Pressure Imaging for Mattress Design
Evaluate the comfort and design of mattresses with full body pressure mapping systems.
Full Body Pressure Imaging Improves Mattress Design
Designing a comfortable mattress is an on-going challenge faced by mattress manufacturers. Design engineers must be able to design a product that is comfortable for a vast population of people, while keeping manufacturing costs low. Tekscan’s Body Pressure Measurement System (BPMS™) provides a means to quantify comfort on various mattress designs to improve support and pressure relief. The system can compare competing mattress lines, as well as perform comparative testing between different mattress surface materials, such as spring, foam, latex, and air.
BPMS provides data in real-time and 2-D or 3-D pressure displays. Peak pressure areas can easily be identified, compared, and adjusted thus saving time in design verification and re-engineering costs. With the help of Tekscan’s highly qualified sales and engineering support team, each system can be configured to meet your specific needs.
Output of subject lying on a 2-sensor mat configuration (sensor model 5400ND). The high spatial resolution of the sensor allows you to measure and display the high pressure areas (in red) as the subject is lying down.
Mattress Design Pressure Imaging Applications
- Research & development
- Design evaluation
- Mattress support testing
- Pressure relief improvements
- Competitive benchmarking
Benefits of Pressure Imaging
- Record measurements across the entire body simultaneously
- Evaluate manufacturing processes
- Repeatable output
Typical Pressure Sensor Models used for Mattress Design
- Sensor Model 5315O
Sensing Area Total Width Height Sensels Sensel Density 76.80 in. 33.60 in. 16,128 6.3 in.2 1950.7 mm 853.4 mm 16,128 1.0 cm2 - Sensor Model 5315QL
Sensing Area Total Width Height Sensels Sensel Density 76.80 in. 16.80 in. 8,064 6.3 in.2 1950.7 mm 426.7 mm 8,064 1.0 cm2 - Sensor Model 5400N
Sensing Area Total Width Height Sensels Sensel Density 22.76 in. 34.80 in. 1,768 2.2 in.2 578.1 mm 883.9 mm 1,768 0.3 cm2 - Sensor Model 5400ND
Sensing Area Total Width Height Sensels Sensel Density 22.76 in. 69.61 in. 3,536 2.2 in.2 578.1 mm 1768.1 mm 3,536 0.3 cm2 - Sensor Model 5400NQL
Sensing Area Total Width Height Sensels Sensel Density 91.02 in. 34.80 in. 7,072 2.2 in.2 2311.9 mm 883.9 mm 7,072 0.3 cm2 - Sensor Model 5400NTL
Sensing Area Total Width Height Sensels Sensel Density 68.27 in. 34.80 in. 5,304 2.2 in.2 1734.1 mm 883.9 mm 5,304 0.3 cm2
View all of Tekscan’s Pressure Sensors
Body Pressure Measurement System (BPMS™) for R&D
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