turns over in sleep, the pillow assembly could still provide comfort and support for the neck. The pillow assembly could be adjusted and assembled either into the form of a notch, with a left side protrusion, with a right side protrusion, or into a flat form for user's need, and be able to enhance practicability.
Other objectives, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a preferred embodiment of a pillow assembly in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional side view of the preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged operational cross-sectional side view of the preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly in FIG. 1 showing only one lateral sleeping modules being mounted on one side of the body;

FIG. 4 is another operational cross-sectional side view of the preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly in FIG. 1 showing only one lateral sleeping modules being mounted on the other side of the body;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional side view of another preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional side view of further another preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 7 is an operational side view of the preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly for lateral sleeping of the user in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 8 is an operational side view of the preferred embodiment of the pillow assembly for supine sleeping of the user in accordance with the present invention;

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

With reference to FIG. 1, FIG. 2 and FIG. 5, a pillow assembly in accordance with the present invention has a body 10, two lateral sleeping modules 20 and a pillowcase 50.
A supine sleeping area 11 and two lateral sleeping areas 12 are formed on the body 10, and the supine sleeping area 11 is mounted between the lateral sleeping areas 12.
The lateral sleeping modules 20 are separately mounted on the lateral sleeping areas 12 of the body 10. The lateral sleeping modules 20 all have at least one lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit 21 and a fixed section 22. The at least one lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit 21 is mounted and held on one of the lateral sleeping areas 12 by the fixed section 22. The fixed sections 22 are net-like covers, and multiple pores 23 are formed through each lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit 21. The lateral sleeping height-adjusting units 21 are formed of silica gel.
The pillowcase 50 covers outside of the body 10 and the lateral sleeping modules 20.
With reference to FIG. 5, two first connectors 13 are separately mounted on two opposite sides of the body 10. The pillow assembly has at least one width-adjusting module 30 mounted on the body 10. Each width-adjusting module 30 has a second connector 31 corresponding to and engaging the first connectors 13. The first connectors 13 may be notches, and the second connector 31 of each width-adjusting module 30 may be a protrusion and respectively corresponding to and engaging one of the notches. Each width-adjusting module 30 has at least one width-adjusting unit 32. Moreover, each width-adjusting module 30 has multiple width-adjusting units 32, and the multiple width-adjusting units 32 can be connected with each other in sequence.
The pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module 60. The supine height-adjusting module 60 has at least one supine height-adjusting unit 61 a mounted on the top surface of the supine sleeping area 11 of the body 10, or with reference to FIG. 6, the at least one supine height-adjusting unit 61 b is mounted on the bottom surface of the body 10. The supine height-adjusting unit 61 b could adjust the height of the supine sleeping area 11 and the lateral sleeping areas 12.
A side of each lateral sleeping module 20 adjacent to the supine sleeping area 11 forms a support incline 24.
With reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 5, the lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit 21 and the width-adjusting module 30 are detachable components, which could be adjusted according to different figures of users by adjusting the stacking number of lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit 21 and the supine height-adjusting unit 61 a, 61 b. With reference to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, user could heighten either the left side or right side as well as decide the height to be added on his or her own at lateral sleeping position. The pillow assembly provides different support heights at the supine sleeping area 11 and the lateral sleeping areas 12 for different head shapes of users and also provides the width-adjusting module 30 to reduce tension of muscle. Moreover, the support inclines 24 could support the face of the user when the face slightly inclines.
With reference to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, a user 40 would change sleeping position when in sleep. At supine sleeping position, the user 40 could lie on the supine sleeping area 11 of the body 10 with the lower support height; at lateral position, the user 40 could lie on the lateral sleeping areas 12 of the lateral sleeping height adjusting unit 21 with the higher support height. The supine sleeping area 11 of the body 10 and the lateral sleeping height adjusting unit 21 could transform appropriately to fit the figure of the user 40 to provide better support for cervical vertebra to stay at a comfortable and normal angle, and reduce tension of shoulder and neck muscle. Therefore, an ergonomic cambered surface could be formed on the top face of the pillow assembly.
Based on the above-mentioned, according to demands of users of different figures, the pillow assembly could adjust the stacking number of the lateral sleeping height adjusting units 21 and add the width-adjusting module 30 as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. Even the user 40 turns over in sleep, the pillow assembly could provide different support heights with better support for the neck of the user 40. Therefore, the pillow assembly has better comfort, support and suitability to fit the user 40 and marketing need.
Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and features of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only. Changes may be made in the details, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A pillow assembly comprising:

a body having:

a supine sleeping area; and

two lateral sleeping areas, and the supine sleeping area mounted between the lateral sleeping areas;

two lateral sleeping modules respectively mounted on the lateral sleeping areas of the body, and each lateral sleeping module having:

at least one lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit; and

a fixed section holding the at least one lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit on a corresponding one of the lateral sleeping areas at position; and

a pillowcase covering outside of the body and the lateral sleeping modules.

2. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the body further has

two first connectors respectively mounted on two opposite sides of the body; and

the pillow assembly further has

at least one width-adjusting module mounted on the body, and each one of the at least one width-adjusting module having

a second connector corresponding to and engaging one of the first connectors.

3. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first connectors are notches, and the second connector of each one of the at least one width-adjusting module is a protrusion corresponding to and engaging a corresponding one of the notches.

4. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein each one of the at least one width-adjusting module has at least one width-adjusting unit.

5. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on the top surface of the supine sleeping area of the body.

6. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on the top surface of the supine sleeping area of the body.

7. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on the top surface of the supine sleeping area of the body.

8. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on the top surface of the supine sleeping area of the body.

9. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on a bottom surface of the body.

10. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on a bottom surface of the body.

11. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on a bottom surface of the body.

12. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pillow assembly has a supine height-adjusting module, the supine height-adjusting module has at least one supine height-adjusting unit mounted on a bottom surface of the body.

13. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fixed sections are net-like covers.

14. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein the fixed section are net-like covers.

15. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein multiple pores are formed through each lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit.

16. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein multiple pores are formed through the each lateral sleeping height-adjusting unit.

17. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein a side of each lateral sleeping module adjacent to the supine sleeping area forms a support incline.

18. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein a side of each lateral sleeping module adjacent to the supine sleeping area forms a support incline.

19. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein a side of each lateral sleeping module adjacent to the supine sleeping area forms a support incline.

20. The pillow assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein a side of each lateral sleeping module adjacent to the supine sleeping area forms a support incline.