WO2009136669A1

WO2009136669A1 - Warm water boiler air materess

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Publication number: WO2009136669A1
Application number: PCT/KR2008/002087
Authority: WO
Inventors: Chan-Youl Cha
Original assignee: Chan-Youl Cha
Priority date: 2008-04-11
Filing date: 2008-04-14
Publication date: 2009-11-12

Abstract

Disclosed therein is an air materess having a cold wind function, a nature wind function and a heating function using a warm water boiler. The air materess includes air induction grooves formed on a mat support layer, air induction pipes embedded along the air induction grooves, a blower forcedly fit to one end portion of each of the air induction grooves, a detachably cooler forcedly fit and fixed to an air discharge part of the blower, and a boiler hose embedded in the mat support layer or a heating layer, thereby sending air to the outside of the materess through a plurality of air outlets and ventilation rings formed on an upper portion of the air induction pipe by actuation of the blower and providing a heating function by generating heat through the boiler hose.

Description

Description WARM WATER BOILER AIR MATERESS

Technical Field

[1] The present invention relates to an air materess having a cold wind function, a nature wind function and a heating function using a warm water boiler, and more particularly, to an air materess, which includes air induction grooves formed on a mat support layer, air induction pipes embedded along the air induction grooves, a blower forcedly fit to one end portion of each of the air induction grooves, a detachably cooler forcedly fit and fixed to an air discharge part of the blower, and a boiler hose embedded in the mat support layer or a heating layer, thereby sending air to the outside of the materess through a plurality of air outlets and ventilation rings formed on an upper portion of the air induction pipe by actuation of the blower and providing a heating function by generating heat through the boiler hose. Background Art

[2] In general, conventional materesses are used to support a user's body during the user's rest or sleep to thereby provide the user with ease and comfort. However, in the summer season that shows a high percentage of humidity, the user frequently has an unpleasant feeling because the materess clings to the user's body due to sweat pushed out from the user's body, moisture contained in the air, and so on, and hence, the user must turn on an electric fan or an air conditioner when he or she takes a rest or sleeps on the materess. Furthermore, in case of the conventional materesses, many people avoid electric mats because electric heating wires embedded in the mat emit electromagnetic waves harmful to health.

[3] The inventor of the present invention understood problems and inconvenience of the conventional materesses, and invented a materess, which includes not only a blower embedded and mounted at an end portion of an air hole such that wind introduced along the air hole is discharged to the outside of the materess through an air outlet to thereby discharge a cold wind or a nature wind but also electric heating wires embedded inside the mat to heat the mat. The inventor of the present invention has a Utility Model Patent right and submitted a Utility Model application of the materess, which has the cold wind and nature wind function and the heating function.

[4] Particularly, the present invention is to completely remove the harmful electromagnetic waves discharged from the conventional electric heating wires. Since a hose of a separately installed boiler and a boiler hose embedded in the materess are connected with each other in a one-touch form and warm water heated in the boiler makes the materess warm while circulating through a circulation hose, the materess has the heating function harmless to the human body and can be used in substitute for coolers or air conditioners. The typical coolers have a problem in that they have a limit to lower the room temperature since they are based on the principle that inhaled hot wind passes through a cold water mesh net. Moreover, the air conditioners have excellent air-cooling effect, but have several problems in that they destroy natural environments, are injurious to health and very expensive, and could result in significantly higher electrical bills, and so on. Accordingly, the inventor of the present invention has invented this air materess, which can be substituted for the coolers or the air conditioners in accordance with the length and kinds of refrigerant (refrigerant vessel) through which wind passes, and wind speeds. Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem

[5] Accordingly, the present invention has been made in an effort to solve the above- mentioned problems occurring in the prior arts, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an air materess using a warm water boiler, which has a cold wind function and a nature wind function provided at one side of the materess and a heating function provided through a boiler hose embedded therein, thereby selectively providing the air (cold wind and nature wind) blowing function and the heating function by a simple manipulation of an user so that the air materess can be effectively used during four seasons.

