JP2018201859A - pillow - Google Patents

Abstract

To improve comfort while sleeping by filling a space under the head and neck part and by fitting a pillow to the head and neck part.SOLUTION: In a lower member 3 of a pillow 1, there are successively prepared a vertex support part 31 that laterally extends, an occiput support part 33 that is lower in height than the vertex support part 31, and a neck support part 35 that is lower than the vertex support part 31 and higher than the occiput support part 33. On the lower member 3, an upper member 5 is installed that, with the head and neck part placed, is deformable along the head and neck part from the occiput region to the temporal region.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a pillow that stably supports the head and neck.

  Conventionally, pillows that fit the head and neck and fill the gap under the head and neck are known to support the head and neck in a natural state to relieve body tension and ensure comfort. .

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a pillow that supports a user's head and neck. The pillow includes a head support portion, a cervical vertebra support portion having a height lower than that of the head support portion, and a thoracic vertebra support portion having a height lower than that of the cervical vertebra support portion. According to this pillow, in the supine state, it is possible to create a state where the body is relaxed by dispersing the burden on the pillow and reducing the burden on the cervical spine.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2015-20051

  By the way, the head and neck of the human body has an S shape in the front-rear direction from the top of the head to the shoulder. However, in the conventional Patent Document 1, each part of the pillow supports the head, the cervical vertebra, and the upper thoracic vertebra. However, since the cross section in the width direction of the pillow is triangular, A gap is formed under the head and neck, not the shape along the S-shape of the head and neck. Moreover, in the width direction of the pillow, which is the width of the shoulder in the supine state, the back of the head has a curved shape toward the temporal region, so the contact surface with the pillow is small, and a gap is formed between the back of the pillow and the pillow. There was a problem.

  The present invention has been made in view of such points, and the object of the present invention is to devise the structure of the pillow so as to fill the gap generated under the head and neck and fit the pillow and the head and neck. It is to improve the comfort at bedtime.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, a lower member for fitting the pillow to the head and neck in the front-rear direction and an upper member for fitting the head and neck in the width direction are provided.

  Specifically, the first invention is a pillow used at bedtime, a parietal support part, a occipital support part having a height lower than that of the parietal part support part, and a height higher than that of the parietal part support part. A lower member having a neck support portion that is lower in height and higher in height than the occipital support portion, and a lower member provided on the lower member, and placed on the head and neck portion so that the side from the occipital region And an upper member that deforms along the head and neck portion over the head.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, the height of each portion of the lower member can prevent the pillow from fitting in the shape of the head and neck in the front-rear direction, thereby creating a gap below the head and neck. Further, in the width direction of the pillow, the upper member is deformed, whereby the pillow can be made to follow the curved shape of the head and neck, and a gap can be prevented from being generated under the head and neck. Therefore, it is possible to fit the pillow and the head and neck in both the width direction and the front-rear direction to improve the comfort at bedtime.

  According to a second invention, in the first invention, a shoulder support portion adjacent to the neck support portion is provided.

  In the second invention, by providing the shoulder support portion, it is possible to prevent a gap from being generated below the shoulder portion, and to fit the pillow in the front-rear direction line from the top of the head to the shoulder. Can do.

  According to a third invention, in the second invention, one end of the upper member is connected between the neck support portion and the shoulder support portion of the lower member.

  In this 3rd invention, position shift with an upper side member and a lower side member can be prevented, and a pillow can be made to fit a head and neck part stably.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to third aspects of the present invention, in the intermediate portion in the width direction of the upper member, a parietal portion placement portion corresponding to the parietal portion support portion, and the occipital region support portion And a cervical placement portion corresponding to the cervical support portion, and both end portions in the width direction of the upper member are higher than the intermediate portion in the width direction and in a lying state. A temporal head placement portion on which the temporal head is placed is provided.

  In the fourth invention, in the supine state, the intermediate part in the width direction has a shape that allows the upper member to easily fit the head and neck part in addition to the lower member, so that the pillow can be more easily fitted in the front-rear direction. By the way, in the recumbent state, the height changes greatly between the shoulder and the neck, and a gap is easily formed below the neck. According to the present invention, since the temporal head placement portion is higher than the intermediate portion in the width direction, it is possible to fill a gap below the neck portion that occurs in the lying state, and the pillow and the head and neck portion can be easily fitted.

