JP2005211319A - Sleep environment forming apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sleep environment forming apparatus forming sleep environment naturally promoting a person's process of closing and opening the senses in processes of falling sleep and awaking from sleep. <P>SOLUTION: This sleep environment forming apparatus 1 comprises an air conditioning device 12, a lighting device 13, an acoustic device 14, an odor generating device 15 and a controller 11 controlling the respective devices; in the process of falling sleep, the lighting device, the acoustic device, and the air conditioning device are controlled to stop operation in this order; and in the process of awaking from sleep, the air conditioning device, the acoustic device and the lighting device are controlled to operate in this order. The odor generating device 15 is operated or stopped synchronously with the acoustic device 14 or the air conditioning device 12. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a sleep environment forming apparatus for promoting a comfortable sleep and a pleasant awakening.

  “Sleeping” is important in maintaining human health, and studies have been made on how to obtain good sleep. One of the criteria for determining whether or not a good sleep has occurred is good sleep and awakening. If you go to sleep comfortably and wake up comfortably, you will feel a good sleep and get up in an exhilarating mood.

In view of this, there has been proposed an apparatus that attempts to obtain a comfortable sleep and a comfortable awakening by adjusting the environment surrounding the sleeper (sleep environment) to be suitable for entering or awakening. For example, there are techniques described in Patent Documents 1 to 3.
In the technology described in Patent Document 1, it is possible to wake up comfortably by providing an illumination, a video device that projects outdoor scenery in the morning, an audio generator, and an air conditioner, and artificially creating a dawn environment. I am doing so.
In the technique described in Patent Document 2, a device that can wake a sleeper comfortably with a heating device, a lighting fixture, an acoustic device, an indoor atmosphere changing device that changes the indoor atmosphere, and a time indicator. Is configured.
The technique described in Patent Document 3 includes a temperature stimulation means and a light stimulation means, sets a wake-up time and a bedtime, and applies an appropriate light stimulus or temperature stimulus that acts on the biological rhythm to It constitutes a device to be activated.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-38595 Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-78895 JP-A-8-89578

In the above prior art, the sleep environment is formed so as to work on the human senses before and after sleeping, but the order in which the human senses are closed or opened is not considered. In the process of falling asleep before entering sleep, humans enter sleep by closing their senses in the order of visual → auditory → olfactory → tactile. In turn, open your senses and wake up and get up. That is, if the process of closing and opening this sensation can be naturally promoted by adjusting the sleep environment, it is presumed that a person can obtain a more comfortable sleep and a pleasant awakening.
In view of this, the present invention proposes a sleep environment forming apparatus for forming a sleep environment that can naturally promote the process of closing and opening a person's sensation in the sleep and sleep processes.

  The problems to be solved by the present invention are as described above. Next, means for solving the problems will be described.

  That is, in Claim 1, it is comprised with an air conditioner, an illuminating device, an audio device, and a control device that controls each of these devices, and in the sleep process, the illuminating device, the audio device, and the air conditioner operate in this order. It is a sleep environment forming device that is controlled to operate in the order of an air conditioner, an acoustic device, and a lighting device in the process of stopping sleep.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, the sleep environment forming device is provided with an incense generating device, and is activated or stopped in synchronization with an audio device or an air conditioner.

  As effects of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, the sleeper can enter sleep by closing his / her senses in the order of visual → auditory → thermal sensation in the process of falling asleep, and in the order of thermal sensation → auditory → visual in the process of sleep deprivation. You can wake up and get up by opening the door, and can promote a comfortable sleep and a pleasant awakening.

  In claim 2, it is possible to work on the olfactory sense of the sleeper, and to promote a more comfortable sleep and a pleasant awakening.

Next, embodiments of the invention will be described.
FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the relationship between the five senses in the process of falling asleep and the process of falling asleep. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the sleep environment forming device, FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control device, FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the control of the sleep environment forming device in the sleep process, and FIG. 5 is the sleep environment in the desleeping process. It is a flowchart of control of a forming device.

  In the table | surface shown in FIG. 1, the change of the function of a human five senses through a sleep process, a sleep process, and a sleep process is shown typically. The five human senses are visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensations, but the visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory senses related to sleep are extracted.