[6]

Technical Solution

[7] To achieve the above objects, the present invention provides an air materess having a cold wind function, a nature wind function and a heating function using a warm water boiler comprising: a mat support layer 10 having air induction pipes 12 embedded therein; a plurality of air outlets 20 formed on an upper face of each of the air induction pipes 12 of the mat support layer 10 at predetermined intervals; a plurality of ventilation rings 70 respectively and forcedly fit to the air outlets 20 for directly jetting air upward, each of the ventilation rings 70 having holes 70a formed on the side thereof to spray the air sideward when an upper portion of the ventilation ring 70 is stopped; a blower 30 disposed at one end portion of each of the air induction grooves 11 for blowing the air to the air induction pipe 12; a cooler 40 mounted on the air discharge part 31 of the blower 30 for lowering temperature of the air inhaled to the blower to thereby make the air discharged through the air induction pipe 12 and the air outlets 20 cool; a heating layer 50 laminated on an upper face of the mat support layer 10 and having a boiler hose 51 embedded therein; and a surface layer 60 laminated at the uppermost part of the materess and made of porous material 61. Advantageous Effects

[8] As described above, according to the present invention, the air materess can be substituted for a cooler or an air conditioner as occasion demands and the user's simple manipulation and selectively provide the user with the nature wind function and the heating function while the user is asleep because it has the cold wind function and the nature wind function provided at one side of the materess and the heating function provided through the boiler hose embedded therein, so that the multi-use air materess can be effectively used during four seasons. Brief Description of Drawings

[9] FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an assembled state of essential parts of an air materess according to the present invention.

[10] FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an assembled state of ventilation rings of the air materess according to the present invention.

[11] FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing an assembled state of an air induction pipe of the air materess according to the present invention.

[12] FIG. 4 is a front view of the air induction pipe of the air materess according to the present invention.

[13] FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the ventilation rings of the air materess according to the present invention.

[14] FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional view of the ventilation rings of the air materess according to the present invention.

[15] *Explanation of essential reference numerals in drawings*

[16] 10: mat support layer 11: air induction groove

[17] 12: air induction pipe 13: bellows tube

[18] 20: air outlet 30: blower

[19] 31 : air discharge part 32: air intake part

[20] 40: cooler 41: refrigerant vessel

[21] 41: refrigerant vessel 42: case

[22] 43: zipper 50: heating layer

[23] 51: boiler hose 60: surface layer

[24] 61: porous material 70: ventilation ring

[25] 70a: hole 70b: retaining jaw

[26] 70c: wing portion 71: concave hole

[27] 72: space

[28]

Mode for the Invention

[29] It is not desirable to definitively interpret terms and words used in this specification and claims in a common sense or in a sense of dictionary definition, but the terms and words should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that the inventor can properly define the concept of words to explain the inventor's invention in the best way.

[30] Reference will be now made in detail to the preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the attached drawings.

[31] FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an assembled state of essential parts of an air materess according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing an assembled state of ventilation rings of the air materess according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing an assembled state of air induction pipes of the air materess according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a front view of the air induction pipes of the air materess according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the ventilation rings of the air materess according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional view of the ventilation rings of the air materess according to the present invention.

[32] As shown in FIG. 1, the air materess having a cold wind function, a nature wind function and a heating function using a warm water boiler includes a mat support layer 10, air induction grooves 11 formed on an inner face of the mat support layer 10, and air induction pipes 12 embedded in the mat support layer 10 along the air induction grooves 11.

[33] A plurality of air outlets 20 are formed on an upper portion of the air induction pipes

12, and ventilation rings 70 are respectively assembled and fixed to the air outlets 20. The ventilation rings 70 are served to directly jet up the air discharged from the air outlets 20. Each of the ventilation rings 70 includes: holes 70a formed on the side thereof to spray the air sideward when an upper portion of the ventilation ring 70 is stopped; retaining jaws 70b fit and fixed to the air induction pipe 12; and a wing portion 70c fit and fixed to a surface layer 60, the retaining jaw 70b and the wing portion 70 being formed integrally with the ventilation ring 70.

[34] A blower 30 is mounted at one end portion of the air induction pipe 12, and includes an air discharge part 31 formed on one side thereof to send the inhaled air. A detachable cooler 40 is fixed to the air discharge part 31 in a forced fitting manner in order to make the air discharged through the air outlets 20 cool.

[35] A heating layer 50 is laminated on the mat support layer 10, and includes a boiler hose 50 embedded in the heating layer 50 and air induction grooves 11 formed in an inner face thereof to receive the air induction pipes 12 therein and induce the air. The surface layer 60 which is made of porous material 61 is laminated on the heating layer 50. As shown in FIG. 1, the surface layer 60 includes a plurality of concave holes 71 formed thereon in a line, and ventilation rings 70 are penetrated through the concave holes 71.

