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Inflatable air mattress system with detection techniques

US9510688B2 · kind B2 · utility

115Cited by

182References

15Claims

0Family size

Assignees

Select Comfort Corporation · US
SleepIQ Labs Inc. · 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	Mar 13, 2014
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 29, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01L13/00
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

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.

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