Patent ID: 7774881

Claim:
Lying-down means comprising a mattress with a plurality of air chambers in grid arrangement and each having a respective air connection, a plurality of controllable valves each associated with a respective one of the air chambers, a mattress profile memory in which valve control data corresponding with a mattress profile are stored for each of the air chambers and a control unit which actuates the valves in dependence on the valve control data, the control unit is connected by way of a line with a data interface, by way of which for its part it is connectable in a wire-free manner with a data carrier, the data interface comprising: a data carrier receptacle, into which a data carrier is insertable, means for writing a data carrier, which is inserted in the data carrier receptacle, with valve control data and means for reading valve control data stored on a data carrier inserted into the data carrier receptacle, wherein the data carrier receptacle is a memory card receptacle and the data carrier is a memory card.