[36] It is preferable that the heating layer 50 is made of a soft synthetic resin forming agent, such as, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene, polyurethane, and so on. A cooler case which can store dew condensation due to a temperature difference and in which a detachable refrigerant vessel 41 can be inserted can be mounted on the air discharge part 31 of the blower 30.

[37] The blower 30 includes a housing, a fan, a motor for rotating the fan, the fan and the motor being mounted in the housing, and the air discharge part 31 formed on one side of the housing for discharging the air inhaled from the outside to the air induction pip 12. The blower 30 forcedly blows the air, which is inhaled by the rotation of the fan, to the air induction pipe 12 through the air discharge part 31.

[38] Preferably, the blower 30 may include an air cleaner mounted on the air intake part

32 and a cooler 40 and an anion generator (not shown) mounted on the air discharge part 31 thereof.

[39] Hereinafter, referring to the drawings, the preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail. In the drawings, the same components have the same reference numerals, and, in the description, when it is judged that detailed descriptions of known functions or structures related with the present invention may make the essential points vague, the detailed descriptions of the known functions or structures will be omitted. Furthermore, the materess described in this description shall be interpreted in a broad sense that means materesses of all kinds spread on the floor for comfortably supporting the human body, including not only materesses for home use but also seats, cushions or materesses for industrial sites or vehicles, and so on. Accordingly, of course, it is natural that materesses mounted in a cargo area of a truck for providing a space for a driver's rest or sleep is also implicated in the concept of the mat according to the present invention. In the meantime, the structures of the blower and the cooler shown in the drawings of the present invention are illustrated as an example for convenience's sake, blowers and coolers of various kinds can be applied to the materess.

[40] Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, the air materess using the warm water boiler according to the present invention includes: a mat support layer 10 of at least one layer having air induction grooves 11 formed on an upper face thereof and air induction pipes 12 respectively embedded along the air induction grooves 11 ; a plurality of air outlets 20 formed on an upper face of each of the air induction pipes 12 of the mat support layer 10 at predetermined intervals; a plurality of ventilation rings 70 forcedly fit to the air outlets for directly jetting up air discharged from the air outlets 20 or spreading the air sideward when upper portions of the ventilation rings are stopped; a blower 30 disposed at one end portion of each of the air induction grooves 11 for blowing the air to the air induction pipe 12; a detachable cooler 40 mounted on the air discharge part 31 of the blower for lowering temperature of the air inhaled to the blower to thereby make the air discharged through the air induction pipe 12 and the air outlets 20 cool; a heating layer 50 laminated on an upper face of the mat support layer 10 and having a boiler hose 51 embedded therein; and a surface layer 60 laminated at the uppermost part of the materess and made of porous material 61.

[41] In the meantime, the air inhaled from the outside by the blower 30 flows to the inside of the materess via the air induction pipes 12, and then, is discharged to the surface layer 60 through the air outlets 20.

[42] Here, the mat support layer 10 is made of hard cotton or synthetic resin, which has a predetermined module of elasticity and excellent mechanical strength and heat tolerance. Accordingly, when the user sleeps or takes a rest on the materess, the mat support layer 10 supports the user's body softly, so that the user can sleep or take a rest more comfortably.

[43] Referring to FIG. 1, the mat support layer 10 includes the air induction grooves 11 formed on the upper face thereof, and the air induction pipes 12 are respectively embedded in the air induction grooves 11. The air induction pipes 12 are served to induce 100% of the air discharged from the blower to the air outlets 20 without any leak of the air out of the mat support layer 10, which is made of hard cotton or synthetic resin. If the mat support layer 10 is manufactured by a large-scale plastic injection or made of a non-leaking material and has the air induction grooves 11, the air induction pipes 12 are not needed.

[44] The air induction pipes 12 embedded in the mat support layer 10 is forcedly fit with the cooler 40, which is served to make the inhaled air cool, and the cooler 40 is forcedly fit with the air discharge part 31 of the blower 30 forcedly fit to the end portion of each air induction groove 11. The air induction pipes 12 are molded of soft polyethylene (PE) or polypropylene (PP).

[45] In general, since some user wants to fold the materess, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, each of the air induction pipes 12 includes a bellows tube 13 formed at a portion thereof to make the materess be foldable.