  According to a fifth invention, in any one of the first to fourth inventions, the upper member is formed by filling a bag body partitioned into a plurality of small chambers, and each of the small chambers is And an entrance for taking in and out the filler.

  In the fifth invention, by dividing the upper member into a plurality of parts, it is possible to prevent the filler from being biased due to the filler moving in the bag, and the pillow can be stably attached to the head and neck. Can be fitted. Furthermore, by providing an entrance / exit in each small chamber, the amount and type of the filler can be easily changed, and the pillow can be adjusted according to the user's preference and body shape. Furthermore, the upper member is easily deformed starting from the boundary of each chamber. Therefore, it becomes easier to fit the pillow and the head and neck.

  As described above, the pillow of the present invention includes the lower member that fits the head and neck in the front-rear direction and the upper member that fits the head and neck in the width direction, so only the front and rear direction of the head and neck In addition, it is possible to fit the pillow in the width direction of the head and neck, and to fill a gap generated under the head and neck to improve the comfort at bedtime.

It is a perspective view of the state which removed the pillow cover of the pillow which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a top view of a lower side member and a shoulder part support part. It is a top view of an upper member. It is sectional drawing of the width direction intermediate part of the pillow in a supine state. It is sectional drawing of the front-back direction intermediate part of the pillow in a supine state. It is sectional drawing of the width direction of the part corresponding to the temporal part mounting part of the pillow in a lying state. FIG. 3 is a view corresponding to FIG. 1 showing Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The following description of the preferred embodiments is merely exemplary in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or its application.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 shows a pillow 1 used at bedtime according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In the following description, the front-rear direction refers to the height direction in the supine state, and the head and neck side is the front side. The width direction indicates the direction of the shoulder width in the supine state.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, this pillow 1 is integrally provided with a lower member 3, a shoulder support 7 and an upper member 5, and is covered with a pillow cover 15. The lower member 3 includes a parietal support 31, a occipital support 33, and a neck support 35 in order from the front, and each part extends in parallel. The shoulder support 7 is provided adjacent to the rear side of the neck support 35 and has the same width as the lower member 3. The upper member 5 is located on the lower member 3, and the dimensions in the width direction and the front-rear direction are substantially the same as those of the lower member 3. One end (rear end) of the upper member 5 is integrally connected between the lower member 3 and the shoulder support portion 7. The upper member 5 is provided with one temporal head placement portion 57, 57 at each of both ends in the width direction, and further, in the width direction intermediate portion, the parietal portion placement portion 51 and the back head placement portion 53 in order from the front. , And a neck placement portion 55.

  FIG. 2 shows the lower member 3 and the shoulder support 7. As described above, the lower member 3 includes, in order from the front, the parietal portion support portion 31, the occipital portion support portion 33, and the neck portion support portion 35, and as shown in FIG. (Height) are, in order from the largest, the crown support part 31, the neck support part 35, and the occipital support part 33. The lower member 3 has a lower bag 37 that is partitioned into small chambers 13 corresponding to the respective parts. Each of the small chambers 13 is formed with a slit-shaped entrance / exit 11, and a filler is taken in / out from each entrance / exit 11. The filler filled in the lower member 3 is preferably harder than the filler filled in the occipital head placement portion 53 and the neck portion placement portion 55 described later, for example, a soft pipe made of polyethylene. It is done. Further, these materials may be directly filled into the small chamber 13, or a small bag filled with these materials may be filled into the small chamber 13.

  The shoulder support portion 7 has a rectangular plate shape having the same width as the lower member 3. The shoulder support portion 7 is connected to the lower member 3 by stitching at the front end, and the bag is filled with a filler. The filler used for the shoulder support 7 is preferably a high-resilience urethane foam, and if it has a repulsive force as compared to the lower member 3 and the upper member 5, it tends to turn over at bedtime.

