Aroma Diffuser with Adjustable Essential Oil Gas Proportion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional aroma diffusers cannot adjust the proportion of essential oil gases, limiting their ability to blend compound essential oils and meet user requirements, as they typically allow only the use of single essential oils or pre-made compound oils, which are inconvenient to obtain and use.
Innovation Solution
An aroma diffuser with adjustable essential oil gas proportion, featuring multiple essential oil bottles, gasification elements, pump elements, and a fragrance mixing element, allows for the blending of essential oils to achieve desired proportions through an electric control system that regulates flow and time, enabling the creation of custom compound essential oil blends.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional aroma diffusers use only single essential oil or pre-made compound essential oil, then the device structure is simple, but the adaptability to meet different user requirements is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The aroma diffuser is segmented into multiple independent essential oil storage bottles (at least two), each with its own gasification element and pump element. This segmentation allows each component to handle a specific essential oil independently, enabling flexible combination and proportion adjustment of different essential oils to meet diverse user requirements while maintaining modular simplicity in each unit's structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The gasification element and pump element are designed as universal components that can work with multiple different essential oils. The gasification element can gasify any essential oil provided to it, and the pump element can control the flow of any essential oil from the storage bottles. This multi-functionality allows the same structural components to serve multiple purposes with different essential oils, enhancing adaptability without proportionally increasing device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional aroma diffusers cannot adjust essential oil gas proportion, then the device structure is simple, but the ability to blend compound essential oil gases is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The pump elements are designed with adjustable flow control capabilities, allowing dynamic adjustment of the gasification rate and flow proportion for each essential oil. This dynamic control enables the system to blend different essential oil gases in varying proportions according to user needs, transforming a static single-function diffuser into a dynamic multi-proportion blending system without requiring complex additional blending mechanisms.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple essential oil bottles and control elements are added, then the essential oil blending capability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple essential oil storage bottles are merged into a single housing structure, and multiple pump elements are integrated into a unified control system. The gasification elements from different bottles converge into a common gasification chamber where their outputs are naturally combined. This merging approach allows the system to achieve compound essential oil blending capability while consolidating components into a compact integrated structure, preventing exponential growth in device complexity despite the increased blending capability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the creation of custom essential oil blends that meet user needs by adjusting the mixing proportions of different essential oils, providing a compact, high-sealing, easy-to-assemble, and simple-to-operate solution for aroma diffusion.
Implementation Method 1
importing ambient air into air chambers of the gasification elements through pump bodies of the pump elements and forming jet stream
Implementation Method 2
Spraying the jet stream above an essential oil nozzle of each of the gasification elements to form negative pressure so as to suck liquid essential oil out
Implementation Method 3
gasify the liquid essential oil into essential oil gas
Implementation Method 4
mixing the essential oil gas, and diffusing the mixed essential oil gas to ambient air through a centralized fragrance diffusion outlet
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an aroma diffuser with an adjustable essential oil gas proportion and an aroma diffusing method. The aroma diffuser includes a housing, an electric control element, at least two essential oil bottles, gasification elements corresponding to the essential oil bottles, pump elements corresponding to the gasification elements and a fragrance mixing element. The lower end of each of the gasification elements is connected to an open end of the corresponding essential oil bottle. Each of the gasification elements communicates with the open end of the corresponding essential oil bottle. An upper end of each of the gasification elements stretches into a cavity at the lower end of the fragrance mixing element and fits with the end face of the cavity. The present invention features a compact structure, high sealing performance, easy assembly and simple operation.