[46] Because each of the air induction pipes 12 includes a plurality of the air outlets 20 formed on the upper face thereof, the air supplied to the air induction pipe 12 via the blower 30 is discharged to the surface layer 60 through the air outlets 20. In this instance, the ventilation rings 70 are respectively fit and fixed to the air outlets 20, and the air outlets 20 to which the ventilation rings 70 are respectively fit are manufactured convexly so that the flowing air can pass through without any interference. Moreover, even though the front and rear of each of the air outlets 20 are different from each other or equal in size in order to consider sizes and lengths of materesses and adjust air volume or strength, there is little difference in the functions of the materess and the discharged air volume.

[47] The ventilation rings 70 are served to prevent weakening of the air due to an interference of a double screen mesh or a porous net while the air introduced along the air induction pipe 12 goes up through the air outlets 20 and to make the user feel cooler since the going-up air is directly jet and the air volume is increased.

[48] Particularly, in order to spread the air sideward in case that upper holes of the ventilation rings 70 are stopped since the user lies on the materess, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, each of the ventilation rings 70 has an H-shaped ring structure that holes 70a are formed on the side thereof, retaining jaws 70b are fit and fixed to the air outlet 20 of the air induction pipe 12, and a wing portion 70c is put over concave holes 71 of the surface layer 60, which is made of the porous material 61 such as the double screen mesh, and is injection-molded of synthetic resin, such as ABS or PP.

[49] Additionally, the retaining jaw 70b forcedly fit to the air outlet 20 is not come out once it is fit with the air outlet 20. The wind portion 70c located on the surface layer 60 in such a way that the double screen mesh or a cut portion of the surface layer 60 is not shown is vertically movable in the air outlet 20 when t is pressed by the user.

[50] As shown in FIG. 1, the blower 30 is embedded on one end portion of each of the air induction grooves 11, and discharges the air to the air induction pipe 12 by forcedly blowing the air inhaled from the air intake part 32 through the air discharge part 31. As a result, the air flowing along the cooler 40 and the air induction pipe 12 is discharged to the surface layer 60 of the materess through a plurality of the ventilation rings 70. The blower 30 includes: a housing; a fan; a motor for rotating the fan, the fan and the motor being mounted in the housing; the air intake part 32 formed on one side of the housing for inhaling air from the outside; and the air discharge part 31 for discharging the inhaled air to the air induction pip 12, so that the blower 30 forcedly blows the air, which is inhaled from the air intake part 32 by the rotation of the fan, to the cooler 40 and the air induction pipe 12 through the air discharge part 31.

[51] Preferably, the fan is a multi-wing fan. By the rotation of the multi-wing fan, the air inhaled from the air intake part 32 is discharged to the cooler 40 and the air induction pipe 12 through the air discharge part 31.

[52] Furthermore, an air cleaner is mounted on the air intake part 32 of the blower 30 and a cooler and an anion generator are mounted on the air discharge part 31 of the blower 30, so that the user can selectively actuate the cooler and a heating member to thereby adjust temperature of the air. Moreover, the materess additionally includes a controller (not shown) to set various functions, for instance, on-off modes of the materess, temperature adjustment, speed adjustment, time setting, timer sleep setting, and so on. Accordingly, the air materess according to the present invention can discharge cold wind when the cooler is mounted in the materess, but discharge nature wind when the cooler is not mounted or the refrigerant is not inserted into the materess.

[53] The cooler 40 is a device to convert the inhaled warm air into a cold air through the blower 30, and forcedly fit between the air discharge part 31 of the blower 30 and the air induction pipe 12. The cooler 40 includes a refrigerant vessel 41 for containing refrigerant therein and a case 42. One side of the case 42 is forcedly fit with the air discharge part 31 of the blower 30 and the other side is forcedly fit with the air induction pipe 12, whereby it can be used as the cooler 40 when the refrigerant vessel 41 is inserted therein. The case 42 includes a space 72 formed on the floor thereof for making the air flow smoothly and storing dew condensation due to a temperature difference. When the blower is actuated after the refrigerant vessel 41 is inserted into the case 42, the hot air inhaled to the blower is converted into cold air while passing through the cooler, and then discharged to the surface layer 60 through the air outlets 20. Of course, a zipper 43 is mounted in an openable and closable manner in such a way that the refrigerant vessel 41 can be detachably mounted. The case 42 is manufactured by a general molding and the refrigerant vessel 41 is manufactured by a vacuum molding, and the case 42 and the refrigerant vessel are made of polypropylene or polyethylene.