  FIG. 3 shows the upper member 5, and as described above, the temporal head placement portions 57 are provided on the entire widthwise ends of the upper member 5 in the entire front-rear direction. In addition, in the middle part in the width direction between the both-side head mounting parts 57, 57, a parietal mounting part 51, a back head mounting part 53, and a neck mounting part 55 are provided in order from the front. These correspond to the parietal support 31, the occipital support 33, and the neck support 35 of the lower member 3, respectively. As shown in FIG. 4, the thickness (height) of the intermediate portion in the width direction is, in descending order, the parietal portion placing portion 51, the neck portion placing portion 55, and the occipital portion placing portion 53, which are shown in FIG. 5. Thus, the thickness of the temporal placement part 57 is thicker than that of the crown placement part 51. The upper member 5 has an upper bag body 59 that is partitioned into small chambers 13 corresponding to the respective portions. Each of the small chambers 13 is formed with a slit-shaped entrance / exit 11, and a filler is taken in / out from each entrance / exit 11. As the filling material filled in the head placement part 51, a soft pipe made of polyethylene is preferable. As the filling material filled in the occipital head placement portion 53 and the neck portion placement portion 55, a softer material than the filling material of the back head support portion 33 and the neck portion support portion 35 of the lower member 3 is preferable. For example, an elastomer pipe is used. Can be mentioned. As a result, the occipital region placement portion 53 and the neck portion placement portion 55 are more easily deformed along the head and neck portion than the lower member, so that the pillow is easily fitted to the head and neck portion. An example of the filler filled in the temporal head placement portion 57 is cotton. Similarly to the lower member 3, the filling material filled in each of the small chambers 13 may directly fill the small chambers 13 with the materials listed above, or a small bag filled with these materials into the small chambers 13. It may be filled.

  Therefore, according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the height of the relatively hard lower member 3 changes in accordance with the shape of the head and neck in the front-rear direction in the front-rear direction of the pillow 1 in the supine state. doing. Therefore, the base shape of the pillow 1 as a whole matches the S-shape of the head and neck. Further, the upper member 5 on which the head and neck part is directly placed also has a height that matches the shape of the head and neck part in the parietal part placement part 51, the occipital part placement part 53, and the neck part placement part 55. Therefore, the pillow 1 can be more easily fitted to the head and neck. In addition, since the shoulder support portion 7 is provided, the gap under the shoulder portion can be filled, so that the pillow 1 and the head and neck portion are fitted in a longitudinal line from the top of the head to the shoulder. be able to.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 5, in the width direction of the pillow 1, the upper member 5 is deformed along the curved shape of the head and neck portion, so that a gap below the head and neck portion can be filled. Therefore, the pillow 1 and the head and neck can be fitted also in the width direction.

  Furthermore, since an elastomer pipe softer than the lower member 3 is used as a filling material for the occipital head placement portion 53 and the neck portion placement portion 55 of the upper member 5, the shape of the occipital region and the neck portion having a large change in shape. Accordingly, the pillow 1 can be deformed, and the gap under the head and neck can be filled.

  In the present embodiment, one end (rear end) of the upper member 5 is integrally connected between the lower member 3 and the shoulder support portion 7. Therefore, the position shift of the upper member 5 and the lower member 3 in the pillow cover 15 can be prevented, and the pillow 1 can be stably fitted to the head and neck while keeping each member in a suitable position. be able to.

  Further, since the bag bodies 59 and 37 of the upper member 5 and the lower member 3 are partitioned into the small chambers 13 corresponding to the respective portions, the filler is obtained by moving the filler in the bag bodies 59 and 37. In this respect, the pillow 1 can be stably fitted to the head and neck. Further, the boundary between the small chambers 13 is not filled with a filler, the lower member 3 is formed with a boundary line extending in the width direction, and the upper member 5 is formed with a boundary line extending in the width direction and the front-rear direction. ing. Starting from this boundary line, the lower member 3 and the upper member 5 are easily deformed. Accordingly, the members 3 and 5 are easily deformed in accordance with the S-shape in the front-rear direction of the head and neck. In particular, the upper member 5 is easily deformed along the shape of the head and neck in the width direction. Therefore, it becomes easy to fill the gap under the head and neck, and the pillow 1 and the head and neck can be fitted more.

  Moreover, since the entrance / exit 11 is formed in each small chamber 13, the quantity and kind of filler can be changed easily. Therefore, by changing the amount of filler and adjusting the height to fit the user's body shape, and by changing the type of filler and adjusting the hardness according to the user's preference, It can be set as the pillow 1 suitable for the user. In particular, since the lower member 3 determines the shape of the base of the pillow 1, the pillow 1 suitable for the user can be obtained simply by adjusting the filler of the upper member 5 on which the head and neck part is directly placed.