  Here, the sleep process is a stage before going to sleep and a stage before going to the first non-REM sleep. The process of falling asleep is a process for stopping and relaxing for sleep, and the human senses that function sensitively when waking up are closed when entering sleep. In this sleep process, the sensation is closed in the order of visual → auditory → olfactory → tactile, and the function decreases.

  The sleep deprivation process is a stage after sleep and is a stage after waking up from the last REM sleep. The sleep deprivation process is a process for waking up from sleep and starting activities, and a human sense that is lowered during sleep is opened. In this desleeping process, contrary to the falling asleep process, the senses are opened and the function is restored in the order of tactile sensation → olfaction → hearing → vision.

In the process of falling asleep, it promotes the secretion of melatonin, lowers the deep body temperature, and makes the parasympathetic nerve dominant. For this purpose, for example, the lighting is adjusted so that the illuminance is 20 to 50 lx immediately before going to sleep at an illuminance of 100 to 200 lx and the color temperature is about 3000 K. Adjust the air conditioning so that the head is about 29 ° C at 33 ° C, and introduce psychologically favorable sound and sedative scent.
In the sleep process, it promotes the secretion of melatonin, makes the parasympathetic nerve dominant, eliminates stimulation to the sensory brain, and lowers the deep body temperature. For this purpose, for example, the illumination is adjusted so that the illuminance is 2 to 5 lx, the air conditioning is adjusted to a temperature that promotes sweating and heat dissipation, and a calm environment is maintained.
In the desleeping process, the rhythm of the 25-hour cycle is reset, the secretion of melatonin is suppressed, the deep body temperature is increased, and the sympathetic nerve is dominant. For this purpose, for example, the lighting is adjusted so as to gradually increase the illuminance to about 1000 lx before waking up, and a pleasant alarm sound or psychologically active sound or fragrance is introduced.

  Although there are various ways of sleeping, the physiological mechanism of sleep is common, and non-REM sleep and REM sleep are repeated as one cycle several times a night. In order to sleep well, it is preferable to sleep deeply with non-REM sleep when entering sleep, and to wake up clearly, it is preferable that REM sleep gradually becomes shallow and naturally awakens. It may be possible to control the environment that affects the five senses in the sleep and sleep processes in order to encourage deep sleep in the first non-REM sleep and to gradually decrease sleep in the REM sleep before awakening. . That is, according to the present invention, the environment that affects the five senses is such that the senses are closed in the order of visual → auditory → olfactory → tactile in the sleep process and the senses are opened in the order of tactile → olfactory → auditory → visual in the desleeping process. By forming with the sleep environment forming apparatus 10, it is intended to obtain a comfortable sleep and a pleasant awakening.

Next, the sleep environment forming apparatus 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
The sleep environment forming apparatus 10 according to the present invention is an apparatus for forming an environment mainly related to air conditioning, sound, and illumination during a sleep process and a sleep process.
As shown in FIG. 2, the sleep environment forming device 10 is configured as bedroom furniture, and includes an air conditioner 12, a lighting device 13, an acoustic device 14, an incense generator 15, and a control device 11 that controls these devices. It consists of

  The control device 11 includes an arithmetic processing unit 21 as an arithmetic processing unit, a time measuring unit 22 as a time measuring unit, an input unit 23 for inputting information such as setting data necessary for the arithmetic processing, and an arithmetic processing program And a storage unit 24 for storing setting data and the like, a temperature sensor 25 for detecting the temperature environment of the sleeper, and an illuminance sensor 26 for detecting the illuminance environment of the sleeper. In the control device 11, an arithmetic processing program stored in the storage unit 24 is executed by the arithmetic processing unit 21 in response to an input to the input unit 23.