[54] The boiler hose 51 is embedded in the mat support layer 10 or the heating layer 50 laminated on the upper face of the mat support layer 10. The boiler hose 51 generates heat and gets warm while hot water heated in the warm water boiler, which is separately installed outside. A hose groove is formed in all portions of the soft synthetic resin foam excepting for a portion where the air induction grooves 11 are formed, the boiler hose 51 is embedded in the hose groove, and then, aluminum or a copper plate is covered on the synthetic resin foam to prevent projection of the boiler hose 51 in use and enhance heat conductivity. Because the heating layer 50 adopts the principle that it is heated by the boiler hose 51 embedded in all portions of the soft synthetic resin foam excepting for the portion where the air induction grooves 11 are formed for inserting the air induction pipes 12 therein, the materess has no danger of electromagnetic waves like heating wires and can be used as a cooler in the summer season and a thermal materess in the winter season. Of course, the boiler hose may be embedded over the air induction pipes 12 by differentiating heights of the boiler hose 51 and the air induction pipes 12. The heating layer 50 is mainly made of soft synthetic resin foam, and the boiler hose 51 is a soft hose made of PVC or P.

[55] The surface layer 60 has a plurality of the concave holes 71 and is made of the porous material 61, such as hemp cloth, a mesh net, a mesh, a dual mesh, and so on, so that the air passing through the ventilation rings 70, which integrally connect the air induction pipe 12 and the air outlets 20 with each other, can be discharged smoothly. Especially, the dual mesh is used to the surface layer 60 in order to discharge air through an unstopped portion by spreading the air between the dual meshes or to spread the air evenly to a wide floor in case that the air discharged up through the air outlets 20 cannot be discharged up due to a stoppage when the user lies on the materess. In consideration of the performance and price of the materess, the conventional dual mesh may be used as it is or an injection-molded product which can provide the above-mentioned purpose.

[56] Furthermore, in case of a cool materess which is used only in the summer season, the surface layer 60 may be generally manufactured of the porous material 61 in order to provide a cool feeling. However, since the air materess using the warm water boiler according to the present invention is a cold and warm materess for four seasons, the air discharging part is made of the porous material 61 and the boiler hose embedded part is made of warm-keeping material, whereby the air materess can provide cooling and heating effects visually and functionally.

[57]

Claims

[1] An air materess having a cold wind function, a nature wind function and a heating function using a warm water boiler, which includes a blower disposed at one end portion of at least one air induction groove for blowing air, a cooler for lowering temperature of the air inhaled to the blower, and a surface layer made of porous material and combined integrally with a mat support layer, comprising: at least one air induction pipe (12) embedded along the air induction grooves

(11) formed on an inner face of the mat support layer (10), the air induction pipe

(12) having a bellows tube (13) and a plurality of air outlets (20) formed integrally with each other to introduce the air discharged from the cooler (42) connected with the blower (30) to the inside; the plural air outlets (20) formed on an upper portion of the air induction pipe (12) at predetermined intervals; and a plurality of ventilation rings (70) respectively and forcedly fit to the air outlets (20) for directly jetting air upward, each of the ventilation rings (70) having holes (70a) formed on the side thereof to spray the air sideward when an upper portion of the ventilation ring 70 is stopped.

[2] The air materess according to claim 1, wherein each of the ventilation rings (70) a retaining jaw (70b) forcedly fit to the air induction pipe (12) and a wing portion (70c) forcedly fit to a concave hole (71) of the surface layer (60), and the air materess further comprising a heating layer (50) located on the mat support layer (10), the heating layer (50) having a boiler hose (51) embedded therein.

[3] The air materess according to claim 1, wherein the blower (30) comprises: a housing; a fan; a motor for rotating the fan, the fan and the motor being mounted in the housing; an air intake part (32) formed on one side of the housing for inhaling air from the outside; and an air discharge part (31) for discharging the inhaled air to the air induction pip (12), so that the air inhaled from the air intake part (32) by the rotation of the fan is forcedly sent to the air induction pipe (12) forcedly fit with the cooler (40) through the air discharge part (31).

[4] The air materess according to claim 3, wherein the blower (30) comprises: an air cleaner mounted on the air intake part (32); and a cooler (40) and an anion generator mounted on the air discharge part (31) thereof, the cooler (40) having a refrigerant vessel (41) and a case (42) having a space (72) for storing dew condensation therein.