  By the way, as shown in FIG. 6, in the recumbent state, the height largely changes between the shoulder and the neck, and accordingly, a gap is easily generated under the neck. According to the present embodiment, since the temporal placement part 57 is higher than the intermediate part in the width direction, the head and neck part is placed on the temporal placement part 57, so that It becomes easy to fit the pillow 1 and the head and neck. Thereby, not only in the supine state but also in the lying state, the pillow 1 and the head and neck can be fitted to improve the comfort at bedtime.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 7 shows a second embodiment of the present invention in which the shape of the shoulder support portion 7 is changed. In the following description of each embodiment, the same parts as those in FIGS. 1 to 6 are denoted by the same reference numerals, detailed description thereof will be omitted, and differences from the first embodiment will be described.

  Of the shoulder support portion 7 according to the pillow 1 of the present embodiment, the portion corresponding to the neck placement portion 55 has a constant dimension in the front-rear direction. On the other hand, the rear end portions of the portions corresponding to the both-side head placement portions 57 and 57 are curved forward as they approach the width direction end portion, and the shoulder portion support portion 7 lacks both width direction end portions. It is formed as follows.

  Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the shoulder is supported by the shoulder support 7 in the supine state, but the shoulder is not supported by the shoulder support 7 in the lying state. In the recumbent state, since the shoulder portion has a substantially constant height, there may be a sense of incongruity if the shoulder portion is supported by the shoulder support portion 7. Therefore, in this embodiment, it is possible to prevent a sense of incongruity in a lying state, and the sleeping comfort is improved. Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the position of the shoulder from being raised and the position of the neck from being raised accordingly, so that it becomes easier to fill the gap under the neck and fit the pillow 1 and the head and neck. Can do.

(Other embodiments)
In each of the above embodiments, the parietal support part 31, the cervical support part 35, the occipital support part 33, However, it is not limited to this. For example, it is good also as the neck support part 35, the parietal part support part 31, and the back head support part 33 in order from the one where a dimension of the front-back direction is large. That is, the dimension in the front-rear direction of each part can be changed according to the user's body shape, preference, and the like.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, the upper member 5 includes the side head placement portions 57, the parietal portion placement portions 51, the back head placement portions 53, and the neck portion placement portions 55 on both sides. Although it was divided, it is not limited to this. For example, the upper member 5 may have a larger number of small chambers or may be composed of one part that is not partitioned. That is, the form of the upper member 5 can be changed according to the user's body shape and preferences.

  In each of the above embodiments, each of the small chambers 13 is formed with one slit-shaped entrance / exit 11, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a fastener may be provided at the doorway 11. Moreover, the number, position, etc. of the entrance / exit 11 can be changed freely.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, the above-mentioned ones are listed as the fillers to be filled in the small chambers 13, but for example, soft pipe, urethane chip, wood chip, elastomer pipe, urethane foam, buckwheat shell, cotton, etc. The thing used as a pillow is mentioned, They can be used individually or in combination according to a user's body shape and liking.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is useful because a pillow that fits the head and neck and improves the comfort at bedtime by filling a gap generated under the head and neck is useful.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pillow 3 Lower member 5 Upper member 7 Shoulder support part 11 Entrance 13 Small chamber 31 Parietal part support part 33 Back head support part 35 Neck part support part 51 Parietal part mounting part 53 Back head part mounting part 55 Neck part mounting part 57 Side head placement part 59 Upper bag body (bag body)

Claims (5)

A pillow used at bedtime,
A parietal support;
A occipital region support part having a height lower than that of the parietal part support part;

A lower member having, in order, a neck support part that is lower in height than the head support part and higher in height than the occipital support part;
A pillow comprising: an upper member provided on the lower member and deformed along the head and neck from the back to the head by placing the head and neck. The pillow according to claim 1,
A pillow comprising a shoulder support portion adjacent to the neck support portion. The pillow according to claim 2,
One end of the upper member is connected between the neck support portion and the shoulder support portion of the lower member. In the pillow according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
In the intermediate portion in the width direction of the upper member, a top mounting portion corresponding to the top supporting portion, a back mounting portion corresponding to the back supporting portion, and a neck mounting corresponding to the neck supporting portion. Is provided,
The pillow characterized by the side part mounting part which is higher than the said width direction intermediate part and in which a side part is mounted in a lying state is provided in the width direction both ends of the said upper member. In the pillow according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The upper member is formed by filling a bag body partitioned into a plurality of small chambers,
Each of the small chambers is provided with an entrance for taking in and out the filler.

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