The air conditioner 12 is a device that works on the thermal sensation (tactile sense) of the sleeper and provides a comfortable thermal environment to the sleeper. The control device 11 performs air conditioning according to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor 25. The air volume and set temperature of the device 12 can be controlled. The air conditioner 12 can select and set the automatic ON / OFF mode or the continuous mode that continuously operates during sleep.
The lighting device 13 is a device that works on the sleeper's vision and provides a lighting environment suitable for each of the sleeper's sleep process and sleep process. In the control device 11, in addition to illuminance adjustment and color temperature selection. In addition, the light from the outside is detected by the illuminance sensor 26 and can be controlled so that the illuminance is set comprehensively.
The acoustic device 14 is a device for working on the hearing of a sleeper and providing a comfortable acoustic environment for the sleeper, and may select a generated sound from a bell sound or music, or may change a volume. It is possible.
The incense generating device 15 is a device for acting on the olfactory sense of a sleeper and providing an incense environment suitable for each of the sleeper's sleep process and desleeping process, and selecting a scent that radiates from a plurality of scents Is possible.
However, the air conditioner 12, the lighting device 13, the acoustic device 14, and the incense generating device 15 are each provided with an independent control unit, and can be operated independently by the control device 11. It is also possible to operate in cooperation with a command given to the control unit of the device 12, 13, 14, 15.

In this sleep environment forming apparatus 10, the operation is stopped in the order of the lighting device 13 → the acoustic device 14 → the air conditioner 12 in accordance with the sleep rhythm in the sleep sleep process of the sleeper, and in the sleep process of the sleeper, At the same time, the air conditioner 12 → the sound device 14 → the lighting device 13 are operated in this order.
As a result, the sleeper is encouraged to close the sensation and enter sleep in the order of visual → auditory → thermal sensation in the process of falling asleep, and the sensation opens in the order of thermal sensation → auditory → visual in the process of sleep deprivation. (While functioning), it is encouraged to wake up and get up, so that it is possible to obtain a comfortable sleep and a pleasant awakening.

Next, the control of the control device 11 in the sleep environment forming apparatus 10 in the sleep process will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
At the start of falling asleep in advance, the air conditioner 12, the lighting device 13, the acoustic device 14, and the incense generating device 15 are in an ON state. In addition, a first setting time until the lighting device 13 is turned off after the sleep environment forming device 10 is operated, a second setting time until the sound device 14 is turned off, and until the air conditioner 12 is turned off. The third set time is preset and input. However, these set times can be programmed in advance in the manufacturing stage, or the set times can be appropriately adjusted according to the user's preference.

  In the sleep control of the sleep environment forming apparatus 10, first, time measurement is started (S19). If the first set time has elapsed (S22), an OFF signal is transmitted to the illumination device 13 (S21), and the illumination device 13 is turned off. It is also possible to perform control so that an OFF signal is transmitted to the lighting device 13 a predetermined time before the first set time, and the illuminance is gradually decreased and faded out from that time to the first set time.

  Furthermore, if the second set time has elapsed (S22), an OFF signal is transmitted to the acoustic device 14 (S23), and the acoustic device 14 is turned off. It is also possible to perform control so that an OFF signal is transmitted to the acoustic device 14 a predetermined time before the second set time, and the sound volume is gradually reduced and faded out from that point to the second set time.

  At the same time as the OFF signal is transmitted to the acoustic device 14, the OFF signal is also transmitted to the incense generating device 15, and the incense generating device 15 is turned off. It is also possible to control to send an OFF signal to the incense generating device 15 a predetermined time before the second set time and fade out by gradually reducing the intensity of the scent from that time to the second set time. However, in the present embodiment, the incense generating device 15 is controlled to be turned off in synchronization with the acoustic device 14, but the incense generating device 15 can be controlled to be turned off in synchronization with the air conditioner 12.

Then, when the third set time has elapsed (S24) and setting information of the air conditioner 12 is acquired in the conditional branch S25 and the air conditioner 12 is not set to automatic OFF, the air conditioner 12 shifts to the sleep air condition mode. Thus, a signal is transmitted (S26), and the setting of the air conditioner 12 is changed to the sleep air conditioning mode. In the air conditioner 12, in the sleep air-conditioning mode, the temperature is controlled to maintain a predetermined temperature lower than the set temperature in the sleep process in winter, and the temperature higher than the set temperature in the sleep process is maintained in summer by a predetermined amount. To be controlled.
In the conditional branch S25, if the setting information of the air conditioner 12 is acquired and the air conditioner 12 is set to automatic OFF, an OFF signal is transmitted to the air conditioner 12 (S27), and the air conditioner 12 is turned off. With the above, the control of the sleep process ends, and the process shifts to the sleep process.

