Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Yasuhiro Nakamura

Tomonori Hayakawa

Akitsugu Misaki

Hiroshi Yamada

Susumu Sato

A mattress including: a support surface to support a user; a mattress main body that constitutes the support surface; at least one pressure sensor having a flexible sheet shape to detect a pressure acting on the support surface; a support surface cover positioned with respect to the mattress main body and arranged so as to cover the support surface; and at least one positioning member provided to the support surface cover to permit a movement of the pressure sensor with respect to the support surface cover in a planar direction while limiting an amount of the movement of the pressure sensor with respect to the support surface cover in the planar direction such that the pressure sensor is positioned on the support surface by the positioning member.

Mattress

A mattress including: substrates configured to support a human body; and a plurality of cells arranged on an upper face of each substrate, the cells including respective fluid chambers. The substrates are divided from each other at a location corresponding to a folding part provided to a portion of a bed in a length direction thereof such that cell units are constituted by the respective substrates and the cells arranged thereon. The cell units are disposed such that the cell units are adjacent to each other with the folding part interposed therebetween. A connecting body is disposed between the cell units such that the connecting body straddles the cell units and is supported by the cells of the cell units.

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Aichi, Japan

Yasuhiro Nakamura