Inflatable air mattress system with detection techniques

US10441086B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Sleep Number Corporation · US
• Select Comfort Retail Corporation · US

Inventors

• Rob Nunn · Eden Prairie, US
• Wade Daniel Palashewski · Andover, US
• Matthew Wayne Tilstra · Rogers, US
• Steven Jay Young · Los Gatos, US
• Carl Hewitt · San Jose, US
• Yuri Zhovnirovsky · Albany, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 2, 2016
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2019
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01L13/00
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In one example, this disclosure describes a method including receiving, at a central controller of an air mattress system, a plurality of air pressure value, determining a plurality of average values using the plurality of the received air pressure values, calculating a difference value between a first one of the plurality of average values and a second one of the plurality of average values, comparing the difference value to a threshold value, determining, based on the comparison, whether a user of the air mattress system moved.