Next, the control of the control device 11 in the sleep environment forming device 10 in the desleeping process will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
The wake-up time, the fourth set time from when the air conditioner 12 is turned on until the wake-up time, the fifth set time from when the air conditioner 12 is turned on to when the acoustic device 14 is turned on, and the air conditioner 12 are A sixth set time from when the light is turned on to when the lighting device 13 is turned on is preset and input. These set times can be programmed in advance in the manufacturing stage.

In the sleep environment forming apparatus 10, if it is before the fourth set time from the wake-up time, the control of the desleeping process is started (S 40), and the time measurement is started (S 41). In the conditional branch S42, if the setting information of the air conditioner 12 is acquired and the air conditioner 12 is automatically set to ON, an ON signal is transmitted to the air conditioner 12 (S44), and the air conditioner 12 is turned on.
In the conditional branch S42, if the setting information of the air conditioner 12 is acquired and the air conditioner 12 is not set to ON automatically, a signal is transmitted to the air conditioner 12 so as to shift to the sleep mode air conditioning mode (S43). The setting of the air conditioner 12 is changed to the sleep mode air conditioning mode. In sleep-mode air conditioning mode, the temperature is controlled to be higher by a predetermined amount than the set temperature of the sleep process in winter, and is controlled to be lower by a predetermined amount than the set temperature of the sleep process in summer. .

  Subsequently, if the fifth set time has elapsed since the start of time measurement (S45), an ON signal is transmitted to the acoustic device 14 (S46), and the acoustic device 14 is turned on. It is also possible to perform control so that an ON signal is transmitted to the acoustic device 14 a predetermined time before the fifth set time, and the sound volume is gradually increased from that point to the fifth set time to fade in.

  At the same time as the ON signal is transmitted to the acoustic device 14, the ON signal is also transmitted to the incense generating device 15, and the incense generating device 15 is turned on. Further, an ON signal is transmitted to the incense generating device 15 a predetermined time before the fifth set time, and control is performed so as to gradually increase the intensity of the fragrance and fade in from that time to the fifth set time. it can. However, in this embodiment, the incense generating device 15 is turned on in synchronization with the acoustic device 14, but the incense generating device 15 can also be turned on in synchronization with the air conditioner 12.

Then, if the sixth set time has elapsed since the start of time measurement (S47), an ON signal is transmitted to the illumination device 13 (S48), and the illumination device 13 is turned on. It is also possible to perform control so that an ON signal is transmitted to the illuminating device 13 a predetermined time before the sixth set time, and the illuminance is gradually increased from that point to the sixth set time to fade in. This completes the control of the sleep deprivation process.
When the lighting device 13 is turned on, the illumination around the sleeper rises to a sufficient illuminance for awakening, and the sound around the sleeper becomes a sufficient volume for the awakening. As a result, awakening is naturally promoted, and the sleeper can get up comfortably.

The figure explaining the relationship of the five senses in the sleep process and the sleep deprivation process. The block diagram which shows the structure of a sleep environment formation apparatus. The block diagram which shows the structure of a control apparatus. The flowchart of control of the sleep environment formation apparatus in the sleep process. The flowchart of control of the sleep environment formation apparatus in a desleeping process.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Sleep environment formation apparatus 11 Control apparatus 12 Air conditioning apparatus 13 Illumination apparatus 14 Sound apparatus 15 Incense generator

Claims (2)

Consists of an air conditioner, a lighting device, an acoustic device, and a control device that controls each of these devices,
In the sleep process, stop the operation in the order of the lighting device, sound device, air conditioning device,
In the desleeping process, control to operate in the order of air conditioner, sound device, lighting device,
The sleep environment formation apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned.   The sleep environment forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sleep environment forming apparatus includes a scent generating device and is activated or stopped in synchronization with an audio device or an air conditioner.

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